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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1917-10-05
LIEUTENANT DILLON HAS
OPINIONS ON THE MATTER.

In the last edition of The True
Northerner | read a little item by a
prominent Paw Paw gentleman.
The article proported to set forth his
views regarding the tobacco fund for
soldiers, question on which this
man is doubtless we'll fitted to
speak. His argument, so far as
could gather was, that the use Of
tobacco causes a depreciation of 10.5
per cent in a mans mentality. He
quoted authority after authority on
the subject, all Of whom, / am certain
are qualified to express their opinions.
/ wholly coincide with his views with
the exception Of just one point-f
should like to see Paw Paw make a
better showing than any other town
of its size in the United States in it's
collection for the tobacco fund. l
hardly think that any man who has
all the comforts Of home, including a
furnace and coal to burn in it; and
above all, the society of his family,
should make any remarks about any
thing that a soldier regards as COM
fort, even though it is diametrically
opposed to what that man thinks is
right. If tobacco hurts any one, it
will be the soldier and not the man
who tries to keep it away from him.
Tobacco may be harmful, but if
there is any class of men in the world
that is cleaner, keener, quicker-witted
than the officers of the u. S. Regular
Army have yet to meet a man from
that class; and there are very few
men in the Regular Army who do not
use tobacco.
When a soldier is wounded on the
field in France he is taken to the
nearest base hospital, first receiving
temporary attention from the medical
officer with the troops. How long he
may lie in the hospital is variable, de-
pending on the severity of his wound
it may be weeks, it may be months.
The attention of the surgeons and
nurses must be limited because of the
overwhelming amount of work they
have to do. While he is in the hos
pital, this soldier enjoys himself by
gazing at the ceiling. He shuts his
eyes. He opens them. The ceiling
is still there, white, bare, and
thoroughly antiseptic-if conditions
are auspicious. Books and magazines
are few in the hospitals, nor do their
doors admit friends to bring cheer
and comfort. The friends are not
there. There is nothing to remind
the wounded man Of them. He has
no ties to make him believe that any
one thinks of him.
And yet, there is a man who would
deprive one of these men of the small
comfort of a cigar, a cigarette,
pipeful of tobacco! And he would do
this thing because he believes that it
depreciates the mentality of the men
who are fighing, or who will fight, to
make world peace possible; because
Continued on page ~
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1917-10-05
SOLDIER MAKING NOT so
BAD SAYS LYNN REYNOLDS.

Following is a letter from Private
Lynn Reynolds at Camp Custer to
"Dad", which will be of special in
terest to readers of The True North
erner:-
81 received The True Northerner
and have read the article on Camp
Custer, which gives one very good
impression Of Soldier Making here,
or rather the first stages, and some
of the inconvenience experienced by
the early arrivals, most of which
have by now however, been overcome.
"Jf one has visited the Chicago
Stock Yards, he has only to substi-.
tute, for each head of stock, one
human being, he will have quite a
comprehensive idea of the assembling,
sorting, etc. For diversion, Y. M. c.
AS have been established and !
think four are in operation now.
Reading and writing material are
available here. There are band con-
certs, quartets and solos, but for the
most part, Free for all' harmonizing
has the floor. Each barrack, which
quarters about two hundred men has
a piano, and here also everything
from Grand Opera to Rag-time, must
take its turn at being murdered.
each man must wash and dry his
own dishes, and is detailed to kitchen
and barrack duties which include
sweeping, hopping, ETC., another in
dication that Women Suffrage is at
hand. Eight hours of drill, lectures
upon personal hypiene, military law
etc., constitute the working day.
This place is certainly the center
of optomism, and | have heard very
little of i'll feeling expressed by any
one, incident to his being here. AS
one of the fellows says, They can't
Use me but once, there's where !
nave the bulge on them
"Ihe appearance of so many uni
formed men, military trucks, ambul-
ances, trench Giggers etc. brings one
near the war. l would like to give
you some pen and ink impressions,
but as you know | have no drawing
materials with ne. Tell any of the
hovs who are orawn for the third
increment, if he has any aversion to
coming, that believe he will be
agreeably surprised, as most of us
have becY, and that if he is not in
subordinate he will get along nicely.
Military law is strict, but not un-
reasonable.
"Thc eats are first class also and
with no quantity limit Where
could ii find a more pleasing thought
for conclusion That's AL"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1917-10-05
T.. b. LONGWELL RETIRES
FROM MERCANTILE LIFE.

The E. b. Longwell Grocery store
has changed hands. The store has
been purchased by Willis Clapp and
son Theo, who took possession We'd
nesday. The firm name will be T.
B. Clapp and company. Mr.. Long
well retires after quarter century
of mercantile. activity, to devote his
entire attention to the Real Estate
business. Theo, the junior member
Of the new firm spent several years
with Mr.. Longwell when he first start
ed in business. He is well equipped
to manage the business and we pre-
dict a, prosperous career for the new
firm.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1917-10-05

ragut, Dewey and Fighting Bob"
Evans and others like them. and they
all smoked.
If the writer had a son in the SER
vice would do everything in my
power for his comfort and happiness.
Had he ten thousand dollar liberty
bond l would take off my hat to him.
But as a knocker on the tobacco fund
l have only this to say to him: That
safely entrenched behind the army
and the navy and ninety per cent of
the patriotic liberty-loving people of
this country, | fire my last shot. If
the shoe don't fit, don't put it on; but
to those whom it does fit l cheerfully
dedicate the following doggerel:
If you don't like the crumb of comfort
You don't have to throw a fit;
If your stingy and tight-wad,
You don't have to give your bit;
If for the comfort of the Sammies
You don't care a flip,
Just sit back on your launches
And kick, kick, kick.
"Dad."
p. S. Since writing the above |
have been told by an officer at Camp
Custer, that the book of rules issued
by the government to officers to be
used in instructing the men, endorses
the use of tobacco. That the "No
Smoking" signs were for fire protect
ion only where construction work
was in progress, and that at least
eighty per cent of both officers and
men smoked in the barracks.
"Dad."
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1917-10-05
ETHEL SHIELDS OF MILWAUKEE
RUN DOWN AND KILLED
WHILE ON VISIT TO UNCLE
NEAR HARTFORD.
BANGOR man HAS CONFESSED
Dalton Carpp One of County's Highly
Respected Young Men Drove the
Car Which Caused Tragedy.

Hartford was the scene of an auto
mobile tragedy last Friday eneving
which snuffed out the life of thirteen
year old Ethel Shields, and for which
Dalton Carpp prominent young man
of Bangor is held on a charge of
manslaughter.
The victim is the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Shields of Mil
waukee, and the family were visiting
at the home of a brother, Frank
Shields, living one and one quarter
miles east of the village Of Hartford.
The accident happened about six
o'clock in the evening, as Ethel with
two younger sisters were playing by
the roadside, awaiting the coming of
their mother, who had gone to the
village. Just how the accident
occurred is not definitely known. How
ever, Hudson Six touring car owned
and driven by Dalton Carpp of Ban
gor struck the little girl, and she
died the next morning.
The sheriff's Office was at once
notified, but there was no definite
clue as to the identity of the car or
driver. Several parties were appre-
hended on suspicion, but released, as
there was no evidence to hold them.
On Saturday however, Carpp called
the Sheriff, and acknowledged that he
was the guilty party and stated that
Max Miller, also of Bangor, was with
him at the time. Carpp and Miller
came to Paw Paw, where Carpp
waived examination before Judge
Rowland to a charge of manslaughter
and was released on $4,000 bond.
1t is probable that he will plead
guilty in Circuit court.
The tragedy is a terrible affair,
both from the standpoint of the
family of the victim, and that of the
man who was responsible for her
death. Dalton Carpp is one of the
highly respected citizens and promin-
ent business men of Bangor. He IS
proprietor Of the Canning factory
there and is highly esteemed in the
community.
The lamentable feature about the
tragedy is that Carpp did not stop
after the accident to make himself
known and render what assistance he
could. This point, Carpp himself is
unable to explain. He knew he had
struck the girl, and had stopped the
car and started back. The screams
Nof her sisters, and the sight of the
mangled form of the victim probably
unbalanced him for the time, and he
jumped in the car, with only the one
thought of getting away from it ali.
Thus his identity was unknown until
his confession the next day. The
tradegy has cast a gloom over the
communities in which the parties re-
side, and Carpp is Frustrated over
the unfortunate affair.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1917-10-05
MY LAST SHOT FOR THE
SAMMY'S TOBACCO FUND.

/ notice that Rev. C. II. Heaton
takes exception to my article on the
tobacco fund, prefacing his remarks
by proclaiming me n modern Aranias.
| will be more tolerant than the reve-
rend gentleman and not reply in kind,
as that prerogative rests with men,
bers of the cloth, but l will take this
opportunity to congratulate him on the
graceful manner in which he accom-
plished the result. He says he wish
es to place himself on record as being
strictly against the tobacco habit, and
after a careful perusal Of his article
| believe him. | wish; however to
take exception to his list of author
tiles, quoting as he does specialists in
other lines than that of poisons.
contend that their opinions in his re-
gard are no better nor carry no more
weight than an ordinary citizens.
My authority is Doctor Evans, who
has specialized in the line Of poisons
and whose opinion is worth more than
any member of Edisons and Burbanks
If. as the writer says, tobacco is
poison" it must be a very slow poison
as / know many men who have been
trying to commit suicide by the use
Of tobacco for seventy-fve years, and
are still hale and hearty. He fails
to mention the poison in coffee and
tea, but leaves that for Doctor Evans
and you to settle.
But aside from the question of the
poisonous or non-poisonous qualities
to tobacco, the real question is
whether or not it should be used in
the army, and we shall endeavor to
show that it is not only. endorsed by
leading officers but by chaplains in the
army. A local Judge, a veteran of
the civil war, says that in conver-
sations with many army chaplains he
is yet to find one who is not in favor
of its use, and, in his opinion, coffee
is much more injurious than tobacco.
The commanding officers at Fort
Sheridan and Camp Grayling both
endorse it in newspaper articles.
This is no time to split hairs. We
are in trouble with a country whose
ruler is the most inhuman monster
since the days of Nero. We are
either for the Kaiser or against him;
there is no middle ground. Anything
tending to harrass or embarrass the
government or the army is giving
aid and comfort to the enemy. This
is no missionary tea; this is war
war to the knife and knife to the hilt
When we have war we must have an
army and not Kaiser kulture. When
we have an army, we must have
soldiers; not silly sentimentalists, but
red-blooded men. When we have an
army we must have generals to lead
them, like Grant and Sherman and
Sheridan and Funston and Pershing,
and in the navy commanders like Far
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1917-10-05
GIRLS NEED BITS OF YARN
TO MAKE HOSPITAL BLANKET

The ladies of new class, recently
formed in the Presbyterian Sunday
school, will be very glad to get bits
or scraps of yarn or zepher, or ar
ticles that can be ravelled out. They
are knitting eight inch squares of any
color which can be found and will
make them into a hospital blanket.
Any one wishing to help in the work
with either materials they can spare
or with knitted squares, can leave the
same with Miss Esther Stevenson at
Engel's bakery, or with Mrs. Zilpha
Ferguson.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1917-10-05

Mrs. Frank Isbell was taken to
Borgess. hospital in Kalamazoo early
last Monday morning, where an oper-
alton for appendicitis was performed
by DR.. J. f. Maxwell Of Decatur, as
sisted by Doctor Bope of that village
and Doctor J. c. Maxwell. The
operation was successful and she will
soon be home again. Her husband is
"So newhere in France"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1917-10-05

Mrs. Messenger of Gobleville died
at the home of her daughter Mrs.
Anna Ellis last Tuesday morning.
She had come to Paw Paw for visit
and was taken sick while here. The
funeral was held from the home of
Mrs. Ellis Thursday morning and she
was laid to rest in the Gobleville
cemetery.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1917-10-05

There will be a rural mail carriers
civil service examination at Kendall
on Saturday, October 9th. This ex-
animation is for the purpose of filling
existing vacancies and those that may
come in the future in this county.
Ask your local postmaster for in
formation regarding apple a tion
blanks etc.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1917-10-05
VERY FEW CONCORDS RIPE
ENOUGH YET, BUT GROWERS
ARE GETTING NERVOUS AND
ANXIOUS TO GET STARTED.
EARLY PRICES SATISFACTORY
Strict Compliance With New Law
Relative to Packing Will Assist
Materially in Keeping Price Up.

No grapes which are unripe or
are the fruit of unhealthy vines
or for any reason are unhealthy
or in any state of decay shall be
packed for shipment by any
grower, packer or shipper in any
package or basket of less than
sixteen pounds capacity.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1917-10-05

Mr.. and Mrs. Phineas Cole who
were injured in an auto accident last
week are recovering from their injur-
les, and will soon be as good as new,
we hope.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-26

inch wide and then the wonderful
process by which these equally won
derful girls take these threads one by
one and harness them for the loom
that weaves them into goods a yard
wide-into the sewage of which the
name of the firm Bedding Bros. & Co.
Is woven, and to those who wish to
secure a more definite knowledge of
these processes can only refer them
to my note to teachers.
A Spinner as Old as Creation
The story learned about the silk
worm increased my desire to form a
closer intimacy. learned that they
are vegetarians, the food on which
they thrive is a diet of Mulberry
leaves. At the age of 80 days the
silk worm begins its brief but active
life work of spinning a thread of silk
500 yards in lengthLwinds it onto its
cocoon bobbin, leaving the weaving of
its precious filaments into filmy, shim-
mering silk to mans ingenuity. They
are of line of spinners who were at
their craft long before the Christian
era.
How many centuries it has taken
them to perfect their skillfully con-
trived process, no man knows, but like
human craftsmen they have been long
contriving and working until today
they are experts in their art.
The Chinese claim to have the first
records concerning the silk worm
About 100 B. c. Hoang Ii, the Third
Emperor of China, instructed 81 Ling
Chi to examine the silk worm and
test the value of ira thread. She col
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-26
STOP THAT ACHE f!

Don't worry and complain about a
bad back. Get rid of that pain and
lameness! Use Doan's Kidney Pills.
Many Belding people have used them
and know how effective they are.
Here's a Bedding case.
Alfred Doyle, 500 So. Pearl St.,
Bedding says: "Last winter / was
pretty bad off with severe back
ache. When i bent over, / could hard
ly manage to get up and my back
was a dead, dull ache all the time.
Often, severe, sharp pains darted
through the small of my back. The
kidney secretions passed too fire.
quently and were highly colored.
had read a lot about Doan's Kidney
Pills, and got some at Connell's Drug
Store. The first box helped me and
/ continued their use until l was
cured"
Price Coo, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills--the same that
cured Mrs. Doyle. Foster MilburD
Co., Props, Buffalo, N. Y.-Adv.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-26
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS
Mad Dog Bit Him

Westphalia.-A case of rabies was
discovered here last week, whep dog
belonging to Alex. Bozung bit, young
Mathew Stump, son of VIM. Stump, a
neighbor. The dog had been kept
chained most of the time for two
years, but on this occasion broke the
chain when the boy came into the
yard, and attacked him, biting him
twice, once so badly that the wound
had to be sewed up. The dog was
killed and the head taken to Ann Ar
Dor by President Spitzley and Mr..
Stump. The report came back that
rabies had been found. Mathew was
discharged form the hospital.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-26
Autumn Wings


The milkweed down upon the air
Spreads now little silken sail,
Soft rising, failing, as it floats,
Borne by gentle southwest gale.
The goldfnch plucks the thistle seed,
And fiutters on the dusty way,
And there beside the old gray wall
The woodbine spreads its banner
gay.
The .copses ring with CHEEKY notes
OF sparrows rising in a cloud,
And from the stubble by the wood
Bob-white is calling clear. and loud.
At early morn the wild geese sail
Above the river meadow lone;
The careful steersman lays his course
For some far port to us unknown.
The birds, adorers of the sun,
Flee from the cold with anxious
fear;
So shall the wing of faith and love
Chase summer round the rolling
year. Augusta Larned.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-26
Seeing
Michigan
Continued from Page Three)

members of and attend my church.
"The men who have charge of the
mills are good men and working con-
ditions at the mills and living condi-
tons in the dormitories are excellent"
Rev. w. A. Bliss, pastor in charge
of the First Baptist church, whom
/ next called on, has been in his pres
ent charge for six years. He is a
man of ripe experience of a fine
wholesome type. Said Rev. Bliss,
"The mill girls are splendid and the
company's care of their girls is splen-
did, which accounts for the fine class
of girls that they are able to secure
for their mills"
Rev. w. E. Doty, pastor in charge
of the Central Methodist Episcopal
church, who. impressed me as con-
scientious hard worker, said: "As far
as the moral conditions in this city
are concerned, consider them the
best of any town in which have
lived. The class of girls who come
here to work in the silk mills are a
fine class, they are the cream of the
communities from where they come.
They are, as a rule, ambitious, and
% have gone to college since my pas
torate here. Over 200 of them attend
my church, dormitory conditions,
which have looked into, are fully as
good as furnished by the best schools
for girls and the accommodations are
far better than we boys had when /
attend the N. w. university"
The Process of Silk Making
Yes, know now, how silk is woven.
] know where the lustrous simmer
ing silks of Milady come from. !
But how express, in understandable
terms, process that requires such
infinite care throughout, such pains
taking inspection when finished-how
the skeins of raw silk are brought
half way around the world, skeins of
silk from the cocoons of the silk worm,
so fine as to be hardly distinguishable
to the eye? How their delicate filament
is wound onto bobbins and rewound
until a weaving thread is made? How
it is stretched and its tensile strength
proven--how it Is from a reel of 400
bobbins Of thread wound into the
warp IN a reel in a space MT a full
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-26

lected large numbers, fed them and
became the discoverer of reeling and
weaving silk. In the Chinese records
she is now known as the Goddess of
silk worms. With such improvements
as man has been able to bring about
in their care under domestication, the
method of securing the raw silk Of
commerce is substantially that used
by the Chinese Empress of such a
long time ago. The silk worm is sub
ject to infantile ills due to improper
feeding, etc. The quality of its pro
duct is also influenced by the care it
receives. Health and vigor are
reached by careful attention to diet,
with rsst periods undisturbed by
noise.
1t is only by proper care that the
cocoon of silk they spin may reach
the largest and most perfect size The
silk worm spins 100 yards day or
300 yards for the three brief days
of its existence, of the strongest fiber
known
The Alvah N. Bedding Library
The new library building is SPLEEN
did structure erected to the memory
of Belongs founders, Hiram Bedding
and Mary Bedding. The project Of
this gift was conceived many years
ago and has been for long time a
cherished vision of Alvah N. Belding
in honor of his beloved parents. The
work was actually begun in the fail
of 1916 and the corner stone WIS laid
July IL, 1917. The building Is Of
composite type, the predominating
features of which are colonial. It
stands of reinforced concrete, faced
with Bedford sand stone with roof
of green tile The interior Is frankly
colonial, with full appreciation of
the purpose for which it was designed
AS a whole the building character
ICES the stability of its donors IN
structure and design and gives to
Belding an appreciated gift of cfvie
pride.
Note 20 Teachers:
For the benefit Of those Who wish 20 s>cars
more extended and exact information On ths
art Of silk weaving and ezlturs u ths sSk
public schools, Bedding Brss- q ca ~sus .
text book cabinet and chart which illustrates
and explains the various prscesses II the eni-
ture Of the worms and manufa<turs Of fhs
silk. The price u the boob n soc. chart 1Sc
and cabinet $3.50. prepaid.
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How To Hang a Skirt AS Well AS
Tailor Does Ii

There are few figures with both
hips alike. One is nearly always
higher than the other and this gen
orally causes some trouble to the
home dressmaker in hanging skirts.
A professional dressmaker gives this
advice: Before cutting the skirt get
your exact measurements. Draw the
tape measure around the hips eight
inches from the waistline. Mark
down the length from the. waistline to
the floor in front, right hip, left hip
and back. In doing this you get the
exact difference in your hips, and a
correspondingly difference should be
allowed when cutting the skirt.
Now measure the length Of the
front pattern. If too long lay a tuck
about ten inches from the bottct
and do this on all cores. Cut the
smaller gore first; that is, the one
that goes over the smaller hip, and
then insert piece of paper to make
up the difference in the other hip. On
no account should one allow the extra
inch or two at the bottom, as it gives
the skirt a drawn look and makes it
stand out on that side.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-26
Intoxicated Driver Fined $50

Ed. Cook, of Lansing, paid a fine
Of $50 and costs in Justice Selleck's
court Wednesday afternoon upon
pleading guilty to the charge of be-
ing in an intoxicated condition while
driving an automobile. The new law
governing this offense establishes a
minimum fine of $50 and a maximum
penalty of 800 fine and ninety days
Imprisonment and local authorities
propose to prosecute each and every
offender. The arrest and conviction
of Mr. Cook should be an object les
son to all auto drivers who frequent
ly jeopordize the lives of others by
trying to mix whiskey with gasoline.