The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1918-10-11


Paw Paw on Wednesday.
! Mrs. M. L. Barber and Mrs. H. M.
Ayars were Kalamazoo visitors last
Wednesday.
Mrs. A. T. Stevenson ard daughter
Miss Esther, were Kalamazoo visitors
laS1 Friday.
The County Offices closed Thursday
afternoon so all could attend the
Fair at Hartford.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. E. Boomer have
received word that their daughter,
Miss Georgia Boomer, a Red Cross
nurse is now on her way to France.
Prof. and Mrs. Robinson and child
rem and Mrs. Ida Cole of Allegan
spent Friday last at the H. A. Cole
home.
A. l.. Hindenach is in Chicago this
week attending the annual convention
of the United Drug Company. He
will visit his son Douglas at the Great
Lakes Training station before return
ing home.
Mrs. Royal T. Hall returned to her
home in Grand Rapids last Friday
after several weeks spent at the
home of her mother, Mrs. Bertha
North.
Earl Bangs has resigned as Assist
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service of his country He has en-
listed in the Students Training Camp
at the M. A. c.
The Board of Supervisors will meet
next Monday for the annual October
session. 1t is probable that the
accumulated business will require the
| full two weeks for its completion.
Mr.. H. A. Neff of the Mccormick
Theological Seminary of Chicago will
fill the pulpit in the Presbyterian
church next Sunday. All services
during the day will be held at the
usual hour.
One of the most successful Fairs
ever held in Van Buren county came
to close at Hartford last Friday.
The weather was ideal, the exhibits
good, arrangements first class and all
combined to make it a great success.
The State Federation of Women's
Clubs which was to have been held in
the city of Battle Creek next week
has been postponed indefinitely on
account of the epidemic of Spanish
Influenza at Camp Custer and in the
city itself.
Mrs. Della MacLaren, Mrs. Harry
Waters, Mrs. VIM. Killefer, Mrs.
Charles Sunny, Mrs. F. N. Wakeman,
Miss Franc Warner and Miss Ola
Killefer were among those from Paw
Paw in attendance at the Grand
Chapter o. f. S. meeting in Kalama-
zoo this week.
How would it seem to be transplant
ed from one state to another and yet
remain in the same town? Rev. A.
B. WINNER Of Paw Paw, Illinois is
expected to speak in the Baptist
church next Sunday morning, and in
the union services in the Christian
church in the evening. The church's
school convenes at ten o'clock. VIM.
Killefer, Supt. Morning worship at
eleven o'clock Members of the
church and congregation are urged to
attend.
In the absence Of Mrs. F. A. Racette
and Mrs. A. Lynn Free the work of
the Child's Welfare League will be
carried on just the same under the
supervision of Mrs. Bennett McKin-
stry. The Test Cards and other in-
formation relative to this work may
be obtained of Miss Sadie Busley.
All mothers are urgently requested
to cooperate in this important work.
1t is a War Measure, and the slogan
is "Save the Babies" If you have
not already given this work attention,
attend to it now.
We read much about the Heroes of
the war, but very little about the
Heroines, although there are many
whose deeds of bravery, sacrifice and
valor equal, if not excel those of the
boys at the front. Paw Paw has just
such a Heroine as this, modest, cap
able, loyal Mrs. F. A. Racette. The
first of this week this brave woman's
attention was called to the need of
nurses to care for the thousands of
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She hesitated but a moment, then
said: "I will send my baby to my
mother in Muskegon, and | will go
and do my duty" She went the next
day, and is now at the Base hospital
in Camp Custer, .risking her life for
her country. Who could make a
greater sacrifice? SO when we praise
the brave deeds Of our American
heroes, let us not forget our American
heroines, and that one of the bravest
of the brave is our own Mrs. Racette.