The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1918-04-26

was weekend guest at the A. F
Hurlbut home.
Miss Moreno Merritt, of Lansing
was a guest of her aunt, Mrs. A. F
Hurlbut on Tuesday and Wednesday
of this week.
There will be services at st. Marks
Episcopal church on Sunday next al
A p. M, the Rev. Wilkins, of Dowag-
lac, officiating.
The polling places will only be open
on the one day, Saturday, April 9th,
so be sure to get to your proper poll
ing place on that day.
The Idle Hour theater will feature
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw in Redemption
next Sunday and Monday nights
There has been some confusion in an
nourcing these dates, but there is no
mistake this time. Tonight friday
and Saturday nights, "The Witching
Hour" featuring A. Aubrey Smith,
Jack Shorthand and Maria Shotwell
will be shown. This is big, vigor-
Gus and elaborate feature, and will
please the patrons.
The members of the Eastern Star
ter room last Wednesday evening.
enjoyed family picnic at the Chap
A goodly number were present and a
fine time is reported. After supper
the annual election of officers was
held and resulted as follows Char
lotte Young, w. NJ, Lloyd Held, w.
P, Mrs. l.. f. Griffith, A. NJ, Hattie
Burhans, Cond., Fannie Wilson, A.
Cond., Cora Waters, Sec. and Ger
trude Jackson, Treasurer.
Considerable comment is made on
the absence of flags on the streets of
Paw Paw. Philo Simmons recently
secured several hundred signers to a
petition to the Village Council, asking
that suitable flags be suspended
across Main street in at least three
different places. 1t is hoped and ex-
pected that the appeal will meet with
favorable consideration from the
council and that the flags will soon be
in place. If there ever was a time
when there should be a profusion of
flags everywhere, it is now. Let's
have the flags.
Mrs. f. L. Burhars, county chair
man of the Junior Red Cross is "call-
ing to the colors" every school child
in Van Buren county. Every school
in the county will be separate aux
iliary of the county organization,
and it is the teachers patriotic duty
in each school to assist in perfecting
the auxiliary. Work under super
vision of the Senior Red Cross society
of the county will be assigned each
auxiliary according to the ability of
such auxiliary. The Junior society
will do refugee work, as well as some
of the general work of the older Red
Cross. Bloomingdale and South Ha-
ven have already perfected their aux
iliaries, and every district in the
county is expected to do likewise.
This is a nationwide movement, and
part Of the great plan to organize
and utilize every facility in the
whole United States to help win the
war. Mrs. Burhans will be glad to
give any information and lend every
assistance possible in the organiza-
ton of these auxiliaries. The prin-
cipal thing right now is to get at it
and enlist the services of every
school child in every school in the
county. Don't put it off. 1t is a pat
riotic duty, and needed rioht now.
This is Liberty Day." made so by
proclamation of the President Of
the United States. No definite pro-
gram can be announced for Paw Paw
but there will be something doing
all the afternoon and in the evening.
The high school band will play;
there will be ball game at Ath-
letic Park, preceded by military
drill by students in command of Cap
tain Royal Decker. The Home
Guards of Decatur are expected for
military drill on the streets in the
late afternoon. In the evening there
will be a reception and patriotic
send-off for the recruits who assem-
BILE preparatory to leaving for Camp
Custer Saturday morning. This meet
ing will be held in the Court room,
where there will be music, speaking,
and a general patriotic rally in honor
of the boys. It had been hoped that
company might be secured from
Camp Custer for the day, but salts
factory arrangements could not be
made. Let everyone, however, con-
slider the afternoon a holiday, and
turn out and cut loose with all the