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

Eugene Cooley is on the sick list
and under the care of doctor.
Arthur Miller has been on the sick
list for the past week or more.
Frank Miller has been in Lansing
and Detroit on business this week.
o. X. Peterson of the Canadian
Army spent a few days the first of
this week the guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
Verne Decker.
Miss Ola Killefer will go to France
as Red Cross nurse, and will
probably sail as soon as passports
can be secured.
County Clerk Royal Decker went
to Benton Harbor on Wednesday to
take the baths. He is suffering with
severe cold.
Gaylord George came from the
Great Lakes Training station the first
of the week to spend few hours with
relatives and friends.
The 4Sth, annual meeting of the
Michigan State Horticultural Society
will be held in the city of Detroit on
December 10 to 13 inclusive. 1t is
confidently expected that this will be
the most important ever held by this
society.
Lieut.. Murray Boess who has
been home on a ten days furlough,
received word Tuesday to report at
once for Over Seas duty. Lieut..
Boess is in the Aviation Corps and
was stationed at one of the camps in
Texas.
Miss Christine Carr accompanied
| little Miss Eileene Raccttc to Mus
kegon where she will stay with her
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. Poole
during the absence of her mother,
who is nursing at the Base hospital
at Camp Custer.
Commencing October 9th, there was
Ia change in schedule time on the Fruit
Belt of the east bound afternoon train.
This train now leaves Hartford at
800 p. NJ, arrives at Paw Paw at
1886, and leaves for Kalamazoo at
$40, just ten minutes earlier than
heretofore.
There will be contest of Four
Minute Speeches between the pupils
of the Steeple school and Richmond
school, held at the Richmond school
house, Friday evening, October 18th.
at 500 o'clock. An interesting pro-
gram of recitations, speeches and
music has been prepared. Every one
is invited to be present.
Harry S. Myers, a former Paw Paw
boy, and late years of Hillsdale has
resigned as Secretary Of the Mission
airy Education Movement and has
accepted a call to the Over Seas De-
partment of the War Work Council of
the Y. Nj. C. A. His duties began on
October 1st Harry is son of George
w. Myers who was at one time Coun-
ty clerk of this county.
Frank Denner, Game Warden from
Kalamazoo passed through Paw Paw
the first of the week with several
crates of Ring Necked Pheasants
which were liberated in Van Buren
county. The state is making an effort
to get this rare game bird started
throughout Michigan, and sportsmen
everywhere are. urged to assist in
their propagation and care.
The Annual Van Buren County Sun
day School convention will be held in
Bangor on Wednesday and Thursday,
October % and "a. The local arrange
ments are in charge of Rev. w. II.
Hedges of that city. A splendid pro-
gram is in preparation and without
doubt this will be one of the most in
teresting and instructive conventions
ever held by the Sunday schools of
this county The Bangor people will
entertain the delegates.
Considerable excitement was caused
the first of the week, not only locally
but the country over, by the renewed
of "Peace Talk" by Germany and her
Allies. Without stopping for consid-
Grafton, many people were of the
opinion that the war was about over.
Don't be misled however, by any such
proposal as the Kaiser now makes.
This is not the first time that he has
attempted to poison the minds of
America by his attempts at Impos-
sible Peace negotiations. Germany is
now fighting with her back to the
wall. Allied successes on every battle
line must now reveal to the enemy
Just what the inevitable result must
be, and he will resort to every trick,
and every scheme possible for the
brain of the despicable hun to CON
coct in his effort to save something
from the wreck that is to come.
"Honorable Peace" the arch william
says. There can be no Honorable
Peace" so far as he is concerned.
President Wilson voices the sentiment
of a united nation when he says to
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