The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1918-11-15

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daughters, Frieda and Gertrude spent
a part of last week with Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Alexander in Kokomo, Indiana.
Murray Boess is still at Garden
City, Long Island, waiting anxiously
to embark for Over Seas. Four
times, he writes home has his bag
gage been placed on board ship and
as many times taken back to quarters.
Lester DeHaven who has a position
in the State Hospital in Pontiac, Mich
igan has been seriously ill. He is
reported gaining rapidly and will soon
be on duty again.
Mr.. and Mrs. Zelon Cleveland en-
tertained few friends in honor of
Miss Jessie Eldredge the first of the
week. Miss Eldredge has spent
several summers here, and has made
many friends by her happy and genial
personality. She will soon return to
her home in Oak Park, Illinois.
The adjourned annual meeting of
the Van Buren, county Short Horn
Breeders association will be held in
the town hall in the village of Hart
ford on Tuesday, November 10Th, at
1000 o'clock in the forenoon. Secre-
tary George L. Rich of Lawrence
urges all who are interested in Short
Horn cattle to be present at this
meeting.
A letter from Ed M. Bailey states
that he had very busy time election
night; Ed was chairman of the
election board in the 18th, district of
the 21st, ward of the city of Detroit,
and with the City election, the state
and county besides numerous city and
state amendments, it required an all
night session, the board not complet-
ing its work until Wednesday morn
ing at ZOO o'clock.
Statistics sent out by the Treasury
department on the National War Saw
ings campaign show that up to Octo-
ber first, the total sales of the nation
amounted to SITE, 2,713,977O0. Mich
igan stands fortieth in the list of
states with a total sales of S17,553,-
104.23. Van Buren couny stands
twcnty.third in the list of counties
with a total plerged to October first
Of S3i5, 100000. Van Buren's quota
is S460,95z.00. Some work to be done
yet.
The story of how an orchard dem
onstration begun in the face of much
criticism in a locality where modern
orchard practice was unknown and
how it opened the eyes of the entire
neighborhood to the possibilities of
fruit growing is told by State fruit
specialist. The local county agent
wanted the orchard demonstration,
the State specialist believed that it
would be waste of time to hold one
in that particular community. Finally
he consented, after persistent urging
on the part Of the county agent An
apple orchard was pruned, sprayed
and otherwise cared for according to
modern orchard practice, while the
neighbors of the owner of the orchard
ridiculed him for mutilating his trees
and wasting time and money spray
ing them. AS the season advanced
and the demonstration orchard was
the only one in the entire section
which produced a crop of fruit the
neighbors who had at first sneered,
began to enquire how it had been
done. After paying the successful
grower $3.50 bushel for their win
ter supplies, the neighbors are now
s. agreed that it pays to spray.
A mother doing her Christmas
shopping early" in one of our larger
Michigan cities, was astonished to find
some cheap little sets of toy dishes
stamped "Made in Germany. She
reported the matter to the - State
Chairman of the Woman's Committee
who feels called upon to suggest that
no child of any loyal American shall
be the recipient of such gifts, no
matter how much marked down" at
E the bargain counter. 1t should also
, be made clear to any merchant that
he has made decidedly bad bargain
in offering such articles for sale. 1t
would surely be an amazing thing if
f little American children, among whose
, earliest remembrances are the detest-
\ alton and horror of their parents at
= the deeds of the Hun, should find that
] "Santa Claus" has brought them gifts
= straight from that God forsaken ter
ritory. One does not envy the parent
}. who undertakes to explain this dis
crepency to wide-awake 100 per
cent American child. The State