The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1918-03-01

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Tuesday.
The next regular meeting of the
Grange will be at the Memorial Hall
tomorrow Saturday afternoon.
A letter from Mrs. Nellie Raleigh
Moulton states that she is now at
home at 116 Hastings st. N. e. Grand
Rapids and orders The True Norther-
ner sent to her at that address.
Letters from Senator William AL
den Smith to some of his Michigan
friends contain the information that
re will be a candidate TO succeed
himself in the next republican pri-
mary.
DR.. A. S. Warthin of the u. of NJ.
10 authority for the statement that
the U. S. Army now in progress of
being built is the most moral army
ever raised in the history Of the
world.
The Seattle Sunday Times Of Febr-
uary 18th, contains a fine double
column likeness Of former Paw Paw
girl, now Mrs. J. H. Linton, who has
recently been elected president of the
Seattle Officers Council Of Parent
Teachers association. Mrs. Linton
was formerly Miss Bernice Quick of
this place.
How comparatively fortunate Mich
igan is in the matter of tuberculosis
among it's soldiers is shown by a COM
parison between reflections at Camp
Custer by reason of this dicease and in
some other camps. DR.. E. r. Wander
Slice, secretary of the Michigan Anti
tuberculosis association, just returned
from Camp Taylor, Kentucky reports
450 reflections at that camp as against
only 100 in Camp Custer,
Hon. Charles B. Warren of Detroit,
member of the National Republican
Committee and Major of the staff of
Provost Marshal General Crowder
since the beginning of the war, has
been promoted to the rank of Lieuten-
ant Colonel. 1t will be remembered
that Mr.. Warren's services were
accepted by the Government on the
condition that it be without pay. He
received brand new one dollar bill
as payment in full for his services
during the period of the war. His
boyhood days were spent in Van Buren,
county, and he is now a resident of
Detroit.
Mrs. Mary Benson died very sudden
ly last Sunday, February oath. She
was i'll only one day and was not con-
fined TO her bed. Heart failure was
given as the cause of her death. She
was born in Pelham, Ontario and was
years Of age last Christ
mas day. She was the mother of Mrs.
Arthur Trott with whom she has made
her home for the past three years.
She wa member of the NJ. T..
church and devoted christian. Rev.
Mr.. Trott and wife left on Monday
for Dunnv.lie, Ontario, where the re-
mains will be laid to rest beside those
of her husband who passed away some
thirteen years ago.
1ae great Clarence Darrow OF Chi
cago, who is probably one. of the
most noted attorneys in the whole
United States is scheduled for a visit
to Paw Paw next week Tuesday,
March 9Th. He will come IN the
capacity of attorney foi a client in
the Lucille Bridges estate in the Pro-
bate court of this county. Mr.. barrow
and Judge Anderson are the associate
attorneys on one side Of the case, and
Judge Lally of Chicago and Glenn
Warner on the other. II is seldom
that an attorney Of Clarence .Darrow's
reputation is called to case in the
courts of this county, and his visit
will be circumstance of considerable
note.
+. v. Root, commissioner of schools
and T. A. Farrand county agricult-
ural agent send the following mes
sage to the Farmers of Van Buren,
county "The Federal Government
is making a crop, stock and labor CEN
sus of the United States as a part
of the War program. The public
school system has been designated as
the agency through which such census
shall be taken. The census will be
made by school district with the teach
er or superintendent in charge. 1t
il expected that the blanks can be
distributed and collected by the
pupils. School officers have been ask
ed 10 assiet the schools in this work.
March 9Th, has been designated as the
date for the completion of this cen
sus and the blanks should be dist-ib-
,,tad hxy vo,,v ccbool thie week We