The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1918-05-10

ordered for the Home Guards before
that organization became defunct,
and since that time they have scatter
ed promiscously through the village.
The local school would like to use
them in their military training work,
and it is requested that any person
who has one of these guns in his
possession to leave the same at Chap
pel's Cigar store. where the captain
of the High School Military company
can get them.
An auxiliary of the Junior Red Cross
of the county was organized in the
local schools this week. All grades
are organized up to the high school
which will organize later. Miss
Grace Marsall is chairman of the
auxiliary and Miss Veda Brown, sec
retary and treasurer. The sixth
grade, under the direction of the
teacher Miss Pearl Stephens, has
planned an entertainment to be given
at the school house on the evening of
May 18th. The proceeds Of the en-
tertainment will go to the Junior Red
Cross and every person in the COM
munity should plan to attend.
There are certain times of the year
usually in the spring, when certain
people are afflicted with a strange
malady, which causes them to do un-
heard of things, and foolish stunts.
During those periods they will pass
their friends on the street and not
recognize them. They wander about
as if in a dream, and forget so to
speak, that they are alive. The
latest victim of this strange malady
in Paw Paw is our good friend L. E..
Shepard, and this is the fool stunt
he pulled off. He planted two acres
of onions, and when the job was COM
pleted found that he had run the
drill backwards, and that there was
as much seed in the drill at the finish
as when he started. The drill was
reversed, the onions re-drilled. Len
has come out of it, and continues to
smile.
Much interest was manifested in the
first week of the True Northerner's
Missing word contest, and veritable
! flood of answers continued to pour in
| to the office until long after the con-
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replies had been received up to the
closing hour, and several were receiv-
ed after that time, but of course
under the rules of the contest they
could not be counted. Not a single
contestant missed the entire six
words, although several gave only a
part of them. Only one contestant
gave the entire six words correctly,
and the first prize goes to her, Mrs.
Zilpha Ferguson of Paw Paw. Several
were tied for second place, and the
second prize goes to the one of these
first received, Mrs. Fanny Ballard.
Decatur. One dollar in Thrift Stamps
Stamps has been mailed to the winner
of the first prize and receipt for
six months subscription to the win
ner of second prize. The missing
words have all been replaced this
week, and an entirely new list of six
words taken from other advertis-
ments for this weeks contest. Only
one word is taken from an "ad" and
that word is vital to it's meaning. The
contest affords an opportunity for in
teresting study. Many replies re-
ceived referred to advertisements in
which no words were omitted by de-
sign, but the contestant in some in
stances improved the language of the
advertiser. Remember that all an
swers must be i'm before Tuesday noon
Of each week. No replies can be
counted after that hour. Get the
answers in early, for in case of a tie,
the prize will go to the one whose
answer is received first. One Of the
contestants last week, requested that
the Thrift Stamps, in case she should
be the winner, be turned over to the
local Red Cross.
Everybody is proud of the magni-
fient and liberal response to the Third
| Liberty Loan. The government ask
ed for three billion dollars and ap-
proximately four billion has been sub
scribed. The quota for Van Buren,
county was $487,393 and the sub
scriptions total over $690000. Paw
Paws quota was $4,000 and the
amount subscribed totals $94,950.
That doubles the quota for Paw Paw
and the Honor Flag will be adorned
with a star. Pine Grove township
also doubled its quota and will get a
star. The amount subscribed in Paw
Paw village was $73,050, and in the
township outside the village $21 900.
The amount subscribed by women was
$27. $50, and the subscriptions secur-
ed by women workers in Paw Paw
township was $4,000. The total
amount of bonds subscribed through
the local banks is 1927, ,300, divided
as follows:-First National Bank,
$76,650; Paw Paw Savings Bank.
$35, $50; John w. Free & Co., $14, 300.
The amount subscribed through the
local banks for Paw Paw township is
as ows:-First National Bank,
$53. .250; Paw Paw Savings Bank,
$27, 400; John w. Free & Co., $4,000.
Great credit is due the entire county
Organization, the chairman, all patri..
otic workers, committees, banks and
volunteers everywhere, who all speak
Of the enthusiastic response on the
part of citizens. The quota in each
precinct is based as nearly as possible
on the assessed valuation. The
prompt and liberal response in Paw
Paw township has been an inspiration
70 other precincts. As FAR ms the esti-
mates have been Secured, the town.
ships have all "Gone Over the TOP"