The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1918-07-26

Mr.. and Mrs. AL Anderson and
son Barton who went west to make
Colorado their home, have returned
to Good Old Michigan and will again
reside in their home town, Cassopolis
They are the guests of Postmaster
II. A. Cole and family this week.
Four new free tuberculosis clinics
are in progress of development by
the Michigan Anti tuberculosis
association. They will be at Cass-
opolis, Dowagiac, Paw Paw and Hart
ford. One week will be spent at the
two former cities and one week i'm
Van Buren county. The time has
not been announced yet.
Mrs. Sam H. Kelley and daughters
are at their cottage at Four Mile lake
for the summer. Mr.. Kelley was
there with them last week, and with
his wife returned to Lansing Thurs
day afternoon for the week end.
They just reached their home in the
evening, when a message announced
the accident at Lawrence which re-
suited in her fathers death. They
left Lansing at midnight, and reach
ed the bedside early Friday morning
few minutes before his death.
Bill Killefer came home Thursday
leaving again Wednesday to join the
Cubs at Philadelphia. His wife went
to Westchester, Pennsylvania to be
with her mother who is critically i'll.
1t was announced Saturday that base
ball in the Major leagues would sus-
pend for the duration of the war, to
comply with the government "Work
or Fight" order. This order applies
to men only who are over the draft
age. and would effect something like
two hundred men in base ball. The
league magnates are in Washington
this week for a conference with Sec
retary of War Baker, and upon this
conference depends the fate of the
national pastime. Bill is in Class
One of the Van Buren, county men,
and will probably be called to go
with the next contingent in August.
The largest single order for bacon
and canned meats in the history of
the world has just been placed by
the Quartermaster's department for
the American Army overseas. The
order calls for 99,560,O00 pounds of
bacon and 134,OO0,000 pounds of can
ned meat. This order will take the
bacon from approximately 100000
hogs. If every other work were to
be dropped, this order would be
equivalent to the total bacon pro-
ductior of the five largest Chicago
packers for nearly five weeks. Six
months however will elapse before de-
livery is to be completed. At the
current prices of live stock, the pack
ers will pay the live stock producers
about $80,O00,0O0 for the necessary
hogs and about $5O,OOO,OO0 for about
100000 cattle required to fill the
order.
A most distressing accident at his
home in Lawrence on Thursday night
of last week, resulted in the death
of Seymour Wallace, one of the old
and we'll known residents of Van
Buren, county. About dusk Mr.. Wal
lace endeavored to fill his auto gaso-
line tank and unthinkingly struck a
match to observe some difficulty when
the can of gasoline in his hands be-
came ignited In trying to throw the
burning can away, the ignited gaso-
line was spilled over his clothing and
he was Immediately enveloped in a
mass of flames. His clothing above
the waist was burned entirely from
his body, and his person so burned
that he died at eight o'clock Friday
morning, July 10Th. Brief services
were held at his late residence in
Lawrence Sunday, the remains being
taken to the East Arlington church
where the funeral services were held
conducted by Rev. Frost of Lawrence
and Rev. I. P. Bates of Paw
Paw, who was his teacher in
school sixty years ago last winter,
and burial took place at East Airing
ton cemetery. Harold Seymour Wal
lace was born in Indiana, March first
1850 and in 1852 moved with his par
ents to Arlinton township. He was the
youngest of seven children, all of
whom except Mrs. Miranda Church, a
sister, have passed away. On Feb
ruary 3rd, 1875, Mr.. Wallace was
married to Miss Frances Worthy, and
two children were born Of this mar
riage, Mrs. Sam H. Kelly Of Lansing
and George of Arlington Township.
About year ago Mr.. Wallace built
a residence at Lawrence and moved
there after a life Of sixty-fve years
on the farm in Arlington, with the
expectation of enjoying a well earned
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