The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1918-10-25

Daniel Shaw of Decatur was a
guest at the H. A. Cole home Tuesday.
Don White of Jackson spent the
fore part of the week with Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Miller.
Harley Mutchler of the Municipal
Pier Naval Training Station in Chi
cago spent the week end with his
parents here.
DIR. j. E. Gilkey had the misfortune
to cut the thumb of his left hand
severely while opening a glass can
Thursday noon. The jagged pieces of
glass cut through the muscles to the
bone.
On account of the local quarantine,
the First number of the Lecture
Course which was to have been the
evening of October 18th, has been in
definitely postponed. For the same
reason, the delivery of tickets will be
delayed. A new schedule of dates
will be announced as early as possible.
Never in the history of Michigan
have so many signatures been secured
as for the one on Woman Suffrage.
According to the Detroit News in 1853
there was presented to the legislature
a petition 1900 feet long. The sheets
were pasted together in a continuous
rnl in hn
hibition initiative petition contained
about 10000 names. But it remains
for the women of Michigan to sur
pass all records in the number of
women who have signed petition for
the suffrage amendment which will be
voted on November 5th. From every
county in the state the women have
sent in their names, all properly sub
scribed, and witnessed so that there
can be no, Juggling with facts. There
is no doubt that Michigan women are
abreast of the times.
The german reply to President
Wilson's Peace Note was not very
satisfactory, from the standpoint of
the United States and our Allied
governments. 1t was conciliatory,
evasive and unreasonable. An analy-
sis of the reply reveals one prominent
thought however, and that is, The
enemy can now see his inevitable
finish and is making a desperate
effort to salvage all he possibly can
from the wreck A peace note of
just two words, Unconditional Sur
render" is what the Allied Govern
ments are looking for, and until such
reply is received, the war will go
on. 1t has been suggested, with, it
would seem to us considerable logic,
that all future socalled peace notes
and negotiations from the enemy be
referred directly to General Foch on
the field of battle. 1t would be much
easier for the enemy to communicate
with him there, and the result would
be the same in the end. Leave it to
Foch.
Major Edward Thompson has made
the Supreme Sacrifice. The sad news
reached his wife and son at South
Haven, and his mother and brother in
Lawrence on Monday of this week
in two letters, one from his son, Zell,
who was a soldier in. his fathers
battalion at the front, and one from
Private Ted Hartman, South Haven
boy who was with the Major when
wounded and at his bedside when the
summons came The facts as near as
can be determined from the letters
received are as follows:- The Major
was wounded slightly in the hand by
shell splinter on September 28th. He
started back to dressing station to
have the wound dressed, when a shell
burst near enough to wound him
severely in the back. He was taken
to the hospital, which was later she'll
ed by enemy air planes, necessitating
removal of patients several miles
further to the rear. The exposure,
together with the serious wound and
weakened condition was too much for
the rugged constitution, and he died
on October 2nd. His son Zell was
oOlilt lOuilt ullitS lIOll I!lt HOSpiIdl
and walked the distance as soon as
he learned of his fathers injuries.
He arrived however a few minutes
too late. Major Thompson was well
known to nearlN every citizen of Van
Buren county, and had wide acquain
tance in military circles. Lawrence
was his home as boy, and he gradu-
ated from the schools of that village.
South Haven city has been his home
for number of years, and he was
one of the first members of Troop A,
a military organization of that city.
He was honored in this Company with
the highest rank it could confer, and
saw service in the Upper Peninsula
as Captain and in Mexico before the
World War began. While his regi-
ment was at Waco Texas, he was com
missioned Major, and has been in com
mand Of the second Battalion of the
10th, Field Artillery in France since
his division arrived there. He was
exceedingly popular as a military
man and civilian, and was considered