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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1918-07-12

Federal Aided road between Paw Paw and
Kalamazoo, Michigan; and
H WHEREAS. the State Highway Commits
sioner has requested that said sum OF
TWELVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($l2,.
000) be deposited with the Treasurer of the
State of Michigan, because until said money is
so deposited the federal government will not
aid or assist in defraying the expenses for the
construction of so-called Federal Aided
Roads"
THEREFORE, BE 1T RESOLVED by the
Board of Supervisors of Van Buren, County
that for the purpose of building said Federal
Aided road between Paw Paw and Kalamazoo,
Michigan the said sum of TWELVE THOU
SAND DOLLARS ($l2,OO0) be deposited
with the Treasurer of the State of Michigan,
which said sum shall be paid out by the State
Highway Commissioner as provided in No. SO
that all of said sum of TWELVE THOUSAND
purpose of constructing said road in Van
pended in Kalamazoo County; and provided
further that should said sum not be used for
the purpose of building said Federal Aided
road in Van Buren, County, then the same to be
returned to the Road Commissioners of Van
Buren, County, Michigan
Upon support of Supervisor Brown the reso-
luton was adopted.
Paw Paw, Mich, Jan. ", 1918.
Mr.. Royal E. Decker,
County Clerk.
herewith submit statement of the cost of
instruction for the County Normal Training
class for the school years beginning Sept, 1916,
and Sept 1917 respectivelv together with the
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Resectfully Submitted.
A. O. DUNCOMBE
County Treasurer.
On motion of Supervisor Kirby, supported
by Supervisor Turner, the above report was
accepted and adopted.
REPORT OF PROSECUTING ATTORNEY.
To the Honorable Board of Supervisors of Van
Buren, County:
beg leave to submit herewith report of the
official business of the office of Prosecuting At
torney for Van Buren, County for the year
1917:
The following cases were prosecuted and
II.
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ABANDONMENT
Number prosecuted ..... 4
Number settled .........
Number convicted ......
ASSAULT
Number prosecuted 800.
Number discharged on
payment of costs 800.
ASSAULT AND BATTERY
Number prosecuted 49,. IL
Number convicted $500.
Number acquitted ......
Number discharged on
payment of COSTS $500.
ASSAULT WITH INTENT TO
DO GREAT BODILY HARM
Number prosecuted 800.
Number convicted ......
ASSAULT WITH INTENT TO RAPE
Number prosecuted $50.
Number discharged on
payment of costs. 80.
BREAKING AND ENTERING
Number prosecuted 49,.
Number discharged on
payment of costs. -.
BURGLARY
Number prosecuted .... 3
Number convicted ......
BASTARDY-
Number prosecuted 49,.
Number settled .........
CONCEALED WEAPONS,
CARRYING
Number prosecuted -.
Number convicted ......
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On motion of Supervisor Slonaker, support
ed by Supervisor Burge, the above report was
accepted and adopted
On motion of Supervisor Long, Supported
by Supervisor Brown, the Board adjourned UNI
til tomorrow morning at eight o'clock. Mo-
ton carried
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DRUNK AND INTOXICATED

Number prosecuted 800. 50
Number convicted ......
DISORDERLY-
Number prosecuted .....
Number convicted 49,.
EMBEZZLEMENT-
Number prosecuted 80.
Number convicted 49,.
FALSE PRETENSES-
Number prosecuted 800.
Number acquitted 49,.
Number discharged on
FORGERY
Number prosecuted 80.
Number convicted 49,.
Number escaped, settled
FRAUDULENT REMOVAL F {: /. OF
CHATTEL MORTGAGE PROPERTY
Number prosecuted 80. 2
Number discharged on
examination .........
GAME AND FISH LAWS,
VIOLATION Of
Number prosecuted 49,. p
Number convicted $3.50.
Number discharged on
cAMIN RS,'' " ~
Number prosecuted 49,.
Number convicted ......
INDECENCY-
Number prosecuted 49,.
Number convicted .....
INDECENT LANGUAGE,
USING Of
Number prosecuted 49,. !
Number acquitted 800.
Number nolle pressed. -.
LARCENY (GRAND)-
Number prosecuted 49,.
Number convicted ......
LARCENY (SIMPLE)-
Number prosecuted 80. 10
Number convicted -.
Number discharged on
examination .........
LOCAL OPTION LAW,
VIOLATION Of
Number prosecuted ..... 10
Number convicted ......
Number discharged on
examination .........
MOlOK VEHICLE LAW,
VIOLATION Of
Number prosecuted $50. 1856
Number convicted .....
BREACH Of
Number prosecuted 49,. Z
Number convicted ......
Number acquitted 49,.
PERJURY
Number prosecuted $50.
Number convicted ......
QUARANTINE AGAINST DOGS,
VIOLATION Of
Number prosecuted 49,. ]
Number convicted .....
RECEIVING STOLEN PROPERTY
Number prosecuted 80.
Number convicted 49,.
STATUTORY RAPE
Number prosecuted 49,.
Number escaped .......
VAGRANCY- :.
Number prosecuted 49,. %
Number convicted ......
REHABILITATION.
Total number prosecuted. -. $50
Total number convicted. .....
Total number acquitted. 49,.
Total number dismissed on
payment of costs .........
Notal number nolle pressed.
Total number discharged on
examination .............
Total number escapes, settle
ments, etc. .............
Respectfully submitted,
II. II. ADAMS,
Prosecuting Attorney,
Van Buren, County Michi
On motion of Supervisor Brown, suppo
by Supervisor Slonaker, the above report
accepted and placed on file.
Supervisor Kirby introduced the folio,
resolution, and moved its adoption:
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John Vanderplough. supplies diph-

John Vanderplough supplies diph
liberia case .................. lib
Decatur Hoof & Lumber Co.. sup
plies in contagious case ........ 1900
The Star grocery, quarantine case. 1.27
c. F. Snow. Jail supplies ......... 25.55
<. V. Root. expense of EV. Root. RAP
c. w. Reynolds. services bailf. 5000
Idella Smith, burial John A. aJmes. $500
Jesse Thomas. burial agent. ...... 200
Andrew Lang, expense attount for
Oct. Nov and Dec .......... 24225
V. l.. Calvin. burial of Henry Wilson. $500
w. c. Fogelman, burial agent. ... 200
A. O. Duncombe, expense account. 1854
Charles Z. Ashley. exense account
deducted one half telephone bill. $500
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD
OF SUPERVISORS
VAN buren, COUNTY MICHIGAN

Refund. Burhans ............
Refund, Beattie ..........
Refund. Broughton ......
Refund, Ashley -. .........
Ohio Coal Co., refund. ........
Refund, Kalamazoo State Hospital
Refund, Mothers Pension.
Refund, Elgas, M. Halford Estate.
Refund, Disbrow, Coolies and
Bloomingdale Road .........
Refund, Smith, County Road
rund ............
Auditor General, Back Taxes. :.
Farmers Mutual Fire. Ins. on
Darn $500.
Paw Paw Savings Bank, Interest
on Deposits ...............
Total Receipts 81
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-06

regular business literature something
that business man can really use.
picked up my hat.
Come on out to my house to dinner.
Freddy" | said; 1.-THE family's away at
the lake and I'm all alone. I'm going TO
show you that when 1t comes to modern
business the Bible is the greatest one
volume correspondence course ever got
together.
"You and I are statesmen, Freddy" ]
began when we We're seated at table that
night; I'VE interpret salesmahShip in the
broadcast possible way, as persuasion.
We believe that all the progress the world
has made has been made by virtue OF
wise and intelligent craftsmanship. n
doctor is a salesman; his business is to
SELF the world better methods of living
An inventor is a salesman whose bust
ness is to sell the world new and better
ways of doing things. The President OF
the United States, if he is successful in
selling his ideas to the people, becomes q
great popular leader.
'Everythig must be sold. When You
come to look at 1t in that light. the Bible
is a record of the lives of the greatest
statesmen who ever lived For ideas are
harder to sell than things And the He
brew prophets sold their people the
greatest idea that ii is possible for the
human mind to entertain the idea of
GoC-sold it so we'll and so securely that
the world has scarcely been able to I'M
prove on their salesmanship from that
day TO this.
| 'Can you realize what that means?
Everything else in human life has altered
since the days of Moses; but the idea of
God among us is pretty much the same
idea that he formed and gave his people,
What mind the man must have had!
what leadership! what craftsmanship! No
man ever went up against such stiff COM
petition. The world was fun of gods
male gods and female gods, wooden and
stone and iron gods. human gods and an
imal geds--it was q poverty stricken tribe,
indeed that couldn't boast at least hun
{ dred.
:" There is one God. That was Moses
sale. BY interpreting their God to them,
bx bringing Him close to the people, by
convincing them of His special care for
them. Moses took the twelve tribes of
| slaves who had been in captivity to the
Egyptians for generations and trans
formed them into a nation.
From slavery to nationality; from dis
sension to unity; from degradation to a
compact. conauering national life, all in
the lifetime of a single man! DO you
know Of any bigger job of craftsmanship
| in the world than that? Isn't it reason
able to suppose that the salesman who
could land that order is worth studying by
| statesmen, even today?
Concluded Next Weell.)
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-06
The Book TIT Has Helped Me Most In Business
From the American Ma gazne by Permission

One reason why the Dillersville Cut
ferry Works continues TO grow is that
every. important oan in our oFganiza-
ton is still growing. The business. be-
ing nothing but the sum total OF the men
in it. is expanded automatically by the
pressure inside. the pressure eft the added
stature and breadth OF IS men.
Two weeks ago small block of our
stock sold for $685. a share; the current
price was $50 when took hold Of the
business a little more than ten years ago.
Eight hundred per cent. increase in ten
wears! { got to thinking about it one
night after the office had closed. and
about the men who had made it possible.
How many of them had grown eight hun
dred per ceat. in ten years? Not all, of
course; some had reached their limit
even earlier than ten years ago. But
some. on the other hand, had grown q
thousand per cent. There was Freddy
Peterson. for example, who was office
boy when ] came to the business, and is
now, at thfrty~tw9. our sales manager
Even as l was thinking about him. the
door of my office opened and he stepped
in.
"Busy Boss?' he asked in his breezy
Net a bit, Fffeddy," answered. What's
on your mind?"
He pulled chair up close 10 my desk.
You know l was thirty-two years old
last week" he began.
[ nodded
"WeH, / devoted part OF my happy
birthday to a bit of serious thought And
came to the conclusion that it's about
time for me to begin to do some SYSTEM
attic reading. I've made pretty good prog
reSs in business for my age. realize it
and it's got me scared 4 little. I'm afraid
III set too darned cont entea-that I'll
quit growing. I'll bet l could name a doz
en- fellows right in cur own lire that
jumped ahead to beat the band between
twenty ard thirty. and then began TO
get sef-satisfed with their good salaries
and pleasant jobs. and haven't moved
ahead single inch since. That's what $
on my mind. want you to lay out some
reading for me that viii make me a big.
ger business man. VIII you do it?''
Sure Will I answered.
Fine" said Freddy. 'Tm ready to
start right now-tonight. What shall I
start on? What's the best book on bust
ness ever written?"
The Bible. I replied, right off the
bat. My answer disappointed him. as
knew it would. His face showed it. He
didn't want to offend me- and yet he
didn't mean to be put off.
Il know, Boss, he ss..d; you're a bug
on the Bible, OF course. And it's q great
beck. know that. Everybody ought to
/ read it more. I'm going to read it a lot
sometime. But just now want some
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-06
A PRAYER IN
TIME. OF WAR

Almighty God, Father of men Ruler
and Judge Of nations, have mercy upon
u.s. we pray. Thee, and strengthen us
as members of the Church of Christ
to meet with courage and fidelity the
special duties of these times. Give
US grace, we beseech Thee:
To purge our own hearts clean of
arrogance and selfishness;
TO steady and inspire the nation
To keep ever before the eyes of our
selves and of our allies the ends for
which we fight:
To hold our own nation true to it's
professed aims of justice, liberty and
brotherhood:
To testify to our fellow Christian
in every land most Of all to those
from whom for the time we are es-
en unity in Christ;
To unite in the fellowship of ser
vice multitudes who love their enc
mics and are ready to join with them
in rebuilding the waste places as soon
as peace shall come,
To be diligent in works of relief and
mercy, not forgetting those ministries
to the spirit to which. as Christians,
we are especially committed;
To keep alive the spirit of prayer
that III these times Of strain and SCR
row men may be sustained by the
consciousness of the presence and
power of God;
To hearten those who go to the front,
and to comfort their loved ones at
home;
To care for the welfare of our young
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men In the army and navy, that they
may be fortified in character and
made strong to resist temptat ton;
To be vigilant against every attempt
to arouse the spirit of Vengeance and
unjust suspicion toward those of for
eign birth or sympathies;
To protect the rights of conscience
against every attempt to invade them
TO maintain our Christian institu-
tons and activities unimpaired, to be
diligent in the observance of the
Lords Day and in the study of the
Holy Scriptures. that Tie soul of our
nation may be nourished and renewed
through the worship and service of
Almighty God
To guard the gains Of education, of
social progress and OF economic free
dom. won at so great cost and to
make full use of the occasion to set
them still further forward even by
and through the war;
To keep the open mind and the for
ward look that the lessons learned in
war may not be forgotten when comes
that just and sacred peace for which
we pray;
Above all. to call men everywhere
TO new obedience to the viii of our
Father God, who in Christ has given
Himself in supreme self sacrifice for
the redemption of the world, and who
invites us to share with Him Mis- min
istry OF reconciliation.
We humbly beseech Thee to hear us
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
From the Wartime Messages of
the Federal Council of the Churches
of Christ in America, in special ses-
sion assembled at Washington, D. c.,
May SO. 1917.
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To repairing results than to stopping the
cause
When they'd much better aim at proven
ton.
Let US stop at it's source all this mis-
chief" cried he,
Come. neighbors and friends. let us
rally.
If the cliff we will fence we might al
most dispense
With the ambulance down in the valley
oh, he's a fanatic" the others rejoined.
dispense with the ambulance? Never.
He'd dispense with all charities. too. il
he could;
But mo- Wen protect them forever;
Aren't we picking folks up just as fast
as they fail?
And shall this man dictate to us? Shall
he?
Why should people of sense stop to put
up fence
While their ambulance works in the val
ley?
But a sensible few who were practical
viii not bear with such nonsense much
They believe that prevention is better
than cure
And their party will soon be the stronger
Encourage them, then with your purse
voice and pen,
And (while other philan hrop;sts daily
They wilt scorn all pretense and put up
steut fence
On the cliff that hangs over the valley
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STRENGTH FROM TIE
TEACHINGS OF JESUS
General Pershing
o the American Solder:

TO the American Soldier:
Aroused against a nation Wa1snJ
war in violation of all Christian
principles, our pesF:e are fighting
in che cause of liberty.
IarSlsap will be your lot, but
%rast IN God @,II give you comfort;
SsSTptat on VIII beFalI you, but che
teachings Of cur Saver will give
yoa strength.
let your va,of as q soldier and
your conduct as a man bs an in
spSrSt.o1 70 your comrades aFd. an
honor 20 your country.
PERSHtHG,
Commanding.
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-06
WHY THE BIBLE is
THE WORD OF GOD
President Wilson

The Bible is the word of life. |
beg that you VIII read 1t and find
this out for yourseives-Tead, not
little snatches here and there, but
long passages that will really be
the road TO the heart of it. You
will find 1t not only full of real
men and women, but also of the
things you have wondered about
and been troubled about all your
life, as men have been always; and
and the more you read the more it
Will become plain 10 you what
things make men happy,--Ioyatty,
right dealing, speaking the truth,
readiness to give everything for
what they think their duty, and,
most of all, the wish that they may
have the approval of the Christ,
vino gave everything for them -
and the things that are guaranteed
TO make men unhappy eIfishness,
cowardice, greed, and everything
that Is Tow and mean. When you
have read the Bible you will know
that 1t Is the Word of God, be-
cause you viii have found il the
key to your own heart, your own
happiness, and your own duty.
WOODROW WILSON,.
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IN BELGIUM

Hear the children, poor. sad children,
Bleeding, crying, without hands!
God, kind God. we pray you'll send US
To those lands, those happy lands;
Where the cruel German butchers.
Can't cut off the childrcn's handsr
Hear the maidens, pure young maidcns,
Pleading. God, our Gcd. we pray
We may die without dishonor
Ere those demons come this wayn'
Hear the mothers, broken hearted
Calling God OF heaven come near:
Crush this triple headed monster!
Give us peace and freedom here"
Ella Netting Hoagiand.
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-06

1.-THE soldier who waits until he is
ready to go over The top for the last
time and then tries to get insurance
to protect his unfortunate dependents
who have been left behind and desti-
tute. will find that his pEeadinos for
welfare will make about as much inn
preston as the peck of a pee-wee bird
on the Rock of Gibraltar"
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-06

'1TaI<e a look into the mirror of tins
and see yourself as your family or de-
pendsnts will see you If you don't take
out ten t:.ousand insurance and get
buried in shell crater"
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Concluded Next WeeIl.)
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-04-04
OUR hen VALOROUS
Americans Credited With Fight
ing Like Veterans"
Two Officers Who Were Hurt Receive
Decorations During the
Action.

Paris. Entirely new in this war
fare. the Americans worked like the
hest veterans In the battle OF the
Somme," says a wounded French cap
tain who has been brought back from
the front according to La Liberte.
Two Of the Americans, officers, who
were wounded were brought back
with the French captain, member OF
the Dragons Each American wore
French war cross conferred on the
battlefield. The French captain re-
fused TO receive attention until The
Americans alongside him had hrst
been nursed
"They are the ones who should be
congratulated" he said, calling upon
the women of the Red Cross to look
after the Americans.
The presence of American auxiliary
troops on the fighting line in the great
battle was the subject Of much favor
able comment, and when II became
generally known that wounded Ameri-
can officers and men were being
brought back with the French wound
ed from the region Of st, Quentin
American stock rose high. The moral
effect was considerable, even though
the supposition was that the number
of the American troops In line was
not considerable
The comforting thing TO the French |
is that recently, whenever there has
been hot fighting, the Americans have
had share of it, even If a small one,
and have acquitted themselves ably
The women drivers Of the American |
Fund for French Wounded, true 10
their tradition, have put their cars at
the disposal OF the numerous refugees |
who are arriving In Paris and are
them from station to sta
ii0u or 10 their friends IN the city AT 4
the Northern Railway station the
Red Cross found Itself able
To give thousands Of refugees tie care
aud comfort they needed after 80
many hours travel Every fe~ hours
q train would bring ia fresh lot Of
600 Of these unfOrtunates, most ~
them little children, old women and /
old men. They had been nearly three
years IN German hands until relieved
last spring, and now have been forced
10 Zee from the homes to which they
had returned.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-04-04
SPIES DELAY A|RPLANES
100000 Germans in u. S. Up
to Work Like This"
Fatal Accidents on Our Aviation
Fields Are Due to Such
Tampering.

Washington. Senator Oyerman OF
North Carolina exhibited in the senate
evidence of the activity OF spies In
aircraft plants in the United States.
He showed bracket which is used in
the Bristol fighting plane and declared
the steel had been removed and re-
placed by lead, which was SO com
pletely covered that II required an ex-
pert to lind it,
The statement OF Senator Osernan
and the doctored bracket caused quite
sensation, The senators gathering
around him 20 get look at the lead
put in the bracket
There came into my Office yester-
day very prominent man in the
United States, who is a detective IN
the government service said Senator
Overman. "IIe brought this bracket,
which holds the radiator rod that goes
on the Bristol fighting machine lie
brought IL to show what German spies
had done. | believe there are in this
country 100000 German spies up TO
work like this all the time
Two or three hundred Bristol ma.
chimes were 10 be furnished the gov
ernment on April / They were not
furnished because Of German spies
who had cut the steel in the brackets
and filled them with lead, painted
them over. and when the first machine
was tried out It fell to the grouLu. A
British officer. an inspector Of the Cur
iIss plant, found that this plant OF
steel had been tampereu with. That
delayed the building Of the Bristol
machines for more than two months,
for every machine had 10 be examined
and an the pieces found changed e
plnced by others
III ! we're secretary OF war or the
President ot he United States woud
commander the Curiiss plant. where
these machines are made turn oui
every suspicion, man ana hire only
loyal Americans Some Of the lead
ing men IN the plant have German
names ! make no charges eSainI
these men They may be innocent.
hut they haNc strange names 10 me.
NC know that spies are IN the Cur
,is, plant ana they have delayed the
building ~ the Hnstol machines. or
Fighting planes ana prevented their
delivery en limc