The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1919-12-05


} Paul Broughton of Lansing spent
the week end among relatives and
friends here.
Afford Douglas has gone to South
Bend to take a business course in
the college there.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. E. Dillie are leav-
ing this week for Chicago where they
will spend the winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Burlington
left on Thursday for st. Cloud
Florida to spend the winter.
G.. w. Sherman has returned from
an extended western trip and is
again on duty at the Dyckman hotel.
A large company enjoyed the Mrs.
Higgs Dancing party at the Maple
City Club rooms last Friday evening.
M. H. Young and family spent
Thanksgiving day in South Haven
the guests of his brother, DIR. G. F.
Young.
Horace Mcdonald and family of
Grand Rapids came to spend Thanks
giving with her mother, Mrs. Elvira
Morrison.
"Tillie's Punctured Romance" comes
to the Idle Hour theatre next Mon
day evening, and Mickey" is on the
way.
Doctor and Mrs. ]. E. Gilkey re-
joice over the advent of fine baby
daughter, who came to grace their
home last Sunday.
There was "a happy Thanksgiving
day at the Blaine Warner home this
year The guest of honor was fine
baby boy who arrived on Thanks
giving Eve.
Charles Hotrum had the misfor-
tune to lose fine pair of mules last
week Wednesday. He is working for
the county in road construction, and
the mules were used in loading
gravel near the jennings crossing.
They were working between the X.
L. S. & G. Tracks and a high en-
lbankment. His son who was hand
ling the team did not notice the
approach of the train in time to get
the animals away, and he engine hit
them, mangling both animals so
badly, they had to be killed. The
boy in his efforts to get the team
out of danger was quite badly bruised
The executive committee of the
Wan Buren, County Farm Bureau sent
out the following message to the far
mers of the county in connection with
the Drive for membership which be-
gins in this county next Monday, De-
cember 8:--"Will the Farmer Strike :?
This is the question that is on the
lips of many we meet. The farmer
is the only member of our industrial
Organization who has not yet struck
and materially the public as well as
the fa~norS themselves 40 wordc"-
ing if he will follow the tactics used
by others. Striking seems to be the
popular fad of the day. Organized
labor is not the only group that has
used this means of obtaining their
demands. Manufacturers commsCly
refuse to put out their product with
out certain profit. This profit is
agreed upon between them. Is that
not striking? Every day farmers
are leaving their farms, moving to
town or to the city, to work for the
attractive wages offered, because
, their business is not profitable. They
are not able to pay the wages paid in
the city, and in many cases farm
owners are following their hired men
to town. There are good people who
profess to think that the farmer is
Poi ISuiaiiy ldNoicu ihidiCldlly IOudy
but this one fact is sufficient answer
to that thought. If he had such a
good thing he would not leave it.
The farmers of Michigan and of the
J United States are uniting today in an
, organization for their benefit. This
{ is an organization for business, moth
| ing social or fraternal about it
, whose purpose is to promote the in
: terest of agriculture in every legiti-
, mate way. That is the Farm Bureau
/ County, State and National. One de.
| claration of this organization is that
| not pound of produce should leave
} an American farm that does not re-
{ turn its cost of production plus a
) reasonable profit. Is there anything
> unfair about that? The way the
E farmers are getting behind the move
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