The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1919-11-14


Bazaar at Memorial Hall on Thurs
day, November Goth. Bill for d.
ner 80 cents.
Advertised Letters Charles A,
Davey, Arthur Delamato, Mrs. John
McCool, Mary Malanshek, Nellie
Suited.
Mrs. Isabelle .Filley left Wednes-
day morning for Colmar, New
Mexico, to spend the winter with her
son, Charles Filley
DR.. Blanche Haines of Three Rivers
will address the Coterie on Wednes-
day, November 10Th, on the League
of Women Voters. Business meet
ing at 2:30, the address beginning at
800. All are welcome for the usual
guest fee.
Many Michigan farmers are al
ready pondering over the details of
the income tax reports which they
must fill out during the next few
months, and many of them are find
ing that the job is going to be a
difficult one. The man who does his
bookkeeping in his head is finding
that the tax report sheets call for
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command. These reports are simple
says C. H. Graves, farm manage
ment specialist at the Michigan
Agricultural College. "If the far
mer has kept an account during the
year and taken an annual inventory.
! If he has record of his years busi-
ness, however, making the report is
difficult process. Rulings of the
Commissioners of Internal Revenues
permit farmers to report on the in
victory basis, provided they keep
some system of farm accounts that is
accredited by the department. This
is by far the easier and better method
because each years business is re-
ported according to actual income
and not according to the cash re-
ceipts. Simple and practical farm
account books, suitable for this pur-
pose, can be secured from the coun-
ty agricultural agents in any part
of the state.
When the fortieth international
convention of the Y. M. G. A. speaks
on November 10th, in Detroit, one OF
the big problems which the delegates
will have to face will be found in
these figures:-55 per cent of the
population of the United States live
in places of less than 5000. 5,500,000
young men and boys of the country
live in rural communities. 1880
900 of the nations population are
Engaged in agricultural work. This
is one-third of the entire working
force of the nation. The agricul-
tural workers equal in number the
workers in the building and hand
trades, railway and waterway work
ers, telephone and telegraph workers
iron and steel workers, the so-called
professional class, the mine-s, work
ers in cotton and wool and textile
workers, and the lumber and fur
niture industries. 172 counties in
Al states out of $500 organizable
counties have rural for county Y. M.
c. A. work. 100000 negroes, or
As of all the colored people in the
country live in the rural fields. The
entire Indian population lives in
this field. While there are many
agencies like the village improve
ment society, horticultural and mar
keting societies and other big farm
organizations, the attention of the
delegates will be centered on the fact
that the Associations purpose is to
assist along lines not covered by
these organizations. The banding
together of the boys and young men
of the community for the promotion
of rural community building, through
individual character building, is one
of the Associations aims. Another
will be to develop through the
Association work greater social
efforts than the school or church
accomplish alone, reaching a group
not otherwise reached, and tending
to round out all who come in contact
with its influence into we'll developed
physical, mental, religious and social
units in the social life of the COM
munity. One prominent feature of
the convention will be the report of
the commission of the relationship
between the Church of the rural
community and the County Y. M.
c. A. The Clergy and Association
men, alike, are awaiting anxiously
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