The true northerner., 1919-01-03

spent several days with Paw Paw
friends this week.
The Board of Supervisors will con-
vene for the January session next
Monday, January sixth.
County Clerk Broughton has named
Roy S. McCrimmon of South Haven
as deputy clerk at that city.
The Royal Neighbors will meet on
Tuesday, January 7th, at 1880 p. M.
All members are requested to be
present. Installation of officers.
lrwell Brody, postmaster at Lawton
has received word from his brother,
Lieutenant Glenn Brody, who is now
in German territory, that every
officer has been killed that went to
France in his company. Lieutenant
Brody has himself been wounded
several times.
In the state of Illinois the people
have become so enthusiastic for the
anti-tuberculosis campaign that in the
November election thirty-three coun-
ties voted a local tax up to three
mills on the dollar for the purpose of
establishing in each county a tuber-
culosis sanitarium, visiting nurse SER
vice, free tuberculosis clinics and dis
pensaries. The Michigan -tuber-
culosis association is pointing to this
remarkable instance as being of in
terest to the people of Michigan,
chiefly because of the contrast that it
still shows with this state, where
little or no headway has been made
during the past year or two by local
communities in the erection of sani-
tariums. 1t also is a splendid ex-
ample for Michigan to follow.
The United War Veterans, a nation
al organization has been formed to
include in its active membership, all
veterans of the Civil War and Span
ish War and all soldiers, sailors and
marines of the United States in the
World War. The objects are: To
unite in fraternal bonds, through
national, state, local and foreign or
ganizations, all soldiers and sailors
of the United States; to perpetuate
Memorial Day, as established by the
Grand Army of the Republic, and to
preserve from neglect the graves of
Our Nations Dead; to secure employ
ment for, and to assist our comrades,
their widows, orphans and dependent
relatives, to promote loyalty, mutual
aid and cooperation among them in
Iall lines of endeavor; to secure from
Congress and other legislative bodies
the enactment of laws beneficial to
the welfare of our comrades, and to
secure employment for those who
have returned to civil pursuits in con-
sonance with laws which prefer
ihonorably discharged soldiers and
sailors for government service; to pro
vide and establish homes for orphans
and dependent children of our
rades; and to inculcate the principles
to all mankind of loyalty to our coun-
try, reverence for its institutions
obedience to its laws and to discount
Ienance whatever tends to weaken
these sentiments.
Representative Norman J. Gould OF
! New York has introduced a bill tC
permit all non-commissioned officers
and enlisted men to retain as their
personal property, without cost tC
them, whatever clothing they may
have in their possession at the time
Of their discharge. This goes the
War Department one better, for the
department has recently ruled that
they may retain their uniforms fol
four months after discharge, wher
those uniforms must be turned in
There is a good deal of sentiment at
tached by the soldier to the uniform
he wore in battle. AS he grows ole
he will like to take it from its cedal
box or camphor ball wrappings, show
it to the kids, or his friends, ant
fight his battles over again. VIII,
has not seen the veteran of the Civi
War gaze lovingly on the uniform h,
wore at Gettysburg, Antietam, o
Bull Run? An instance is recalle,
8 of an old Confederate veteran VIII
came to Richmond to attend a re
union there some years ago. III
brought his old grey uniform wit
him, and when he unpacked it to do
for the parade, what was his horro
to find a sizable moth hole in TIL
shoulder of the coat. He positivel
refused to wear it for fear some on
} might remark. he had been shot
! the back by Yank. The return c
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