The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1919-01-24

Chappell motored to Kalamazoo last
Friday.
Glenn f. Warner, Howard B. Allen,
Guy F. Warner and Ed Davis were
in Battle Creek on Thursday to at
tend a Bankers convention in that
city.
Miss George Boomer, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Reynold Boomer, north
Of town. Miss Boomer is a Red Cross
nurse and is just returned from
England and France, where she has
been stationed in hospitals there.
A number of the towns of the coun-
ty are making very encouraging re-
ports on progress in the Victory Boys
and Victory Girls clubs. Twenty
one of Blooningdale's forty Victory
Boys have earned their certificates as
one of a million Boys behind a Mill
ion Fighters" Thirty-seven certi-
Gates have been issued to the Victory
Boys of the South Haven High school.
The county director is desirous of
having the local directors make their
detailed reports as soon as possible,
and if they have already been sent
in, they should be revised, showing
/ the progress of the organization and
also to facilitate the issuing of the
certificates. The campaign ends
March 1st, which leaves only about
six weeks in which time all reports
must be in, and certificates should be
in the hands of the Victory Boys be-
fore that date.
At the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Paw Paw Savings
Bank, the following officers We're
elected for the ensuing year.
Glenn f. Warner, President; David
Anderson, First Vice President; H.
b. Allen, Second Vice President; /;
Blaine Warner, Cashier; Bennett Nc
Kinstry, Assistant Cashier. Miss
! Esther Stevenson who has been in
Denver, Colorado taking a business
course during the winter, will return
soon to resume her duties as Book
Keeper The bank declared the usual
Is per cent dividend for the year.
Elmer Empson, who has had charge
of the Eugene Hinckley farm on
Eagle Lake for the past nine years,
will leave about March 1st, for South
Lyon, Michigan, to assume the man.
agement of the Delbert Smith farm
of $50 acres. The farm is stock
and grain farm, one of the best In
the state, and specializes in thorough
bred sheep and cattle. 1t also has a
large apple orchard, and the place
employs four or five men in addition
to the farm manager. Mr.. and Mrs.
Empson have a host of trfenus, not
only in the home community, but
throughout the county who will regret
to see them leave, but will unite in
best wishes for their happiness and
prosperity in the new home. Will
Fitch will succeed Mr.. Empson on the
Hinckley farm.
Eugene Bailey, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Bailey, has nearly recovered
from the ugly wound received on the
battle fields of France. He is the first
wounded Paw Paw boy to return
home, and has wonderful story to
tell of his experiences. He was in
active service on the battle field from
May 1st, to July 25th. 1t was the
morning of the day that he received
the wound which kept him in the
hospital for several months. The
shell which sent an ugly piece of
shrapne deep into the muscles of his
thigh, killed a comrade on his right
and mangled both arms of the one
on his left His thrilling experiences
would make an exciting book, but the
young hero's modesty forbids a re-
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to persistent questioning of his
friends.
The proposed constitutional amend
ment providing for the return of the
saloon to our state, sales to be re-
stricted to wine and beer, is of great
Importance, and should be thorough
ly understood by every elector. Var
Buren, County has been saloonless fol
the past twenty-eight years, and 9
vote in favor of the amendment would
be reversal of the policy under
which we have lived so long anc
J and emphatically endorsed. 1t il
: which the voters have so frequently
true that the saloons, if the amend
/ ment shall prevail, will be legally re
5 stricted as above noted, but, in view
: of the strenuous efforts of the oppon
| ents of the present law to evade it,
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