The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1919-06-20

spent saturday with her sister Mrs
Lena Salisbury and spent Sunday
with her sister Mrs. Frank Holcomt
who is very ill.
Figures on the early enrolment just
given out by Director f. H. Ryder
indicate that all previous records will
be broken by big margin. Course.
in agriculture are again proving tC
be the most popular in the school.
All members of Paw Paw L. o. T
M. desiring to attend the Associa-
tion meeting at Lawrence June Goth
will meet at Memorial Hall at 600
o'clock A. M. on that day and ar
Auto Truck will furnish transpor-
.tation.
w. T. Davis of Chicago made bus
mess trip to Paw Paw last Saturday
Mr.. Davis is now Especial Investi-
gator" for the prairie Farmers
Protective Union" with headquarters
at 223 West Jackson Boulevard, Chi
cago.
Don Morlan of Decatur died in Bor
CESS hospital last Friday. He never
recovered from an attack Of the In
fiuenza last February and became
gradually weaker until the end. He
was but twenty-four years of age,
and leaves a wife formerly Miss
Irene Smith of this place. and two
small children.
Last Saturday and Sunday twenty
men and boys met at the ]. G.. Hirst
Cottage, Eagle Lake, Paw Paw
ship, for two days camp, which was
conducted under the auspices of the
County Y. M. C. A. Atthe meet
ings on Saturday evening and Sun
day forenoon, county cabinet was
formed with the county officers, the
same as those elected at the Bangor
County Conference last March. They
are Willis Dunbar, Hartford, Pres,
Maxwell Jennings, Paw Paw, Vice
Pres, and Alden Marvin, SO. Haven,
Sec. The County Cabinet is an ad
visory body, which serves to assist
the Hi-Y Club of the various high
schools to standardize on policy and
program. Another meeting was
planned by the boys, which will be
held at the same lake on September
18th, and 14th, just after beginning
Of the schools in the fall. The camp
last week was a great success, and
every fellow voted to have Secretary
Gray back for the September meet
ing to assist in the work he has help
ed start at this meeting. Physical
Secretary, Judson A. Hyames, was
also present at the camp, and added
much to the success of the meeting.
County Secretary c. C. Kisenmann
left Monday afternoon for Detroit
where he will remain until Thursday
in attendance at the State Y. NJ. c..
A. Convention.
That the number "13" and "Friday
the 18th" are lucky numbers for the
United States seems to be proven by
the experience of Hon. Louis H.
Fead, of Newberry, Judge of the 18th
Circuit. Judge Fead volunteered for
Active service with the American Red
Cross and went to France in the in
te.est Of t..at CrSGniz,. tiCn. n re-
lating some Of his experiences a few
days ago he said "I presume you
know there is always a secret inside
history to every great International
affair. However, you may not know
just how the Armistice came to be
signed on the particular day that it
was. If you will promise to tell no
one about it, I will give you the sec
ret history as to the real reason that
the Armistice came to be signed on
the 18th, day of November last. In
order to do that, | will have to begin
at the date on which | made appli
cation to go to France in the inter
est of the American Red Cross. l
left Newberry on the 18th, day of
August expecting to sail on the 2S
By a simple substraction you will
see that thirteen days intervened be-
tween these two dates; Instead of
sailing on the 2Sth, we sailed on the
31st, which is an inverted 13. We
sailed in convoy Of 13 ships; the
number Of the ship on which l sailed
was 832, the three figures of which,
added together, make 13; we took
across some soldiers, two companies
of which had been thirteen days in
camp and thirteen days on the train
coming to New York. The captain
of the Carmania, on which / sailed,
was making his thirteenth round
trip; it took us thirteen days to cross
and we arrived in Liverpool on Fri
day the 18th, day of September.
Immediately went to Paris and it
took me thirteen days to get my
papers fixed up ready to go on the
job. finally got on te the job on
the 9Th, day of October. It took me
three weeks to get everything organ
lied, at the end of which / said "I
am now in a position to do some
good" The word was carried to