The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1919-08-08

OF A. ID. Benway of the Michigan
Fruit Exchange.
Frank Newland and Lloyd Holcomb
went to Detroit on Tuesday and re-
turned with new Ford car for Mr..
Newland.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Weston were
in Buchanan last Sunday to spend
the day with Mr.. Weston's son Eu-
gene and family.
Miss Margaret M. Southworth, Pro-
bate Register, is taking her vacation
and will visit friends in Kalamazoo,
Battle Creek and Lansing.
There are plenty of Chautauqua
programs for distribution. If you
haven't received one yet, call at The
Northerner Office and ask for one.
Mrs. w. w. MARI and daughter
Mrs. VIM. Hartrant of Estherville,
Iowa, Roy Simmons and little daugh-
ter Nedra, all motored to Marcellus
on Wednesday to spend the day with
relatives there.
Cyril Bailey and sister Rachel
came home from Detroit last Satur-
day. The former on Tuesday taking
with him his sister Gertrude who
will remain in Detroit with her
father and brothers for a month.
A. D. Benway of the Michigan Fruit
Exchange of Lawton was in Paw
Paw on business Wednesday. Mr..
Benway is using good advertising
space in this issue of The Northerner
to get message of Importance be-
fore the Fruit Growers of this COM
Don't overlook it.
In appreciation of Messrs. Free
and Mutchler's generosity in sending
a truck for their camp equipment on
Wednesday, the Boy Scouts headed
by Scoutmaster NiGkless and assist
ant Shouffler marched to the lumber
yards Wednesday afternoon and
assisted in unloading a car of lumber
Frank McLain received a message
from his son Harry in Toledo on Wed
nesday, stating that he had suffered
a painful accident which may cost
him the loss of several fingers. He
is employed in a steel mill and one
of his hands was badly smashed.
Harry is another Paw Paw boy "
went through all the World War
fighting without a scratch, and has
had to suffer this painful accident on
his return.
A genuine sample of "Profiteering"
which came under the personal OBJ
servation of a contributor Of The
True NortheIner:-"A few days ago,
Mrs. Zander Chats not the lady's
nancy took some tomatoes to
grocer in one of our neighboring
villages for which the honest
groceryman paid her Is cents per
pound. Before she left the store, an
other lady came in and inquired the
price of tomatoes. Thirty cents a
pound repeated the Honest grocery
man."
The Boy Scouts "Broke Camp"
and returned 10 their respective
homes Wednesday morning, after
spending the greatest week in their
young lives in camp at Greenman's
i.andlng, Christie Lake. There were
twenty-eight scouts, scout master,
assistant scout master, and the most
important factor in the entire outfit,
the camp cook in the party. Zelon
Underhill offciated in the latter
capacity land right here it should be
said that as a "Hash Singer" he is
an artist. Every member of the camp
is loud in praise of the camp cook,
and no camping party in the future
from Paw S'aw will be complete with
out Nj. Underhill. He understands
the business and contributed no
small part to the success and enjoy
ment of the week. The camp was in
reality under military discipline,
every hour of the day and night, and
the parents of the boys and numer-
Gus other visitors of the week were
both amazed and delighted to see so
much real instruction combined with
genuine recreation of the right sort,
crowded into one short week. While
it has been a most pleasant week for
Scout Master Nickless and Assistant
Schouffler, the responsibility and
work of supervision and instruction
in the various camp activities crowd
ed into every day, has been real work
They have the gratitude of the par
ents of the boys and of the citizens
of the community for the splendid
work they are doing. They are the
right men for the place, and there
will be warm spot in the hearts Of
every one of the boys as well as
their parents for both of these men
in the future. The Scout organi-
zation is very grateful and desires
to express its appreciation to those
who furnished trucks to carry equip
ment, to those who donated automo-
biles to carry the boys, to various