The true northerner., 1919-01-03

a weeks vacation for Christmas.
The first real sleighing Of the sea-
son was in progress on Christmas day.
Lou Danger, a member of the
u. S. Navy was home for New Years.
Hugh Neale of the Great Lakes
Training Station was home for the
holidays.
Lieutenant Perry, of Camp Grant,
Illinois, was guest at the Mutchler
home over Christmas.
Miss Pauline Scott of Kalamazoo
was here to spend the holidays with
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Bridger.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. o. Kenyon left on
Monday for Clareston, West Virginia
where they expect to spend the winter
Health Officer Ransom of Bloom
ingdale reports a decided improve
ment in the Influenza epidemic in that
locality.
Ed. Nash will leave on Monday
next to be present at the next session
of the Legislature at Lansing. He
expects to be employed there and will
be absent several months.
Harley Mutchler of the Great Lakes
Training Station was home for Christ
mas. He left shortly after for New
York City and expects to cruise to
South America in the near future.
Arba Hawley, who has been i'll with
typhoid fever in Bronson Hospital,
Kalamazoo for the past nine weeks,
returned to Paw Paw on Sunday last.
He is trifle weak yet, but is improv-
ing rapidly and will soon be able to
resume his duties at the postoffice.
Henry Ford has gone into the
weekly newspaper business in his
home town Of Dearborn, Michigan.
AS we understand that Mr.. Ford is
worth in the neighborhood of billion
dollar, we'd say he's the most COM
petent man we know of to take the
steering wheel of a country news
paper.
c. c. Allison of the Cassopolis
National Democrat has sold his busi-
ness, equipment and good will to c..
H. Kimmerle. Mr.. Allison is the old
est publisher in the state of Michi-
gan and has been in the newspaper
business continually for fifty-fve
years. In politics, the National
Democrat is all that its name i'm
plies. 1t was established in 1850.
Two important business changes
took place in Bangor last week. The
Sebring House and the Broadwell
Lumber Company have both changed
hands. They are two of the oldest
and best known institutions in this
part Of the state. John Sebring
well known throughout the county,
was for number of years proprietor
of the Sebring House and built up an
enviable name for that hotel.
The planting of a few black wal
nuts in every woodlot in the state is
Immediately necessary if the nation
is to be assured in the future of a
supply of this essential wood, accord
ing to Prof. A. X. Chittenden, head
of the school of forestry at NJ. A. G.
The available reserve of blackwalnut
was dangerously depleted during the
war. Black walnut is much used for
airplane parts, for gun-stocks and for
other military purposes. In conse-
lquence our black walnut supplies have
run low. Inasmuch as it requires a
long time for this timber to grow,
immediate planting should be now be
practiced wherever any black walnut
can be grown. The nuts should be
planted in the fall or winter, when the
soil begins to freeze. If planted toe
early the squirrels are liable to dig
them up.
Mr.. Hoover's announcement OF
greatly increased need of food supplies
for Belgium is given to a public
opinion which is just now fully real
izing how strongly Belgium deserve:
anything she may ask, or what ma!
be asked of her. Each day of reflect
ion upon the war, as the cessation o.
hostilities makes possible a closel
study, brings more strongly to ligh
the Importance of Belgium's action
The margin between defeat and vic
tory has been so slight, at times; tn
weight which turned the scales S
very light, indeed, that no one need
to he fold whore the world woilld n