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THE NEWS -PALLADIUM, BENTON HAREOR, MICH. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER IS, TWENTY Assists Chaplain Plan Ordination Lady Quits College Ta mn WAVES Covert Pioneer Lived When His Township Was Richly Timbered Barbershop Four Will Feature An Oldtimers' Night MarrelOil Well Is Struck JjfiiOS- iiHOV Thay Hove Lost for miles around. "When the lumbering Industry got into full swing, like all other men the Morrisons began working either In the woods or the mills. Clarence Morrison became an ex pert wagon maker, carpenter and cabinet maker. In the years following lumbering he built most of Co vert's nicer which Includes the Gunsaul house, the S.

H. Shat-tuck house, and the two fine homes known as the Vaughan houses. He also did most of the' early summer home building at Linden Hills. Clarence Morrison was a violinist of more than usual ability. For many years he and his brother, Austin, and the.

late Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Shattuck had a small concert orchestra which became a regular feature at community entertainments.

Clarence Morrison's mother, Sarah Jane Sherburne, was a sister of Will Kenney's mother, and of the late Mrs. S. H. Shattuck's father. 38 Embryo Citizens Will Be Questioned PAW PAW, Nov.

18 Naturalization Examiner Sidney Freed, of De troit will be in the office of County Clerk Rex S. Martin, November 17-18 and 19 to answer questions for persons seeking natur alization information. Approximately 38 -persons have been called to. file their petitions on one of these three days. This hearing is preliminary to the final court hearing In January.

Of Rev. toomis Ceremony For Coloma Pastor Nov. 23 COLOMA, Nov. 18 The First Con gregational church of Coloma will be host on Tuesday, Nov. 23, to pas tors and delegates from churches of the Kalamazoo association of Con gregational-Christian churches In called council for the purpose of ordaining Rev.

B. Loomls, who for the past three and one half-years has served as pastor of the Coloma church. At an afternoon meeting the coun cil will examine the candidate and at 8:30 will be the guest of the church and its officers at an ordination dinner. At 8 p. m.

the council will be open to the public and will conduct a service of ordination. Mr. Loomis began his ministry in Moline, HL, in 1931, as pastor of the Union' Gongregationalchurch of that city. In 1938 he accepted the post of minister to the Cragut Congregational church of Chicago and remained there until July, 1940; when he took up his duties in Coloma. The evening service will be con ducted by the Rev.

Don L. De Cour- sey, of Dowaglacrthe-RevrRobert Burgess, of Watervliet, the Re Gerald Maggart of St. Joseph, the Rev. Howard planning, of Benton rH, COVERT, Nov. 18 With the death of Covert's oldest pioneer, Clarencef M.

Morrison, who lived 85 of his years In the village except for a Jew years when as a young man: he worked at the carpenter's trade in Muskegon, many long forgotten reminiscences have been brought to light Mr. Morrison was born In Sauga- tuck. When he was a year old, In 1858. his parents moved to Covert township, which had perhaps a half dozen families In It The entire township was then covered with the finest of virgin timber of many varieties. The elder Morrisons bunt then- log bouse on the property where the old family home still stands.

It Is now owned by Joe Calabrese. Robert Morrison, father of Clarence, was -tanner by trade. He built a small tannery near his home and for many years did tanning of hides from game which was abundant, and from farm animals for the settlers Harbor, the Rev. Lawrence Ten-hopen, ef South Haven, and the Rev. John D.

Perrin, of Athens, formerly, of Watervliet The Rev. Harold N. Skldmore, superintendent of the Michigan conference of Congregational- Christian churches, will deliver the ordination sermon. His topic will be "The Age Old Pattern." Friends andTnembers of the church and people of the community at large are invited to attend the mi mm 7cr, Ycnlc Says Sicily Veteran Reports Only Youngsters Are SHirCpnfident BT CHARLES MAR ENTETTE BATTLE CREEK. Vav.

18-(AP) A 30-yeawild Infantry lieutenant from Traverse City, Robert H. Burns, expressed from hi bed In Percy Jcnea general hospital today, the opinion that with the exception of the "Nazlfled, 23-year-old Hitlerite," German soldiers know are licked, concede the war Is lost and tell their captors "it is only a matter of time." Seriously injured in the right leg and arm when he stepped on a German land mine near San Ste fano on his 21st day of rugged go ing in Sicily. Burns was already a seasoned veteran. Be bad risen from the enlisted ranks thrcugh officer candidate school at Port Bennlng, Ga had taken troops ashore in the invasion from North Africa, had advanced with his company against the best defense the enemy could offer and had "run" the city of Comisco, Sicily, untfl, regular Army govern mental units could catch up. Old Timers Disillusioned "The older German soldiers know they are licked," he declared.

"We captured scores of them and men in my company who could understand the language reported that, with the exception of the young Nazis among them, they believed we had them licked and it was only a matter of time until the war would be "Ahe younger men, the arrogant, boastful Hitlerites, dent think they can lose, of course. But they aren't the majority, strangely." Bums, a foundry worker before entering the Army in 1941, holds the belief himself. "We've got better guns, better equipment all around, and boys with more guts," he asserted. "They know it, I guess, and so do we. At officer school we were taught that it was an art to know how to keep cur men going forward; over there we learned that it was harder to hold our American boys back.

They wanted to fight and, brother, they sure did. Describes Invasion A lengthy, long-armed, light-haired soldier with a quick grin. Burns chuckled when he told of charging ashore in. Sicily the day of the Invasion in command of 30 men and running to the edge of a huge hole as bullets from the defending guns swept the shore. "I looked down Into that pit at 11 upturned enemy faces and the nose of a sweet little machine he "and the babies just stood there scared to death.

All I had was a carbine so waved it at 'em and told 'cm in good old Ameri can cussing to get out and get out fast Boy, they could have mowed us down like wheat if they hadn't been so surprised." At Camiso, Burns "took over" with a British captain and kept order In the city until government units ar rived. "We Issued a proclamation about the second day which told all Italian soldiers who were not in uniform that they'd have to register and hand over any weapons or we'd deal with them as spies. "You think It didnt work? Those guys lined up early the next morning carrying every type of weapon you could imagine. They couldn't get to us fast enough." Union Services For Watervliet At Thanksgiving WATERVLIET, Nov. 18 The an nual union Thanksgiving service of the Watervliet churches will be observed at the Free Methodist church in Watervliet Sunday night, Nov.

21, at 8 o'clock. Participative churches will be the. Plymouth Congregational and "the Methodist, of Watervliet. St. -Paul's Evangelical of Balnbrldge, and the Free Methodist of Watervliet The Rev, G.

Ereuzenstein, minister of the Balnbrldge St. Paul's Evangelical church, -Is scheduled to deliver the Thanksgiving message. His sermon will be based on the text of Romans 8:31 "If God be for us, who can be against us." The Rev. Robert Burgess, of the Congregational will give the Invocation and the Methodist minister, the Rev: Ray M. Lawrence, will read the scripture lesson.

The Rev. W. R. Cusick, of the Tree Methodist church, will give the prayer, and a quartet from the host church will sing. In West Bangor New Pifer Find Rated Best In All Bangor Oil Field BANGOR, Nov.

18. Oil prospect-j ing In the West Bangor area took on a sizeable boom this week when this community's biggest strike was made. -The Pifer No. 3 well, drilled jln toy the Harris Oil Co. for the Hartman Oil Co, la Bangor" big gest producer.

It is rated at 500 barrels per day. The well clearly held the Interest cf all oil prospectors for the week. The exact production nas not yet been labeled. It was acidized and a strong flow of crude oil minus water resulted. Pifer No 3 Is an onset to two rcnri nroduclnz wells on the same lease.

They have both been to steady production for several monmswun- out showing any signs of decrease. 200 Other Weils Well No. 2 on the Pifer lease, of which No. 3 is the south offset, nas been a 200-barrel-per-day producer ever since it was brougnt in. Bringing in of the third big yielding well on the farm, which is owned by Norman and Adrian Pifer, proves this acreage is the most valuable oil land in the entire Bangor field.

Under the ten-acre spacing pian, recently announced, there is still one location on this farm avauame lor drilling. Another producing Bangor wen held by Mlchahoma, north of the village. Here the Godfrey spudder drilled in the Empson communitized well No. 1 In the past week. New Mlchahoma Well This communitized well through testa is indicated to rival the Abf all, Johnson and Schultze wells of which the new well Is an offset.

The new welt is being acidized this week and will soon be loaned. In the Geneva field farther east the Ralph Perry drilling outfit work ing for Socony on the A. C. Grimes farm, is progressing and is near the drill-in stage. Two more rigs are sinking wells ta the Geneva field cn the Robbins and Griffith farms.

Both are near drill-ins. Salnave well No. 2 in West Ban gor Was on Wednesday drilled in and is reported: a 100-barrel producer. Women Are Among Fennville Hunters FENNVILLE, 18 Fennville deer hunters were just as numerous this year as In former years, despite gas rationing and labor demands at home: The names of SO hunters go ing, north from this vicinity have been published, but the number procuring licenses Is known to be much larger than that Several women made the trip, Among them was Mrs. Lawrence Wade, her sister, Mrs.

Frank Pierce, and Mrs. Cecil Rosenow. Mr. Pierce, who is a Boston attorney. Joined his wife here to make the trip.

The party went to Drummond Island. Albert Crane does not hunt deer, but he is adept with the bow and arrow, with which he recently brought down a wild goose. STATE BRIEFS (By. Associated Press) BAT cm Another destroyer- escort, the US3 Johnson, will be launched Nov. 24 at the Defoe ship building company yards.

Mrs. Selma E. Johnson of St. Paul, Minn, will chrif ten the ship in honor of her son, Lieut (JG) Earl V. Johnson, who was killed In action over the Coral Sea.

The Navy pilot was awarded the American defense service medal and the Navy cross. ml fLtASAiNT possibility of a new Michigan oil field was consid ered today as the result of a wildcat strike near Ithaca In Gratiot county. The well, owned by C. E. Weller and T.

F. Caldwell of Mt. Pleasant will flow 3,500,000 cubic feet at a depth of 890 feet BALTIC RESERVISTS STOCKHOLM, Nov. 18-(AP)-Ap parently pressed for reserves, German authorities In occupied Estonia and Latvia have called up 10 classes of reservists for service In the Ger man army, Swedish press dispatches from Berlin said today. SABOTAGE IN DENMARK STOCKHOLM, Nov.

18-(API- German traffic through Denmark to Norway was Interrupted last night when saboteurs blew up the main railway signal tower at Aarhus, advices from Copenhagen said today. II '-wironizedj Look your prettiest when your serviceman comes home on leave and to look your best you must feel your best. Health and beauty go hand in hand. Protect both with these health heeds add beauty aids the products of reputable manufacturers nationally known for the quality -and dependability of their preparations. Fill your needs at these low prices that have made the BATTLEMENT DRUG CO.

the buy-word for economy. COLOMA, Nov. 18 Ingraham Community Club will stage an Old' timer's Night next Saturday when former pupils and teachers are expected to come back to school for an evening of frolic and reminiscences. Those attending-. are requested to wear old garments of 25 or 40 years ago.

A barbershop quartet will furnish musifc There will be a 4 anelline match, and an old-fashioned square aancuig will complete the festivities. There will be five-minute talks on "ye olden times." As far as possible invitations have been sent to those who attended or taught Ingraham school in the more than half century of its existence. Lawrence PTA To Offer Play Make Plans To Boost Hot Lunch Fund LAWRENCE, Nov. 18 For the purposeof boosting the Lawrence hot lunch fund, the P. T.

which is this year sponsoring the program, will on the evening of January 21 stage a three-act comedy, "The Gay Nineties," at the high school auditorium. A cast of former local dramatic stars will be in the cast and rehearsals will begin soon. A P. T. A.

meeting on Monday evening at the high school was attended by 80 persons. During the business session it was voted to provide an evening of entertainment once a month for the school children by way of diverting recreation, To handle this project a committee was appointed, consisting of Mrs. W. O. McDowell, Mrs.

George Crandall and Mrs. Charles Steepleton. Previews of the coming senior play were presented. John Bleses, a Chicago artist, who is now making his home In the Lawrence community, was guest speaker for the evening. '-'Modern and Conservative Art" was his topic.

He had some of his paintings on ex hibition, Mr. Bleses was born in France and studied at the Royal Academy and St Luke's in Liege. He is now doing murals In a Chicago church. T. C.

Neville was named to represent the P. T. A. at the next meeting Nov. 29 In Paw Paw of the Van Buren County Guidance group re cently The meeting will be in the office of Judge M.

H. Young at 2:30 p. m. Ardis I. Kennedy Is Bride Of Service Man BANGOR, Nov.

18 Ardls I. Kennedy, daughter of Supervisor and Mrs. Bela Kennedy, announces her marriage to Sgt Martin Self ert, son of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Self ert, of East Chicago, Ind, in Miami.

Fla, Sunday evening, Nov. 7. Rev. Everett Smith, D. performed the ceremony in the presence of 100 guests.

Miss Mary Grismer, of East Chicago, attended the bride and Sgt Fred Eline, Jr, of Louisville, Ky, was best man. Sgt Richard Hunt sang. It was a military wedding. A reception1 was held at the home of Mrs. Mae Boswell after the ceremony.

The couple will make their home In Florida for the present. Mrs. Bela Kennedy, the bride's mother, was the only Bangor relative present at the wedding. She plans to remain in Florida several months to be Joined later by her husband. Douglas Music Club Has Program Friday SAUGATUCK, Nov.

18 The Douglas Music Study club will meet at 7:30 Friday evening, Nov. 19. in the home of Mrs. W. J.

Clough, Lake street. After a half hour rehearsal of Christinas carols," the regular program will be In -charge of Mrs. Curtis H. Boos. Subject will be 19th Century German Opera.

Assisting hostesses will, be Mrs. Lowell Martin and Mrs. Noland Schreckengust Engaged WATERVLIET, Nov. 18 Lloyd T. Boyer, of Watervliet, announces the engagement, of his daughter, Miss Jean Boyer, to Blcknell Beckwith, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Glen W. Beckwith, Lawrence. Both are graduates of Watervliet high school, and are now employed by the Watervliet Paper Co. Mr.

Beckwith will leave for air cadet training, early In December. Ti Til "uT KEELER, Nov. 18 Mlaf EfleeB Putney, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Putney of Keeler, has en- listed.

In the WAVES, and was to- leave Wednesday for Officers I Training School at Smith College in Massachusetts. Miss Putney graduated from Do- i wagiae high school, and In 1939 re- 1 celved her AB degree at Western Michigan College. She was awarded a state scholarship for post gradu- ate work at the University of Mich- lgan and there received her masters -degree. After teaching two years in Mt. i Clemens high school she was in 1942 1 appointed to the staff at Western Michigan College in Kalamazoo, She has a brother In the service, 1 Sgt Don Putney, of the Marines.

He Is In the South Pacific. i Mother, Baby Arrive By Plane For Visit WATERVLIET, Nov. 18 Mrs. Ferris Norman and 11-months-old son, Larry, of San Francisco, are here for an indefinite stay at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Henry Norman, 150 Walnut St It Is their first visit to Michigan. Mrs. Norman and baby came by plane, Los Angeles to Chicago, where they were met by Mr. and Mrs. Mrs.

Norman's husband, former Watervliet boy. Joined the U. S. Navy In February, 1941, and has not been home In two years. He is now located somewhere In the Pacific, if 35cCastoria 23c 75c Deitri Blaltose 63c 75c Doans Pills $1.25 Ab-gorbine HJr.

70c (t 6.501 $12.00 1 If II I S9C 29c Virginia Treera Moore (above) formerly a music teacher and supervisor at Has Mich, now a resident of Appleton, Wis ta the first assistant to a WAVE chaplain. She will be "right hand man" in the chaplain's office for the Potomac River Naval command. She was formerly a soloist at the Edgewater Presbyterian church, Chicago. 167 Women In Active Groups Home Extension Work In Van Buren Gains' PAW PAW, Kov. 16 One-hun dred and, sixty-seven Van Buren county women' are enrolled in 10 active Home Extension groups this fall, according to a report from the office of Assistant County Aeent Jerry Mandigo.

One new group is in the process of organl ration in Lawton. Miss Margaret Harris, clothing specialist from Michigan State college, met during the past week with group leaders to discuss "New Tricks for Old Clothes." Those attending the meeting In Paw Paw were: -Decatur group, Beulah Hanenway, Dorothy Park- er, Decatur; Braybrooks group- Irene Howard and Kate Decker, Lawrence; Prospect Valley Minnie Emenr. Mae Smith, Paw Paw; Plopper group Lucllk Zuris, Louise Maguire, Paw Paw; Lawton rtoud Blanche Packer and Helen Potter; Waverly group Mrs. J. Dillon and Mrs.

Carl The meeting at Bangor was attended by the South Bangor group Mrs. Mildred Wills, Mrs, E. P. Skinner. Bangor: Bangor village group Mrs.

George W. Ransley, Mrs. Loren Pausnaugh; Geneva Study group Mrs. Cecil Laf ler, Mrs. Ray White.

Bangor; South Haven group Mrs. Douglas Klry, Mrs. Harry Gregory, South Haven; Southwest Hartford groupMrs. Gerald Carmody, Watervliet, and Mrs. James Thar, Hartford.

County Farm Bureau Board To Be Dined LAWRENCE. Nov. 18 On Satur day. Nov. 20.

at Eastern Star temple a committee will serve a din ner for the board of the County Farm Bureau, complimentary to re- cently elected members of all units. Dinner will be served in Ma sonic hall at 7:30 o'clock. Officers of the Junior Farm Bureau and the county board will, be present. The purpose is ta, acquaint the officers with their duties and to plan for the coming year. This will include a roll call to be launched in December.

Coloma Civic Group Meets On Noy. 22nd COLOMA, Nov. 18 A meeting of the Coloma Civic Association will be held next Monday evening, Nov. 22. in the high school auditorium.

There will not be the usual dinner in connection. This is the regular monthly meeting for November and members as well as all other Interested adults are urged to attend. The program for the evening has been arranged to Include, besides the transaction of business, a show ing of movies, "This Amazing Am erica," and miscellaneous discus sion topics to be announced. TAKES OFFICE POST -SOUTH HAVEN, Nov. 18 Miss Agnes Kohlhoff, RFD 3, SouthJ Haven, who graduated from Covert high school in 1940 and recently completed a general business and stenographic course at Argubrlght College, Battle Creek, has accepted a secretarial position in the office of Virgil B.

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