The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-03-10

She rode on O large load Of household goods.
Mr.. Phelps aud hired man walked most OF the
way after we got into Michigan. and Mrs.
| Phelps drove the team, a span OF young colts,
and carried nursing baby eleven months old.
At this time flour was sixteen dollars q barrel.
The nearest mill from Lawrence was Flower
field, or st. Joseph The perils and losses OF
building mill dams on the sandy foundations OF
Paw Paw River are known only 10 those who
persevered in making them permanent with
much labor and expense. This mill had been
built aud commenced running before MIR.
Phelps final removal, but while they were on
their journey the dam broke away.
They lived there but two years and then
moved, as they supposed temporarily, for the
purpose OF giving their children chance TO
attend school at Lawrence, which WAS as Wild
a place as any in Western Michigan. On the
corner where his present pretty residence is,
Mr.. Phelps bought two acres Of land for twen-
ty-fve dollars and put up small framed house
the first one built in the IL vnship. The fret
winter here he worked in Br sedsville, and Mrs.
Phelps staid alone with her children She fed
by ladder, and then stood by till they had
done eating, to keep other COWS away. Pre-
vious to this, how ever, they lived short time
In tho double log house built by Mr., Dexter
Gibbs for hotsl-not GebLe. as your printers
male it last week. In this house Mrs. Phelps
staid sometimes alone with her children nights.
Once, some Indians came into the house about
L.; tI,a Gra nj al v,,,t
ting on kindling wood. AS that was a hotel
they had been IN the habit of going there for
whisky. They bad au empty bottle with them
and demanded OF Mrs. Phelps whisky. She
told them repeatedly to marchee," that she
had no whisky. To get rid or them she bought
an old cotton shawl and paid them TWO shillngs
and sent them TO judge Haynes, who some-
times kept drugs aud whisky but he had none
and they came back but wero peaceable.
At this time il ia believed that there were
but three other women in the V llage-Mrs
Pool, Mrs. Mcknight and Mrs. Sutton. There
was little framed school house near where
Hannibal Marshall now lives, In which Mr..
John REYNOLDS held meetings and preached
and exhorted he was then living on the Allen
farm two miles east OF the village. The brush
aud log heaps were so thick that it was difficult
for tho women to get around among them to
go 10 meeting without tearing their clothes,
and they resolved on making "logging-bee"
to clear away the rubbish, which thew did. The
women got supper for the crowd and did what
they could 10 the way of picking up brush and
setting fires. Afterwsrd' they pulled out
some of the large weeds and Lawrence began
to shine.
What work 30 large and difficult that pa
thence and perseverance will not accomplish?
Look over in your mind. reader, this ground
In 1910, and then go there TO-DAY and mark the
contrast Look the length of that shaded
main street and see the quiet and comfort that
reign there now! Pursue your Investigations
TO the west few miles and see what the farm
ers are doing. About next September go to
Err Benefits, Supervisor OF Lawrence. and If
he does not treat vour palate to some OF the
finest varieties peaches in Western Michigan
the famed st. Joseph orchards not excepted
you will not fare as we'll as We did the last
September. We purchased some put up in
cans. and they were the nicest ever put on our
table. When we have company we get out the
Z" Bennett peaches" and use all others for
Now the farmers of Van Buren, County are
not satisfied with coarse or even common fare;
they absolutely live in luxury and abundance.
They are improving their productions, cattle.
horses. poultry and all their surroundings IN
this same town of Lawrence very near the
village Mr.. Holland Clark has fine drove OF
Black Hawk horses almost any age. It does
the horse fancier good to see his per 'ect formed
steeds, in the pasture or on the road. Go and
see them. More anon.
From hPPier.
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