The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-07-31
Lawton.

Miss Carrie Willard of Detroit, is home
again for short time
The inside of the school house is receiving
a thorough overhauling.
C. S. Adams shipped carload of iron to
Dowagiac last Thursday.
Jay Reynolds and wife of Fremont, Neb,
were in the city Saturday.
John Hall of Dowagac, and Fred Bitely
of Person have been in the city.
f. j. Lich has been having visit from
his father, c. Lich of Big Rapids.
Miss Robbins of Mattawan, has been Wis
iting friends here during the past week.
Mrs. Hiram Barnes and little son of Fruit
port, are visiting Z. w. Mcneil and mother
Born, to Mrs. Geo. Cook of this place, last
Wednesday, girl. Weight ten pounds.
Next.
Miss Lott;e Campbell visited at st. Joe
last week, and reports having a pleasant
time.
Miss Carrie Merritt has been engaged to
teach in the Decatur school this coming
year.
AIonzo Mitchell of Worthington, MINI,
made flying visit here last week. He re-
ports business good.
Henry Stern has returned from Juniata,
Neb. Fred Stern is also here, but will re-
turn west about Sept. LIST.
S. Livingston, wife and children of Bloom
lngton, H., are visiting their parents Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Desenberg.
Ish Roberts noticed our item, and has put
down new walk and viii also put up new
awning It's an improvement to the town,
Ish, and We'll give you credit for it.
Last Saturday evening our marshal col
Jared some boys who were fighting. The
boys were not so much TO blame as the one
that was encouraging them in it.
Geo. Robinson has sold 20 acres of land,
adjoining that of A. B. Jones on the west, to
n. b. Mckinney and n. o. Martin, and %
acres west of that TO II. S. Jones. Each
piece $1,000.
Mrs. Bitely, with her daughters and q
number of other young people of the village,
have been camping out at Bankson's lake. and
report q delightful time. There are few
townships more favored than Porter, in the
matter of inland lakes. 1t contains several
of the most beautiful in the state Bank
sons, Hursey, Cedar and Gravel, cannot be
excelled i'll the purity of their waters and the
beauty of their surroundings, and they
abound with fish.
Mrs. o. $. Latham and Mrs. j. Marshall
Guion, who have been visiting at G.. ID. Law
toms for the past few weeks, left for their
homes in Seneca Falls, N. Y, on Friday
last The former is the mother and the lat
ter a cousin of Mrs. G. d. Lawton. Mr..
Latham was the contractor and builder of
the custom houses at Buffalo and Oswego,
and brought the first suit against the L. s.
under the legal tender act, whereby the law
was declared unconstitutional, and the de-
cision subsequently reversed through re
construction of the supreme court, by the
addition of three more judges. Mrs. Guion' s
husband was delegate to the recent Chicago
convention and, personally, was strongly OPP
posed to Cleveland.
The Lawtons were again downed at Battle
Greek last week, by a score of 10 TO G, in a
hot and exciting game. They find that with
out practice, they are getting too far away
from home to win against such good club,
which is managed by a stock company and
which hires all its own players. The Battle
Creek journal, in speaking of the game, says
il was the finest played there this season, and
especially praises the playing of Allard, Smith
and Morrill, of the Lawtons. In the sixth
innings the game was tie, but in the sew.
enth the boys got ratified and let in -four
scores, which beat them. Phalen, jackson
pitcher, struck out Is of the Lawtons, which
alone was enough to beat them, although the
boys have the name of being good batters
In nearly every innings, men were on second
and third base, but could not cross the home
plate. Arrangements are being made for 9
game to be played next week, either at Law
ton or Paw Paw, when the boys intend tC
redeem themselves or quit playing.