The true northerner., 1898-07-27
Lawrence.


One week from to-day is Maccabee
day at Hartford.
Miss Lena Roberts came home from
Kalamazoo, Thursday.
Dewitt Simmons is quite i'll, threat
ened with typhoid fever.
Miss Bernice McCollum is at Hartford
this week delivering books.
Miss Lena Hotel of Chicago is visiting
at the home of Eugene Harris.
The Methodist Sunday school have an
nounced picnic for August -.
Miss Grace Mentor of Paw Paw is the
guest of her aunt, Mrs. III. Mentor.
Mrs. Isaac Monroe and daughter Fan
ME visited at South Haven last week.
Baldwin Hendricks and wife were in
Paw Paw last Thursday on business.
Volney Conklin stepped on a piece of
glass last Tuesday and severed an ar
terry.
Mrs. Lawton and Pearl attended the
funeral of Mrs. Morton at Paw Paw, last
Friday.
Eugene Hunt and wife went last We'd
nesday to Kankakee H., to work in the
hospital.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Vergne Lam
phere, Sunday morning. a handsome
baby girl.
Mrs. \. A. Mentor and Mrs George
Nicholas rode their wheels to Paw Paw,
Thursday.
Why not muzzle your dogs now? Isn't
it about time the marshal looked after
that matter.
Coin" Harvey will lecture this p. m.
at the opera house, subject Remedy for
Hard Times"
Mrs. f. n. Wakeman will go to Paw
Paw lake this week to camp with a com
pany of Covert ladies.
New blackboards are being placed in
the school house and some of the old
ones are being repaired
Miss Efiie Cornwell gave her Sunday
school class a very enjoyable day at
Sleepy Hollow last Thursday
Quite a number, considering the ex-
treme heat, attended the Spiritualist
meeting at Lake Cora, Sunday.
Miss Kate Rush and a friend from
Joliet, ILL.,, are the guests of her sister,
Mrs. \. III. Wiggins and family.
Mrs. b. o. Kelly and baby of Hartford
will spend few weeks with her sister,
Mrs. Clarence Colburn, in Arlington.
Several of the young people are enjoy
ing an outing at Sleepy Hollow. Mrs.
Agrell accompanies them as chaperon.
Mrs. A. p. Hunt and grand daughter,
Mrs. Leachman, spent Wednesday and
Thursday with NJ. Enslow and family at
Covert.
Miss Florence Crawford and Grove
Clement rode their wheels to Kalamazoo,
Thursday. Miss Crawford will remain
a couple of weeks to visit relatives.
George Branch and Warren Clark
came home from Island Lake last We'd
nesday night and remained until Satur-
day. Will and Burr Sweet are expected
this week.
Miss Pearl Cooper was picking whor-
tleberries one day last week and stepped
in nest of hornets. Great was the pain
thereof She was not long in leaving for
more comfortable quarters.
Little Loree, the year old son of Mrs.
Carrie Strong, is i'll with scarlet fever.
Mrs. Strong and children came from
Chicago few days ago to spend a few
days with her mother, Mrs. Carpp They
went to the meeting at Lake Cora, Sun
day, and about noon the child com
menced to have spasms and had five be
fore help could reach them. At 4:30 he
was able to be moved back to town and
physician was called, who pronounced
the illness scarlet fever.
Jud Smith and wife, Thornton Bres-
ley, Mrs. Eugene Drake and sister, Miss
Lena Hatch, were out on the lake at
Sleepy Hollow. They had been bathing
and the ladies had gotten in the boar and
the men had pushed them out i'm deeper
water. They thought to frighten them
little and commenced tipping the boat.
In an unexpected moment it was over
turned, precipitating them unceremon-
iously into the water. Two of the ladies
knew nothing of swimming and it was a
difficult matter to land them safely. Mrs.
Smith, who had just been trying to learn
TO swim, managed to get ashore alone.
Nothing serious resulted.