The true northerner., 1899-08-09
Additional Local.

Misses Etoile and Gail Allen are visit
ing relatives in Illinois.
Cummings makes some attractive prices
for his patrons in this paper
Advertised letters: A. S. White, Mrs.
j. Johnston Bell, Mrs. S. E. Sibole.
Mrs. H. c. Waters is visiting friends
and relatives in the state of New York.
The Prospect Valley Farmers club
will hold picnic at Lake Park Aug. Is.
Just an even 300 tickets were sold at
this place for the Sunday school rally at
South Haven.
Waters q Co., as usual, have something
important and interesting to say to their
customers this week.
Mrs. Kline of this village was the only
Paw Paw passenger on the leaky City of
Grand Rapids last Saturday night.
The young peoples society of the Free
Baptist church will serve ice cream on
the court house lawn next Saturday
evening.
Improvements are still going on at the
waterworks park. When completed it
will be very pretty place and credit to
the town.
A couple of narrow gauge coaches have
been newly painted and labeled "Kent-
wood and Eastern r. r" which is the
name of southern road to which they
have been sold.
Miss La Verne Hinckley has an en-
gagement with the Labadie-Faust Co.
and recently made her debut at Decorah,
Iowa The papers of that place speak
highly of Miss Hinckleys histrionic tai
ent and ability.
good many people will be grieved to
learn of the death of Mrs. Samuel Con
solus, who departed this life at three
o'clock yesterday morning. The bereaved
husband has the sincere sympathy of
many friends. Funeral Thursday at
1870 a. m.
Mrs Anna Barton, who for nearly
eleven years, has faithfully labored as
pastor of the f. w. Baptist church of
this village, received, last Monday even
ing, very pleasant token of apprecia-
ton. Some seventy five people, includ-
ing not only members of her own congre-
cation, but other neighbors and friends,
surprised her and Mr.. Barton at their
home, bringing with them as token of
regard and esteem dainty set of china,
which in a few well chosen words, was
presented by the present pastor, Rev. A.
A. Glovier Mrs. Barton responded in
language that showed her appreciation
of the friendship that prompted the gift.
The remainder of the evening was passed
in a social way, one especially pleasing
feature being an outside serenade by a
number of young men and lads who as
sembed on the porch. Owing to the
fact that the family leave town so soon,
the affair was quite inpromptu. Had
there been more time more friends would
have received notice of the affair
The Saturday evening (moonlght?)
excursion to Milwaukee, advertised last
week came near ending in a tragedy
not through the fault of the S. Ii. & E.,
however The excursionists, about 200
of them, left South Haven on the City
of Grand Rapids about ten o'clock in the
evening, according to program. When
out about thIrty-fve miles it was dis
covered that the steamer was leaking
badly, and, to add to the danger of the
situation, the pumps refused to work
When the water had reached within
about two inches of the fires, the vessel
was turned about and headed for South
Haven. The passengers were aroused
and told to prepare for possible disaster
and scramble for life preservers and
other means of keeping afloat ensued
The engineer at last succeeded in start
ing one of the pumps which kept the
water in check until the ship reached
port again. Two inches more of water
would have extinguished the fires when
the Chicora disaster might have been re-
peated with great loss of life 1t was a
close call With the threatened danger
of a laundering ship combined with the
enervating effects of seasickness, it was
worn and weary lot of excursionists
that disembarked at South Haven on
that pleasant Sunday morning. The
Grand Rapids had but recently been
placed in commission after being ex.
tensively repaired and it is thought that
the leakage was due to defective calk-
ing It would seem that someone was
blamable for not knowing whether OF
not her pumps were in working order.