The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1901-05-17
WHOLE NUMBER 2408.


home of her brother in Watervliet.
The annual meeting of the Van Buren,
County Pioneer association will be held
in South Haven, Wednesday, June r.
Officer Fred Litch of South Haven was
in the village the latter part of last
week. He brought drunk and disorderly
from the resort town.
Work is being pushed on the railroad
from Covert to Paw Paw Lake, in con-
nection with the S. IL. & e. About
mile of the grading is completed.
Wayne Phillips of Grand Encampment,
Wyo., arrived in Paw Paw, Wednesday
evening, and is greeting a large num-
Der of friends. The young man made the
trip alone.
Married, at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Geo. Kessler in this village, Wednesday
evening, May 10, Charles Kessler and
Miss Ethel Pearl Patton, Rev. Linder-
man officiating.
Those at the Coterie last Wednesday
were delighted with the exceptionally
fine music. Mr.. Banks of Grand Rap
ids was the violinist and Mrs. Claire
Harrison the pianist.
o. w. Rowland went to Lawrence,
Monday, and resumed his abandoned
boat trip to Watervliet. He got through
this time with no difficulty except that
the weather was chilly for boating trip.
The Coterie has received an invitation
from the Hartford Woman's club for
May 30; luncheon at II. Every member
who expects to go must leave her name
with the secretary, Mrs. Curtiss, before
Friday evening of this week
June l, the railroad known as the
Baker road, running from Coloma to
Paw Paw Lake, will come under the
control of the S. H. & E. BY traffic
arrangement with the Pere Marquette,
s. III. IL f.. trains can be run to Paw Paw
Lake, and our people may expect some
excursions to that popular resort,
The farm house of L. A Sprague, half
way between Almena and Paw Paw,
burned to the ground yesterday noon.
! The household furniture and goods were
saved with the exception of two stoves
and a sewing machine. The fire was first
discovered in the roof, where it had
caught from a spark from the chimney
of the kitchen stove, and could easily
have been put out had there been lad
der so that it might have been reached.
The S. II. & e. will run the first ex-
curson of the season to South Haven,
! Sunday, May 10, in connection with an
excursion from LaPorte, Indiana via
! Pere Marquette II. r.. and Hartford.
! Special train Lawton 900 a. M, Paw
Paw 9:10, Lake Cora $50, Lawrence $40,
Hartford 1000, Toquin 1920, Covert
l0:30 arriving at South Haven III 90; re-
turning, leave South Haven 600 p. IN.
Round trip from Lawton, Paw Paw, Lake
Cora and Lawrence 30 cents, Toquin
and Covert % cents.
Just before two o'clock yesterday, the
fire alarm sounded. The home of Sam
Landphere. on the bank of the river on
south LaGrave street, was on fire and was
destroyed with all its contents. Neither
Mr.. nor Mrs. Landphere was at home at
the time and it is not known how the
fire started. Sam was at work just across
the road and, going home for something,
discovered the fire, which was then under
such headway that he could not get into
the house. He opened the door and got
out two chairs. Everything else was
burned. The house was small one.
The loss of the home and all household
goods is a severe one to these young
people, who have been housekeeping but
a short time.
The passenger department. of the
South Haven & Eastern railroad is COM
piling list of summer resorts summer
hotels and private boarding houses along
its line and desires the assistance of pro-
prietors and other interested parties in
securing all information ofinterest to sum-
mer visitors Names of resorts, ,proprietors,
location, special features, terms, etc.,
should be included in the application
for representation in S. III. & e. booklet.
! This list will be mailed to several thou
sand families in Chicago and will doubt
less assist in increasing the popularity
of Michigan summer resorts. Parties de-
string to avail themselves of this oppor-
tunity are requested to mail full par
ticulars to ID. II. Patterson, general
manager, Paw Paw, Mich.
The council held meeting Monday
evening Additional cement walks we're
ordered, on recommendation of the street
committee, as follows: North side of
Oak street in front of w. r.. Sellick's,
east side of Kalamazoo in front of Smolk
and Showerman properties, south side of
Berrien in front of +. III. Maxwells.
Hitching posts were ordered on the west
side of Niles street, along the Fowler prop
erty. The job of painting the waterworks
tower was let to j. A. Leech e. Son
for 800. David Chapman was retained
as engineer of the fire department at
salary of $50 per year. President Cava-
naugh was authorized to GO to Lansing,
taking with him some person of his own
selection, in the interest of the village
extension bill. A one per cent tax was
levied-the same as tor several years
past. 1t was decided to build the walks
this year by hired labor, under direction
of the street commissioner, instead of let
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