The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1904-07-08
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Home Coming Week, Aug. 1929.
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Advertised letters: Mrs. Richman
Curtand, Mr.. Geo H. Millard, Mr.. A. j.
Stiles, w. A. Williams (3).
Married at Paw Paw, July 2, 1904, by
Justice O. w. Rowland, Carol Fitzsim-
mons and Laura Behnker, both of Paw
Paw.
a representative of j. H. Beers & Co.
of Chicago is in the county, doing work
preparatory to getting out the Bio
graphical Memoirs of Van Buren, County"
book that will contain biographies of
representative citizens.
Mrs. f. f. Parks gave a porch party
in honor of Mrs. Cora Whalen, formerly
of Paw Paw, last Wednesday afternoon.
About 40 guests were present, all of
whom report an excellent time. Re-
freshments were served.
f. b. Longwell has sold his depart
ment store to NJ. l.. Decker and Edgar
Tice, who will continue the business un-
der the firm name of Tice q Decker. Mr..
Decker is the register of deeds of this
county, and before assuming that office
had 10 years of successful business eX-
perience in the county. Mr.. Tice is
from Bloomingdale, but for three years
has been in business at Indian River.
He is registered pharmacist and a thor
ough business man. They will add to
the stock, and will run first class store
The True Northerner predicts a large
and successful business for the new firm.
Under the caption of "Kazoo Boys to
the Front" the Kalamazoo Gazette,
speaking of Wade Killefer and Frank
Sanger, two of Paw Paws best ball toss
ers, says Sanger is one of the best
pitchers in these parts" "Killefer, al
though particularly adapted to posi-
ton behind the bat, has been playing at
second and shows himself equally good
anywhere in the field" The Gazette
predicts that both these players will be
on the varsity team next year and that
Sanger will occupy the pitchers box "as
he is far better than anything Michigan
has had for years" All the mistake the
Gazette makes in this matter is in
claiming Killefer and Sanger as Kalama-
zoo boys. They are both Paw Paw boys.
Sanger was born in Paw Paw and still
resides here and Killefer has lived here
for many years. They are two of the
regular members of Paw Paws ball
team, which includes Mark Chaffee,
another catcher who is probably the
peer of any amateur catcher in Michi-
gan. In fact, the Paw Paw team is COM
posed of players that do not need to take
back seat for any non professional
team in Michigan. The other members
of the team, Pugsley, Showerman, Brit
ton, Folsom, Taylor and Tolles are all
fine players and, with the exception of
Tolles, are all Paw Paw boys. Besides
these, Paw Paw has younger lot of
players rapidly coming to the front.
Among them is Snow, who played right
field in the Kalamazoo-Paw Paw game
at Kalamazoo on the 4th, which was won
by Kalamazoo by score of 2 to /. Con-
cerning this game, the Gazette says:
mot since Louis Criger and Danny
Friend used to do their stunts here, way
back in the last century, has such an ar
ticle of ball been produced in this vi
cinity." The published score shows
that Paw Paw ought to have won the
game, as they made twice as many hits
as Kalamazoo, and Sanger had more
than twice as many strikeouts to his
credit Two unfortunate errors at a
critical time were responsible for the
Kalamazoo scores.