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The Fourth atB,i» ivitafion I eft Allegan Friidimoruing, lt;Iuly 3d, for South 11 area, mlcrrwpany with A, H. Feon, “w- 5*celebrate fhe Fourth at that plaee. At I Kalamazoo we placed ourselves is charge of Mr. Pratt,tbe gentlemanly conductor I - j of the K^latnaxxr ft South Havern Rail- U: Road, and io due time we arrived in South Haven and put an at th# “ Pacific n House/' kept by mine boat, MortJA Strong. By the way Morf, knows how jx to keep a hotel and those peraone going 1 *' that way will find it for their iolereat to I give him a call. In the evening we had t a call from Captain Bryan, of ibe T» Gem, who invited us to take a Ade jjhim the next morning at seven o'clock^ v which was accepted by Mr. Fenn and •« your humble servant. We found that ilie Captain was competent to handle a tug or justice office, which latter office I understand the people of South Haven g have wisely conferred upon him. After a: a ride of some twelve miles we found ° ourselves again at the hotel, and »ooa I ® after the procession formed and marchadto the grove to listen to an oralioa from A. II. Fenn. Esq., of Allegan, who ad- Jdressed the compan? variously estimated •lt;| from 6f«een hundred to two thousand ^ After the close of the exereisea we fooud -! Mr. Achiiles on hand with his dashing team (one of those horses he bought in c Allegan) to eonvey ms back to the hotel, k The afternoon was spent in riding on u_ the lake in the propellers Mooitor, of South Haven, and Lake Breeze of Benton Harbor, which boats were furnished p 1 for the occasion by H on. George Han- ^ nahs, ure of the live men of W,eat«s» | , Michigan, to whom we are under oblL i gations for special favors. Everything1 passed off quietly and the general excla- ® • mat ion of all was we have had a good -i time. Sunday cvrnios, in companywith A. H. Fenu, C. D. Clements (Su (pcrvisur of Watson* in this couuty) and c e,»nic fifteen others, we took a trip to St. p Joseph, rcturniug early Monday morn- [ mg to South Haveu, where we again ! took the cars for home,where we arrived I feeling much better for the trip. ! ■j Yours, etc^ Allegan. I „fJuly 7th, 1874.! F
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South Haven Sentinel
South Haven, Michigan, US
Sat, Jul 18, 1874
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