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Newspaper
South Haven Tribune Messenger
Location
South Haven, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1908
Page
5
A pro hospital statement argues the project funds will be used locally for materials and labor with no graft or officer fees. It pledges reduced maintenance costs, benefiting patients, and frames giving as a duty to aid the suffering, citing a biblical call to help the least of these.
A long poem traces mountain paths from Arctic snows to tropic suns and the urge to climb peaks, seeking the space drifted music beyond the hills. An editor's note explains Prof L H Bailey Jr read two poems last month, first publication, inspired by the mountains on a Washington conference trip.
The Tribune obtained permission to publish the poem here, after learning a copy had been sent to relatives locally. This marks its first appearance in these pages.
Sunday school start at the Maple Grove school house with officers chosen. Rain improves berry growers' prospects. J Goggin visits with family. Social club met. refreshments at 5 pm. good time reported. Birth of a son to Mr and Mrs Carl Enichen on Saturday. A bird sighting near Enichen home described as an eagle, jokingly called the Stork. Ringling Bros. circus trip to Kalama zoo noted. Debate over school funding and teacher load expresses community concern for child benefit. Mrs Sharke of Chicago visiting. J JobsonJ expected back from the city. Battle Ax Club membership questioned. Maple Grove urged to limit growth. G W Doolittle spent Sunday with family. Bernice Myner to La Forrest Ill for the summer.
Mrs Rapp visits Chicago for a few days. Mrs L B Paine and daughter Mrs Hughes return from Chicago after several weeks away. Mrs George L Baker of Davenport Iowa and Miss Frances Thorp of Chicago visit at Keystone farm, home of T H Thorp. Souvenir cards arrive from India for Mrs Porter Sherman’s Sunday school class. Children’s day and missionary services set for Law School Sunday June 28 with a special program. All come.
Kibb ie Allie Tripp and wife with child arrived Thursday from Rochester New York where they have lived for a year. Mr and Mrs Myers and Mr and Mrs Hosner visited friends at Pier Cove Sunday. Belle Trimble resigned as chief operator at Central telephone and returned to Casco Monday. Her work pleased patrons and friends here. The Progress Club ladies and their husbands hosted a surprise party Tuesday evening.
Mrs Bow man leaves for Alamo after a farewell gathering at Mrs Min Hosner’s home with a souvenir spoon gift. Mrs Rhoda Hosner visits daughter Mrs Gable in Glenn. Hant family arrives from northern Michigan to take Joseph McKeowen farm. They bring furniture livestock and tools plus fence posts for sale by Mr Myers. Minnie Hosner now with Kibbie Telephone Co Casco. Tubing for culverts unloaded here. Frost observed Tuesday morning. James Stephenson returns from Chicago with three purchased horses.
GIMLET HILL E MacCasslin runs a busy strawberry trade. Caleb Harris wed Myrtle Thompson at the grooms parents home Mr and Mrs John Wilkinson. They plan to make a home in Chicago. George Overhiser bought a piano for daughter Enid. Freeman B Compton of California visits his parents in town. Otto Pekie and wife of South Haven spent Sunday in northern Casco. R E Hamlin and wife of South Haven visited their son John and family over Sunday.
A sequence of local arrivals and departures is recorded from Grand Junction to Bangor and South Haven. Miss Hattie Barnes attended a teachers examination in Bangor. Miss Angie Kingston traveled through Jackson toward Breedsville and Bangor. Various residents, including Clyde Bush of Kibbie Telephone Co, George Newcomb of South Haven, and Rev. 8 C Strickland of South Haven, were seen in town or en route to summer homes and places like Osterhout Lake. Multiple visits relate to engineer positions, summer homes, and social or fraternal events such as Knight Templar conclave in Grand Rapids.
South Haven and nearby towns bustle with weekend trips and visits. Emma Schallborn and Owen attend from the area. many residents travel to Kalkaska and Kibbie. The Scott Lake picnic drew crowds with Lacota’s band providing music while a cow dies struck by lightning. Marriages, travel for GAR encampment, and social visits fill the days as Mrs. Welch, Phelps, and many others spend time with relatives and attend events across Michigan.
Sixty three tickets were sold to Kalamazoo from here the day of the big show. Mrs Lois Rowe of Kalamazoo has been a guest of her parents Mr and Mrs Mont Augire. Mr and Mrs Roy Clevelands and son who have been visiting her parents left for their home in Mattewan Tuesday. The W T U held its annual Flower Mission day exercises in the Methodist church Wednesday June 10 in the afternoon. Two baskets of flowers were sent to the Old Peoples Home in South Miss Carrie Dilley spent Thursday in South Haven. M Goldberg of Bangor was here on business Wednesday, Miss Bessie Eitel left Saturday for Grand Rapids.
John Markstrom and bride arrived Thursday to spend their honeymoon with his parents then returned to Joliet Illinois where they plan to live Mr and Mrs O Klaus of Kalama zoo visited Mrs Klaus mother Mrs Goranson Prof C W French of Chicago spent time on his farm Mrs Ed Thomas returned from Woodville and Mrs Paul Kohlhoff with daughter Lydia tend berry crop Charles Larson and sons arrived from Joliet to harvest berries Charles Jr returned Monday farmers busy in good weather Charles Emmett shipped two hundred crates of strawberries Monday Mr and Mrs Cbhan Wheeler entertained several neighbors Miss Bertha Kahn married John Benacher of South Haven at her parents home Jo Smith and family spent Sunday with his parents Wedding bells expected soon at the neighborhood list of Sunday school invitees at Mrs Barnie Parks Thursday at 7 oclock Olie Truax and Hazel Pearson wed at the brides home Sunday evening long and happy life wished for the newlyweds.
The Kalamazoo Lake Shore and Chicago Railway known as The Fruit Belt Line unveils a new time card effective Sunday June 21 at 12:01 am. It restores traffic on the Paw Paw lake branch with smoother tracks after repairs. First south to lake trains depart South Haven at 9:10 am, 1:30 pm, and 4:30 pm, with return trains at 11:30 pm, 2:65 pm, 6:15 pm, and 7:45 pm, the last connecting with the main line arriving South Haven at 8:55 pm. Additional main line adjustments shift morning departure to 7:10, move 1 pm service to 3 pm, and change 4:45 to 5:00 pm on weekdays, with weekend 6:15 pm. Daily Kalamazoo arrivals are 10:10 am and 8:55 pm, with 4:35 pm except Sundays. The schedule lists Eastbound and Westbound main line times for South Haven, Covert, Hartford, Salle Paw Paw, Kalamazoo, and associated stops.
Dr Elgas a veterinary surgeon from Lawrence fell seriously ill while on business. He arrived by train at 10 10 and was attacked at Reid's livery stable. Dr L Rhodes moved him to City Hospital where he remained comfortable until the evening train. He serves as county agent for the poor in that capacity he has visited the area.
A Michigan Daily report shows 992 students attended five Ann Arbor churches Catholic St Andrew's Episcopal Congregational First Methodist and Christian Science comprising 26 percent of total church attendance and 19 percent of the student body while town attendance was 17 percent. Catholic masses drew at least 300 students, St Andrew's 360, Congregational 375, Methodist 151, and Christian Science 10.
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