Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2017 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== St. Joseph Herald Saturday, July 7, 1888 [extracts of marine news] The large schooner SNOW-DROP arrived Wednesday with about 250,000 feet of lumber for Preston & Collins. The PURITAN just "skipped" over to Chicago and back this week. Going across the lake now seems like going to meals - a sort of noon hour - so quickly does this popular steamer make her trips. The LORA, too, though not so rapid in her movement, "gets there" in her steady and reliable way. Fourth of July: Tug Race - two miles on lake - between tugs CAMPBELL and BIRD. The former won. The Life-Saving crew and St. Joseph Fire Department gave creditable exhibitions. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- St. Joseph Herald Saturday, July 14, 1888 [extracts of marine news] No marine news in this issue. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- St. Joseph Herald Saturday, July 21, 1888 [extracts of marine news] No marine news in this issue. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- St. Joseph Herald Saturday, July 28, 1888 [extracts of marine news] Keeper Chas. Morton, of the Holland Life-Saving Station, formerly of the St. Joseph crew, met with a sad affliction by the drowning of his little boy, George H. Morton, on Saturday last. It seems that the little fellow was in a small boat alone, just inside the pier, in Black Lake, when the steamer TAYLOR, followed closely by the H. W. WILLIAMS, came into port and the action of the water from their motion, it is surmised, disturbed the boat so as to throw the boy out of it into the water. Missing him from about the house a short time after- wards Mrs. Morton made search but could find no trace of the boy aside from the empty boat, which he was in the habit of using. It contained only one oar. Fearing the worst the mother telephoned her husband - who had gone to Holland, six miles distant, on business - who promptly returned and made search and in about two hours recovered the body of his son at the point where the boat lay. The remains were brought to St. Joseph on Sunday, for interment, the funeral services occurring from the Congregational Church, Rev. J. V. Hick- mott officiating. The boy's age was 4 years, 8 months and 10 days. Capt. J. Lysaght, recently detailed to the life saving station here, arrived from St. Joseph Monday morning and was received at the Chicago dock by the surfmen in one of the surf- boats. Capt. N. Robbins introduced him to the men. Capt. Lysaght is a man of ability and long experience and proposes to continue the perfect discipline that he found existing. - Grand Haven Courier-Journal. ==========================================================================