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Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1851-10-29
Mortgage Sale.


nEFAULT having been made in the payment
H. of a certain sum of money secured to be paid
by indenture of Mortgage, bearing date the twen-
ty fifth day of April A. ID. 1913 executed by Will
lam &. Comfort and Cornea A Comfort, of the
County of Ottawa and State of Michigan, to Hen
nv Griffin, of same county and State, and recor-
ded in the office of the Register of said county in
liber A of Mortgages on pages two hundred a. thir-
ty-two and two hundred and thirty three, on the
thirteenth day of May, A. ID. 1918, at ten o'clock
A. NJ On which said Mortgage, there is claimed
TO be due at the date of this notice. the sum of one
hundred and ninety dollars and ninety hun
dreths of a dollar for the recovery of which no
suit or proceeding OF law, or in equity has been in
sttuted Notice is therefore hereby given that by
virtue of power of sale i'm said Mortgage contain
ed. and according to the statute in such made
and provided, the premises in said Mortgage des-
cribed, to wit The east half of the east half of
lot number four (4) fractional section nine, (9) sit
uate on the north bank of Grand River in the town
ship of Polkton, liz said county of Ottawa in town
seven, ~ north of range number fourteen, (14)
west containing six acres more or less, and also
the east half of the east half of the south east
quarter of section number four, (4) in said town,
seven, (7) north, range fourteen, (1D west, as dv
ded by n north and south line, through the centre
of the east half of the south east quarter of said
section four, containing forty more or less,
according to government survey; will be sold TO
third (3) day of December next, ensuing the
date hereof at two o'clock in the afternoon of that
day, at the Court House, place of holding Courts
of record in the village of Grand Haven, in said
county of Ottawa, that being the place of holding
the Circuit Court thereof. Dated Grand Haven,
August q, 1851. HENRY GRIFFIN,
lSl3w Mortgage.
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Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1851-10-29

STATE OF MICHIGAN, County of Ottawa, SIS -
AT a session of the Probate Court for said COun-
ty of Ottawa, holden at the office of the Judge
thereof, at Grand Haven, on Saturday. the 23d
day of August in the year one thousand eight
hundred and ffty-one Present William Hath
away Jr., Judge of Probate In the matter of
the estate of Ira Atwater, deceased:
ON reading and filing the petition, duly verified,
~ of the heirs of said deceased, praying that
Merritt b. Atwater, be appointed Administrator on
the estate of said deceased situated in Pierre Mar
quette, Mason County, Michigan. Thereupon it is
ordered, that Thursday, the eleventh day of Sep
TENDER next, at one O'Clock in the afternoon, be as
signed for the hearing of said petition, and that
the heirs at law of said deceased, and all other per-
sons interested in said estate, required to APP
pear at a session of said Probate Court, then to be
holden at the Office of the Judge thereof at Grand
Haven, and show cause, if any there be, why the
prayer of the petitioners should not be granted ::
and it is further ordered, that said petitioners give
notice to the persons interested in said estate, of
the tendency of said petition and the hearing
thereof by causing copy of this order to be pub
lished in the Grand River Times, newspaper prn-
ted and circulating in the County of Ottawa three
successive weeks previous to said day of hearing.
A true copyl WILLIAM HATHAWAY Jr.,
lSiw.l Judge of Probate.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1851-10-29

upon the other tacS quick as thought she had
come in stays, and was just swinging off upon
her course, when huge wave struck her and in
less time than can write it, our boat was bot
tom upwards and we were struggling in the
waves. We were all good swimmers, but we
tried in vain to right her, and at last discour-
aged and almost exhausted, we climbed upon
her bottom, and lashing ourselves as well as we
could, awaited our coming fate. One of my
comrades become delirious and in spite of all
we could do, plunged headlong into the waves,
in moment he rose and chung convulsively to
the boat, we drew him up with all our strength,
but ere we could secure him on the slippery
wreck, he rolled helplessly over and sunk like
lead in the raging waters.
We now endeavored to keep up our hopes by
conversation, but Edwin, my companion, was
evidently growing weaker and resigned to his
fate. If you ever get home he said, give my
love to my father and mother, and tell them |
died happy; these were the last words he ever
spoke; through all that long, long night we
drifted slowly on, buffeted by the fierce waves
and benumbed by the piercing wind Atlength
huge black mass came booming up before us,
the waves broke over us more fercely than be-
fore, the loud roar of the surf was deafening
even to my almost palsied senses. We struck
at last-her mast snapped off and she righted.
had previously loosened the cords which bound
us to the wreck, and exerting all my remaining
strength succeeded in getting Edwin into the
boat. l laid my cheek to his, but it was cold
as MARBLE placed my hand upon his heart, it
was still. The spirit had taken its everlasting
flight, and was there alone. staggered reck-
lessly onward, and soon came to steep clay
bank summoning all my remaining strength,
at length accomplished the ascent and crawled
into barn not far from its edge, which dis
cerned in the dim morning twilight. Here
was found in short time AFTER in state of in
sensibility.
The torments of returning consciousness,
the heart rending meetings with the friends Of
the lost ones, or the bitter grief and wild IRE.
pressible excitement which for days pressed my
soul by turns, will not attempt to describe
But the scenes of that fearful night are often
revisited in dreams, and its memory will perish
only with my existence.
Burlington, VT, Oct. Z, 1851. Il X
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1851-10-29

CHERIFF SAI.E.-By virtue of two executions
- issued out of the Circuit Court, for the County
of Kent, State of Michigan, to me directed and de-
ivered, against the goods and chattels, lands and
tenements of John Rice. One in favor of Amos
Rathbone and one i'm favor of Thomas Bentley
and John Orr have levied upon all the right,
title and interest of said John Rice, of in and to
the following described lands and tenements to wit
The northeast quarter of the northwest quarter,
and the southeast quarter of the northwest quar-
ter of section number thirty three 33) in township
number seven, 81 north of range number thir-
teen (13) west; in the County of Ottawa and State
of Michigan. Which 1 shall expose for sale at
public auction, as the law directs to the highest
bidder at the Court House in the village of Grand
Haven, in Ottawa County, that being the place of
holding the Circuit Court of said County, on Thurs
day the thirteenth day of November next at one
of the clock in the afternoon Of that day. Dated
at Grand Haven, the 25th day of September, 1851.
[13w7] ASA A. SCOTT, Sheriff of Ottawa Co.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1851-10-29

o HERIFF SALE.-By virtue of an execution is
- sued out of the County Court for the County
of Ottawa, Michigan, to me directed and delivered,
against the goods and chattels, lands and tene-
ments of Bethuel Church. in favor of Farmer
Church. have levied upon all the right, title and
interest of the said Bethuel Church, of i'm and to
the following described property, to wit: The
northeast quarter of section thrty-three 1881 the
east half of the southeast quarter of section twen
ty-eght, (2S) the southeast quarter of the south
west quarter of section twentyeght, 2S) the south
west quarter Of the northwest quarter of section
mill lot and MILL on the southeast quarter of sec
ton thirty three 1881 all i'm town seven north of
range thirteen (13) west; which shall expose for
sale at public auction, as the law directs, to the
highest bidder at the courthouse in the village of
Grand Haven, that being the place of holding the
Circuit Court for said county, ON Friday, the fifth
day of December next, at two o'clock in the after
noon of that day Dated at Grand Haven, this
10th day of October 1851. T15w7l
ASA A. SCOTT, Sheriff of Ottawa County.
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ATTACHMENT NOTICE.

State of Michigan, in Ottawa County Court.
Stephen Batchelder, Plff.
VS.. In Attachment.
Francis Batchclder, Deft.
NOTICE is hereby given, that on the twelfth day
~ of March 1851, II writ of attachment issued
in the Court above named wherein the parties
above named were plaintiff and defendant, that
the sum claimed, due from the plaintiff to the de-
PENDANT in said writ, is the sum of three thousand
dollars, that said writ was made returnable on the
second Tuesday of May in the year eighteen hun
dred and fifty one, and that appears from the
turn of said writ property has been attached there
on, and that the de PENDANT above named could not
be found Dated at Grand Haven, this 18th day of
May, A. ID. 1851. STEPHEN BATCHELDER, PlF
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The potato corp in Great Britain and Ireland,
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taken place in consequence.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1851-10-29

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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1851-01-11
Style i'm Dress.

The tendency ofthe present century has been
all along toward siml in dress. Men and
women have been making approaches toward a
simple and rational costume, far removed as they
still are from it.
II is said that in 1907 clergyman by the name
OF Wilkinson wrote sermon on the following
text: "Prov. XxxI, 14.-She is like a merchants
ship, that, bringcth her food from AFFAIR." Hcon-
tains the following passage:
"But, of all qualities, a woman must not have
one qualitic Of ship, that is too much rigging.
Oh what wonder it is 10 sec ship under sale
with her tacklines and her masts, and her tops
and her gallants, with her upper decks and her
lower decks and so bedecked with her streamers.
flags, and ensisncs, and know not what yea,
but world Of wonders is 10 see woman, Great
ed IN Gods image, so miscreante ofttimes and
detormcd with her French her Spanish, and her
foolish fashions, that He that made her, when
lie looks upon her, shall hardlie know her, with
her plrmes, her flames, and silken wizard, with
ruite like sailc, yea, a rulle like rainbow,
with feather in her cappe like flag in her top,
to tell think, which waye the winde will
blowe.''
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1851-01-11

The Rev. Sidney Smith, in one of the ablest Of
his essays, says:
81 know Of no principle which it is of more
Importance to fix in the habits of Young people.
than that ct the most determined resistance to
the encrOachments of ridicule. Give not I'd to
the world, orto the ridicule with which the
Worll entolces its dominion over every trihing
question ofmanner and appearance. Learn from
the earliest days to insure your principle against
the perils OF ridicule. If you think il right to
differ from the times, and 10 makea stand for
any valuable point of morals, do it, however rus
tic, however antiquated, however pedantic it
may appear; do it, not for insolence, but serious
ly and grandly, as man who wears a soul of his
own in his bosom, and does not wait till it shall
be breathcd into him by the breath Of fashion.
Let men call you mean, if you know You are lust:
hypocrilcal. if you are honestly religious pusil-
luminous, you feel you are firm. Resistance
soon converts unprinciplcd wit into sincere res
poet; and no after time can tear from YOU those
feelings which every man carries within him who
made noble and successful exer1ion in a virtu-
Gus causc.'