The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-10-03

turn mail the Roscommon sucker received
a neatly printed card advising him to give
his Bucephalus drawing lessons.
kalamazoo has over forty passenger
trains over its various railroads daily.
"A Maple Rapids man has fruit tree
which bears a peculiar fruit. They are
sort of cross between a pear and an
apple.
The Bay City Arbeiter Society has
celebrated the twenty third anniversary
of its organization. IL has $50 members
on its rolls, and owns property valued at
$40, 900.
The Agricultural College has received
an order all the way from Tennessee for
thirty bushels of pure seed wheat, ac-
companied by check for the seed at the
rate of $3.50 per bushel. Unfortunately
all the seed of the kind desired that can
be spared was sold the day bdf6re the
order was received.
The accident by which Nels Anderson
was killed in lumber camp near Flood
wood, in the Upper Peninsula, was sin
| gular in some respects. Being deaf, he
did not hear the warning to get out of the
way as his comrades were telling tree,
but glancing up he saw the tree coming
and started to run. Instead of getting
out of the way he ran directly under the
tree, limb of which struck the ak upon
his shoulder in such way that it nearly
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R. b. Shank & Co., of Lansing,
have one of those unique machines on the
drops -nickel-in- the slot and test your
weight plan, only when a nickel is dropped
in its former owner receives tempting
cake of sweet chocolate i'll return. Some
wicked boys discovered that small piece
of lead would bring forth the chocolate
harvest as readily as nickel and when
the machine was opened the other day by
the firm enough of the metal was found
for medium sized cannon ball.
The Commissioner of the General
Land Office has called upon the Flint and
Pere Marquette Railroad Company to
show cause why proceedings should not be
taken under the act of March 3, 1887 to
vacate the certifcation to the company Of
q, 76l acres of land in Isabella County.
which the Commissioner held was errone-
ously certified to the company, because at
the date Of definite location of its road the
lands were embraced within a reservation
for Indian purposes.
Theodore II. Eaton, for many years
wholesale dealer in drugs and dye stuffs
in Detroit, died on July 3lst last, leaving
a will which has been fled for probate.
The estate of deceased, which was a large
one was very simply disposed Of the
most noticeable provision of the will being
a $50, 900 bequcst to St. LulSe'S Hospital
and Church Home, of Detroit Attached
to the will was a receipt in full from this
charitable institution of the payment of
the legacy, and receipts were also attached
from the following benefciaries under the
y will'I Mrs. Eliza NJ. Odenheimer, of
Cam len, n. j., 50, 600; Miss Philodea L.
Casey, of Augusta, Georgia, 5000;
Lieut.. Thomas w. Lord, Twentieth
Regiment, United States army, $1,000;
Mary b. Inman, daughter OF Commo-
dore William Inman late of the
United States navy, $4,000; Maria and
Louise, daughters of Mrs. Eliza NJ. Oden-
heimer, $4,000 each; John w. Oden-
heimer, 81 200; b. f. Geiger stated in the
will to have been for many years a faith
full clerk of deceased, $1,000. The total
amount receipted for was $50, 900 on dates
between Aug. 6 and Sept. Is, st. Luke's
Hospital having receipted for the $4,000
bequest very recently. 1t was provision
by the testator that the above requests
| should be conditioned upon the fact that
the parties should be alive at the time of
his death. This provision operated adj
versely only in the case of Mrs. Marie
l.. Welles, who died prior to the
death of Mr.. Eaton, her bequest be-
ing the sum of $4,000. The residue of
the estate, after the payment of these be-
quests, is devised entirely TO Theodore III.
Eaton, Jr, the only child and heir at law
of deceased The will could have been en-
tirely included on half sheet of
foolscap paper and was dated on May "A,
1887. Together with the will of Mr. Eaton
was the will of his deceased wife, who died
in November, 1879, which was also fled for
probate. The will of the latter, Ammo
Eliza Eaton, was drawn in March, lS49.
BY the provisions of this instrument the
testatrix bequeathed a piece of property,
known as the Mansion House. on the south
side of Jefferson avenue, in which she was
living at the time of drawing the will, as
well as Franklin street property, to her
husband Theodore Ii Eaton, the son Of
the above testator, asked the Probate
Court to admit both instruments and to
appoint him executor of each.
The State weather-service crop bull
letin says that the temperature for last
week was 2-l0 below; sunshine slightly
below; and rainfall 72-l00 inches above
the normal. The effect upon the crops
has been favorable. The rainfall has been
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