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DR. BATE ORDER


At a session OF the probate court for the county
of Van Buren,, holden at the probate Office, in the
village of Paw Paw, on Wednesday, the 10th day of
March. In the year one thousand eight hundred
and ninety-seven.
Present, Hon. James II. Johnson, Judge Of
Probate.
In the matter of the estate of John Camp
bell. deceased.
On reading and ling the petition, duly verified of
Caroline Campbell, widow of said deceased, praying
for Their stated that administration of said
estate may b. granted to the petitioner some
other suitable person.
Thereupon IL Is ordered that Monday, the 10Th day
of April, 1897, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, be
assigned for the hearing of said petition, and all
persons interested in said estate required
to app ear at "a session of said court, then to
be holden at the probate office, in the village of
Paw Paw, and show cause, ii any there be-
why the prayer of the petitioner should not be
granted.
And it il further ordered that said petitioner
Civ. notice to the persons interested in said of
the tendency of said petition, and the hearing
thereof, by causing copy of this order to be pub
lished in the True Northerner newspaper printed
and circulating in said county OF Van Buren,, for
three successive weeks at least previous to said day
of hearing.
JAMES II. JOHNSON,
9lt4o94 Judge OF Probate.
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sALe.-In pursuance and by

CHANCERy SALE.-In pursuance and by
~ virtue OF a decree of the circuit court for the
county of Van Buren, in chancery, in the state
of Michigan, made and dated the 9th day of Feb
ruary, A. D. 1897 ir certain cause therein pend
ing wherein Margaret S. Smith is complainant, and
Isaac Ii. Hayward, Josephine o. Hayward and Mag
gle Mcguire are defendants.
Notice is hereby given that shall sell at public
auction to the highest bidder, at the front door of
the court house, in the village OF Paw Paw, county
of Van Buren,, state of Michigan, said court house
being the place for holding the circuit court for said
county on Friday, the 10th day of April, A. ID. 1897
at 10 O'Clock in the loren Don, ALL much thereof
may be necessary TO raise the amount due to the
complainant and to the defendant Maggie Mcguire,
for principal, interest and costs in this cause, of
the following described parcel of land, to-wit:
Those certain lands situate and being In the town
of Lawrence, in the county of Van Buren, aud state
of Michigan, known and described the south forty
40l acres of the east fifty $50 acres of the south
west quarter of section twelve l2, in town three 3)
south, of range fifteen (i5) west together with the
tenements and Entertainments thereunto belonging.
Dated, Paw Paw, Mich, March I'd 1897.
ORAN w. ROWLAND,
Circuit Court Commissioner in and for Van Buren,
County, Michigan. [s9t795
+. A. II RoBT. Is. CRANE Compliments Solicitors.
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MORTGAGE whereas, defau

MORTGAGE lE.--Whereas, default hav-
indenture of mortgage bearing date the 18th day of
September. A. ID. 1895, executed and delivered by
John A. Graham, unmarried man of Decatur,
Michigan, TO Orlando T.. Clark which said mort
gage on the Attn day October, A. D., 1895, filed
for record in the Office of the register of deeds In
and for Van Buren, county, Michigan, and by said
page ~, and whereas by the terms
and provisions OF said mortgage il is agreed that,
should any default be made in the payment OF the
interest to become due thereon any part thereof
OH any date whereon the same IL made payable, and
should the same remain due, unpaid and in arrear
thirty 1907 days have elapsed, the principal sum
thereof at the option Of the second party his heirs
assigns, should become and be due and payable
Immediately and whereas $3.50 Of the interest
crued and become due thereon and was payable by
the terms of said mortgage on the 2Sth day of Sep
TENDER. A. D., 1896 which said sum of interest or
any part thereof has not yet been paid, but the
same and the whole thereof is due, payable and in
arrear and more than thirty 800 days have elapsed
since the same became due, payable and in arrear
therefore the said Orlando +. Clark, the owner and
holder of said mortgage has and does declare the
whole of the principal sum secured thereby, with
the accrued interest to be due and payable imme-
diately.
The whole sum claimed 10 be due and payable on
said mortgage at the date of this notice IL S35733
and the cost Of this proceeding to be added thereto,
and no suit at law proceeding In chancery has
been instituted to recover the amount dIe on said
mortgage shy part thereof. Now, notice IL here
by given, that by virtue of the power of sale in said
mortgage contained, and the statute In such cases
made and rovided shall, on Saturday, the Sth
day of May, A. d. S97 at ten o'clock I'm the fore
noon at the north front door of the court house for
the county of Van Buren,, Michigan, i'm the village
of Paw Paw, Chat being the place for holding the
circuit court for Van Buren, county,) sell to the
highest bidder, the premises described In the said
mortgage, or so much thereof as may be necessary
TO pay the amount then due said mortgage and
the legal costs of this proceeding and of said sale.
The property and premises so to be sold are known
as that certain piece parcel of land situate and
being In the town Of Decatur, Van Buren, county,
Michigan, known and described the southeast
quarter of the northeast quarter Of section four ,
In town four 4) south of range fourteen 14) west,
together with the teuements, hereditaments and APP
purtensnces thereunto belonging, or in any wise
sppertaining. s6ti3o98
Dated, this 9th day of February. A. r., 1897.
ORLANDO Il. CLARK, Mortgage.
4. A. 4 RoBERr ID. CRANE, Attorneys for Mortgage
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vi made in the payment Of certain sum of money
secured to be paid by indenture of mortgage, bear
ing date November 22d, 1898. made, executed aud
delivered by Oscar Merryfeld and Helen Merryfeld,
his wife, to Christina II. Weinholtz, which said
mortgage duly recorded in the Office of the reg
lister of deeds for Van Buren, county, Michigan, on
the 3Oth day of December, 1893, at O'Clock a. M,
I'm liber 40 of mortgages, on page ~, and which
mortgage, together with note accompanying same,
atterward by instrument dated November 18th,
1875, aud recorded IL said registers office Decem-
Der I'd, 1895, at O'Clock in iber SO of mortga-
GEES on page AS duly assigned, transferred and de-
liveied by said Christina r. Wenholtz to the under
signed Caroline I. Kleinstuck, and upon which
mortgage there il claimed to be due at the date of
this notice. the sum of five hundred forty-eght and
3g-lOO dollars, principal and interest, and no
proceedings at law or in equity having been insti-
tuted for the recovery of the same or any part
thereof
Notice is therefore hereby given, that by virtue
of he power of sale contained In said mortgage,
aud in purs of the statute In such case made
aud provided, the land and premises described In
said mortgage, to-wit: All that certain piece or
parcel of land situate in the township of Columbia,
in Van Buren, county, state of Michigan aud de-
scribe AZ the northwest quarter of the northwest
quarter of section number twenty-four 24 In town
shi number CD south of range fifteen (l5) west,
c1taiuing forty of land, more or less, will be
sold public vendue, to the highest bidder, at the
north front door of the court house, In the village
OF Paw Pau I'm said Van buren, county, (said court
b ing the place of holding the circuit court
for said Van Buren, county, on the 18th day OF June,
amount due said mortgage and the costs of this
foreclosure allowed by law.
lated. March 18th, 1897. 2l9lt14o22O3
CAROLYN I. KLEINSTUCK,
Assignee of Mortgage.
A. NJ. srEaRss, Atty for Assignee Of Mortgage.
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vi having been made in the conditions Of GER
tain indenture of mortgage bearing date the 25th
day Of October, A. -. 1896, made by Charles Bishop
md Nette Bishop. bis wife, of Dloomingdae, Van
Buren, County, Michigan, to Miss Gertie Seliick of
ed in the ofhce OF the register of deeds for the
the 25th day of October A. D., 1885, in liber IS of
m Drtgages, on page 5S2 whereby the power of sale
contained therein has become operative, and on
which there IL claimed TO be due at the date of this
notice the sum Of Four Hundred and Fitty-rhree
and So 100 dollars, and no suit proceedings at law
In equity having been instituted to recover the
amount now due and secured by said mortgage, or
anv part thereof: Now therefore, notice IL hereby
given that Friday, the 18th day of June, A. De- 1897,
AZ oclocR in the afternoon, at the front door OF
the court house in the village of Paw Paw Van
Buren, county, state of Michigan, Chat being the
place of holdirg the circuit court in said comfy Of
Van Buren, by virtue of the power of sale contained
in said mortgage aud in pursuance of the statute
in such case made and provided, there will be sold
at public auction to the highest bidder, the premises
described in said mortgage, or so much thereof as
il necessary to satisfy the amount due thereon as
aforesaid with interest and costs, charges and ex-
penses Of such sale, and the attorney fee provided
by law, the premises described in said mortgage
being as follows, viz: TIE west half OF the south
east quarter of section number N, in township
number (1) south. of range fourteen "a west in
Van Buren, County state of Mich gan.
Dated March Odd 1897.
MISS GERTIE sELLICK,
Mortgage.
WIN. VI. MASON Atty for Mortgage. 2I92o22W
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SALE

CHANCERY SAlE.-In pursuance aud by
u virtue of a decree of the Circuit Court for the
county OF Van Buren,, in Chancery, in the state OF
Michigan, made and dated the eighth day
of February, A. ID. 1897, in certain cause therein
pending, wherein Dwight A. Harrison Is complain
ant and Amabel Breck Margaret II. Breck, George
W. Longwell, as administrator of the estate of
George r.. Breck, deceased, OlOf Dennison, Fraucis
Bacon and Dora Richardson, administrator of the
estate of Milan u. Richardson. deceased. are de-
PENDANTS.
Notice is hereby given, that shall sell at public
auction TO the highest bidder at the front door of
the court house. in the village Of Paw Paw, county
of Van Buren, and state of Michigan, said court
house being the place for holding the circuit court
for said county, on Friday, the 7th day of Nay
ID. 1897, at o'clock In the afternoon of said day.
all or so much thereof may be necessary to
raise the amount due to the said complainant, for
principal, interest and costs in said cause o. the
following described lands and premises, viz: The
west half "a of the south quarter IA of Sec
ton number seven ~, township humber three 81
south, of range number thirteen 49, west, except
ing therefrom ten no. acres bounded aud described
az follows, viz: Beginning at point on h west
line OF said quarter section where the midd liue of
the highway, which crosses sand quarter section,
known the Territorial road intersrcts : III wrst
line, thence south on said west line. forty-six rods,
thence east thirty two rods. thence north, par
alle with said west line to the middle line of said
Territorial road, aud thence west with said mddl,.
line TO the place of be ginning.
Also the south west quarter "a Of Tn northeast
quarter "a of said section numb seven r. and
the west sixty 1901 acres of the south half Z Of the
III, township and range aforesaid. Said premises
will be sold in inverse order ~ alienation provid-
ed by the terms OF TIE afor, said decree.
Dated Paw Paw, Michr March, ~, A. d. 1897.
ORAN w ROWLAND,
Circuit Court Commissioners in apd or van Buren
County, Michigan f9lt1oas
OSBORN, MILLS MASTER
Solicitors for Complainant.
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AjO4TC AGE SALE. Whereas default
VI having been made in the conditions of GER
tain indenure of mortgage bearing date the st day
of December, A. ID. 1890, executed by James Marley
Dabcock of Paw Paw, Michigan, to estate of 7. s.
Grimes, Paw Paw, Michigan, and which mortgage
recorded in the office Of the register Of deeds of
Van Buren, County, Michigan, in lber forty-three
43l OF mortgages on page 1--WE hundred and forty
81 OF the LIST day of December, A. ID. 1890, and
on which mortgage there is claimed to he due and
unpaid at the date of this notice the sum of three
hundred and tnirty-seven dollars, also an attorney
fee of fifteen dollars, provided for in said mortgage
aud no suit or proceeding at law or in equity hav
in been instituted to recover the amount now due
and unpaid or any part thereof Now, therefore,
notice is hereby given that by virtue of the power of
sale contained in said mortgage and in pursuance of
there will he sold at public auction TO the highest
bidder at the front door of the court house In the
village of Paw Paw, Van Buren, County, Michigan,
that being the place for holding the circuit court for
said county, Saturday tie cath day of April A. ID.
1897, at one O'Clock p. of said day, the premises
described in said mortgage so much as may be
necessary to satisfy the amount now due and
paid on said note and mortgage with interest and
costs, said premises being described as follows to-
wit: Lots one il two L2l, three 3 five 5 and six
81, block ffy-eight 1881 Of the village OF Paw Paw,
Mich, according to the recorded plat thereof now
file at the Office of the register of deeds of Van
Buren, County, Michigan.
Dated January 20th, 1897.
S4tl3o96.l +. 7. GRIMES,
Administrator of estate of p. S. Grimes deceased.
WIN. II. MASON, Atty for Mortgagee.
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l1ORTG ACE SALE,

WIN. II. MASON, Atty for Mortgage.
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SALE,

MORTGAGE Whereas default hsv-
IVA ins h. gu made Ina tue conditions of certain
indenture OF mortgage uated the Sd day OF Dscem-
Der, 4. ID. 1893, executed and delivered by WIN. :.
Palmer and Grace j. Palmer, his vile, 20 Cynthia
A. Van Deusen, and recorded In the Office OF the
register OF deeds in and for the county OF Van
Buren, aud state OF Michigan, the 2ist day OF
February, A. ID. 1894, I'm liber 81 OF mortgages
pages 2s6 and 2s7, and whereas by the terms aud
provisions OF said mortgage IL In agreed that should
default be made in the payment OF the interest To
become DIRE thereon or any part thereof on any
date whereoh the same was made payable therein,
ana should the same remain due, unpaid aud Ia
for the space OF sixty i6O) days, then and
thenceiorh, alter the lapse of the said sixty days
800 the whole principal sum of said mortgage at
the option of said mortgage or her assigns, might
be declared TO be due aud payable Immediately, and
Whereas Sll2.OO of the interest accrued said
mortgage and was due and payable thereon by the
terms thereof on the So day of December A. ID.
1894, and said amount still remains due unpaid and
IN and more Than sixty 600 days have elapsed
since the same became due pay able and in arrear
the said Cynthia A. Van Deusen, the owner of said
mortgage, has elected 10 declare and has and does
declare the whole amount of said mortgage with the
accrued interest to be due aud payable immediately
At the date of this notice there IL claimed to be due
said mortgage 81 $685. aud no suit at law or
proceedings in chancery having been instituted TO
recover the amount due on said mortgage or any
par. thereof.
Now, therefore, notice il hereby given that Ivy
virtue of the power of sale in said mortgage con-
tanned. and of the statutes in such made and
provided. shall on Saturday, the 18th day of May
A. ID. 1897, at ten O'Clock in the forenoon, at the
north front door of the court house for Van Buren,
county. Michigan, in the village # Paw Paw, that
being the place OF holding the circuit for the
said county of Van Buren,, sell 20 the highest bid
der, the premises described In said mortgage or so
much thereof may be necessary to pay the
amount due thereon and the legal costs of this pro-
ceeding and OF said sale.
The premises described In said mortgage aud so
to be sold all those certain pieces parcels OF
land situate aud being In the township OF Waverly,
in the county of Van Buren,. and state of Michigan
and described az follows, to-wit:
The northwest quarter of the north west quarter
of section 4 and the east twenty l0l acres of
the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter OF
section two III, town two ~ south Of range four
teen IL west, township, county and state last
aforesaid, together with the tenements, heredita-
ments and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in
anywise appertaining.
Dated this 18th day of Feb, 1897.
2lS7tl3o99l CYNTHIA \. VAN DEUSEN,
r.. A. ROBERT b. CRANE, Mortgage.
Attorneys for Mortgage.
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DRoRATE ORDER State of Michigan

Il
At session of the probate court for the county of
Van Buren,, holden at the probate Office in the viii
lage of Paw Paw, Tuesday, the I'd day of
March, In the year one thousand eight hundred
and ninety-seven:
Present, Hon. James ii. Johnson, Judge of
Probate.
In the matter of the estate of BE njamin a.
Murdock deceased.
On reading and filing the petition, duly verified.
of Mary v Murdoch, widow of said deceased pray
ing for therein stated that the court shall
adiudcate and deermne who are or were at the
time of his death the legal heirs of said deceased
and entitled to inherit said real estate.
Thereupon IL il ordered that Monday, the oath day
of March, 1897, at ten O'Clock in the forenoon,
be assigned for the hearing of said petition and all
persons interested in said estate required to APP
pear at session of said court then TO be holden at
the probate Office, in the village of Paw Paw, and
show cause, ii any there be- why the prayer of the
petitioner should not be granted.
And il liz further ordered, That said petitioner
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 True Northerner. newspaper printed
aud circulating in said county of Van Buren,, for
three weeks least previous to said day
of hearing.
s6t4o92l JAMES II. JOHNSON. Judge of Probate.
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LEGAL NOTICES.

kIORTGAGE SALE.-whereas default hav-
indenture OF mortgage bearing date the 18th day of
NJ. Rice of Paw Paw, Van Buren, county, state of
Michigan 10 aaron Hathaway OF the same place,
and recorded In the Office of the register of deeds
the 18th day of September, A. ID. 1892 in lber 80
gage there is claimed TO DE due at the date of this
and seventythree cents s56.73), and no proceeding
suit at law IN equity having been instituted TO
recover the amount now due and secured by said
mortgage any part thereof; therefore, notice is
hereby given that by virtue OF the power Of sale in
said mortgage contained and the statute In such
case made and provided, shall, on the nth day of
al the front of the court house IN the village of
Paw Paw, Van Buren, county, state Of Michigan,
that being the place OF holding the circuit court for
said county,, sell at public auction 10 the highest
bidder, the lands and premises described In said
mortgage or so much thereof az may he necessary
TO satisfy the said amount clamedt 90 be due on said
mortgage including interest hereafter 10 accrue and
costs OF foreclosure and the attorneys fee of fifteen
dollars provided i'm said mortgage. The premises
to be sold known ana described In said mort
gage as follows: Lots number eight l6) and nine
(9l of block number twentyeght t1sl Of the village
OF Paw Paw, Van Buren, county, state of Michigan,
according to the recorded plat OF said village.
Dated Paw Paw, March 10th, 1897.
AARON HATHAWAY,
2le2t13o22Oil Mortgage.
JAMES Il. CHANDLER, Attorney for Mortgage.
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4 OMiNISTRATOR'S ST.. & in the
matter of the estate of BenjamiIsA. MURDOCH
deceased Notice Ia hereby given, that by virtue of
license granted to me by the probate court for the
county of Van Buren, state of Michigan, will sell
At public vendue to the highest bidde' at the north
front door OF the court house, In the village of Paw
Paw on the hrst day of April, 1897, at ten O'Clock
in the forenoon OF that day. all the right title and
interest of the said Benjamin A. Murdoch in and to
the following described real estate to wit :Los ~
and III and 80 feet off the north end of lots and IL
all in block six, original village of Paw Paw, sub
lect 70 ground rent leases of John Engle aud John
Robb. Also lots No. 10 and IL, block 30 original
village of Paw Paw also lot No. o. block a. origin
al village of Paw Paw; also lots e. 10 and II. block
80, original village OF Paw Paw; also lots and g.
block 3S, original village Of Paw Paw; also lots !,
and s, block 81, original village of Paw Paw;
also the east half of the north quarter section
II, town south, range Is west except strip of
land rods wide, from the west side Of said land:
also cOmme ncing at southeast corner OF section \,
said township, thence north 40 rods west ~ rods,
south 40 rods, east 30 rods TO place OF beginning;
aso on the north part Of the west half Of the
northeast quarter of the southeast quarter
section II, said township, bounded north by
the quarter line. aud east 10y the land of
Robert Morrison, and being - rods east aud west,
10y u rods north aud south; also east half sou.h
east quarter, section 49, town south, range II west;
also AL that part OF the north east quarter section
-, town south, range IA wrst, lying south of the
east branch of the Paw Paw river and east Of the
highway known as the LawtOn road. reserVing the
right of fiowage of the Paw Paw Mills property;
also commencing at the northwest corner Of the
west half of the southwest quarter OF section H.
towns south, range Ia west thence south the
tion line chains and q8 links TO a stake. thence
east parallel with the east and west quarter line
throU Oh said section to the west ue of block one
Paw Paw village, thence running north along the
west line of said block one, TO stake standing 66
feet south of said east and west quarter line thence
west lis feet 20 stake thence Drh 66 feet 10 the
said east and west quarter line, thence w.st to place
of beginning, village OF Pew Paw; also west half
northeast quartz of southeast quarter of section
Is, town south, range Ia west.
S6t7o92 DAVID ANDERSON,
Administrator of the estate of said deceased.