The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1900-03-07
WHOLE NUMBER 2346.
. Rolla p. Quick is seriously ill.

] holla L. quick Is seriously Ill.
Miss Vivian Broughton is clerk in
the postoffice.
Regular meeting of Paw Paw Chapter,
No. "a, r. A. NJ, Friday evening.
j. w. Free has arrived home from Bat
tie Creek sanitarium, considerably inn
proved in health.
X. ID. Gillespie has rented the Van
Fossen tenant house on east Pine street
and will occupy it April l.
1t is claimed a large proportion OF
peach buds of some varieties have been
killed by the cold weather
| DR.. Dock of Ann Arbor was here Mon
day, in consultation with the attending
physician on the case of Miss Kate Har-
ris, who is in a critical condition.
The Y. p. S. G. e. social that was to
have been held at NJ. o. Rowland's last
week, was postponed on account of the
weather and will be held this evening.
On account of the storm, no mails were
received in Paw Paw from Monday even
ing until the middle of the afternoon
! Tuesday. There were two trains stalled
between this place and South Haven.
|. w Van Fo5sen returned Saturday
night from a weeks visit to his family in
Ann Arbor. He reports Mrs. Van Fossen
improved in health, and the Paw Paw
students in usual health, except from
seasonable colds and grip.
w. j. Porter & Son, the basket factory
men, are at work getting their building
in shape for the machinery. Their boiler
and engine are expected in few days, and
the other machinery little later. They
are getting in some nice logs.
The snow. storm of last Wednesday
was one of fthe heaviest for years, a great
body of snow falling in few hours.
Trains on all railroads were many hours
late. Just as we all thought nice weather
was about to follow the big storm,
another one, not quite so severe, came
upon us, with quite fall of snow, then
warmer temperature and rain Monday
night, then colder and snow again Tues
day, with roads in bad condition. We are
getting all kinds of March weather.
Before Magistrate Rowland on Satur-
day last, Austin Cornell pleaded guilty
to having obtained the sum of ten dollars
from f. p. Grimes by means of false
pretenses. He paid fine and costs
amounting to twenty dollars. The false
pretense with which he was charged,
was representing himself to be the
owner of a certain bicycle which he
pledged for the re- payment of the loan,
when in fact, the wheel did not belong to
him, but was the property of E. B.
Longwell.
Joseph III. Allen made contract with
K. b. Longwell last summer, for the
purchase of a bicycle, but neglected to
fulfil his agreement. He afterwards
traded the wheel for mule The mule
died the next day, so Allen had neither
wheel nor mule. He was arrested and,
being arraigned before Justice Rowland,
pleaded guilty to fraudulent sale of
personal property. Meanwhile he, or his
friends for him, settled with Mr.. Longwell
for the wheel and, taking that fact into
consideration, the magistrate let him
down easy with an assessment of S10.S0,
which was promptly paid.
An interesting case has just been dis
posed of in the probate court, in con-
nection with the settlement of the estate
of the late John Lyle. When the de-
ceased was married to Mrs. Emma
Marshall, now his widow, the parties
entered into an ante-nuptial contract, by
which the wife was to receive 81 900 when
the marriage was consummated and
$4,000 out of the estate after Mr.. Lyle's
decease. The provisions of this contract
were repeated in the will made by the
deceased and filed in the probate court.
The 81 900, probably more, was paid in
rebuilding and remodeling the widows
residence in this village, and the $4,000
has been paid to her in cash and securi
ties since her husbands death, and she
has receipted for the same. The pending
proceeding was on a petition by Mrs.
Lyle for her statutory allowance out of
the estate, viz: wearing apparel and
ornaments of deceased, household furni-
ture to the value of $3.50, other personal
property to be selected by her to the
value of $3.50, and such other reasonable
allowance as the court may Judge to be
necessary, pending the settlement of the
estate-the amount asked under this
latter clause was $500 Judge Johnson,
after mature deliberation and an ex-
haustive examination of the authorities,
came to the conclusion that by accepting
the $4,000 provided by the ante-nuptial
contract and by the terms of the will,
the widow had waived the statutory pro-
visions and had elected, as she had a
right to do, to take under the provisions
of the will, and that she was estopped
from making any further claim against
the estate. 1t is quite likely the case
will be appealed to the circuit court.
Circuit Court.