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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1903-12-25
Legal Notices.
Probate Order.

state Of AIiehiRan-County OF Van Buren-ss.
AZ sessiOn OF the probate court tor said county
held az the probate Office. I'm the " lage OF Paw
Paw. ON m 3rd day OF December, Ina the year
ole Thousand uiue hundit, and three.
Present, Hon. James IL. johnson, Judge OF
Probate.
In the matter of the estate of Riley Wilson
deceased.
On reading and filing the petition, duly verified
OF Lucina u. Wilson, widow of said deceased,
praying for reasons therein stated that adj
ministratiou of said estate may be granted 10 Luz
Gina Wilson.
Thereupon IL is ordered that Monday, the 4th
day of January A. ID. 1904 next at ten clock In the
forenoon be assigned for the hearing of
said petition, and that the heirs-at-law of said
deceased, and all other persons interested In
said estate required to appear at SEES
sion of said court, then to be holden al
the probate office, In the village of Paw Paw and
show cause, If any there be, why the
prayer of the petitioner should not be granted
And IL il 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 print
90 and circulating In said county of Van Buren, FOR
three weeks atleast previous to said day
of hearing.
JAMES II. JOHNSON,
Judge of Probate
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Mortgage sale.

Whereas, default having been made in the condi-
tions of a certain indenture of mortgage, bearing
date the Goth of May, A. d. 1897 executed by George
81 kworth and wife, Mary +. Silkworth of Airing
ton, Michigan, TO +. Il. Grimes OF Paw Paw, Mich
igan, and which mortgage recorded in Liber 40
of mortgages, on page 1919, the 26th day of May,
A. ID. 1877, and on which mortgage there is claimed
TO be due and unpaid at the date of this notice the
sum of three hundred and fortysix and So 100 dol
lars S34636 also attorney fee of fifteen dollars
provided for In said mortgage, and suit pro-
ceedings at law in equity having been instituted
TO recover the amount now due and unpaid, or any
part thereof.
Now therefore, notice is hereby given that by vir
tue of the power OF sale contained in said mortgage
and In pursuance of the statute in such case made
ana provided, there will be 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 on Saturday, the
18th of February A. D. 1904 the premises described
in said mortgage, much may be necessary
10 satisfy the amount now due and unpaid on said
note and mortgage, with interest, costs and attorney
fees, said premises being described as follows to-
wit: The north one-half of the south one-half Of
the northwest one-quarter of section eleven, town
two south, range fifteen west of Arlington. Van Blu
rem county, Michigan.
Dated, November Is, 1903
+. p. GRIMES, Mortgage.
VIM. II. mason, Attorney for Mortgage.
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Order for Hearing Final Account.

State of Michigan-County of Van Buren-ss.
Probate court for said county.
At a session Of the probate court for said county,
held at the probate office, in the village o; Paw
Paw ON Wednesday, the 9th day OF December, in the
year OF our Lord one thousand nine hundred and
three.
Present, Hon. james II. Johnson Judge of Pro-
bate
II the matter of the estate of Lucius b. Coy,
deceased.
John W. Free, administrator Of said estate,
comes into court and represents that he is pre-.
pared 70 render his final account such admins
traitor, and files the same.
Thereupon it is ordere. that Monday, the 4th day
of January next, at ten O'Clock in the forenoon,
be assigned for examining and allowing sucn
account aud that the heirsa t-law of said deceased
and ali other persons interested I'm said estate are
required 10 appear at session of said court, then
TO be holden st the probate office in the village Of
Paw Paw, in said county, ana show cause, If any
there be- why the said account should not be allowed
Aud il il further ordered that SAID administrator
give notice the persons interested in said estate OF
the tendency Of said account ana hearing there
of, by causing copy Of this order to be- published
in The True Northerner newspaper printed and
circulating in said county, for three successive
weeks at least previous to SAID day OF hearing.
JAMES II JOHNSON,
Judge of Probate.
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Mortgage sale.

Wher' default has been made in the payment
of the MOI y secured by mortgage dated the 9th
BanoD, Of the vi lage If Grand Junction, Van Blu
rem county, Michigan, % Ruth \. Dickinson, IF the
City OF Kalamazoo, Michigan, which mortgage was
recorded h the ONCE OF the register Of deeds for
the county OF Van Buren,, in Liber 90 Of Mortgages,
on page 6OS, on the llth day of October, 1899, at
eight O'Clock a M, and
Whereas, the amount claimed 10 be due on said
mortgage at the date of this notice ~ the OF
four hundred twenty Ave dollars and Il ty-four
cents ls425.54) aud which IL the whole amount
claimed to be unpaid on said mortgage, and no suit
or proceeding having been Instituted at law to re-
cover the "ebt now remaining secured by said mort
gage, any part thereof whereby the power sale
contained In said mortgage has become operative.
Now, therefore, notice IL hereby given, that by
virtue OF the said power of sale and In pursuance Of
the statute In such case made and provided, the
said mortgage will be foreclosed by sale Of the
premises therein described at public auction, the
highest bidder, at the front door of the court house.
In the vii age of Paw Paw, In said county of Van
O'Clock IN the forenoon of that day, TO satisfy the
amount due on said mortgage and the legal costs OF
foreclosure. Which said premises described In
said mortgage az follows, namely:
All those certain pieces parcels of land situated
In the township of Columbia, in the county of Van
Buren, and state of Michigan, known RIA
of land on from the east one-half u of the south
east quarter a /, of section FIVE 81 in township
one south of range fifteen IS west, lying west
of the Chicago 4 West Michigan railroad, now
known as the Pere Marquette Railway, and outside
and north of the village plat OF Grand JUNCTION, be-
ing the same parcel of lard conveyed by Samuel
Rogers by deed recorded in Liber AZ of Deeds on
page 3l9. Also lots two [2l three III, five g. and
six 81, in block twenty-one (2l, in the village of
Grand Junction, according to the recorded plat
thereof.
Notice is further given, that the SAID land will be
offered for sale IN parcels at the time and place
aforesaid.
Dated, october 81, 1908.
RUTH S. DICKINSON,
OSBORN MILLS. Mortgage.
Att'ys for Mortgage.
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order OF Publication.

State of Michigan The circuit court for the
county of Van Buren,, So. In Chancery.-Charles q.
Chamberlain, complainant vs.. Lena Curtis Chan-
berlaiu, defendant.
Suit pending in the circuit court for the county of
Van Buren, i'm chaucerv, at the village of Paw Paw,
in said county, on The l4th day of December, A.
ID. 1903.
In this cause II appearing from affidavit on file,
that the ivsiGence defendant, Lena Curtis Cham
berlau is unknown 10 complainant, and it cannot
On motion of David Anderson, compliments
solicitor, it is ordered that the said defendant,
Lena Curtis Chamberlain, cause her appearance t.
be entered herein within five months from the
date of this order; and in case OF her appearance
that she cause her answer 10 the compliments
bill of complaint TO be filed, and copy thereof TO be
served said complainant's solicitor with
in twenty days after service her of copy
of said bill and notice of this order; and that in
default thereof. said bill be taken confessed by
the said nonresident defendant.
And il il further ordered, hat within twenty days
the said complainant cause notice of this order to
be published in the True Northerner newspaper
printed, published and circulating in said county
aud that such publication be continued therein at
least in each week for six weeks in succession
or that he cause copy of this order to be person
ally served on said nonresident defendant, at least
twenty days before the time above prescribed for
her appearance.
JOHN r. CARR,
Circuit Judge.
DAVID ANDERSON,
Solicitor for Complainant.
Business Address. Paw Paw Mich.
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FUNERAL TIE-UP AT CHICAGO
Bodies Have To he Taken To the Gene
teries ia ANY Sort OF "a Vehicle
Obtainable.


Chicago. Dec. 21 Undertakers'
wagons and street cars are used at
Chicago To convey the dead TO the
cemeteries. In nearly every instance
the funerals are watched bv union
plckets. who are there to see that no
livery carriages form part of the flu
neral procession. The most promi-
nent funeral was that of Judge HutC h
inson, for fifteen years on the bench
of the superior court. The remains of
Judge Hutchinson were taken TO Oak
woods cemetery I'm an undertaker's
wagon, while the private carriages of
his personal friends were used for the
pall-bearers and immediate friends OF
the family.
While strike sympathiZers surround
ed the home of DR.. o. w. Lewke, cor
oner's physician. the doctor told his
friends he would drive the hearse that
bore the body Of his wife to Waldheim
cemetery. Il will have loaded shot
gun across my knees and | will shoot
the first man who tries 10 interfere
with me-" he is said to have declared
10 his friends. TO this condition has
the strike brought this city. The en-
ployers say there are plenty Of men
willing and anxious to work, but they
are afraid in view of recent expert
ences here.
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Order for fearing CLAIMS.

State Of Michigan, County of Van Buren-ss.
Notice is hereby given, that by order of the
probate court for the county of Van Buren,, made
on the 9th day of November, A. D. 1903 six months
from that date allowed for creditors 10 present
their claims against the estate of Lillian A.
Rood late of said county, deceased, and that all
creditors of said deceased required TO present
their claims 10 said probate court, at the probate Of
nee in the village of Paw Paw, in said county, for
examination and allowance, on or before the Odd
day of May A. ID. 1904, aud that such claims will be
heard before said court on Monday the 22d day of
February A. j. 1904, and on Monday, the 23d day OF
May, A, ID. 1904 at 10 O'Clock in the forenoon Of
each Of those days.
Dated, November 9th, 4. ID. 1903.
LAAES M.LOMNsON Lmlge of Probate.
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Order for Hearing Final Account.

state of Michigan, county of Van Buren,-ss.
Probate court for said county.
At session of the probate court for said county,
held at the probate office, in the village of Paw Paw.
on Friday, the Attn day of December in the year
of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and three.
Present Hon. James ii. Johnson, judge of pro-
bate.
In the matter of the estate of Willis NJ. Brooks,
deceased.
Lorenzo II. Brooks administrator of said estate,
comes into court and represents that he il now
prepared TO render his final account such admin
istrator, and files the same.
Thereupon il is ordered that Monday. the 4th day
of January next, 1t ten O'Clock in the forenoon,
be assigned for examining and allowing such ac-
count, and that the heirs at law of said deceased,
and all other persons interested In said estate, are
required TO appear at session of said court, then
to be holden at the probate office in the village OF
Paw Paw, in said county, and show cause, If any
there b., why the said account should not he al
lowed.
And il is further ordered. that said administrator
give notice to the persons interested in said
estate, of the tendency of said account, and
the hearing thereof, by causing copy
of this order 20 be published i'm The True Norther-
ner. a newspaper printed aud circulating in said
county, three successive weeks at least previous 10
said day of hearing.
JAMES II. JOHNSON,
Judge of Probate.
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Order for Hearing Claims.

State of Michigan, County of Van Buren,
Notice il hereby given, that by an order of the
probate court fer the county of Van Buren made
on the 7th day of December, A. ID. l903 six months
from that date allowed for creditors TO present
their claims against the estate Of Samuel Con-
salus late of said county, deceased, aud that all
creditors of said deceased required to present
their claims 10 said probate court, az the probate
office, in the village of Paw Paw, i'm said county,
for examination and allowance, on or before
the Goth day of June, A. ID. 1904, and that such
claims will be heard before said court Monday,
the 2lst day of March, A. D. 1904 and on Monday,
the 2Oth day of June A. D. 1904, at 10 O'Clock in the
forenoon of each OF those days.
Dated, December eth, A. ID. 1903.
JAMES II. JOHNSON,
Judge of Probate.
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A WAY OPEN.


There is a way open to con-
vince the greatest skeptic.
Scores of Paw Paw people have
made it possible The public
statement of their experience is
proof the like Of which has never
been produced before in Paw
Paw. Read this case Of it given
by citizen
Mrs. w. h. Myers. whose hus-
band is employed at the engine
house, says; 81 think | over
taxed myself and brought on
severe backache. | paid little
attention to it at first and
it gradually grew worse.
When | did anything which
caused eXertion or if | took
slight cold | was sure to have a
severe pain across my back and
sharp twinges often caught me
in the kidneys when STOPPING or
attempting TO rise from a sitting
position Previous to using
Doan's Kidney Pills procured at
+. b. Longwell's drug store [
tried several household remedies
but did not receive any benefit
from them. Doan's Kidney Pills
helped me from the very start.
1t seemed like magic to have
such severe trouble vanish SO
quickly and so thoroughly. |
cannot praise them highly
enough. They have been a great
friend to me.
For sale by all dealers. Price,
50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Buffalo, N. Y, sole agents for the
United States. Remember the
name, Doan's, and take no sub
stitute.
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Notice of Attachment.
JAMES II. JOHNSON,
Judge of Probate.

STATE OF MICHIGAN-The Circuit Court for the
County of Van Buren,.
William ii. Lucas and Albert Lucas co-partners,
doing business under the hrm name and style of
Ohm Lucas Co., Plaintiffs,
Edward Dufield and ;. W. Dufiield, co-partners,
doing business under the firm name and style of
$ W. Duffield X Co, Defendants
To WHOM 1T MAY CONCERE:-Take Notice: That
a writ OF attachment issued in said cause from
said court on the 23rd day of November A. II. 1903,
at the suit Of said plaintiffs and against said defend
ants, for the sum of one hundred fOrty-eght and
ten one hundredths dollars aud that said writ was
made retunable December LIST, A. ID. 1903.
Dated, Paw Paw, Mich, Dec. Ia, A. d 1903.
BARNARD x LEWIS,
Attorneys tor Plaintiffs.
Business address, Paw Paw, Mich.
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Florence Isn't Kicking.

Florence-What do you think? Hor-
ace never once kissed me under the
mstletoe!
Dolly-Wasn't that shame?
Florence-Hardly. You see. he kissed
me beneath my nose.
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of the Palladium. But I'll
fix him. OF course he
wants a story from my
pen, only he's too stingy Of
courtesy to say so.
ITO the mountains TO
keep cool and wants TO read
about Christmas sleigh
rides and snowdrifts, ice
boats and chill wintry
blasts blowing through old
Santa's whiskers. This is
fighting dog days with the
mind cure. But his nobs II
not get a mental ice bath
from me this trip. I'll put
him into Il mental oven in
stead and roast the noun
tain GOODNESS out of him. "
SO Dalliance wrote in a
spirit of vindictiveness and
pushed his pen as he never
pushed it for the prospec-
tive publishers check, He
In a. ....,,. u. 4 Ia. ..f,prs
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Christmas at
One Hundred
In the Shade

~ ALLIANCE had importuned the
editor Of Everybody's Palladi-
um for month TO commission
him TO write story. One day.
after he had quite ignored the bohe-
milan on his last dozen calls, the editor
said:
"Yes, you can try your hand at a
Christmas tale for our December num-
Der. I'm going TO the mountains 10
keep cool during dog days. Mail it to
me there at the end of this week, and
I'll read ii Immediately"
Now. Dalliance had several Christ
mas sketches all ready TO spin out into
stories. but instead of buckling to in
good faith and finishing one of them
he began TO speculate on the idiosyn-
crasieS of the chief of the Palladium
What i'm thunder does he want with
a Christmas story i'm August. with De
cember over three months away? If
he'd said Thanksgiving it would be
more like ii, and then | could work a
Christmas story on him later.
"Humph. He's going to the noun
tains to cool Off" Much pleasanter
place TO pursue the paths of magazine
editing than the dingy. dinky quarters
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The Only One In CnptiNitN.

Museum Patron We'll. what new
freak have you for. the holidays?
Manager-Thc rarest thing on earth
the man who doesn't buy more Christ
mas presents than he can afford.
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MOTHER GRAY'S SWEET POWDER FOR
CHILDREN.

successfully used by Mother Gray nurse in the
Children's Home in New York. Cure Feverish-
ness Bad Stomach, Teething Disorders, move
and regulate the Bowels and Destroy Worms
over 10000 testimonials. They never fail Al all
druggists, CSC. Sample FREE, Address Allen s.
Omsted, LeLoy, n. Y.
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"And most of 'em hev sich bewtful
necks fur hangn' too. Waal, were a
licked crowd. but | alluS did SOrtcr o
reckon thet Silver Creek was Il heap
sight better town to live i'm than Golden
Gulch. and I'm goin' TO make my home
thar hereafter"
And there were so many others in
the town who suddenly came To this
conclusion. especially after the lynch
ing on Christmas, that there was an
exodus from Golden Gulch TO Silver
Creek. and the two towns merged and
became one and indivisible.
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plenty of loyal citizens i'm
Silver Creek. and I'm bet
tin terbacker ag'm gold
dust thet two of 'em viii
step forward and let Us
lynch 'em on C'ris'mus
and save the towns roper
tashun. I'll promise 'em
thCt it will be done i'm a
genteel manner and thet
Il ten foot monument viii
be put over their graves
to boot. Now, boys. who'll
he fuSt i'm this matterT'
\ deep silence followed
Bits query. Two min
utes after he had asked
tho question ten men had
left the crowd. Three
minutes later Il dozen
more had disappeared, and
five minutes later Bill
was quite alone.
As he watched the last
Of the crowd lodging
around n corner there
were tears in his eyes as
no oNcIoimpd IN himself.
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Spacer-Give me n synonym for the
word Christmas.
Pepper (noodily)-Broke!
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lONu, anu. llpuSH luCN Tt VINO II be
keepn' 1t mighty quiet, fust?'
got on to their little surprise party
Them coyotes are goin' to flop us if
they kin by hevin' lynchin' on Girls
mus
Got a hoss thief, ehT' asked one Of
the crowd.
"Thet's what they've got, boys" con
tinued Bill, and they're savin' him
fur the occashun. He's TO be lynchod
in the public squar' on C'ris'mus after
noon. and when it becomes known thet
Silver Creek kin celebrate her holt
days in SIGH befttin' manner it II
boom her like thunder and III be all
over with us.
Boys, we've gotter hev two lynchin's
or admit were back numbers While
we amt got no boss thieves, thars
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rehearsals produced the in shade.
evitable result Of more thirst more ice
water. more stalcness of the palate and
desire for liquid that would take hold
Then at length he got his manuscript
back with curt note saying:
My Dear Sir-In the same mail with
your manuscript came a note from my as
sistant 10 the effect that a Christmas
story bought last year and somehow mis-
laid in the Palladium Office has turned
up. OF course we must use that so | am
compelled TO deny myself the personal
pleasure il would afford me 10 read your
manuscript I'm order 10 return IL In time
for you TO seek a purchaser elsewhere
Thank you just the same for submitting
IL. THE EDITOR
Poor Dalliance hadn't even the usual
satisfaction of cursing the numskull
autocrat for not knowing good thing
when he saw il.
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Silver Creek
Versus
Golden Gulch
BY A. b. LEWIS

OW Silver Greek and Golden
- Gulch became one was brought
about i'm this manner: For
many years keen rivalry had
existed between the two towns, which
were only Il stones throw from each
other. Both claimed To be head and
shoulders above the other i'm enterprise
and progressiveness. and one never
made move in public Improvement
that the other did not go it one better.
When Golden Gulch built a town hall
two stories high. Silver Greek built one
Of three stories. When Silver Creek
erected new Jail, its citizens had
hardly begun to crow over the matter
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when Golden GulCh was
working overtime to build
q better one.
And i'm all other matters
there was rivalry. Even
when four dwellings
burned in Silver Creek
one night Golden Gulch
sacrificed five Of its build
tngs, just 10 keep ahead
I'm such matters.
1t had been about an
even thing between the
two towns when one day
Bill Stevens caused con-
sternation in Golden Gulch
by bringing i'm the news
that Silver Greek was
preparin' fur the whop-
pinest Girls mus celebrh-
shun ever known in the
state" When asked for
further particulars he
said:
Boys. I've Just come
from thct dawggoned
town. and. though they're
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COOL in Il farmers kitchen in
the middle west. All the family. three
generations wide, rallied i'm the little
farmhouse TO gorge on grandma's
Christmas goodies. The weather clerk
lost his reckoning, and it was a green,
sticky Christmas. Moreover, the au-
thor piled on the agony with roaring
hickory fire. baking. roasting. stewing
half n dozen women and girls packed
i'm the fiery kitchen, lost 10 all discOm-
fort so the feast was done on time
and eaten piping hot. Grandpa said,
"'Twun't be no CriS'muS 'thOut the
ole fireplace a-humpin'. And 50 there
was roaring furnace i'm the dining
room. where the Overgrown crowd was
packed in TO dispose of hot bean soup,
hot turkey. hot baked potatoes hot tur-
nips. hot apple sauce. hot plum pud-
ding, hot mince pie and hot coffee.
1t was 100 i'm the shade i'm balances
city den while he wrote. as well as in
the picture he drew, and he was eX-
hausted from the effect of his own
medicine when the sketch was finished.
But this was triie SO long as lie
could parboil the editor Of the Pal
ladium. For Il week he lived over the
details of his joke sweltering as one
can in dog days with flames, heat
waves and sissing things before the
minds eye
Certain of the success of his scheme
and the usual gilt edged check. for the