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EAST SHORE NEWS
PENTWATER, OCEANA Co., MICH.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1871
VOLUME I, NUMBER 50.

        PROBATE ORDER. - State of Michigan, County of Oceana, ss.  At a
     session of the Probate Court, for the county of Oceana, holden at the
     Probate Office, in the village of Hart, on Monday the 5th day of
     December in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.  Pre-
     sent AMOS CROSBY, Judge of Probate.  In the matter of the estate of
     RODNEY ATWOOD, formerly of Pentwater, in said county, deceased, on
     reading and filing the petition, duly verified, of JAMES G. B. ATWOOD,
     praying that an instrument now on file in this court, and purporting
     to be the last will and testament of said deceased, may be admitted to
     probate, and that EBENEZER B. CLARK, JOHN REED and EDMUND N. DUNDASS
     may be appointed Executors thereof as in said will named.
        Thereupon it is ordered that Monday, the 8th day of January next,
     at 1 o'clock in the afternoon, 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, are required to appear at a session
     of said court, then to be holden at the Probate office in the village
     of Hart, and show cause, if any there be, why the prayer of the
     petitioner should not be granted; and it is further ordered that said
     petitioner give notice to the persons interested in said estate of the
     pendency of said petition and the hearing thereof by causing a copy of
     this order to be published in the "East Shore News," a newspaper
     printed and circulated in said county of Oceana, for three consecutive
     weeks previous to said day of hearing.
     [A true copy]                   AMOS CROSBY
                                   Judge of Probate
     Rice & Ambler,
         Atty's for Petitioner.

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