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\‘m INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE JOURNAL. Tm: following transfers of High- land Park real estate have beau filed for record Him-e our last issue; Frank S. ()Hvyr to G. D. Cole, lots 8 and 17, hlk. 25, Port C intun. . Jurwph l’luurd to EsthurTurtle; n 50 (L, lot 6, blk. 15, Highland Park. ' J. 1) Cole 11:; t‘Xl'. to Jul-in T. Colo, lnts 1 and 2, MR 30, 'Highluud Park. Fred Rm nlph to T. E. Pierson, w i lot. 16, bl ' 13, Highland Park. M. \V. \Ynodbnry to Frank L. Hanna, lots 1 and 27,1{1}; 4,-1’011 Clinton. Friendly Exprcgsions. Volume 1, No. 2 of D. ~M. Erskine, Jr's, Insura'nor' mu] RwaLEstate Jour- nalf'iu a 'cn'dit both to Highland Park and its energgsic resident who publishes it. The pages are bright with (-leun- cut type and varied inâ€" fu1matio11. A suburb am; a business 1111111 me alive just in propm tion to such entelplise.â€"â€"(.'hicago Inm- Og’an. w ‘ IT’ 3 poor: (UNSOLATION wheli a per- 5011‘ who, having lost all his posse 510115 b) fire, with no inshrancet ' cover his loss, is remindeflby his neighbors that he’s a £001 01“!» would have ‘ been insured. Such“, huweverhis the Way of the world. It, is siztted that nineJenffis bf t‘he apples exported are Baldwins. A GOOD sister, who hnd been conâ€" 1 11111011 from tho Universaliet to the ox'th 110x {111111, rose up in a ‘prayer . 1110011119; and exclaimed 111 a pious" tom-1 “there was :1 time when Ibe- . lieu-é that all mankind would be .‘ "fined, i111tn0w,th11nkGud,Ihopefor 1 better things. This istlm way if. Vassar girrl tells a joke: “ Oh, girls, I heard just thg best thing' today. It; was too funny. I can't rememhor how it came about, but one of tho girls said to Prof. Mitchellâ€"oh, dear, I can't remem- ln-r just what she said, but Prof. Mitchoil’s nfiswor was: just. too funny for any use; I fmget just exactly what he km'd, but it was too good for any thing." ’ > - “CONDI’CTO;1,‘Why didn't you wake me up, as I asked you? Here I am miles beyond mystution." Coudu"ct0r.--”I did try, sir, _but all I could get you tosay was : “All right Maria. Gthhe children their breakfast and I'll be down in a min- b ute. 9n Vol. 1. Real Estate Transficrs. D. M. ”ERsKiNE, IRES HIGHLAND PARK. ILL... SEPTEMBER, 1883. 1Bring. Yonr Friends from the/Old Country L; Aétna, Hartford, Conn. Strictly First-Class Cqmpanies ’ Lancashire, of Manchester, Eng. Ph’oanix, Hartford, Conn. ' Commercial Union, London, Eng. Queen’gs London, Eng. I Northwestern National, Milwaukee. Agricultural Ins Co of N Y. - ., Northwestern Mutual Life, MilWaukee. Aetna Life, Hartfo1d,Con11. I .. _. ' Travelers (Accident) Hartford; Conn. \ B. M. ERSKIN‘E. JR; Réal Estate Agent! BUYS AND SEIJLS W'ill issue tickets, on application,‘ {Or any of the following first- class‘lincs of Occan Sicammst ANCHOR, lands on Connnission, Pays Taxgs, ‘ Refits Houseé V Farms, Investigates Titles, Writes and Examihas all kinds of Deeds and Conveyances, ' L V V and does ax GENERAL LAND.A’GENCYH BUSINESS OUR AGENCY All Losses Promptly Adjusted and Paid at thl'é 0mm.) ATIONAL. D. DI. 'ERSKINE, JR., NORTH GERMAN: . QR! . WHITE . 831' Embraces the following Col)!“ Non h Chicago G: Northwestern R'y. HicHLAND"PARK; REM 122!‘ 10.00 ........... 1:40 lrriva «:30 Sunday» only nun,” x130, A case was‘ recently decided in the Appellate Court of this State at Otto- wa involving the validity of a uun~ cuputive “or verbal will, which is of' considerable interest. It was a min the‘ matter or the probate of the non- cupatlve will of Eliza Jones, deceased, taken by appeal from the Lake county Circuit Court. The will was in' these words: “I want to make my will; I don't want my folks to have anything; they are all middling wejl off; I want John Cooper to have all my property.” The decision of the Circuit Court refusing probate of the will is afllrmed by the Appellate ()ourtrhnt. its the law does not. require a written opinion in such case, we have no means of knowing the grounds on which the decision is made furfhei’: .than is dlwlosed by the record in the cane upon which it was decided; hon: which it appears. to be the judgment of the Appellate Court that such a willas is set out in this case is not a sufficient will. That the words do not express a bequest of the mate of the yfierson speaking them to the party “named. l Probate of the will was refused by the County Court, whereupon theme was taken by appeal to the Ciianlt Comb,‘ where the judgihent of the. County Court was affirmed ' hm It was shown that the will was 00m: mitted to writing wmrjn twenty days after making the same and proven by two witnesses as the statute requires, and the statute was in other respects complied with. Arrive of the statute that pergnona if their last siok‘uéoi may dispose of their per- sonal property by words spoken would seem (a be «ldeated. The same tech- nlcal ninety in the use of Words can- hot 'he expected in such cases as in Time ofiwrflten wills where’hbumlanoc 0? Hum is aflhrdea} is well as the istmme of leg-l ldVloe. The-objeot’ gum, law ls that the intention of the teammr shall pnevall. When lhu apparent, efléct should be lven then- m. In the wlll here-e: tho wkh of mg;- dcf'cgnsed clflgpmem I! th1s is recognized mg the [Arm regard to this class of wills; therbject 'Lenve Chloiao for Highland Park h’uudlyl only NUNCUPATIVE WILL. ._ *5, L. I ...11. gm