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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-01-09
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tablishing new State valuation, and the econ
ou,y practccd in the appropriation Of public
moneys. With the passage of measures that
shall secure fair aud full valuation of all the
property of the state there appears to me no
reason why that rate should not be maintained
Indeed under the benetceut operation of such
legislation, believe it will he aqucstion of Only
few wears, at most, when the state will be in
condition to make still further reduction in the
tax rate.
Two years ago pointed out the discrepau-
cies between the State valuation of 1880 and
that taken by the United States Census, and en-
pressed the opinion that the latter came nearer
doing us perfect Justice. The valuation accord
ed Us by the United States Census was consid-
| ersbly more than double that taken by the
! state As then said, "Our own State valua-
ton finds too large proportion of our property
| IN the farms OF the State, and makes the farm
Crs pay al undue share of the general taxes.
/ Ou the other hand, the valuation of the | nited
states Census takes eegnizance of the less tan
gible but more profitable investments which e>-
cape their fair share of the common burdens.
| This kind OF property has been easily iiscerned
| by the United States Enumcrators but has re-
manned strangely Invisible to local officials 1t
| Is TO he hoped that you will be able to bring a
large amount Of IT " thin reach OF the taxing
power.
Another reason for the difference between
| the state and Federal valuations, Is found in
the practice, which EXISTS 10 some parts of the
state. of assessing taxes upon partial property
valuation. The report Of the Tax Commission
| shows that during the year Just closed. in max
ing returns for the use of the State Valuation
Commissioners. l9S towns in Maine returned
their property 1T hess than the ''jus, vaHe
| thereof required by the Constitution OF the
state. In some instance assessor, felt that they
had fulfilled the requirements of their Office
when they had assessed the property of the
| town at one third of ii, leash yaIae' II is
apparent TO all that the establishment of the
lowest practicable rate of taxation is impossi-
! bic while such methods are in vogue. TO Sc
cure ii. the valuation of property must be uni
| form throughout the State and such nnitormi-
| y can be secured only by rendering 1t impera-
| tive upon ASSESSORS. under severe penalties, to
return all property at its full value.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-01-09

Within the past two years / have tw
visited the Military and Naval Orphan Asyl
at Bath. The Institution is under excel
management, and doing a NEST worthy VIC
II is in every way deserving of generous $
mort.
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-10-01

/ will meet you in your respective lis
fricts, either in person or BY Deputy, Tor the
purpose Of receiving your taxes for 1881, at
the following times and places, to-wit
Jennies Creek, October 7th and Sth,
Laurel, October 9th and 10th,
Rock House, October 18th and 18th,
Mate Greek, October 18th and 10th,
Ben Creek, October 18th and 18th,
Logan C. FL, October 10Th and Goth,
Hewitt, October 21st and 22nd,
Man. October 23rd and 24th,
Gilbert, October 26th and 9th,
Chapmansville October 9th and I29th,
Harris Greek, October 30tlr and 3lst.
A discount Of q per cent will be=faate
on County and State taxes to all persons
who pay ALL their taxes on the days
aforesaid in Cash. No discount will be al
lowed except on or before the days set
Notice is hereby given to all persons in
arrears for taxes that will collect the tax
es for 1889 and 1890 by. distraint, if not
paid at once.==== +. M. GHAFIN,
Sept. IA, 1891. Sheriff Logan County
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Parties who know just how to
run local paper are indulging
in restrietieHs=en the BANNER be-
cause it does not hold up in con-
domination certain individuals
who are accused of crime. So
! ng as we run the BANNER its
columns shall not be used to pref
udice the rights Of any individual.
1t is the part of journalism to
condemn CRIME of every kind,
but when crime is. fastened upon
an individual the officers of the
law should step in and investi-
gate the matter. While we con-
denim crime in the abstract, we
shall meyer lend our influence to
array public sentiment against
any individual. Our Justices, our
Juries and our Circuit Courts
must deal with the Individual,
And in order that they do so i'm:
partially public sentiment should
not be aroused either one way OF
the other.
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0sDES Or pU5Ljc5yJeK

STATE OF VEST VIRGINIA.
LoeAN CoUSTf- I'o-wiL::
n At rules held in the Clerk S of
Zee OF the IrTuit court Of said
County, on Monday, the Tth day
Of September. 1891
4. AZ. Chain, Plaintiff,
KS.
Stewart White, Rush Floyd, The
Singer Sewing Machine Com
pHny, ia corporation, Samuel
Short, Samuel w. Frasher, trus-
tee, q. w. Taylor and John
Starr, administrators Of the per
sonal estate of james Starr, de-
ceased, VIM. q. q. Lowerg and
III. X. Shumate, administrators
OF the persoal estate Of r. S.
Lowery, trustee, deceased the
unknown heirs Of the said Z. s..
Lowery, trustee, deceased, the
unknown parties or beneticiar-
les, interested in the contract
or title bono! executed by the
said Stewart White, to the said
X. S. Lowery, trustee, then in
life, on the 18th day. ofSeptem-
Der, 1887, for the sale Of all
coal, gasses, salt water, minerals
and oil apon and under the 500
acre farm of the said Stewart
White, on Pigeon creek,in said
county, which said contract or
4Iebelad =is=ile reeefanHlna.
Clerks office of the County
Court Of said county, in Deed
Book ssk,'' page III, and Hen
r. Phillips, trustee, and the un-
known parties or beneficiaries,
interested in said contract or
title bond, by reason of the as
signment thereof by the said
VIM. G. q. Lowery, as admins
traitor aforesaid, to the said
Henry r. Phillips, trustee, AL
exander Remains and II. D..
Shrewsbury, special commits
. sioner, and J. 9. Anderson, de-
Pendants
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IN cHlycERr,

Upon an amended aud Supplemental Bill.
The object eff this suit is to set
aside and hold for naught said
contract or title bond executed
by the said Stewart White to the
said r. s. Lowery, trustee, as
aforesaid, as well as the assign
ment thereof to the said Henry r
Phillips, trustee, as aforesaid. al
so to set aside and hold for naught
the contract Of sale of 400 acres
of land Of the defendant Stewart
White, made by him tNkthe
defendant, J.. G. Alders 49, so
far as the same interfcres with or
prejudices the plaintiffs right
and that OF other just lien crcdi-
tors Of the said Stewart White to
sell the real estate covered by or
embraced in said contract or title
bond, and said contract Of sale,
to pay the liens thereon, in
Guiding the Judgment of the
plaintiff in the bill and exhibits
mentioned, and also to sell the
other real estate owned by the
said Stewart White to pay said
liens.
This day came the plaintiff by
his, attorney, and on his motion,
it appearing from an affidavitfiled
among the papers in this cause
that the defendants, The Singer
Sewing Machine Company, a corr
poration, VIM. Ct. Il. Eowery, one
Of the administrators of tire per-
sonal estate of r. S. Lowery, trus-
tee, deceased, Henry r. Phillips,
trustee, and Alexander Remains
are non-residents of the State Of
West Virginia.
And it further appearing from
said affidavit that the names If
the said heirs of r. S. Lowefy,
trustee, deceased, the names of
the said parties or benefciaries
interested in said contract or title
bond, as we'll as the names of the
said parties or benefieiaries, inter-
-ested therein by reason of the
said assignment thereof to the
said Henry r. Phillips, trustee,
ARE unknown.
1t is therefore ordered that the
said The Singer Manufacturing
Co, VIM. q. G. I.owery, admins
TRAITOR aforesaid, Henry r. Phil
lips, trutee, Alexander Romans
and the said unknown heirs Of
the said r. S. Lowery. trustee, de-
ceased, and the said unknown
parties or beneficiaries interested
in said contract or title bond and
the said assignment thereof, are
required to appear here within
one month from the first publica-
ton of this order and do what is
necessary to protect their interest
in this suit. Teste:
T G. WHITED, Clerk,
J. 3. Wilkinson. Sol.
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Commissioners Sale OF Real Estate in
Logan County, w. Va.

By virtue of decree of the
Circuit Court of Logan county,
rendered at the July term, 1891,
thereof in the chanccry cause of
jeremiah McCloud VS.. Hiram
Lambert ct. al, the undersigned
Commissioner, appointed for the
purpose, will proceed to sell at
the front door of the Court House
of Logan county, West Virginia,
by way of public auction, to the
highest bidder, ON Monday, the
10Th day of October, 1891, the
following described real estate,
situate in said county, to-wit: :.
Two tracts Of land on the Wolf
pen branch Of the Smoke-house
fork Of Harris creek, containing
% acres and 100 acres respective
ly. Being the same landof which
Stephen Lambert died seized.
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=
At Rules held iii the Clerk of
fee Of the Circuit Court Of said
county, on the first Monday in the
month Of September, 1891:
Is. s. AItlzer, Plaintiff
J. Dickinson Sergeant, Thomas
Graham, William A. Lathrop,
John Graham, Jr..Jas. Q'Keefe,
William Pepper, NJ d., s. Ed
ward Norris, David g Sawyers
A. B. Nichols, The unknown
heirs-at-law ofsI.ewis Ieodman,
NJ. ID. deceased. and j. Dickin-
son Sergeant, Thomas Graham
and Howard S. Graham, Trus-
tees, The Virginia Lumber Co.,
corporation, The Elkhorn &
Sandy River Land Trust, cor
poration, Defendants.
IN CHAyCERY.
The object of this suit is to set
aside two tax deeds made by the
Clerk Of Mcdowell County Court.
to the defendant, David &. Saw
yers, for tract of 800 acres Of
land, on Four-Pole creek, situate
in the counties of Mcdowell and
Logan, West Virginia, and to set
aside the deed made by said Dav-
id G. Sawyers to VIM. Collins and
=teJ.DM Isi4so Subsequent,
and by said Sergeant to J.lsDick-
inson Sergeant, Lewis Rodman
and Thomas Graham, Trustees, as
null and void and as clouds upon
the plaintiffs title.
And to compel the defendant,
David Sawyers and the defend
ants in whose possession the orig
inal tax dax deeds may be, to pro-
duce them to the court upon the
hearing Of said cause. And also
to enjoin and restrain the defend
ants, A. B. Nichols and The Vir-
ginia Lumber company, their
agents and all others, from cutting
and removing the timber from
said tract of land.
And it appearing from an affi-
davit filed in said cause that all
of said defendants are non-resi-
dents of this State, is therefore
ordered thet they appear here
within one month from the first
publication of this order and do
what is necessary to protect their
interest in this cause.
Teste: I. G WHITED,
Shumate 4 Aldersons soils. Clerk
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NOTICE.

All persons arc warned not to tres
pass in any way whatever upon the
following lands in Logan County. w.
Va, owned by the Logan Coal Il Tim
Der Association
1354ls acres on Mates Creek. 322
acres on Mates Creek and 40 acres on
tile Straight Fork Of Mate Greek, all
conveyed by Elias Hatfield to j. ID.
Sergeant by decd dated February 10th,
1888. !.
1900 acres on Grape Vine creek, in
five tracts, all conveyed by Anderson
Hatfield and others 70 d. D.. Sergeant,
byaeed Dated January. 30th, 1883.
$50 acres on Grape Vine Creek, con-
yeyed by Anderson Hatfield to J. D..
Sergeant, by deed dated Feby II, 1888.
III acres on Sulphur creek, conveyed
by John A.. Sheppard, Special commits
sioner, to j. d. Sergeant, by deed in
1888.
1855 acres on Tug River, conveyed
by Anderson Hatfield to J d. Sergeant
by deed dated May 10, 1898.
326 acres on Double Camp branch Of
Matecreck. convryeti By Ans lat Held
j. D. Sergeant5by deed dated july II,
1888.
$50 acres on Tug River, Mouth Of
Still House branch, conveyed by Jos.
Murphy to j. d. Sergeant by deed da
ted April 4, 1888.
4i025aeres on Mate and Pigeon creeks
conveyed by l.. -. Chambers, commits
sioner, to ). D. Sergeant, by deed dated
October 3, 1888,
1899 acres on Grape Vine creek,
conveyed by John A. Sheppard, com
missioner, to J. ID. Sergeant, by deed
dated October >, 1883.
$50 acres on Beech Creek conveyed
by Plyant Mahon to J. D. Sergeant, by
deed dated February &c, 1882.
3Si acres on Craze Vine fork Of Beech
Creek, conveyed by Valentine Hatfield
to j. d. Sergeant, by deed dated Feb
ruary 81, 1880
SO acres on Beech Creek, conveyed by
D. ID. Mahon to j. d. Sergeant, by
deed dated March /. 1899.
267 acres, in two tracts, lying on
Grape Vine fork of Beech Creek, con-
,veyed by deed by Valentine Hatfield
to j. b. Sergeant.
All the referred to above are of rec
ord i'll the Office Of the Clerk of the
county court of Logan county, West
Virginia.
All persons disregarding this Tktice
will be prosecuted to the fullest extent
of the law. !
RICHARD TORPIN, JR.,
jos Simpkins, Agent. President.
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The Owingville Outlook says:
sThe best way to have a good
town is to hustle, TO be sociable
To strangers; to invite and en-
courage needed enterprises; to
cultivate a wholesome public
spirit. To build good churches,
good schools, good homes, good
streets and encourage all good
local industries. 10 discourage
drunkenness, loafng, blasphemy
and kindred evils. Avoid jeal-
ousy; cultivate charity; help all
and hinder none. Spend more
time with your family, and less
loafing at the stores and on the
streets. The above rules If car
ried out willmakc good town.
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LESS TAXES MORE MoNEY,

LESS TAXES MORE 5lONEY.
Senator Daniel, in opening the
Democratic campaign in Virginia,
at Chatham, on the 2ist, said that
IL he were commissioned to write
the platform Of party, he would
write only four words: LESS
Taxes; More Money! While
this is shorter than the Bell and
Everett platform of 1S60-"The
Union; the constitution and the
enforcement Of the lawsD-yet it.
is sufficiently full to meet the de-
mands of the people. AT this
time the questions relating to fl
nance and taxation are rising SUI
perior to partisan politics, and it
is because our past legislation up
on these subjects have been adj
verse to the interests of agricnlel
t6re aHd1==ffaborr., that the people
are forming new and distinct
party. In the West and South
the Democratic party is in full
sympathy with the people, but
unfortunately for us, the narrow
policy of Wall street and State
street are controlling the Demo
cratic~lcaders of the Middle and
Eastern States. The great agri-
cultural sections Of tie West and
South have been legisl.ted
against in the way Of putting a
a heavy tax upon all which they
have to buy and in restricting
them in the sale of their produce,
until they are forced to borrow
money from the East in order to
carry on their business, and So
long as money is scarce the rate
of interest will be high, so high,
in fact, that they are not able to
pay it, and are necessarily becom-
ing poorer and peefer,rwhile- the
East, with her money changers
and protected manufacturers con-
troll the money market, and are
demanding from the people a
tribute in the way of interest
which they are not able to pay.
So long as the administration of
the affairs of the Government was
in the hands of the Democratic
party it was impossible for COM
dition of this kind to arise. As a
party it has never lesislated for
favored classes, but since the days
of Mr.. Jefferson it has fostered
alike agriculture, commerce and
manufacture. The Republicans
party, however, has been differ
ent, and under its administration
of the Government, in which
class legislation has been conspic.
uous, the great middle classes
have almost been obliterated, and
cherries poverty has taken pos
session Of the homes of the West
and South, while wealth has been
accumulated in the East, and ev-
en- Democrats there have been
corrupted by the money power,
and while they may agree with
us as to the lcssening of taxes
they are joining hands with tie
Republicans in trying to keep
money scarce. We agree with
Senator Daniel. Let LESS taxes ::
more money" become our watch
word. Forty per cent. of the sill
yer Of theworld IS produced in
the United States, and why
should it be legisiated against;
why should Wall street, under
gold standard, be enriched at the
expense of the producing classes
Of the countryg We must not
only be Democrats in name, but
in principle.
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oROEs OF pusLIcArIon-
STATE or wEsr Virginia
x,fSsx fs.f wy Yta Yrr-


At Rules held in the Office 81 Fflss
Clerk Of Tie Circuit eourf Of s;sisi tst'esis-
" on tie fiyst Monday in September
1851.
WIN. Jelenko and baTIes Loeb, part
ncra, doing business unirr the firlp
paine and style Or Jeienko d loeb,
John Reed. and Joseph PEBBLES, part
ners. doing business under the firm
name and style OF Reed & PEBBLES,
and solomonf Burgunder and Simeon
sIurguii'lcr partners, doing business
under the firm name and style Of
y Burgunder Bros & 60.
w.
rolbert r. Barker, A.. G. McGornas, j.
w. Sanders, Frank Barker, John
Farmer, Mary A. BaFiscr, Lee DUTY.
Vim. VIckers, Ada Barker, james
Mct omas, Charles yiekcFs, Granville
Owens, r. ID. Perry, jasper Work.
man, Tolbcrt Fcrrcil. Bub Perdue,
James Bias, q. 3. B,iskirk, NJ. Il.
Mullins w. III. Peck, w. a. Cdnnol-
w, IS. G. Ball, J. Y. WarieiI, ID. {
Wilson and : RIIanon,rartncrs, doing
business under the firm name ans
stylc Of Ball, Warficl1 Il Co., =. H..
Noyes, q. &. Lewis and r.. g. HUB
bard, partners, trading under the
firm name and style Of T.. II. Noyes
&c Co., +. Ii. McGill, ). a. Markell
ana. 4. G. Markell, partners, doing
business under the firm name and
style OF McGill & Markell, Jacob
Jelenllo and Gustave Jelenko, part
ners, doing business under the firm
and style Of JeIenko 4 Bro, Lowen-
in1lik ielllaln tIfitss
arc to the plaintiffs UNKNOWN, Wine
fried q Sons Il Maipin, whose indi-
vidual namcs are to the plaintiffs un-
known, r. Il. Ewing, Herb Medicine
Company, corporation, ard Hagait
& Wood, whose individual names are
to the plaintiffs unknown.
IN CHANCERT.
The object Of mis- suit is to set aside
and hold for naught as fraudulent and
voidtwo deeds of assignment made by
the defendant ToIbert Il. Barker to the
A. G.. MeGomas, dated jan
uary the 9th and 2sth, 1891 respectively,
both Of which are recorded iii the
CLERKS Office Of the County Court Of
said Gounty,sin Deed Book .s2nd T -, =
pages 275 and 276, respectively, to Sc
cure the payment of the debts therein
and TO subject to sale the
property both real and personal, con-
veyed BY said deeds Of assignment to
pay of as well the respective claims of
Of plaintiffs in the bill of exhibits mem
toned as the just and valBl claims Of
the other creditors OF the said Tolbert
+, Barker in said deeds mentioned.
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Commissioners Sale of Real Estate In
Logan County, w. Va.


By virtue of decree of the Circuit
Court of Logan County, rendered at
the April term, 1891, thereof in the
chancery cause OF j. B. Buskirk VS..
Joseph Lowe, ct al, the undersigned
commissioner, appointed for the pur-
pose, will proceed TO sell at the front
door Of the court house of Logan cOun-
ty, West Virginia, by way OF public
auction the highest bidder on the 10th
day of October, 1891, the following dis
cribed real estate, situate in said county
to-wit:
A tract of land containing about 10
acres, situate on the ridge between
Rum Greek and the Spruce fork of Coal
River.
TERMS OF SALE:
Cash enough in hand on day of sale to
satisfy costs of suit and expense. of sale
for the balance credit of 6 and II
months will be given, the purchaser
executing bond with approved security
bearing interest from day of sale for the
deferred installments Of purchase money
and retaining legal title as additional
security. August IL, 1891.
j, A. SHEPPARD, Commissioner.
/, i. 9. Whited, Clerk of the Circuit
Court of Logan County, DO hereby cer-
tify that the above Commissioner has
given the bond and security required of
him by said decree. August IL, 1891.
Il. G. WHITFIELD Clerk.
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J. B. Wilkinson, Sol.
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-10-01
ORDER PUBLICATION.
STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA,
LOGAN County, To-wIT !:

AT Rules held in the office of
the Clerk of the Circuit Court of
said county on the first Monday
in September, 1891:
Allen Dingess, John Justice, Jas.
A. Justice, Charles Justice,
Sarah Mcdonald, Mary Mullins
Marry Perry, Guy Lawson, An
thuny Lawson, Jr., Emily Law
son in her own right and, as
next friend Of Mary Bell Law
son and Edward Lawson, in
fants. ,F#
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IN CHANCERY.

The object of this suit is to par
tition a tract or parcel of land
situate on Twelve-Pole creek, in
Logan county, West Virginia,
containing 1873 acres, between the
heirs at law, and distributes Of
Peter Dingess, ST., deceased.
This day came the plaintiffs by
their attorney, and on their mo-
ton, it appearing from an affida-
Wit filed with the papers in this
cause that he defendants, Robert
Lawson, William Cooper and
Roxilena Cooper, his wife, Eliza
beth Leahman, William Wiley
and Bette Wiley, his wife, Viola
Younger, Bessie Wiley, MINIS
Wiley, Samuel Smoot and Polly
Smoot are non-residents of. the
State Of West Virginia, it is there
fore ordered that they appear
here within one month from the
first publication of this order and
do what is necessary to protect
their interests herein.
Teste: 7. G. WHITED,
Adams d Turley, Soils. Clerk.
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TERMS OF SALE.

i Cash enough in hand paid on
day. ofasale to satisfy all costs of
suit saall expenses of sale; for the
balance credit Of Is and -
months will be given, the pur-
chaser executing bond with APP
proved security bearing interest
from day Of sale for the deferred
installment of purchase money,
and retaining legal title as addi-
tional security. September 9th,
1891. JNO. A. SHEPPARD,
Commissioner.
II. G. Whited, Clerk Of the
Circuit Court of Logan county, do
hereby certify that the above
Commissioner has given the bond
and security required or himsr by
said decree. September 9th, 1891.
Il g. WniTfD. Clerk.
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NOTICE.

The lands formerly owned by Will
liam Collins, ON Ing River, Ben Greek
and Four Poie Creek, are now owned
by the Elkhorn and Sandy River Land
Trust.
- All persons are hereby warned not to
trcspass on any of said lands, and are
hereby notified that the. law relating to
trespassers will Iepstrictly enforced.
JOSEPH SIMpKiNs, Agent,
Hiner, July "a 1891
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Il. B. Lawson, Robert Lawson

:. B. Lawson, Robert Lawson,
William Cooper and Roxie
Cooper, his wife, Elizabeth Lea
hman, James A. Nighbert, in
his own right, and as trustee,
w. f. Butcher, Edward Butch
er, George Brammer and Roxie
Brammer his. wife, W. A. Din5
CESS, William Wiley, and Beta
tie Wiley, his wife, Viola
Younger, Bessie Wiley, MINIS
Wiley, S. s. Altizer and Roxie
Altizer, his wife, w. w. Nc
Donald, Sarah Smoot and Polly
Smoot.