The Republican journal., 1899-08-31
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
District of Maine, SIS.
the United States District Court in and for


said District.
In the matter Of No. 7. In Bankruptcy.
GEORGE A. BAILEY, Creditors Petition.
To the Honorable NATHAN WEBB, Judge of the
District Court OF the nited States for the
District of Maine.
The petition of the Beckman Company, cor
poration of Cleveland, County Of Cuyahoga and
State of Ohio; The Aqula Rich Company, cor
poratIon established IN New York in the County
and State of New York The X Inner Wire Manu-
featuring Company. a corporation established in
chicago, III the County of Cook and State of Hi
no1s; John A. Shiels x Co. of Amesbury, in the
County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massa-
chusetts, The starr Bros. BELL Company, cor
poration established in East Hampton in the State
OF Connecticut, and h. f. Decker y Brothers, CO.
partners, of Albany, In the State of New I0rS.
That George A. Bailey of Belfast, County of
Waldo and State of Maine, has for, the greater
portion OF SIX months next preceding the dare of
filing this petition resided at Belfast, in the
County of Waldo and State and District aforesaid,
and owes debt to the amount of S 900.
That your petitioners are creditors OF said George
A. Bailey, having provable claims amounting in
the aggregate IN excess of securities hedby them
to the sum of $500 That the nature and amount
OF your petitioners claims are as follows That
OF your petitioner, The Beckman Company. is an
open account for merchandise sold and delivered
to the said Bailey on the twentytirst day OF Sep
TENDER, A. ID. 1898. amounting to hundred
and twenty-one dollars and twenty five cents
which became due on the first day of Octo'er, A..
u. 1898; that no note has been received Tor said
account, nor has any Judgment been rendered or
pay ment made thereon.
That of your petitioner The Aquia Rich Com
pany is promissory note tor the of fifty TWO
dollars and twenty-three cents signed by the said
George A. Bailey, payable to the order of your
pesltloner and Endorsed by it; said note beng
dated at Belfast. aforesaid. and payable three
months after August 90 1898, at the Belfast Ma
tional Bank; with one dollar and seventy seven
cents, costs OF protest. that the consideration
was merchandise sold and delivered by your
petitioner to said Bailey, and that no Judgment
has been rendered payments made thereon
jSpS a
livered to said Bailey by your petitioner from
April ~, sos, to September IA, 1898, amount
ing, exclusive of payments, to Seventy-two dollars
and slXty-tWo cents; that the same became due in
sixty days from such sales; that no note has been
received for said account; nor has any Judgment
been rendered thereon or any payments made
That Of your petitioner, the klmer " ire Manu-
featuring Company, is Judgment recovered
against said Bailey, at the supreme Judicial
Court, holden for said County of Waldo, the
third Tuesday Of April, A. D. 1899, for the sum
OF seventy nine dollars and sXty-six cents, debt
or damage, and seventeen dollars and ninety four
cents cost of suit; that no note has been received
Tor SAID Judgment, nor any pay ments made there
That OF your petitioners, John A. Shiels a. Co..
Is a prom1Ssory note signed by said Bailey dated
December 10, 1898 payable three months after
date, for thirty one dollars and seventy cents, with
interests, and Endorsed by your petitioners: that
the consideration of said note was merchandise
sold and delivered TO said Bailey by your petition
ers, and that no Judgment has been rendered on
payments made on aid note.
That of your petitioner The Starr Brothers Bell
Company is an open account for merchandise sold
and delivered to said Bailey by your petitioner
November 27, 1896, and December H. 1897,
amounting to sixty-two dollars and ninety cents;
that the same became due thirty days from the
dates when said sales nvoiced; that no note
has been received for said account, has any
Judgment been rendered or payment made there
That of your petitioners, E F. Decker & Broth
ers, is an open account for merchandise sold and
delivered to said Bailey by your petitioners, Sep
TENDER ., 1913. amounting to seventy dollars and
seventeen cents; that the same became due April
l, 1899; that no note has been received for said
account, nor has any Judgment been rendered or
payment made thert on.
And your petitioners further represent that said
George A. Bailey is insolvent, and that within four
months next preceding the date of this petition,
the said George A. Bailey while nsolvent, com
mtted an act Of bankruptcy, in that he did here
tofore, to wit, on the second day of March, A. ID.
1899, transfer portion of his property to wit,
the sum of three thousand dollars, received from
the sale Of his stock in ee not in the ordinary
National Banking Association and corporation
organized under the laws of the United States