Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-05-11
NOTICE.


and Personal, part of the
Real Estate Situate in Taze-
well County, Virginia, and
part of it in Mercer County,
West Virginia.
On the 9th day of January, 1897, The
Graham Bluefeld Electric Light and
Power Company, a corporation of the
State of Virginia, doing business in
the State of West Virginia, and How
ard ). Graham and Margaret Thayer
Graham, his wife, of Philadelphia. Pa. '
conveyed respectively, the property
hereinafter mentioned and described to
Frederick NJ. Leonard, trustee, for
"the purpose Of securing the payment
of the principal of certain bonds au-
thOriZed 10y the Board of Directors of
said corporation to be issued at meet
ing held OH the Sth day of January,
1897, amounting to the sum of Fifteen
Thousand Dollars, said bonds being for
the sum of 100000 each and known
as 'seven per cent. 10 years mortgage
GOLD bonds" and numbered from | TO Is
inclusive, and bearing interest from
the first day of February, 1897, at the
rate of seven per cent. per annum pay
able semi-annually in gold coin ut the
Office or agency of said company i'm the
city Of Philadelphia, and said deed of
trust being made for the further pur-
pose of securing the payment of the
interest TO accrue OH said bonds and
the taxes upon the said principal and
interest of said bonds, sc. The said
deed of trust was duly recorded in the
clerks office of the county court of
Mercer county, West Virginia in Il. ID.
book No. I, pag. ~, &c, and in the
county court clerks office of Tazewell
county, Va, III deed book 40, pgs. /,
sc. After the making of said trust
deed to the said Leonard, trustee, as
aforesaid, to wit: on the 18th day of
June, 1899, the said Leonard resigned
his positlO of trustee in and under
said trust deed: and the undersigned
was on the 10th day of August, 1899, by
an order of the circuit court OF Mercer
county, West Virginia. and afterwards
on the 18th day of September, 1899, by
an order of the county court of Taze.
well county, Virginia, made in each case
on proper application to said courts.
respectively, by the East River Elec.
trio Company, a corporation, who at
said times and now is the holder and
owner of all of said bonds of said Ora
ham Blueheld Electric Light and Pow
er Company, the Undersigned was ap-
pointed trustee In the room and stead
and with all the powers, duties, &c, of
the said Frederick Nj. Leonard, under
said trust deed.
And whereas, Oh the 2lst day Of j une.
1889, the said East River Electric Com
pany, corporatian organized under
the laws of w. Va became the owner of
all OF said fifteen one thousand dollars
seven per cent. ten-years mortgage
gold bonds" by purchase from the
former owners thereof; and whereas,
There was due and in arrear to the SAID
East River Electric Company, corpo.
ration, on the 10th daJ Of November.
foS9,7GI said bonds "A large sum of mon.
ely, aggregating about S2,100.0O for the
Semi-annual interest thereon.
And whereas, demand was made on
the 10th day of November, 500, OH said
Graham Blueiield Electric LighC and
Power Company, a corporation as afore
said by said East River Electric
Company, Il corporation as aforesaid,
for the payment of the said sum of
2,lOO.OO interest, us authorized 10y the
terms and conditions of said trust deed
of January 9th, 1897.
have elapsed since the making of the de-
mand aforesaid on said Grahain- Blue
Held Electric Light aud Power Compa.
ny, corporation as aforesaid, for Tie
payment OF said interest SD in arrear,
and the said Graham Bluefield Electric
Llght ana Power Company, a corpora
tlon, having failed for all said period
TO pay SAID interest, and still fails To
pay same, right hath accr ued, accord
Ing To the terms and conditions of
said trust deed, To The said East River
Electric Company, the holders of SAID
seven per cent. tem-year mortgage
gold bonds, to enfuIce the execution
of said trust deed To pay off and dis
charge all said bonds, principal and ill.,
terest, and costs of executing the said
trust.
And whereas, the said East River
Electric Ompany, the holder Of said
bonds, hath III writing requested the
Undersigned trustee 10 make sale of the
property conveyed in said tIust deed
Tor The payment of said bonds and the
interest accumulated thereon.
Now, therefore, notice is hereby given
That the undersigned trustee. by virtue
OF the authority vested in him 10y the
said deed OF trust and said two orders
OF The courts herelnOef re set out, will
oi1er for sale at public auction to the
highest and best bidder at the front
door OF The Citizens Bank, in the city
or Bluefield, in said county of Mercer,
State of West Virginia, on the
Tenth Day of rlay, loco,
The following property conveyed by the
deed OF trust aforesaid 10y said Graham
Bluefield Electric Light and Power
Company, lying in the County of Mer-
Ger, West Virginia and the county of
Taze well, Virginia, as hereinafter set
out, that is to say:
FIRsT-Plant and yard. All that
certain lot or parcel of land in the .'Da-
wilson tract" near Blueiield, in The
county Of Mercer, and State of West
Virginia, described and designated AS
follows: One lot, part of section 1854
upon proposed subdivision of lots in
the Davidson tract" situate on the
north side OF Bluefield aven lie at the in
tersectl"n Of the north side of said
avenue with the east line of IA 80 feet
wide proposed street la be known AS
Poplar street, the said point of inter