The commonwealth., 1910-08-18
A CARD.

Mr.. EDITOR:-In order to set my
self straight before the public | de-
sire to make the following statement
concerning reports about Mr.. Travis
and DR.. Green's taxes being unpaid.
| have never made any charges that
they have not paid taxes but that
records at Halifax on August 9th.
did not show them listed for the
years mentioned below. | was re-
uuested to look this matter up as it
had been looked up before or should
not have known anything about it.
After looking it up on account of the
illness of Mr.. Travis did not intend
to publish or make it public and only
mentioned it to few friends but it
leaked out and was so bitterl ly de-
MED that it become necessary for me
to make the following statement to
yindicate myself
On Monday August 8th 1910, Mr..
| L. w. Leggett and myself went to
Halifax and searched records care
fully in Register of deeds office at
tax list for the years Of 1907, 1908
and 1909, and that DR.. |. E. Green
did not appear on either list for the
year of 1909, but did appear on list
before Register Of deeds for 1907
and 1903.
I again searched same records
fully Tuesday August 10th and asked
Mr.. Percy Norman clerk Of the Reg
lister ofdeeds. Mr.. j. H. Norman,
Register Of deeds being out Of town.
to 90 over these lists with me and
Mr.. E. l.. Travis does not appear
on either 1907 or 1908 as listed any
where. He does appear now on
1909 lists also DR.. |. E. Green ap-
pears on 1869 list but were not on
there on Monday Aug .8th. DR.. |. E..
Green appears on bottom line and
ink shows it has recently been put
on, Mr.. Travis appears near the top.
There is no amount Of taxes eXten-
ded for |. E. Green but pencil mark
says given to tax collector. The fol
lowing statement was made to me
Aug. 18th by Mr.. |. G. Shaw at Hal
: fax.
That on request of several
people at State Farm.
| looked up records of tax lists in
Register of Deeds office Friday
August 18th 1910, that | carefully
searched the records, regular list
delinquent lists and list of those
listed before the Register Of Deeds
: and Mr.. E. L. Travis did not appear
i on either list for the years 1907 anC
1908, he was on list before Register
, Of Deeds for the year of 1909.
y DR.. /. E. Green appeared on lis
: before Register of Deeds for th'
/. years Of 1907 and 1908, but did no
= appear on any list for 1909 [ haC
9 Mr.. J.H Norman, Register of Deeds
% to go over lists with me and he coul.
l. not find him listed at all for 1909 AM
n he thought he must have listed un
O der some other name.
o Mr.. Shaw also made statement a
follows: Several months agoI heart
e Mr.. R. H. Daniel tax lister and col
e lecter for Halifax township sine
:: 1905, or 1906 say that Mr.. E. [
Travis had not paid him any Ia
since he had been tax collector, h
said this in presence of myself an
l. several others.
f Mr.. L. H. Hall made statement 3
IS follows: About July 1st 1910, hear
ID Mr.. R. H. Daniel tax collector an
N lister for Halifax Township say E.
J. Travis had not listed or paid any ia
If in several years and that he was &C
o. ing to list for him this year and pa
I'd it himself. Also three others mad
|p same statement to me as Mr.. Ha
es who heard him at the same time.
~ | understand they have an aHdav
ic made by Mr.. r. H. Daniel, tax CO
or lector for Halifax township, whie
ut they claim states Mr. Travis h;
ch paid his taxes for last several year
ly | have not seen it and do not kno
m its contents.
Mr.. Daniel told me Tuesday, Au
18th. at $3.50 p. m. that the on
affidavit he had made was that M
in Travis was listed for 1909 and givi1
Fl amount Of taxes and says he did n
as state it was paid for it had not bet
e paid yet. Do they let you read tt
y, affidavit or do they read 1t to W
ng themselves. Very truly,
IS T. F. WHITLEY.
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