Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-08-10

~, Luray, Virginia, and 'The Warren
Sentinel, Front Royal, Virginia, re-
spectiyely, once week for four "a
successive weeks, and that another
copy be posted, each, at the front doors
of the Court Houses of Shenandoah.
Page and Warren Counties, Virginia,
and that another copy i
be posted at the front door of the Fed
eral Building or Post Office in the City |
of Lynchburg, Virginia.
Louis H. Price,
Clerk. U. s. District Court,
Western District of Virginia.
A Copy-Teste Louis H. Price,
Clerk U. S. District Court.
July ~ A..
IN THE CLERKS OFFICE OF THE
United States District Court for the
Western District of Virginia, at
Lynchburg. Virginia, on the 18th day
of July, 1917.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Pc
titioner, VS.. c. ]. HOTEL. H. F. Coll
LADAY, l.. TRIPLETT, JR. TOWN
OF EDINBURG, EFT AIS, Defendants,
No COS, action to condemn land.
The object of this suit is to condemn,
for the uses and purposes OF the
United States of America, for Ma
tional Forest Reserve, and for the pro-
lection of the watersheds of navigable
streams and of conserving the naviga-
bility of navigable rivers, as provided
by the Act of Congress of March l,
1911. (36 Stat. L.. 961), known as the
Weeks Forestry Act, and the amend
ments thereto of August 10, 1912, (3l
Stat. L., 300, and March 4, 1913. Ga
Stat. L.. $3.50, 1916 acres of land
situated, principally, in Ashby and
Madison Districts or Townships of
Shenandoah County, Virginia, lying, in
part. on the North Fork of Shenan-
doah River along or near to- the west
ern slope of and the foot of Short
Mountain, consisting of the following
four tracts C. j. Hotel Tract, 210.51
acres; H. F. GOlladay Tract, 1O5.44
acres; L. Triplett, Jr., Tract, 43.S1
acres and Town of Edinburg Tract.
1914 acres: Said tracts, or some of
them, in whole or in part, are embraced
within or overlapped upon or affected
by the following grants: Lewis Moore
& David Wilson. April "a. 1901. 500
acres; William Elzey. April %. 1902,
1857 acres: Joseph & John Pitman
4. L
man & Lawrence Pitman, Jr., Novem-
Der Is. 1888. 107 acres, / r. & IS p.
The locations and descriptions, by
meteS and bounds of said lands. with
platS and surveys of same. and the
particular nature of the uses and pur-
poses for which the condemnation of
same is sought, fully appear in the
petition and exhibits thereto, which
were filed in my office on March IS,
1916, and to which reference is made.
1t appearing, by affidavit, as fol
lows.
% That the following defendants
are non-residents of the State of Vir
GINA; to-wit: L. F. DERRICK; The
Potomac Fish Packing Company; vii
liam c. West formerly trading as c
West & SOM d. S. Boyer and c. E
Heard formerly trading as Boyer
Heard: Francis Albert formerly
trading as Francis Albert & Co..
American Exchange National Bank OF
New York; Edward Nilsch; John
Kuhn formerly trading as Nilsch 8
Kuhn) Thomas H. Book (formerl!
trading as T. H. Book & Co.; A. G
Wynkoop and wife, Mary Brooke Wyn
. koop; d. p. Magruder and wife, Mrs
d. p Magruder;
CD That due and reasonable dill
gence has been used. by and on behal
of petitioner, to ascertain the follow
ing, tO-wit:
(a) In what county or corporation
the following defendants are. to-wit
: S. W Cor w. s. Lauck) H
. NJ Kirkpatrick !; Girard White Lead
Zinc & Color Works Jacob Myer Co
Meyer Samuel Rhinehard and Nor
ris ]. Meyer presently or formerl!
composing a partnership under the
: name of Meyer, Rhinehard & Coz Fl
Hartman and E. Hartman (formerl,
: trading as H. E. Hartman & Coz H
; L. Duvall and William F. Owing
formerly trading as III. L. Duvall (
Coz Lewis Small White, trustee
William f. Williams; Thomas ]
Brooks; John H. Jenkins and Thomas
B. Hutcheson formerly trading a,
Brooks, Jenkins & Hutcheson) Sol L
Smith; Charles F. Willis and B. P
Schere formerly trading as Smith {
: Willis j. T. Clark and George PERI!
formerly trading as Clark. Perry 4
: CO..; Grace l.. Fleming: Martha Re
: becca Carson; James H. Carson; Mrs
Jane R. Wells; it appearing by sale
affidavit, that said defendants ant
each and every of them cannot b,
found;
(bl Whether said last-namel de
PENDANTS and the aforesaid non resident
defendants, or any of them, are dead
and the names of the heirs and dew
sees of such as may be dead it ap
pearing that the unknown heirs ant
| devisees of such of said persons a,
may be dead are defendants to sai(
suit, and, by said affidavit, that the
names of such heirs and devisees, il
any there be, are unknown and theil
residences are unknown;
tc) The names of the heirs anG
deviseeS of the following deceased per
sons, towit: Henry Keltner; John Pit
man Evans Philip Taylor. and each o.
them: it appearing that the unknown
heirs and deviSees of said deceased
persons are defendants to said suit
and, by said affidavit, that the names
of such heirs and devisees are un,
known and their residences are I'M
known;
And it appearing that, in said peti
ton. it is stated or charged that the
foregoing defendants, and the classes
III dlSO OlueT peTSOnS.
who are designated or described In
said petition as parties unknown.
and, as such are named and made de
PENDANTS thereto. have or may have
some estate, right, title, interest or
claim in and to said lands sought t.
be condemned, or in and to some part
or parts of same;
| 1t is, therefore, ordered that said.
defendants, both those particular,
named and those described or designa
ted by the classifications aforesaid
| and each and every of them. appea,
within fifteen 15) days after due
publications of this notice and do what
is necessary to protect their interests.
And all of the defendants. aforesaid
and each and every of them, and all
other persons whom it may concern
are hereby notified and will TAKE
NOTICE of the intention of the peti
TONER to apply, and that it will apply
ut 10 O'Clock A. NJ, on Friday, the 7th
day of September. 1917. to the Honor
able Henry c. Mcdowell, Judge of the
District Court Of the United States
tor the Western District of Virginia
It the Judges Chambers in the Fedora
ID III