Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-07-20

IF this order and notice be publishe6
n the Shenandoah Herald, Wood
stock, Virginia, once week for four
(4) successive weeks, and that anothe'
,opy be posted at the front door of the
Federal Building or Post Office in the
City of Lynchburg, Virginia, and that
mother copy be posted at the front
loor of the Court House of Shenan-
loah County, Virginia.
Louis H Price, Clerk,
u s. District Court, Western
District of Virginia.
A Copy-Teste: Louis H. Price,
Clerk, u S. District Court
Ju.y 70 4t
IN THE CLERKS OFFICE OF THE
United States District Court for the
Western District of Virginia, at
Lynch5urg. Virginia. on the 18th day
of July. 1917.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Pc
titioner, VS.. GEORGE A. & WILLIAM
q. PLAUGHER EFT AIS. Defendants.
No. 621. action to condemn lands.
The object of this suit is to condemn,
for the uses and purposes of the
United States of America, for a Ma
tional Forest Reserve and for the pro
-ection of the watersheds of navigable
;treams and of conserving the naviga
5ility of navigable rivers, as provided
by the Act of Congress of March L,
1911. (36 Stat. L.. 96D, known as the
Weeks Forestry Act, and the amend
nents thereto of August 10, 1912. (37
Stat. L., 30O), and March 4, 1913, (37
stat L., 1851, $3.50 acres of land in
Johnston District, Shenandoah County.
Virginia, lying. principally, upon the
op and both sides of Green or Three
Top Mountain: Said Tract is en-
braced within or Overlapped upon or
Effected by the following grants. to-
Wit: William Elzey. November g..
1900, 9160 acres, and Henry Linn. Octo-
Der /, 1922. 7G0 acres. The location
and description. by metes and bounds,
If said land. with a plat and survey of
same, and the particular nature of the
| Uses and purposes for which the con-
demnation of same is sought fully APP
pear in the petition and exhibits there
TO. which were filed in my Office on
November 16. 1916, and TO which ref
arence is made
1t appearing, by affidavit, as fol-
lows:
% That the following defendants
| are non-residents Of the State of Vir-
sinia, to-wit: Smith f. Curd and
| wife, (if he be married., Mrs. Smith f.
Hurd: Mary Jane Curd; Sarah F.
Curd Nat Henry Curd and wife. (if
| he be married). Mrs Nat Henry Curd &;
Alfred c. Allen and wife. Off he be
| married). Mrs. Alfred C. Allen: George
P. Allen and wife, (if he be married)
Mrs. George P. Allen; Mary F. Allen
| fminor) Nat c. Allen (minor) Mabel
7. Allen (minor>; Jessie p Allen
| (minor) Mrs. Mary E. Adair and
husband. Robert F. Adair; Will White
Cook and wife, (if he be married)
Mrs. Will White Cook; Ed T. Cook
and wife. (if he be married.. Mrs.
Ed I. Cook: Mrs. Ida NJ Holland and
husband, c. 3. Holland: William F.
Ferguson and wife. (if he be married)
Mrs. William f. Ferguson: Donald
Cameron Martha G.. Binswanger. truS-
tee under the will Of Barnett Bins
Iwanger. deceased; J. F. Reid and wife
Annie E. Reid; Mrs. Mary G. Flood
and husband Thomas A. Flood;
(2) That due and reasonable dill
gence has been used, by and on behalf
of petitioner, without effect, to ascer-
tain the following. to-wit:
(a) Whether said nonresident de-
PENDANTS or any of them, are dead and
the names of the heirs and devisees of
s'Ich rs NAV be dead: it appearing
that the unknown heirs and devisees
of such of said persons rs may be dead
are defendants to said suit. and. by
sai i'll nff h..- IF al,
heirs and devisaes - any there be. are
unknown and their residences are I'M
known:
(b) The names of the heirs and
deviSeeS. other than such as may he
stated in the petition. of Barnett
Binswanger deceased: it appearing
that the unknown heirs and devisces
of said Barnett Binswanger. deceased.
are defendants to said suit, and. hy
said affidavit, that the names of such
heirs and devisees. other than such as
may be stated in the petition. are I'M
known and that their residences are
unknown;
And it appearing that, in said peti-
ton, it is stated or charged that the
foregoing defendants and classes of de-
PENDANTS. and also other persons who
are designated or described in said
petition as parties unknown. and. as
such, are named and made defendants
thereto have or may have some estate.
right, title. interest or claim in and to
said land sought to be condemned. or
in and to some part or parts of same:
1t is. therefore, ordered that said de-
PENDANTS both those particularly
named and those described or desig-
mated by the classifications aforesaid,
and each and every of them. appear
within fifteen days after due publica-
tion of this notice, and Go 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 petit
TONER to apply. and that it will apply.
at 10 O'Clock A. NJ, on Friday, the eth
day Of September. 1917, to the Honor
able Henry c. Mcdowell, Judge of the
District Court of the United States
for the Western District of Virginia.
ut the Judges Chambers in the FEEDER
n Building or Post Office, at Lynch
burg, Virginia. for the appointment of
commissioners to ascertain what will
be a just compensation for the land.
or for the interests or estates therein.
proposed to be condemned for the
uses Of the petitioner as aforesaid.
and to award the damages, If any. re-
suiting to the adjacent or other prop
erty OF the owner or owners, or to the
property of any other person or per-
sons beyond the peculiar benefits that
will accrue to such properties, respac-
lively, from the maintenance and the
uses, by the United States of America.
OF said land. as shown in said petition
and the exhibits fled Herewith;
Ana 1t is further ordered that a copy
OF this order and notice be published
in the Shenandoah HERALD. Wood
stock, Shenandoah County, Virginia.
once week for four az successive
weeks. and that another copy be posted |
at the front door of the Federal Build