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

On the 18th day of July, 1917.
United States of America,
VS.. No 6O3 Action to
Shenandoah Lumber and Condemn
ron Company ct ais. Land.
The object of this suit is to condemn
or the uses and purposes of the Unite(
States of America, for National Fores
Reserve and for the protection of the
watersheds of navigable streams and O
conserving the navigability of naviga
Die rivers, as provided by the Act O.
Congress of March l, 1911, (36 Stat. l.
961), known as the Weeks Forestry
Act, and the amendments thereto Of
August 10. 1912, (37 Stat L. 300, anG
March 4, 1913, (37 Stat. L. $3.50, 772.S 81
acres of land in Shenandoah County
Virginia, consisting of five tracts, lying
near to or along North Mountain ano
the Virginia and West Virginia bound
airy line, located, principally, in Madi
son and Ashby and, possibly, Stonewal
and other districts of said county, as
follows % Shenandoah Lumber and
Iron Company, Newman Yard Overlap,
Tract, 376S acres, ~ F. S. & w. G.
Gleason Tract, 1908 acres, 81 c. S.
Goodwin Tract, 257.4S acres, "a Benja-
min P. Newman Lap on L. T. &. R. E.
Stoneburner Tract, S5.15 acres, and ~
C. L. Zirkle Tract, 252. SO acres. Said
tracts, severally, are within the bound
airy of or are overlapped upon or are
affected by some one or more OF the
following grants Henry Lee, Deem
Der 2, 1886, "A, 300 acres, Benjamin P.
Newman May l, 1850, S57 acres, L. T.
G R. E. Stoneburner, February II,
1892, 1889 acres, j. C. Lapp G. Sons,
March IL, 1892, $50 acres, and Charles
S. Goodwin, May 10, 1902, 200 acres.
The location and description, by metes
and bounds, of said lands, with plats
and surveys of the same, and the par
ticular nature of the uses and purposes
for which the condemnation of same is
sought fully appear in the petition and
exhibits thereto, which were filed in
my office on March 4, 1916 and to
which reference is made.
It appearing, by affidavit, as follows ::
O. That the following defendants
are non-residents of the State of Vir-
ginia to-wit Shenandoah Lumber and
Iron Company, Sarah Tor Sadie j.
Gleason, widow, in her own right and
as eXecutrix of W. G. Gleason, deceas-
ed, F. S. Gleason and wife, Harriet
Gleason, Alfred G. Gleason 80 wife,
Ellen F. Gleason, Earl D. Gleason, Clyde
D. Gleason, Carrie Tor Corrine) E. Har-
ris and husband, Clyde A. Harris, Olive
S. Lewis and husband, John L. Lewis,
Charles S. Goodwin and wife, Lena
Goodwin, Catherine NJ Yard, widow, in
her own right and as administrative of
H. H. Yard, deceased, Carl Yard, Sweet,
Orr & Company, Pratt Food Company,
Second National Bank of Belair, Mary
land, John Lentz, Lizzie A. Day and
husband, Israel Day, Ira B. Higgs, Fan
ME B. Atkinson and husband, James F.
Atkinson, Isaac F. Higgs, John w.
Riggs, George Higgs, Anna Higgs and
Henry Higgs;
t2) That due and reasonable diligence
has been used by and on behalf of pc
titioner, without effect, to ascertain the
following, to-wit
(a) In what county or corporation
the following defendants are, to-wit :;
L. j. Ellis, Thomas j. Higgs, Sarah j.
Doll and Mabel Higgs
tb) Whether said last-named defend
ants, and the aforesaid nonresident
defendants, or any of them, are dead, and
the names of the heirs and devisees of
such as may be dead it happening that
the unknown heirs and devisees of
such of said persons as may be dead
are defendants to said suit, and, by
said affidavit, that the names of such
heirs and devisees, if any there be, are
unknown and their residences are I'M
known
And it appearing that, in said petition,
it is stated or charged that the fore
going defendants and classes OF defend
ants, and also other persons, who are
designated or described in said petition
as parties unknown" and, as such,
are named and made defendants there
to, have or may have some estate,
right, title, interest or claim in and to
said lands 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 designated BY
The classifications aforesaid, and each
and every of them, appear within
fifteen (15) days after due publication
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 petit
TONER to apply, and that it will apply,
at 10 o'clock A. NJ, on Friday, the 9TH
lay 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, at the
Judges Chambers in the Federal Build
ing, or Post Office, at Lynchburg, Vir-
yinia, for the appointment OF commits
Sioners to ascertain what will be just
compensation for the lands, 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, resulting to the
adjacent or other property OF the owner
or owners, or to the property OF any
other person or persons, beyond the
peculiar benefits that will accrue to
such properties, respectively, from the
maintenance and the uses, by the Unit
ed States of America, of said lands, as
SHOW III SdlO pCtitioh oASA eAAS SAAD-N~
filed Herewith /;
And it is further ordered that copy
of this order and notice be published IN
the Shenandoah HERALD OF Wood
stock, Virginia, once week for four
a. successive weeks, and that another
copy be posted at the front door OF the
Federal Building or Post Office in the
City of Lynchburg, Virginia, and that
another copy be posted at the front
door of the Court House of Shenandoah
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.