Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-08-03

,tock. vifsinla, rhe news and Couri-
~, Luray, Virginia, and .sThe Warren
SentinePs Front Royal, Virginia, re-
spectiyely, once a 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
be posted at the front door of the Fed |
eral Building or Post Office in the City
Of Lyhchburg, Virginia.
Louis H. Price,
Clerk U. s. District Court,
Western District Of Virginia.
s A Copy-Teste: Louis H. Price,
Clerk q. s. District Court.
July ~ AZ.
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. COL
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 a Ma
tional Forest Reserve, and for the pro-
lection of the watersheds Of navigable
streams and of conserving the nayiga-
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. t3l
Stat. L., 300, and March A, 1913, (3l
Stat. L., $3.50, 491 Sc 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, 21O.51
acres; H. F. lGolladay Tract, 1854
acres; L. Triplett, Jr., Tract. 43.S7
acres; and Town of Edinburg Tract,
131.74 acres: Said tracts, or some of
them in whole or in part, are embraced
within or overlapped upon or affected
by the following grants: Lew Moore
& David Wilson, April "a. 1891, 500
acres; William Elzey, April 3. 1902,
1857 acres; Joseph & John Pitman
| May Z. 1922 100 acres; Andrew Pit
| man & Lawrence Pitman, Jr., NOvem-
| Der Is, 1888, 107 acres. l 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
lwere 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
ginia; to-wit: L. F. Derrick; The
Potomac Fish Packing Company; Viii
| liam G. West formerly trading as c
Heard formerly trading as Boyer
Heard Francis Albert (formerl,
trading as Francis Albert & CO..
American Exchange National Bank o.
New York; Edward Nilsch; John
Kuhn formerly trading as Nilsch 1
Kuhn Thomas H. Book (formerl!
trading as T. n. Book & Co.; A G
Wynkoop and wife, Mary Brooke Wyn
koop: D. P Magruder and wife, Mrs
p Magruder;
| (2) That due and reasonable dill
gence has been used, by and ON behsl
IF petitioner, to ascertain the follow
ing, tO-wit: ST.
fal In what county or corporation
the following defendants are, tO-wit
5. W. Tor w, s. Lauck) H
II. Kirkpatrick; Girard White Lead
Zinc & Color Works; Jacob Myer Co
Meyer Samuel Rhinehard and Nor
ris J. Meyer presently or formerl.
composing partnership under the
lame of Meyer, Rhinehard & Co.. II
Hartman and E. Hartman (formerl,
trading as H. E. Hartman & CO.. H
L. Duvall and William f. Owing
formerly trading as II. L. Duyall
Coz Lewis Small White, trustee
William T. Williams: Thomas
Brooks John H. Jenkins and Thoma
B. Hutchinson formerly trading a
Brooks, Jenkins & Hutcheson1: Sol L
smith; Charles F. Willis and B.
Schere formerly trading as Smith
Willis ]. I. Clark and George PER-,
formerly trading as Clark. Perry
Coz Grace L. Fleming: Martha Re
hecca Carson James H. Carson: Mrs
Jane R. Wells; it appearing. by SAT-
iffidavit, that said defendants am
zach and every of them cannot b.
found;
| (bl Whether said last-nalned de
PENDANTS and the aforesaid non residen
defendants, or any of them, are dead
h. - ~.
sees of such as may be dead: it ap
oearing that the unknown heirs AM
Ievisees of such of said persons a
may be dead are defendants to sal,
suit, and. by said affidavit. that tn,
names of such heirs and devisees, i
my there be, are unknown and thei
residences are unknown;
(c) The names of the heirs ant
levisees of the following deceased per
sons. to-wit: Henry Keltner; John Pit
man; Evans Philip Taylor. and each OF
them; it appearing that the unknown
heirs and deyisees 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 un
| Known;
And it appearing that, in said peti
ion, it is stated or charged that the
| foregoing defendants, and the classes
| Of defendants and also other persons
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 tc
be condemned, or in and to some part
or parts Of same
1t is. therefore, ordered that said
defendants. both those particularly
named and those described or designa-
ted by the classifcations aforesaid.
and each and every of them appear
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
Homer to apply, and that it will apply
II 10 o'clock A. NJ, ON Friday, the 18th
lay OF September. 1917. to the Honor
lbie Henry c. Mcdowell. Judge of the
District Court of the United States
sor the Western District Of Virginia
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