St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1918-08-03
No. 1902.
Judicial District Court,
Parish of St. Tammany,
louisiana

Notice is hereby given that pur-
suant to and by virtue of an order
of sale rendered in the above matter
by Honorable Prentiss B. Carter,
Judge Of the 26th Judicial District
Court for the Parish of st. Tammany,
La, dated the oath day of June, A.
D., 1918, l will sell at public sale,
within legal sale hours, at the front
door of the courthouse at Covington,
with benefit of appraisement, on
Saturday., August "a, 1918,
the following described property, to-
wit:
The assets and effects. of the late
ST. Tammany & New Orleans Rail-
ways & Ferry Company, now in liQui-
dation, as whole, consisting of
1860 miles of electric railroad be-
tween Covington and Vaudeville, La,
and everything incidental thereto or
connected Herewith, including roll
ing stock, power house and electric
| lighting plant, poles and wire, tools,
junk; with full right of the pur-
chaser to remove or dispose of same
as he sees fit;
LESS:
All poles standing in the Town of
Vaudeville, except poles which are
used for railway system; all cross
arms, braces, insulators, all insulat-
ed wire attached to poles beginning
from transformer house at Florida
street; all transformers, lightning ar
rosters, meters, street lamps and
hoods and fixtures; street series reg
|u1ator and transformer, all street
series globes on hand, also Mazda
lamps and tools; three secondhand
Fairbanks-Morse engines formerly
used in motor car; one pier and
wharf with rails thereon, extending
thirty feet out on the beach; one lit
tie push cart; and everything Incl
dental to or connected with said cleo
tEic lighting system in the Town of
Vaudeville.
And the following real estate:
l. Three certain lots of ground
in the Town of Vaudeville, Parish of
st. Tammany, State of Louisiana,
more fully described as follows, to-
vile in square bounded by Lake, JEFF
ferson, Carroll and Coffee streets,
having a frontage of 80 feet on Lake
street and running back to Jeffer-
son street by a depth of 1867 feet,
between parallel lines. (b) Two GER
tain lots in the same square as the
above, one of said lots having a
frontage of SO feet inches on Lake
street, by a depth between equal
and parallel lines Of $50 feet, and
the other having a frontage on Cot
ee street of 100 feet by a depth be-
tween equal and parallel lines of $50
eet. Together with all the build
ings and improvements thereon.
2. The following lots in Garland
Addition to the Town of Covington
and Claiborne, St. Tammany parish,
La, lots l to II, inclusive, in block
II; lots numbers to II in block
70; lots l to is, inclusive, in block
10; lots l to 16, inclusive, in block
IA; lots numbers l to 16, inclusive,
in block IS; and lots numbers 1 to
10, inclusive, in block 16, being the
south half of the above blocks. |
From the south end of each of said
lots has been taken strip 80 feet
wide, so feet of which has been de-
voted to street, and 80 feet from
the south end to a neutral ground |
Or right of way for railroad tracks
between the existing streets along
the original south boundaries of
blocks II, II, 13, IA, Is and 16.
3. A certain lot of ground situat-
ed in the Town of Covington. St.
rammany parish, La, located on