Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1919-02-14

OFFICE OF c. c. sKYLEs, SPECIAL
MASTER FOR THE UNITED STATES
DISTRICT COURT FOR THE IVES
TERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA, AT
WOODSTOCK, VIRGINIA, ON THE
9th DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1919.
United States Of America, Complts.
VS.. No. 621.
George A. and William E. Plauger, ct
ais and the following hereinafter named
defendants, viz
George A. Plauger, William E Plaug- !,
err and wife, Amanda Plauger, Smith E.
Curd and wife, Mrs. Smith E. Curd,
Mary Jane Curd, Sarah F. Curd, Nat
Henry Curd and wife, Mrs. Nat Henry |
Curd, Alfred C. Allen and wife, Mrs.
Alfred c. Allen, George P. Allen and
wife, Mrs. George P. Allen, Mary F.
Allen, Nat c. Allen, Mabel E. Allen,
Jessie P. Allen, Mrs. Mary E. Adair
and husband, Robert F. Adair, Will
White Cook and wife, Mrs. Will White
Cook, Ed. T. Cook and wife, Mrs. Ed.
T. Cook, Mrs. Ida NJ Holland and hus-
band, C. B. Holland, William E. Fer
guson and wife, Mrs. William E. Fer
guson, Donald Cameron, Samuel A.
Funk and wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Funk,
| M. W. Magruder, Administrator of +.
w. Magruder, decd, E. D. Newman,
| Receiver of Valley Building & Loan
Association, Martha g. Binswanger,
Trustee, J. F. Reid and wife, Annie E.
Reid Mrs. Mary G. Flood and husband,
Thomas A. Flood, unknown heirs Of
Barnett Binswanger, decd, Defendants
You will take notice that in pursu-
ance to the provisions OF the decree OF
the District Court of the United
States for the Western District of Vir-
ginia, entered in the above entitled
cause on January 9th, 1919, directing
me to proceed to hear and reduce to
writing all such documentary evidence
investigations as to me seem necessary
First-ln detail the amounts, and IN
terest and penalties, if any, of all
taxes prior to and including those for
the year 1918, assessed by the Com
monwealth of Virginia, by the county
iof Shenandoah, which are liens
/ on the land Tor any part thereof in
this cause concerned, and the names
and addresses of the officials to whom
each item is payable
! Second-All other liens on said land,
- the amounts thereof and the dates from
which interest runs, and the names and
addresses Of all lienors. and also any
faces pertinent to the validity OF such
liens.
Third-The amount of the costs Of
this reference, including such sum as
said master regards as reasonable com
ipensation for his service under this
i: lorder. Cost items will be shown il
j detail, and the said master will repor
all facts bearing upon the amour
4, (which should be allowed to him a!
!. compensation, especially the time he il
lemployed and the nature of the ser
4 vices rendered;
l., Fourth-The names and addresses o
the persons to whom the balance o
) the fund, after the payment of thu
:, clerks costs and costs of reference
= should be paid, and in what proper
tions.
The undersigned Special Commiss
Iioner will sit at his office at Wood
stock, Shenandoah County, Virginia
on the 4tL day Of March, 1919, ant
ON such days therefter as may be fiXet
a. that time, or from day to day, TO
the purpose OF carrying out the pro
iyisions Of said decree and making tn
Investigation and report provided TO
therein.
The land sought to be condemned il
D. this cause is 5S1. SO acres of lfhd il
Johnston District Shenandoah County
y Virginia, lying, principally, upon tn
top and both sides of Green or Tire,
Top Mountain. Said tract is embraced
within or~overlapped upon or effected
T by the following grants, to-wit VII
= liam Elzey, November 6, 1900, 916
i, Iacres, and Henry Linn, October l. 1922
~ 700 acres. The location and descrip
q ton, by metess and bounds, of saie
{ and the particular nature of the use.
{ and purposes for which the condemna
( ton of same is sought fully appear il
the petition and exhibits thereto, which
are on file in my office at Woodstock
Virginia. to which reference is made.
Given under my hand as Specia
Master Of said Court, at my office il
SAID County, the day and year frs
Iaforesaid
c. @. SKYLES,
FEB. I-2W. SPECIAL MASTER.