Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1919-01-31


VS.. No. COS.
c. j. Hotel, H. F. Golladay, L. Trip
and the following hereinafter named
defendants
c. j. Hotel and wife, L. Triplett, Jr.,
H. F. Golladay and wife, Carrie Cola
day, the Town of Edinburg, Inc, I'M
known heirs and devisees of Henry
keltner, S. w. Tor w. S. Lauck, H.
M. Kirkpatrick formerly trading as
Bickford &: Huffman, G. w. Koontz,
L. F. DERRICK, The Potomac Fish Pack
ing Co., Girard White Lead Zinc G.
Coloring Works, Inc, Jacob Myer Tor
Meyer, Samuel Rhinehard, Morris j.
Meyer presently or formerly compos-
ing the partnership under firm name
of Meyer, Rhinehard &: Co.. William
c. West formerly trading as C. West
&: Som, H. Hartman and E. Hartman,
formerly partners trading as H. E.
Hartman & Co.. D. S. Boyer and C. E.
Heard formerly trading as Boyer G.
Heard, Francis Albert formerly trad
ing as Francis Albert G. Co.. H. L.
Duvall and William F. Owings form
erly partners trading as H. L. Duvall &
Co.. Lewis Small White, Trustee,
American Exchange National Bank of
New York, William T. Williams, Ed
ward Nilsch and John |. Kuhn former
ly partners trading as Nilsch G. Kuhn)
Thomas H. Book formerly trading as
T. H. Book & Co.. The Mount Jackson
National Bank, Thomas B. Brooks, John
H. jenkins and Thomas P. Hutchinson
formerly partners trading as Brooks,
Jenkins & Hutcheson), Sol L. Smith,
Charles F. Willis and B. P. Schere,
formerly partners trading as Smith &
Willis, J. T. Clark and George Perry
formerly partners trading as Clark,
Perry & Co., the heirs and devisees
of Henry S. Fleming, Floyd H. Flem-
ing, Grace L. Fleming, Randolph B..
Fleming, Samuel E. Hottinger, Isaac
Marston, the unknown heirs and devil
sees of John Pitman, Martha Rebecca
Carson, James H. Carson, Mrs. Jane R.
Wells the unknown heirs and devisees
Of A. 6. Wynkoop, Mary Brooke Wyn-
ko2p, the unknown heirs and devisees
OF Evans Philip Taylor, D. P Magruder
and wife, Mrs. D. P Magruder.
To such defendants named above as
may be dead their unknown heirs and
~ ioS0S a { lilcttIt ltdi licS ublGlIudIlI 10
this suit and duly named therein
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 Virginia,
entered in the above entitled cause on
the 9th day of January, 1919, directing
me to proceed to hear and reduce to
writing ali such documentary evidence
as may be offered and to make such
investigations as to me seem necessary
and to report to the Court as follows:
First : In detail the amounts, and in
terests and penalties. if any, of all
taxes prior to and including those for
the year 1918, assessed by the Common
wealth OF Virginia, or by the county of
Shenandoah or both, which are liens
on the land Cor 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
facts 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
pensatlon for his services under this
order. Cost items will be shown in de-
tail, and the said master will report all
facts bearing upon the amount which
should be allowed to him as compensa-
ton, respectfully the time he is en-
ployed and the nature of the services
rendered.
Fourth The names and addresses
OF the persons to whom the balance of
the fund, after the payment of the
clerks costs and costs of reference,
should be paid and in what proportion.
The undersigned Special Commits
sloner will sit at his office at Wood
stock, Shenandoah County, Va, on the
18th day of February, 1919, and on
such days thereafter as may be fixed
at that time, or from day to day, for
the purpose Of carrying out the pro-
visions of said decree and making the
investigation and report provided for
therein.
The land sought to be condemned in |
this cause is 1915 acres of land, stu
ated, principally, in Ashby and Madi-
son Districts or Townships of Shenan-
doah County, Virginia, lying, in part,
on the North Fork of Shenandoah
River along or near to the western
slope of and the foot of Short Noun
tain, consisting of the following fourI
tracts : c. j. Hotel Tract, 2lO.5l acres :;
Il. F. Golladay Tract, 1854 acres L.
Triplett, Jr., Tract, 1887 acres, and
Town of Edinburg Tract, 1914 acres
Said tracts, or some of them, in whole
Or in part are embraced within or ov-
erlapped upon or affected by the fol-
owing grants Lewis Moore e. David
Wilson, Apr "a, 1901, 500 acres Will
Jam Elzey, Apr. %, 1902, 3,167 acres :;
Joseph & John Pitman, May 7, 1929,
LOO acres ; Andrew Pitrnan and Law
'ence Pitman, Jr., November Is, 1888,
07 acres, R. and Is P.
The locations and descriptions, by
netes and bounds, of said lands with
,lats and surveys of same, and the par
ocular nature OF the uses and purposes
or which condemnation of same is
ought, fully appear in the petition and
xhibits thereto, which are on file in
ny office at Woodstock, Virginia, and
0 which reference is made.
Given under my hand as Special Mas
er OF said Court, at my office in said
ounty, the day and year first afore-
aid.
C. C. STYLES,