Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1919-02-07

LID XIII COOk1 fl)R HE IVES
TERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA, AT
WOODSTOCK, VIRGINIA, ON THE
BOTH DAY OF JANUARY, 1919.
United States OF America
VS.. No. sos.
c. j. Hotel, H. F. Golladay, L. Trip
lett, Jr., Town OF Eoinbure, ct ais,
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 &
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 !
G. 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 &c Co., H. l.. !
Duvall and William F. Owings form |
erly partners trading as H. L. Duvall G
Co.. Lewis Small White, Trustee,
American Exchange National Bank of
New York, William T. Williams, Ed
ward Nilsch and John l. Kuhn CORNER
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. Hutcheson
formerly partners trading as Brooks,
Jenkins G Hutcheson), Sol. L. Smith,
Charles F. Willis and B. P Schere,
formerly partners trading as Smith &
Willis, j. 7. Clark and George Perry
formerly partners trading as Clark,
Perry & Co., the heirs and devisees
OF Henry S. Fleming Floyd II. Elem
ing, Grace l.. Fleming, Randolph B.
Fleming, Samuel E. Hottinger, Isaac
Marston, the unknown heirs and devi-
sees OF John Pitman, Martha Rebecca
Carson, James H. Carson, Mrs. Jane R.
, Wells, the unknown heirs and devisees
Of A. G. Wynkoop, Mary Brooke Wyn-
koop, 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
devisees are made parties defendant to
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, 1915, directing
me to proceed to hear and reduce to
writing all 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 III
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 COR BOTH, which are liens
on the land .or any part thereof) in
this cause concerned and the names
and addresses Of the officials to whom
each lien is payable.
Second All other liens on said land,
the amounts thereOfan 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
pensation for his services under this
! order. Cost items will be shown in de-
a q ill
facts bearing upon the amount which
should be allowed to him as compensa-
ton, -especially 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
isioner 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 sough. to be condemned in
this cause is 49l. o6 acres of land, stu
lated, principally, in Ashby and Madi-
son Districts or Townships of Shenan-
ldoah County, Virginia.. lying, in part,
on the North Fork OF Shenandoah
RIVER along or near 10 the western
slope Of and the foot Of Short Noun
tain, consisting Of the following four
tracts c. j. Hotel Tract, 210.51 acres !;
| H. F. Golladay Tract, 1854 acres L.
Irlplett, 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-
eriapped upon or affected by the fol-
lowing grants Lewis Moore &, David
Wilson, Apr. "a, 1901, 500 acres VIII
tam Elzey, Apr. %, 1902, 3, 1857 acres !;
Joseph & John Pitman, May 7, 1929,
| 100 acres Andrew Pitman and Law
renee Pitman, Jr., November Is, 1888,
1O7 acres, r. and Is P.
The locations and descriptions, By
metes and bounds, of said lands, with
platS and surveys of same, and the par
tlcular nature of the uses and purposes
for which condemnation of same is
sought, fully appear in the petition and
exhibits thereto, which are on file in
my office at Woodstock, Virginia, and
to which reference is made.
Given under my hand as Special Mas
ter OF said Court. at my office in said
County, the day and year first afore-
said
C. C. SKYLES,
Jan. 31-2t. SPECIAL. MASTER.