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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1928
Page
8
Geneva, billed as the virtual world capital, attracts over 10,000 American visitors in five months and many more researchers and tourists unseen. American guides, bars, cars, fashion, and jazz shape daily life as Swiss schools record foreign student preponderance while U.S. influence expands in lodging, dining, and leisure venues.
Olive Gertrude Shull and others are named defendants in a court order dated October 28 1927. The Master for Aiken County announces a public sale of a 124 acre parcel in Aiken County South Carolina on Monday March 5 1927 during legal hours at the house in Aiken. The estate is bounded by Edisto River M L Rawl estate Rawl and Gunter estate J Curtis Steadman and a plat by Jackson A Rawl dated September 15 1905. A $50 deposit is required. otherwise the bid is rejected and the property will be immediately resold.
The City of Aiken announces tax collection from October 15 1927 to March 1 1928 for the fiscal year beginning January 1 1927. Taxpayers listed on the tax duplicate face a total levy of 26 mills for general expenses bond interest and sinking fund as required by law. Henry Busch city clerk and treasurer signs the notice.
Notice announces a Masters sale in the Court of Common Pleas for Aiken County South Carolina involving J Sommers and Annie D Heffan as executors versus Henry Sommer W J Sommer Rosa Prothro Johanna George Elise Sommer Hendrix Louise George Mattie Sommer et al with further details to follow in the public record and proceedings.
B. S. Thomas sues R. C. Plunkett and others. Legal action details are limited in the fragment with party names appearing as plaintiffs and defendants. No court or filing dates are provided in the readable text.
Mrs Linnie Renew et al announce a sale of 100 acres in Aiken County SC on March 5 1928. The parcel borders D C Wall Hickson and Elizabeth Wall land formerly of Elizabeth Wall deceased. Buyers must pay deed and revenue stamps and deposit 100 dollars as good faith bid.
Tom Corley and C. E. Garvin are listed with Pael Garvin and First National Bank of Wagener in a brief archival record noting involvement of local financial and family names.
Documents filed in the Clerk of Court office in Aiken County on February 17, 1928 remain on file there. This record notes the completion of filing actions and their archival status in the county clerk’s office.
Master for Aiken County to sell at public auction on March 8 1922 land tracts in Jackson S C known as Jackson Place Old Home Place Page Place totaling about 990 acres. Sale on all cash terms with options for deferred payment, deposits, and special cash-only parcels. Timber and some tracts to be sold for cash only. Auction begins 11:00 A M at the premises.
The Master of Aiken County S C outlines sale by plat and tracts for Page Place 150 acres Old Home Place 240 acres Jackson Place 600 acres and related timber and railroad station parcels. Sale plans include multiple tracts lots and two farms with emphasis on maximizing proceeds and 15 year timber removal.
Whereas Mary S Morris seeks appointment as administratrix of the Alfred H Hackney estate deceased all kindred creditors and interested parties are cited to show cause at the court house in Aiken February 27 1928 why she should not be appointed administratrix
The Detroit News notes a gulf between cultures with a remark on a Chinese custom of paying off all debts at New Year’s. The quote frames cultural difference as a gulf in traditions.
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