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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1916
Page
9
Mrs Peabody recalls tenants Mrs Parks and Mr Parks who borrowed items, used her telephone, and intruded on her privacy. She details returning a stepladder with a whitewash speck, lawn mower misuse, and repeated visits for doctor calls. A final telephone incident prompted long-standing frustration at their behavior.
Francis Douglas seeks guardianship of Brady McCreary a minor child of Reese McCreary deceased. The application will be heard at the next Court of Ordinary on the first Monday in June. Witness AH Riley Ordinary Taylor County Ga dated May 3 1916.
J W Rhodes executor of the last will and testament of Mrs F G Rhodes seeks court authority to sign his trust. The court is cited to show cause on the first Monday in June 1916 why an order allowing the fee should not be granted. The notice names next of kin including A C Rhodes and several Mrs names and L R Adams. Dated April 1916. A H Riley Ordinary.
Mrs Brown Josiah reports Johnny has measles after playing with the Jenkins children. Mr Brown jokes the Jenkins family will not share without a mortgage and eight percent, reflecting local humor in a domestic note.
An old advertisement touts Colds and Influenza remedy 5 or 6 doses of 666 to break chills fever and cold symptoms. Claims it acts on the liver better than calomel and does not ripen or sicken. Priced at 25 cents.
A Donnet Head lighthouse situated 300 feet above water frequently suffers broken glass from stones hurled by waves against the cliff.
A concise note explains katydid sound production by wing friction in the triangular overlapping area and air from body sacs. It mentions the insect’s nickname testy little dogmatist and highlights the scientific description of its song mechanism.
Taylor county sheriff schedules a public auction on the final Tuesday in June at the courthouse for a bale of cotton weighing 464 pounds stored in Wall warehouse at Mauk. The property belongs to S A Montgomery and is levied to satisfy a Superior Court execution in favor of Kate Jinks. Sale held within legal hours for cash.
The property to be sold on the First Tuesday in court house door in Taylor County Georgia. It covers eighty acres the south half of land lot 289 in the Eleventh District. It includes part of land once conveyed to John P. Murray and W. R. Tolbert by Cosby heirs in 1913. Levied to satisfy an Atlanta City Court judgment against L. A. Wood for M. L. Shepherd. Sheriff J. R. Beeland on April 2 1916.
In June 1916 at the court house door the sheriff announces a public sale to the highest bidder for cash of six bales of cotton ginned and packed, one hundred bushels of corn, five hundred bushels of cotton seed, all in Duke's possession. The sale satisfies an execution from the Superior Court in favor of Southern Cotton Oil Co. against H. T. Duke. Date shown is April 23, 1916.
A list of assets including a mare named Maud about six years old, 100 bushels of corn, 1500 pounds seed cotton, two bales of cotton ginned and packed, 34 house, 300 bundles of fodder in a cere of somes aggregating unwinds, more or less in the possession of T. S. Lumpkin. The property will be sold to satisfy a Superior court execution in favor of Virginia Carolina Chemical Co. against Lumpkin. Date noted as May 2, 1916.
In Georgia Taylor County a public auction to satisfy state county taxes for 1915 on Bea wood Farm Co property. Levy covers 50 acres in northwest corner of lot 270 first land district with a public road to barn and old Mitchell house including barn. Sale by J R Beeland, May 3 1916.
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