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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1916
Page
8
A yacht owner vents on the club porch about taking advice to hire Dudley to sail the Nancy. A rough John son cup race ends with a torn sail and a nonwinning lazy finish, as rivals sail past and the winner remains unclear.
A Burns manuscript titled To the Once Guid sold at a recent Edinburgh auction for Red Cross funds. The glazed poem folio shows variations from the printed version and includes two extra lines in the same hand Farewell old Colla hills and dales. Bidding started at sixty guineas and ended at 124 guineas. the item was donated by two ladies whose grandfather bought it in 1824.
The Kansas City Star notes a proposal to communicate with Mars using ten mirrors forty miles across to flash light signals. It jokes the response may take millions of years and suggest humanity should mind its own business.
A celebrated lawyer tried on hats at a fashionable store. The clerk noted his head length and thickness, joking that lawyers must have long heads and that his head is as thick as it is tong.
Rita and her brother Jim befriend John Campbell in a New York roof garden. A panic erupts as fire consumes the hotel top floors. Campbell shields Rita from the crowd. Jim discovers his own engagement to Ida Campbell, John’s cousin, tying two couples together in a romantic resolution.
Pursuant to an order of Referee in Bankruptcy J N Talley the Farish Brick Company assets will be sold on the premises two miles east of Reynolds on Thursday May 11 1916. Property includes a dredging machine engines a No 4 steeler brick machine carts brick and scrap iron and 235 acres of land described by metes and bounds in Taylor County Georgia. Sale subject to lien in favor of Mallory Taylor Iron Works and a Beechwood Farms Company lease. Ten percent cash with balance on confirmation. Trustee C B Marshall.
Francis Douglas applies for guardianship of Brady McCreary minor child of Reese McCreary in Taylor County Georgia. The matter will be heard by the Court of Ordinary on the first Monday in June. Signatures include A H Riley Ordinary Taylor County.
J W Rhodes executor of Mrs F G Rhodes seeks to resign. The petition asks the Court of Ordinary to show cause on the first Monday in June 1916 why the resignation should not be granted. L R Adams and the Rhodes next of kin named to appear and respond.
Legal advertisement announces sale by public outcry on the first Tuesday in June next at the courthouse door to satisfy an execution from the Superior Court. The property, one bale of cotton number 2459 weighing 464 pounds, stored in the Mauk Georgia warehouse, is levied on as the property of S A Montgomery for the suit brought by Mrs. Kate Jinks.
Public outcry sale at the court house door in Taylor County Georgia. The eighty acre tract off land lot 289 in the Eleventh District is the south half of the lot later conveyed to John P Murray and W R Tolbert by deed dated March 23 1913. Property levied to satisfy an Atlanta City Court execution against L A Wood in favor of M L Shephard. Date of notice April 2 1916. J R Beeland Sheriff.
In June 1916 at the courthouse steps in Taylor County Georgia a sheriff sale to the highest bidder will offer six bales of cotton ginned and packed, one hundred bushels of corn, five hundred bundles of fodder, and one hundred bushels of cotton seed stored in a house. The sale, to satisfy a Superior Court execution in favor of the Cane Co. against H. T. Duke, notes Duke’s possession. Date April 23, 1916. J. R. Breland, Sheriff.
On the first Tuesday at court in Taylor County the Beachwood Farm Co. property containing 50 acres in the northwest corner of Lot 270 will be sold to the highest bidder for cash in the legal hours. It includes roads and bounds to the Dr. McKeller and Dr. Mitchell properties, with the old barn, to satisfy state and county taxes for 1915. May 3, 1916. J. R. Beeland Sheriff.
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