Real Estate Transfers and Liberty Bond Loan Notes
A long list documents real estate transfers in Gill Township and surrounding townships including Ida May Wallace, Malinda Smith, Luther Pigg, and Francis M. Blann among others with various parcel descriptions and prices. The article then discusses Liberty Loan bonds of 1917 with purchase options, payment schedules, and patriotic rationale, comparing UK and German wartime loans and highlighting American loan figures and public subscription.
Terms of the Liberty Loan Bonds of 1917
The act passed April 24 1917 authorizes five billion dollars of 34 percent bonds with semiannual interest on December 15 and June 15. Principal payable after June 16 1932 at government option, or full 30 years to June 15 1947. Bonds tax exempt except inheritance tax. sold at par by the Treasurer and Federal Reserve banks.
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Post Office
Great Britain
United Kingdom
Germany
United States
Federal Reserve
Marriage Licenses Issued by County Clerk in Local List
County Clerk Dave Giles issued marriage licenses to several couples. Fred Raymond Wade nonion 19 coal miner and Effie Esther Wilson 18 from near Shelburn. Orphy Keegan 21 farmer and Bonnie Tague 17 of Farmersburg. George W. Polinski Jr 27 Gary Indiana and Edith Eva Hooper 21 Shel Charles Addison Gambill farmer near Cass and Ethel Jackson 19 of Cass.
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Dave Giles
Fred Raymond Wade
Effie Esther Wilson
Shelburn
Orphy Keegan
Terre Haute
Bonnie Tague
Farmersburg
George W. Polinski, Jr
Gary
Ind
Edith Eva Hooper
Charles Addison Gambill
Near
Cass
Ethel Jackson
Oaktown Residents Return From Visit
Jim Hobbs of Oaktown was here Saturday afternoon. Mrs Claude Bond and daughter Kathryne of Oaktown returned home Saturday after visiting relatives here for a few days.
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Jim Hobbs
Oaktown
Claude Bond
Kathryne
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Capps
Kirschbaum
Douglas
Ford
Akin Mercantile Co
Winnegar’s Drug Store
T.S. Risinger
First National Bank
THE
Bank OF Service
Schroeder & Price Abstractors
Sherman
Curry Township
Ida May Wallace
Ida May Padgett
W. H. Hill Jr
P. L. Reid
Malinda Smith
Lizzie Dickerson
Gill Township
Francis M. Blann
Howard L. Hyatt
Hamilton Township
W. H. Eaton
Sarah A. Taylor
Noah A. Simmons
Riley
Alice Sanders
Jackson Township
Frank B. Garrett
W. H. Hill
Dugger
Wm. C. Ellis
van Do
Sarah Sims
Comb
Add Dugger
Hymera
James Everett Sanders
Dellitha Ward
Cummins & Beasley Add
Merom
Neola Elevator Co
Armour Grain Co
Mary A. Glenn
Newton H
Elsia Lane
Glenn
Thomas W. Glenn
Henry
Sarah Dickey
Chas. W. Lovelace
Thomas Stilts
Highland
Theodore Powell
Fred F. Bays
Welman
Frate C. Liston
James S. Leach
Virginia T. Eaton
Newton Mickey
Eunice Mickey
America
Liberty Loan
G. A. Ridgway
Cash Store
B. B. Evans
Elevator
Detroit
A. & S. Garage