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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1948
Page
3
William E. Andrew at 204 South Sixth Street Denton offers a public sale of household goods including electric appliances furniture toys radio organ dining suite beds chairs lamps stove and tools. Items listed as well as yard equipment and firearms are to be sold at 1 pm rain or shine with George W. Beck as Clerk.
I will, at 1 o clock sharp, sell at public auction at my home on West Third Street opposite High School play grounds in Denton. The items include bed room suites, parlor and dining room furniture, stove, refrigerator, china and silverware, kitchenware, lighting, rugs, books, pictures, and numerous antiques. Rain or shine.
A trustee sale in Caroline County Court for two parcels of land in the Eighth Election District plus listed farm equipment and livestock is set for 1947 at the courthouse door in Denton between 2 and 4 PM. The parcels trace back to Willard C Todd and include notes on prior deeds, with extensive descriptions of lot lines and boundaries. The sale also includes a 1941 Plymouth pickup truck in running condition, portions of farm crops and animals, and a herd described as T B and blood tested.
A two story frame dwelling with small outbuildings is noted in Concord village near the Concord Camp Ground woods on the Concord Anderstown road.
The decree prescribes payment terms as one-third cash on sale day with the balance due on ratification, and deferred payments bearing interest from sale day and secured to the trustee, or purchaser may pay all cash. Title papers and all documentary stamps to be paid by the purchaser. K Thomas Everngam, Trustee Leonard Covey, Auctioneer.
Under a May 7 1947 power of attorney Mary M Rost and Albert Hamfelt appoint J DeWeese Carter Layman J Redden and K Thomas Everngam as Attorneys in Fact they will offer for public sale the Pippin Farm now occupied by Rost about 1½ miles west of Denton on the Denton Hillsboro State Road to the highest bidder.
Caroline County Maryland Treasurer and tax collector will offer and expose at public sale to the highest bidder in front of the Court House Door Denton on a date to be announced under Article 81 Section 75 et seq of the Public General Laws. The notice is issued to recover delinquent taxes and includes property names and locations to be sold.
On Tuesday May 20 1947 at 1 PM a public sale will be held describing specific real estate. The notice lists the property description and terms of sale as part of the legal proceedings.
L B Towers heirs and property along the Choptank River assessed at 400 dollars with taxes, interest and penalties totaling 18.02 for 20 acres tillable 10 acres wooded and improvements. John Kotona property on Hog Creek Smithson road adjoining Robert Eddington and Wm Wolf assessed 675 dollars with taxes, interest and penalties 41.82.
Property records list 10 acres tillable with improvements assessed to Robert Darien Moore at McCarty's Wharf adjoining James E. Taft and Choptank River, assessed value 725 dollars with taxes and penalties 1146. Also A second parcel on Poplar Neck road on west side adjoining W R Dulin Charles Jarrell heirs and J T Schmick assessed value 275 dollars with taxes and penalties 17.01.
District records show 6 acres tillable and 14 acres woodland in the First Election District, assessed to Robert Burt heirs and estate, on a Barclay to Henderson road, value $242 with taxes and penalties $22.44. It borders L A Drake, John J Roberts, J Tyson Heather, and Charles Jarrell. An adjacent 15 acres tillable is assessed to Robert Hansen with value $180 and taxes $2.85, on a Bee Tree to State road segment, adjoining Wm F Watrons and Charles E Frazier.
Property assessed to Arbella Collins on the north side of Federalsburg Denton road near Orville Reed and colored school property. Assessed value 250 dollars. Taxes, interest and penalties 3.96 dollars.
Two tillable tracts described near Federalsburg are assessed to John F. F. Prattis and Lillian G. Smith. The Prattis parcel covers 8 acres with no buildings and a value of 100 dollars, plus 6 1/3 percent acres. the Smith parcel on Fed eralsburg Williams burg River road spans 65? acres with no buildings and a value of 565 dollars. Taxes and penalties total 6 dollars 21 cents for Prattis and 35 dollars 1 cent for Smith.
The notice shows 83 acres and buildings assessed to Charles Jones on the Mt. Zion to Barclay road, adjoining Janson Gibbs Telone properties, with a 3720 assessment and 28.47 taxes. A second parcel is Lot 100 by 200 feet assessed to Henry D Marvel on the Goldsboro Bridgetown Road, adjoining Alberta Ross Norman Smith and C M Elliott, with 22.92 in taxes, interest and penalties.
Six district property of 6 acres and improvements assessed to Dorothy Chambers on Hillsboro-Bridgetown Road near Willson John Berry and Charles Jarrell estate. Assessed value $400. Taxes and penalties total $6.82.
Eleven acres with improvements assessed at 250 dollars to John F Wilkerson. Property lies on Ferrels Church road adjoining parcels of M and L Telone and Walter Ibbs. Taxes interest and penalties total 18 dollars 19 cents.
Lot 33 ft by 189 ft with improvements assessed to Clarence J. Shaffer on Main Street Hillsboro adjoining Kemp Stewart. Assessed value 1532.00 dollars. Taxes interest and penalties total 24.21 dollars.
At 2 PM the sale of real and personal property will occur. The 80 acre farm includes 64 tilled acres, a six room dwelling with electricity, a near new barn, chicken house and outbuildings, and 13 acres barley 12 acres wheat to be sold with the farm. About 39 tilled acres ready for immediate tillage. Full possession day of sale except dwelling house, reserved 60 days. Real estate terms one third cash, remainder in 60 days with interest. personal property cash. Attorneys and auctioneers listed.
Assessments cover 55 acres tillable and 244 acres wooded plus improvements owned by Samuel H Walls on Melville Henderson road with adjoining parcels Mary Spinka Ora E Cohee J Harris and Elizabeth Dill. An 81 acre tillable 35 acre wooded tract on Melville Mt Zion road adjoins C E Blacker and S H Walls. Taxes interest and penalties total 263.38.
Four percent acres of tillable vacant land assessed to John Wisher and wife on Hillsboro Jumptown road. It was purchased from J Ralph Holland and assessed at $275. Taxes, interest and penalties amount to $4.20.
Two parcels in Ridgely assessed to Herman Callahan and Greenbury Ridgely heirs. Second Avenue West parcel 100 by 180 feet with improvements valued at 1400 dollars and taxes 19.65. West Avenue West parcel 242 by 180 feet with improvements valued at 2000 dollars and taxes 112.80. Ridgely town, state and county taxes total 204.70.
50 acres tillable 12 acres woodland 81 acres barren and improvements assessed to Henry D. Marvel on Union Hollingsworth Corner Road. Adjoins Anthony Stoeres Martin Mueller Harmon Kinnamon Samuel H. Kinnamon. Assessed value 1600 dollars. Taxes interest and penalties 23.70 dollars.
In Caroline County Maryland on May 16 1947 Edward Willander Theodore Kusmaul and S P Neilson were appointed by the county to view lowlands in the First Election District and lay out a ditch named the Henderson Public Drainage Association under the Maryland Drainage Law Chapter 261 Acts of 1941. The view will occur on or after May 30 1947 to discharge duties as drainage viewers.
Assessed to Mary E. Hansen for a parcel located back from Baltimore Corner Bridgetown road. Bordered by lands of Morgan H. B. Thomas W. L. Evans and S. V. Tichler. Assessed value $260.00 with taxes interest and penalties totaling $3.95.
Assessment details show 1% acres tillable with improvements, taxed to William Wright. Located on Hells Lane adjacent to H. H. Bieck and John H. Wyatt, assessed value $100. Taxes, interest and penalties amount to $4.66.
Property lot measuring 130 by 180 feet assigned to Robert E. Jarman on Bernard Avenue near the high school in Greensboro. Adjacent to lands of Dell Vickery and N. Edwards. Assessed value 100 dollars with taxes interest and penalties totaling 7.04 dollars.
Property in the Fourth Election District comprising 15 acres tillable and 106 acres woods with improvements, assessed to Frank J. Devlin and joining J. H. Taylor Henry Burrows J. E. Taft and Chop Tank River. Assessed value 2635 dollars. Taxes interest and penalties 163.26 dollars.
Two parcels detailed here include an 8 acre tillable acre lot with improvements assessed to William A. Cook on Todd's Chapel north side, near Charles M. Maine lands with a value of 375 dollars and taxes of 23 dollars 17 cents. A second parcel on Chipman's Lane near Mission, adjoining John Williams James P Johnson and James Curtis, with 18 acres wooded and improvements, assessed to Warner Johnson for 280 dollars and taxes of 4 dollars 43 cents.
Property stated as assessed to Harry H located at Gaineys near the tract adjoining the lands of P. Willis heirs. The fragment notes an adjoining reference to Willis heirs and a named owner.
47 acres tillable with improvements assessed to Evelyn Nelson Liechty on Todds Chapel Jones Corner road. Bordered by P. W. Downes Walter Van Auken C. W. Towers and Harry Tull or John Riese. Assessed value 1925 dollars with taxes interest and penalties totaling 90.41 dollars.
Terms of sale require cash on day of sale with a certificate of sale issued by the County Treasurer. Each parcel sells as assessed and must bring the total due including state and county taxes, interest, penalties, and advertising expenses. Lien passes to the purchaser. Auctioneers Wm E Andrew Leonard Covey J L Stevens James Temple. Attorney K Thomas Everngam.
In Caroline County circuit court for equity, case No. 4102 Chy, MARVIN H. SMITH solicitor orders publication for Irene G uN complainant versus Dana A Lane defendant to obtain a divorce a vinculo matrimonii. The bill states marriage on October 16, 1922 at Federalsburg Maryland and abandonment by Lane on September 25, 1943 with no reconciliation. Complainant resided in Caroline County, Lane is a non resident last known in San Francisco. Notice to publish in a Caroline County newspaper weekly for four weeks before May 17 1947 and defendant to appear by June 2 1947.
In Caroline County Orphans Court case No 398 R E Judith Knight et al, sale of estate property reported by Special Trustee Layman J Redden is ratified and confirmed unless opposed by July next. A copy must appear in four weekly newspapers before June 7. Reported sale amount is 600 dollars. Judges Jesse T Dennis Charles V Moore J Norris Coulby. True Copy Test: Carlton V West.
Notice to creditors that MARY ELIZABETH ROSS of Caroline county died. Executrix CATHERINE L. FRIEND warns all claimants to exhibit claims with vouchers by November 2, 1947 or be excluded from the estate. Debtors must settle promptly. Given April 29, 1947.
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