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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1909
Page
8
A long local paragraph notes a large shipment of turnip seed at 25 cents per pound from G B Haynes. It also lists arrivals, bakery ads for Brown's Bakery and W A Walker, kraut for sale, and bakery claims of honest weight and pricing. It mentions Miss Davis of Shreveport visiting Monroe, a Berean Bible Class meeting, and local notices about roach killer, coffee, and snow drop flour.
Iron Mountain section foreman W. C. Reid, described as a white man, was arrested by Special Officer M. J. Baulch at Simms Louisiana and jailed in Colfax on a charge of padding pay rolls meaning obtaining money under false pretenses. Also in custody were A. D. Wainwright and Homer Anders of Pollock, held after Baulch brought them to the parish jail.
Public sheriff sale set for September 4 1909 at Monroe Louisiana in Ouachita parish under a writ of seizure. Property includes the Cheniere Brake land parcels totaling about 7,689 acres with transfers tracing from H Benoit to Cheney Lumber Company Limited via a chain of assignments and deeds recorded in Ouachita parish records.
Said sale to be made for cash for not less than two thirds of the appraisal value to satisfy the mortgage note held by Security Trust Company of Detroit for $5 000 with interest at six percent from April 9 1909 until paid. Sale subject to other mortgage notes as evidenced by an October 7 1909 act of mortgage recorded in Ouachita parish. John P Parker Sheriff Monroe La August 3 1909.
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