Roads Case Farm Value in Eight Counties Shows Gains After Road Improvements
A Department of Agriculture survey analyzes eight counties from 1910 to 1914, noting farm land values rise after main market roads are improved. In Spotsylvania Virginia increases range from 37 to 114 per cent, with average values per acre up from about 13.89 to 25.24 dollars and acres sold totaling 3451 in 1914. Other counties like Dinwiddie and Lee Virginia show large percentage gains and higher per acre estimates after bonds and roads upgrade.
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Supetsylvania County
Dinwiddie County
Lee County
Wise County
Franklin County
N. Y
Dallas County
Ala
Lauderdale County
Miss
Manatee County
Spotsylvania County
Dinwiddie
Wite County
Fla
Week's Sporting Events and Road Impact Notices
This week's sports include Mel Coogan versus Young Murphy in Greenfield and Shamus O'Brien versus Willie Beecher in Brooklyn, with the Eastern intercollegiate basketball season opening and a six day bicycle race in Madison Square Garden. Road improvement reports show land value increases from 15 to 50 percent near new bituminous roads across several counties, boosting acre values and property assessments. A license application notice for a Monroe bar room and liquor sale is filed with the city.
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New York
Shamus O’brien
Willie Beecher i
Brooklyn
Monroe
Louisiana
Lcense
Ouachita Avenue
South Fifth Street
South Grand Street
Hotel Monroe Bar
Doughtie Hotel Co., Ltd
J. E. Doughtie
South
Grand Street
DeSiard
DeSiard and
Walnut Streets
J. M. Loving
Fraternal Groups Meet at Masonic Hall and Halls
A long list of fraternal orders meets on fixed nights at Masonic Hall on Walnut street and other halls. Normal nights include Tuesday and Thursday gatherings. rosters name officers such as Surghner, Faulk, Schulze, Lammon, and Querriere. Institutions include Royal and Select Masons, Monroe Commandery Knights Templar, Eastern Star, Knights of Pythias, Khorassan, and Women of the Mound, plus several lodges and unions with meeting places on Walnut Street, South Grand Street, and Dennard street.
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Mannes
Royal Areom Masons
Mason
Aalio
Walnut Street
Oakley
G. Surghner
Monroe
Royal and Select Masen
Masonic Hall
Walnut Etrasi
Faunt le Ray
I. M
Monroe Commandery
Knights Templar
W. m. Washburn
Miro
Knights of Khorassan
Knights of Pythias Hall
E. Faulk
A. Nenney
Southern League Meeting in Nashville to Convene
Nashville Tenn Dec 15 With reports from all clubs the Southern league opens its annual meeting to wind up this season. Officials and club owners gather to discuss unsettled matters and rumors of leadership change circulate, though President Baugh is broadly supported.
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Nashville
Tenn
Southern League Secon
Baugh
Great Southern Oil Company incorporated in Monroe Louisiana
On November 27 1916 before notary Henry V D Montgomery and witnesses, a group formed Great Southern Oil Company Incorporated in Monroe Ouachita Parish Louisiana under act 267 of 1914. Articles name purpose to locate acquire develop oil mines lands and related activities including refining transporting selling and distributing oils and by products. Six named directors listed with initial shares and officers to be elected November 1 1917. By law stockholders liable only for unpaid subscriptions. Charter copies filed with Clerk. subscription list attached.
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Louisiana
Ouachita
General Assembly
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Great Southern Oil Company, Incorporated
Monroe
State of
Towin
Fta
United States
J. M. Colins
Chatham
Bondurant
Houston
Texas
J. B. Collins
Eros
W. H. Ellis
J A. Hennessey
Vicksburg
Mississippi
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PF. ¢ Massey
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Board of Erectors
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P. C. Mosley
W. F. Midsaps
K. H. Oliver
J. M. Collins
C. Bondurant
B. Collins
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A. Hennesyay
P. C. Mosley Witnacene
State of Louisiana
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Stubbs Estate posted after fatal cow wounding by trespassers
Guy P. Stubbs issues a posted notice warning hunters not to trespass on the Stubbs Estate and his property on the King place. The warning follows a fatal wounding of a valuable cow by unknown trespassing hunters last week under strict penalty of the law.
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King Place
Guy P. Stubbs
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