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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1916
Page
3
After the Civil War Kentucky Colonel Underwood pays for a negro servant’s marriage license. The servant reveals the certificate lists the wrong bride. The Colonel must buy a new license, adding another dollar and fifty cents, but the servant says there’s no dollar and a half difference between the two brides.
A German note admits the submarine sank the British vessel Marina with six Americans lost. Washington weighs whether Marina was a private ship or a belligerent transport and asks for information, as officials prepare possible action while awaiting affidavits and legal rulings.
Fragmentary OCR reading mentions general tonic Grove's Old Sandan Grove and claims tonic benefits with quinine and iron. It references malaria and blood, but the copy is garbled with stray letters and nonsensical phrases. No clear event or identifiable entities beyond generic tonic product terms.
The partnership of T. C. Lee and G. Blair Bivens is dissolved by mutual consent. Curtis L. Bivens buys T. C. Lee’s interest and will run the business at the old stand as Bivens Brothers. All debts to T. C. Lee & Company should be settled with Bivens Brothers. Dated November 1916.
By power of sale in a 1913 deed of trust F A Hasty and J W Hasty defaulted on a note. The trustee will sell at public auction at noon on Monday December 18 1916 at the Monroe courthouse to the highest bidder for cash. The property, 100 acres in Marshville Township Union County NC, traces from railroad to Lick Branch with described bounds and is not the land conveyed to F Hasty by Austin in 1896.
North Carolina Union County notice of summons in a divorce action J H Yandle plaintiff vs Belle Yandle defendant. Case filed in Superior Court to annul bonds of matrimony on adultery grounds. Defendant must appear at term beginning five Mondays before March 1 1917 in Monroe NC and plead. Dated October 26 1916. R W Lemmond Clerk.
Public auction to the highest cash bidder on December 16, 1916, at twelve o'clock at the Monroe courthouse. The sale includes 103 acres in New Salem township on Stogal branch, bounded by John Stewart Hampton Brooks Jacob Thomas and Jas Spears, with Cornelia Sikes infant’s one fifth interest retained and the deed of trust noted. John C. Sikes as trustee with Redwine & Sikes attorneys.
Public auction to sell the real estate of T. E. Craig in Jackson township Union county North Carolina on January 1 1917 at noon. Property lies near Waxhaw bounded by A W Heath estate and other lines forming about one fourth acre. Mortgagee AVIS mortgagee Stack Parker attorneys Te Geistee. sale to satisfy mortgage default.
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