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Newspaper
The Weekly Echo
Location
Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1868
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR record notes a legal bid process with references to a bidder and a court writ. Names appear garbled, with mentions of California, a bidder, and a sale by auction. No clear date or outcomes emerge from the legible text.
A public sale of land described as Lot Five of One Township Ten South Nine West in the Paroisse of Calcasieu near Lake Charles on the Calcasien River, with improvements and 49 acres, proceeds by order of the Sheriff of Lake Charles. The sale, dated June 1868, aims to settle an estate and is offered to the highest bidder at public auction with the property detailed by bounds and adjoining owners.
Auctioneer will sell at the parish seat on Tuesday July 14 1868 the Rettan Land tract north of West Fork comprising about 400 acres and improvements, with stock including 75 head of horses and cattle, various farming implements, a cotton mill and mill house, a portion of undivided interest in the mill and real property, all tied to the Perkin estate. The sale includes numerous livestock, household goods, and the mill machinery, with terms of payment and ownership details set by the administrator.
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