Petition for Isabella School Association (1872)
Chancery Court, Benton Tennessee
August RAHT, Henry JORY, E. MUELLER, A.S. HOFFMAN, Henry ZISCH, citizens of Polk county, and J.E. RAHT, a citizen of Bradley county, Tennessee, ex parte.
Whereas the above named parties have filed their Petition in the Chancery Court at Benton, for the county of Polk and State of Tennessee, asking in behalf of themselves and associates to be incorporated under the name and style of the “ISABELLA SCHOOL ASSOCIATION” the object of which is to organize and establish a school for the promotion of education, &c. This, therefore, is to notify any and all persons who may desire to resist such incorporation to appear before the Chancery Court to be held for the county of Polk aforesaid, at the courthouse in Benton, on the 3d Monday in June next, and show cause if any they have, why letters of incorporation should not issue, or in default the petition will be proceeded with ex parte. It is ordered that this notice be published in the Cleveland Banner, a newspaper published in Cleveland, Tenn, for thirty days.
John WEBB, C&M
[originally published March 29, 1872- 30d press fee $5] (page 4, col 6)
Source: Cleveland Banner (Cleveland, TN); 26 April 1872. Available online at Google News Archive.