NOTICE BY PUBLICATION
To M.F. Piatt, Anna Holtsclaw (last known address Sardis, O. R. F. D.), Wilbur Graydon Holtsclaw (last known address Rt. 4, Woodsfield, OH 43793), and Alice Boggs Holtsclaw, along with their unknown heirs, devisees, executors, administrators, relicts, next of kin, successors and assigns, if any, whose identities and addresses are all unknown; you are hereby notified that you have been named as a defendant in a legal action entitled Claugus Family Farm & Forests, L.P. v. M.F. Piatt, et al. This action has been assigned case number 2023-082 and is pending before Judge Selmon in the Court of Common Pleas of Monroe County, Ohio at 101 N. Main Street #33, Woodsfield, Ohio 43793.
The object of Plaintiff’s complaint is to obtain a court order declaring that any interest that defendants might be able to otherwise claim under a royalty conveyance recorded at Monroe County Deed Volume 30, Page 140, concerning one half of the oil and gas royalties relating to 40 acres (more or less), has been extinguished by operation of law. Plaintiff’s Complaint identifies you as a defendant having potential interest in the royalties conveyed in the referenced document.
You are hereby required to answer the Complaint within 28 days after the last publication of this notice, which will be published once each week for six successive weeks. The last publication will be made August 31, 2023 and the 28 days for answer will commence on that date.
If you fail to answer or otherwise respond as permitted by the Ohio Rules of Civil Procedure within the time state, judgment will be entered granting relief requested in the Complaint.
Dated: 7/18/2023
Respectfully submitted,
CRITCHFIELD, CRITCHFIELD & JOHNSON, LTD.
By: Andrew P. Lycans (S.Ct. #0077230)
225 North Market Street, P.O. Box 599
Wooster, OH 44691
Phone: 330-264-4444; Fax: 330-263-9278
E-mail: lycans@ccj.com
Attorney for Plaintiff
July 27, August 3, 10, 17, 24, 31, 2023
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LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF APPLICATION
Gulfport Appalachia, LLC (“Gulfport”), a Delaware corporation with an address of 713 Market Drive, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73114, hereby gives Notice pursuant to ORC 1509.28 that Gulfport has filed an application with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Oil & Gas Resources Management (“Division”) requesting an order from the Chief to allow for unit operation (“Unitization”) of certain contiguous properties in Wayne Township, Belmont County and Sunsbury Township, Monroe County, to form a drilling unit to be known as the Westhawk II Unit (the “Unit Area”).
Property records in Belmont and Monroe Counties depict the following mineral interest & possible parties owning in these tracts:
46-00014.000: Lisa Jo Jenewein
46-00382.000: Lauren Mead, Donald Hobbs, Elizabeth Moyer, Barbara M. Bausch and Robert A. Culbert, Jr
25-001003.0000: Known and Unknown Heirs, Successors, and Assigns of Grace Saffield nka Grace Mobley, deceased
25-001009.0000: Thomas Dick
25-001017.0000: Alicia D. Benson
25-001018.0000: WesBanco Bank, Inc.
24-003012.2000 and 24-003030.0000: Estate of Fred Tschappat and Linda Tschappat, deceased
25-002032.2000: Randy J. Randall and Rebecca A. Randall
25-003002.1000 & 25-003001.1000: Shawn M. Benson
If you would like to attend this hearing, please go to https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-teams/join-a-meeting, click on Join and enter the following meeting information: Meeting ID is 242 327 256 367; Passcode is 69p2ZD. You may also listen to and participate in the hearing by phone by following the instructions detailed below: Phone Number is +1 614-721-2972 United States Toll; Phone Conference ID is 981 222 969#. Service by publication shall be complete upon the expiration of four weeks after the date of the first publication of this notice.
The date of the first publication of this notice is August 10, 2023. The date of last publication is August 31, 2023. The parties, their representatives, & their successors in interest listed above are hereby notified that the Division has scheduled a virtual hearing for Wednesday, September 27, 2023, via Webex at 11:30 a.m. est. Participants may also dial in via phone and enter the meeting access code. For further information regarding this hearing, please visit the Division of Oil & Gas Resources Management’s website at http://oil&gas.ohiodnr.gov/unitization.
August 10, 17, 24, 31, 2023
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NOTICE TO DELINQUENT TAXPAYERS IN MONROE COUNTY
PUBLICATION OF DELINQUENT
MANUFACTURED HOME TAX LIST
Pursuant to Ohio Revised Code, Section 4503.06, notice is hereby given of forthcoming publication and certification, on September 7th and September 14th, 2023, of the delinquent manufactured home tax list of Monroe County.
Said list will contain the name of the most current owner and any unpaid tax and penalties. The certification shall constitute a lien and interest charges will accrue on accounts remaining unpaid after the last day of November.
Delinquent taxes may be paid at the Monroe County Treasurer’s Office 101 N. Main St. Room 21, Woodsfield, OH 43793, Monday thru Friday (except holidays) 8:00 am till 4:00 pm.
Taxpayers who are unable to make full payments may enter in a written agreement (installment plan) with the County Treasurer’s to pay unpaid taxes.
Denise Stoneking,
Monroe County Auditor
August 17, 24, 2023
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PUBLIC NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that as of June 12, 2023, there exists a vacancy on the board of trustees of Monroe Water System, a regional water district organized and operating under Ohio Revised Code Chapter 6119. All persons interested in being appointed to the Board of Trustees should submit a Letter of Interest and a resume to the Board of Trustees, Monroe Water Systems, P.O. Box 15, Laings, OH 43752 no later than September 11, 2023 by 3:00 p.m.
August 24, 28, 31, September 4, 7, 11, 2023
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IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
MONROE COUNTY, OHIO
JOHN M. CROTHERS, et al., Plaintiffs, v. GARY PYLES, et al., Defendants.
Case No.: 2021-202
Judge Julie R. Selmon
NOTICE BY PUBLICATION
TO: I.T. Pyles, John L. Pyles, Brady O. Byles, Samuel S. Pyles, James T. Pyles, Emmet C. Pyles, Irena B. Schmoker, W.B. Pyles, Brian Cettomai, Roy Hansen, John Lewis, Mary Long, Deanna Saylor, Joseph Pastore, John Guenther, John Fodor, Janine Pyles, Emma E. Pyles, Jennie Pyles, Henry Schmoker, Margaret Pyles, Eunice Pyles, Edna Pyles Moore, Franklin L. Pyles, Bertha Pyles, Floyd W. Pyles, Bessie Pyles, Harold Pyles, Virginia Pyles, Olga Pyles Ingler, Bernard Pyles, Coral Pyles, Dorothy Pyles Ridlen, Frank Archer Moore, Doris Moore, Barbara Ann Pyles Lewis, Jane L. Pyles Eberhardt, Frank Eberhardt, Emma Lou Pennington, Kathy Lewis Rockwood, Seth L. Rockwood, Margaret Winter, Paul O. Pyles, Minnie H. Pyles, James L. Pyles, Bertha Pyles, Lela Pyles Jeffers, Charles Jeffers, Roscoe Pyles, Howard Pyles, Eileen Pyles Adams, Lloyd Adams, Kenneth Pyles, Marilyn Pyles, Dorothy Pyles Charbono, James Pyles, Samuel Pyles, Lorraine Jeffers Workman, F. Eugene Jeffers, Wayne Pyles, Rick Pyles, Brenda Pyles Cettomai, Deborah Brennan, Raymond Brennan, Samuel Pyles, Carl Pyles, Arthur Pyles, Mary Pyles, John C. Pyles, Donald J. Pyles, Donna Pyles, Jean Pyles Ready, Marilyn Pyles, Vincent Ready, Alva Schmoker, Beryl Schmoker, Arthur Schmoker, Alvin Earle Schmoker, Rae Schmoker, John H. Pyles, Ida Pyles, Charles E. Pyles, Addie Pyles, Virginia Pyles Imhoff, Virgil Imhoff, Willard D. Pyles, Floyd D. Pyles, Augusta Pyles, Sylvia Pyles Melrose, Emmet H. Pyles, Edna Pyles, Kathie Duncan, Emmett Wayne Melrose, Connie Melrose Boggs, Larry Pyles, Pearl Pyles Duncanson, Orville Pyles, Lulu McMahon, Charles McMahon, John Pyles, William Pyles, Betty Pyles, Frank Pyles, Betty Pyles, Elizabeth Redpath, George McMahon, Reba McMahon, Mary Long, Harold McMahon, John Pyles, Charles Pyles, Mary Wilkinson, Patricia Anderson, J. Morgan Pyles, Rhoda Schoeppner, George Redpath, Joyce Voight, Walter Schoeppner, Clarence Pyles, Chris Pyles, Harvey Pyles, Webster Pyles, Ava Edison Pyles, Mary Pyles, Ada Bertig, Mary Pyles Lee, Frances X. Pyles, Eva Pyles, Emmet Pyles, William McAndrews, Bonnie McAndrews, Geraldo Pastore, Rose Pastore, John Pastore, Jeannette Pastore, Angelina Pastore, Joseph Pastore, Arllys Pastore, Antonette Fodor, Eugene Fodor, Walter Piccone, William Piccone, Jacqueline Stokes, Beverly Grice, Conrad Pennington, Gladys Roberts, Mary Shuskey, Alfred Shuskey, Lisa Gulley, Idol Brittain, Joy Jacks, Rosemary Nixon, Vicki Lever, Donna Brown, Kenneth Young, Forrest Swank, Kellie Morrison, Honour Swank, Roger Low, Lori Krause, Kathy Russ, Dawn Merryman, Joyce Kellogg, Debbie Zurek, Tammy Merryman, Theresa Abernathy, Carolyn Shields, John Blue, David Sayer, Sharon Covington, Margarette Smith, Steve Williams, Jerry Williams, Teena Emerson, Neil Ingraham, Donna Olmstead, Michael Sieck, George Brown, Stephan Bratt, Frederick Jones, Richard Jones, Barbara Hanlon, Warren Hotlzman, Suzanne Lowe, Gary Snyder, Patricia Norton, Cheryl Gunthridge, Michael Varley, Teresa Williams, Rose Frizell, William Frizzell, Lois Frizzell, Elizabeth McNally, Helen Frichthofen, Opal Johnson, Tom Hoover, David Holloway, Pauline Kootz, Brenda Nickerson, Ruth Shuskey, Alfred Shuskey, Mary Pruitt, Mary Heller, Carroll Heller, Jean Marie Heller, Susan Smith, George May, Dottie May, John May, Mae May, Eugene May, Kenneth May, Ralph Ellingson, Farris Ellington, Cordelia Nordyke, Marlene Story, Grant Ellington, Vernon Brittain, Charles Brittain, Ralph Hobbs, Peggy Smith, Lena Salisbury, James Salisbury, Juanita Chick, Betty Jackson, Betty Osborne, Anna Lever, William Lever, William Lever, Jr., Forest Swank, Betty Swank, Otto Swank, Virginia Swank, Mark Brown, Dee Ann Miller, Cecil Swank, Lynda Swank, Rosemary Jones, Virginia Mangan, Sherri Krause, Season Peters, Richard Low, Rex Krause, Ronnie Mangan, Gilman Merryman, Mary Merryman, Talma Walker, Winton Merryman, Robert Merryman, Samuel Merryman, Vincent Merryman, Kathryn Merryman, Bernetta Blue, Claude Belshe, Dorothy Covington, Chris Belshe, Bessie Brewer, Lawrence Brewer, Lois Anzivino, Dortha Graves, Norma Sechrist, Lowell Sechrist, Francis Ludden, Harvey Ludden, Ralph Ludden, Adrian Ludden, Reta Stickler, Beaulah Ingraham, Christine Lewis, Ramah Ribeiro, Antonio Ribeiro, Charles Ludden, Themla Ludden, Sarah Allen, Jack Allen, Elizabeth Gettier, Eleanor Brown, Mary Seney, John Seney, Richard Seney, C. Griffith Bratt, Mary Bratt, Mary Steffens, Else Watkins, Lucille Eliasberg, Jeanne Ramsen, John Ramsen, Charles Hotlzman, Linda Esposito, Evelyn Petralia, Marietta Guenther, Angelo Pastore, Frances Pastore, Annette Petrocco, Patricia McEvoy, Eleanor Schmoker Hansen, Helen Pyles, Scott Brooking, Mike Reidy, Anabelle Collins, Mary E. Collins, Judith Taddonio, and their unknown heirs, spouses, devisees, legatees, executors, administrators, relicts, next of kin, and assigns.
You are hereby notified that you have been named as Defendants in a legal action entitled John M. Crothers, et al. v. Gary Pyles, et al. This action has been assigned Case No. 2021-202, and is pending in the Court of Common Pleas of Monroe County, Woodsfield, Ohio, before the Honorable Judge Julie R. Selmon. On August 2, 2021, Defendants, Gary Pyles, Alan Schmoker, Bruce Adams, Melvin Boggs, Dina Conner, Diane Crawford, Sarah Davis, Donna Dietz, Francine Eakins, Danette Flores, Denise Harter, Linda Hutchison, Carol Kemnitzer, Carolyn King, Connie King, Patty Kline, Tina Koslosky, Susan Lee, Bruce Lewis, Marc Londo, William Londo, Bonnie McGinnis, Michell Titera, Patrick Maxwell, Sean Maxwell, Cynthia Maxwell, Michael Titera, Patrick Maxwell, next friend and natural guardian of Peyton Maxwell, a minor, Sean Maxwell, next friend and natural guardian of Richard Maxwell, a minor, Frank Moore, Linda Myers, Linda Owsley, Gail Pangborn, Eva Pastore, Betty Pyles, Earl Pyles, Ryan S. Pyles, Administrator of the estate of Jeffrey Pyles, deceased, Sherman Pyles, Terry Pyles, Maxine Rogers, Mary Rutledge, Cynthia Snyder, James Anderson, Eileen Vincent, Linda Melrose, Kevin Pyles, Larry Adams, Linda Eastin, Marilyn Sue Carmichael, Jeanette Ramaglia, Robert Villers, Terry Villers, Sharon Collins, Jeanne C. Schmoker, William O. Pyles, Jr., Eileen D. Walker, aka Jan Walker, Duane Duncanson, Eugene Duncanson, Brandi Frazier, Mary Trent, Susan Ready, Dennis Pyles, Maryann Maston, Brandon Duncan, Julie Zadigan, Charles Pyles, Randy Villers, Robert Schiemann, Trustee of the Virginia Mae Jeffers Living Trust dated October 10, 2000, Robert Barker, and Betty McAndrews, filed a Counterclaim against you.
The object of the Counterclaim is to quiet title to the Defendants’ oil and gas rights in the following described real estate:
Situate in the County of Monroe County in the State of Ohio and in the Township of Salem, and known as the North east quarter of the North west quarter of Section No. Ten, Township No. Three, Range No. Four, containing forty acres be the same more or less. Also one other tract of land Situate in Salem Township, Monroe County, Ohio, and described as follows: Section Eleven, Range Four, Township Three, a part of the South East quarter of the South west quarter; Commencing for the same at the South west corner of the South East quarter of the South West quarter; Thence North four rods to the Woodsfield Road; Thence with said Road a North East direction eighteen rods to a Stone; Thence a Southerly direction eighteen rods to the Section line; Thence with said section line eight rods west to the place of beginning, containing one half acre.
You are hereby required to answer the Counterclaim within 28 days after the last publication of this Notice, which will be published once each week for six (6) successive weeks. The last publication will be made on September 28, 2023, and the 28 days for an answer by you will commence on that date. You must file an answer to the Counterclaim with the Clerk of the Monroe County Common Pleas Court, Monroe County Courthouse, 101 North Main Street – Room 26, Woodsfield, Ohio 43793, and serve a copy on Daniel P. Corcoran, THEISEN BROCK, a legal professional association, 424 Second Street, Marietta, Ohio 45750.
In the case of your failure to answer or otherwise respond as required by the Ohio Rules of Civil Procedure, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Counterclaim.
August 15, 2023
Beth Ann Rose, Clerk of the Monroe County Court of Common Pleas
Respectfully submitted,
Daniel P. Corcoran (0083512)
THEISEN BROCK, a legal professional association
424 Second Street
Marietta, Ohio 45750
Telephone: 740.373.5455
Telecopier: 740.373.4409
corcoran@theisenbrock.com
Counsel for Defendants, Gary Pyles, Alan Schmoker, Bruce Adams, Melvin Boggs, Dina Conner, Diane Crawford, Sarah Davis, Donna Dietz, Francine Eakins, Danette Flores, Denise Harter, Linda Hutchison, Carol Kemnitzer, Carolyn King, Connie King, Patty Kline, Tina Koslosky, Susan Lee, Bruce Lewis, Marc Londo, William Londo, Bonnie McGinnis, Michell Titera, Patrick Maxwell, Sean Maxwell, Cynthia Maxwell, Michael Titera, Patrick Maxwell, next friend and natural guardian of Peyton Maxwell, a minor, Sean Maxwell, next friend and natural guardian of Richard Maxwell, a minor, Frank Moore, Linda Myers, Linda Owsley, Gail Pangborn, Eva Pastore, Betty Pyles, Earl Pyles, Ryan S. Pyles, Administrator of the estate of Jeffrey Pyles, deceased, Sherman Pyles, Terry Pyles, Maxine Rogers, Mary Rutledge, Cynthia Snyder, James Anderson, Eileen Vincent, Linda Melrose, Kevin Pyles, Larry Adams, Linda Eastin, Marilyn Sue Carmichael, Jeanette Ramaglia, Robert Villers, Terry Villers, Sharon Collins, Jeanne C. Schmoker, William O. Pyles, Jr., Eileen D. Walker, aka Jan Walker, Duane Duncanson, Eugene Duncanson, Brandi Frazier, Mary Trent, Susan Ready, Dennis Pyles, Maryann Maston, Brandon Duncan, Julie Zadigan, Charles Pyles, Randy Villers, Robert Schiemann, Trustee of the Virginia Mae Jeffers Living Trust dated October 10, 2000, Robert Barker, and Betty McAndrews
August 24, 31, September 7, 14, 21, 28, 2023
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