The Dodge County News

Age: 66

Died: Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Arrangements: Mathis Funeral Home of Cochran was in charge of arrangements.

Age: 81

Died: Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Arrangements: Mathis Funeral Home of Cochran was in charge of arrangements.

Age: 58

Died: Saturday, November 29, 2014

Arrangements: Stokes-Southerland Funeral Home of Eastman was in charge of arrangements.

Age: 69

Died: Saturday, November 29, 2014

Arrangements: Stokes-Southerland Funeral Home of Eastman has charge of arrangements.

The Dodge County High School (DCHS) competition cheerleaders competed in the Georgia High School Association (GHSA) state sectionals and finals on November 14 and November 15, 2014 in Columbus. The squad finished in the top eight out of 24 teams at sectionals on Friday to advance to the finals on Saturday.
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It is post-season all-star time in high school softball. The region 1-AAA all-star teams have been released. Dodge had three players on the first and three more on the second team. Dodge’s coach Amanda Mullis was named coach of the year and Haley Holloway was named pitcher of the year.
Coach Mullis lead the Lady Indians to a 29 and 10 record and their third straight region championship. This one was much tougher than the first two as Pierce and Tattnall County both joined Dodge in Columbus in the final eight. This is the best region in South Georgia by far.
Holloway had a great 2014 on the mound for the Lady Indians. The sophomore had a 15 and four record through region championship with an earned run average (ERA) of 0.94. She pitched a pair of shutouts in the region tournament. She pitched a complete game, three hit shutout over Tattnall County in the region championship game.
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I got a recorded phone call from Pat Boone doing a commercial for David Perdue, on behalf of the 60 Plus Association. I took his advice. Remember those polls showing Michelle Nunn Martin leading in the Senate Race?
“Ever notice that leftism is race obsessed?”
Daily.kenn.com
Yes, I have. It’s their stock in trade.
Wyoming has only one four-year college. It has had only one House member since statehood. Cynthia Lummis (R) is a good one. Her House district is the entire state of Wyoming.
Oregon voted no by around 2 to 1 on drivers licenses for illegal aliens. Maybe liberal-dominated Oregon has seen the light but I doubt it. Good for Oregon on this one.
Bumper sticker of the day-Keep your doctor and fire your Democrat Senator.
Remember the “Republican War on Women?” Remember abortion Barbie Wendy Davis (D) running for governor of Texas? Polls on October 25 showed her running 12 points behind-among women. Polls were fairly accurate this time on Ms. Davis.
In Georgia in 2008, the white vote (65% of the total) went 76% McCain and 23% Obama. The black vote (30% of the total) went 98% Obama and 2% McCain. Somehow whites are the racists?
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The Dodge County High School Indians traveled to Jefferson on Friday, November 21 to face one of their toughest opponents this year, the Jefferson Dragons, in the state playoffs. Dodge County entered the game ranked the number three seed for region 1-AAA with a nine and two record as Jefferson was ranked number one from region 8-AAA and a record of 11 and zero. This would be the first meeting of these two teams. Jefferson would come away the winners with a score of 27 to seven and advance in state play.
Jefferson had the home field advantage and their last home loss was in the middle of the 2011 season to Elbert County. The Dragons had not allowed more than 16 points in any game this season and Dodge would be held to seven points in the game.
The Indians were trying to reach the quarterfinals for the first time since 1999. Dodge entered this game after a 14 to three victory last week against Westside of Macon where the Indians were held to five first downs in the game.
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April Rudshaugen (center left) was named Miss Chieftain 2015 at the pageant held at the Magnolia Theatre on Saturday, November 22 in Eastman. Other award winner were (l-r) Jade Honeycutt, (4th runner up); Kylie Erwin, (People’s Choice Award and evening gown award); Madelyn Pruitt, (2nd runner up); April Rudshaugen, (Miss Chieftain 2015 and interview award); Jaycie Rollins, (1st runner up and talent award); Anna Kate Hickman, (3rd runner up); Brianna Sparrow, (Mrs. Gina Cook Award and Miss Congeniality); and Faith Hartley, (Miss Photogenic). (Photo by Emory Rogers Photography)

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NO­TICE OF SALE UN­DER POW­ER
GEOR­GIA, DODGE COUN­TY
By vir­tue of the pow­er of sale con­tained in the Deed to Se­cure Debt from W. H. (BIL­LY) MCRAE TO MER­CHANTS & CIT­I­ZENS BANK, dat­ed De­cem­ber 17, 1999, record­ed in Deed Book 342, pag­es 44-49, in the Of­fice of the Clerk of Su­pe­ri­or Court of Dodge Coun­ty, Geor­gia, con­vey­ing the prop­er­ty de­scribed here­i­naft­er to se­cure a Note in the origi­nal prin­ci­pal amount of $500,407.50, with in­ter­est there­on as set forth there­in, for a to­tal amount of $666,577.76 (as of Oc­tob­er 28, 2014) be­ing due, there will be sold at pub­lic out­cry to the high­est bid­der for cash, be­fore the Court­house door of Dodge Coun­ty, East­man, Geor­gia, dur­ing the le­gal hours of sale on the FIRST TUES­DAY IN DE­CEM­BER, 2014, the fol­low­ing de­scribed prop­er­ty, to-wit:
ALL THAT CER­TAIN TRACT OR PAR­CEL OF LAND CON­SIST­ING OF TWO HUNDRED FIF­TY-SEV­EN AND EIGHT TENTHS (257.8) ACR­ES OF LAND, MORE OR LESS, LY­ING AND BE­ING IN LAND LOTS 172 AND 173, IN THE 13TH LAND DIS­TRICT OF DODGE COUN­TY, GEOR­GIA, AND BE­ING MORE PAR­TICU­LAR­LY DE­SCRIBED AS FOL­LOWS: BE­GIN­NING AT THE NORTH CORN­ER OF LAND LOT 173 AND RUN ALONG THE NORTH­WEST LOT LINE SOUTH 44 DE­GREES WEST A DIS­TANCE OF 3,090 FEET TO THE WEST CORN­ER OF SAID LAND LOT; THENCE RUN ALONG THE SOUTH­WEST LOT LINE SOUTH 45 DE­GREES 20 MINUTES EAST A DIS­TANCE OF 3,088 FEET TO THE SOUTH CORN­ER OF SAID LAND LOT; THENCE RUN ALONG THE SOUTH­EAST LOT LINE NORTH 45 DE­GREES 40 MINUTES EAST A DIS­TANCE OF 400 FEET TO A POINT LO­CAT­ED IN THE CEN­TER OF THE EAST­MAN-MONT­GOMERY PUB­LIC ROAD; THENCE RUN ALONG THE CEN­TER LINE OF SAID ROAD SOUTH 82 DE­GREES 20 MINUTES EAST A DIS­TANCE OF 161 FEET AND SOUTH 63 DE­GREES 10 MINUTES EAST A DIS­TANCE OF 553 FEET TO THE NORTH­ER­LY RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE OF SAID ROAD; THENCE RUN ALONG SAID RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE SOUTH 83 DE­GREES 05 MINUTES EAST A DIS­TANCE OF 983 FEET; NORTH 89 DE­GREES EAST A DIS­TANCE OF 560 FEET AND SOUTH 89 DE­GREES 30 MINUTES EAST A DIS­TANCE OF 800 FEET TO THE RUN OF MILL CREEK; THENCE RUN ALONG THE RUN OF SAID CREEK IN A NORTH­WEST­ER­LY DI­REC­TION TO THE WEST­ER­LY CORN­ER OF PROP­ER­TY OF CON­TI­NEN­TAL CAN COM­PA­NY; THENCE RUN NORTH 44 DE­GREES EAST A DIS­TANCE OF 901 FEET TO THE NORTH­EAST­ER­LY LOT LINE OF LAND LOT 173; THENCE RUN ALONG SAID LOT LINE NORTH 46 DE­GREES WEST A DIS­TANCE OF 2,911 FEET TO SAID POINT OF BE­GIN­NING, AC­CORD­ING TO A PLAT OF SUR­VEY DAT­ED DE­CEM­BER, 1969, MADE BY JIM H. ROSS, SUR­VEYOR, SAID PLAT BE­ING RECORD­ED IN THE OF­FICE OF THE CLERK OF DODGE COUN­TY SU­PE­RI­OR COURT IN PLAT BOOK 8, PAGE 283, SAID PLAT, TO­GETH­ER WITH THE RECORD THERE­OF, BE­ING BY REF­ER­ENCE IN­COR­PO­RAT­ED HERE­IN AND MADE A PART HERE­OF. SAID TRACT IS THE SAME TRACT CON­VEYED TO BIL­LY W. WALK­ER AND W. H. (BIL­LY) MCRAE FROM CLIF­FORD A. BURCH, BY WAR­RAN­TY DEED, RECORD­ED ON FE­BRU­ARY 10, 1970, IN DEED BOOK 117, PAGE 301, IN THE OF­FICE OF THE CLERK
OF THE SU­PE­RI­OR COURT OF DODGE COUN­TY, GEOR­GIA.
The debt se­cured by said Deed to Se­cure Debt has been and is here­by de­clared due be­cause of non-pay­ment of the in­debt­ed­ness when due and in the man­ner pro­vid­ed in the Note and Deed to Se­cure Debt. The debt re­main­ing in de­fault, the sale will be made for the pur­pose of pay­ing the same and all ex­pens­es of sale, as pro­vid­ed in the Deed to Se­cure Debt and by law, in­clud­ing at­tor­ney’s fees, no­tice of int­ent to col­lect at­tor­ney’s fee hav­ing been given.
Said prop­er­ty will be sold sub­ject to any out­stand­ing ad valor­em tax­es, any as­ses­sments, liens, en­cum­branc­es, zon­ing or­di­nanc­es, re­stric­tions, cov­en­ants, and mat­ters of record su­pe­ri­or to the Deed to Se­cure Debt first set out above, spe­cif­i­cal­ly any breach of con­ser­va­tion use as­sess­ment of ag­ri­cul­tur­al prop­er­ty.
To the best knowl­edge and be­lief of the un­der­signed, the par­ty in pos­ses­sion of the prop­er­ty is The Wil­liam Hen­ry Mc­Rae Liv­ing Trust dat­ed Au­gust 11, 2006 (Re-Stated Janu­ary 16, 2012), or a ten­ant or ten­ants, and said prop­er­ty com­mon­ly has an ad­dress of JAY BIRD SPRINGS ROAD/WPA ROAD, CHAUN­CEY, GA 31011.
The sale will be con­duct­ed sub­ject (1) to con­fir­ma­tion that the sale is not pro­hibi­ted un­der the U.S. Bank­rupt­cy Code and (2) to fin­al con­fir­ma­tion and au­dit of the sta­tus of the loan with the hold­er of the Deed to Se­cure Debt.
THE MER­CHANTS &
CIT­I­ZENS BANK
AT­TOR­NEY IN FACT FOR
W. H. (BIL­LY) MCRAE
C. LEE CAN­NON, JR.
CAN­NON LAW FIRM, LLC
AT­TOR­NEYS FOR THE MER­CHANTS & CIT­I­ZENS BANK
POST OF­FICE BOX 270
MCRAE, GEOR­GIA 31055
PHONE - 229-868-6065
FAC­SI­MILE - 229-868-6063
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