Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1910 — Notice of Ditch Petition. [ARTICLE]

Notice of Ditch Petition.

State of Indiana,) White County, ) 8 ' White Circuit Court, February Term, 1910 In the matter of the petition of Christian Stoller, et al, for drainage. Notice of the filing, pendency anu docketing of petition. To Noah Moser, Leopold St. Pierre, Thomas N. Boicourt, Peter N. Garber, Samuel B. Hirstein, Isaac F. Nordyke, Eben H. Wolcott, Benedict Moser, John B. Moser, George Turner. You and each of you are hereby notified that the undersigned petitioners have filed in the White Circuit Court of Indiana their petition for the drainage of lands owned by them in White County, Indiana, fully described in said petition by means of the following describeu ditches, which they ask to be established and constructed: Ist. Beginning at a point on tne north line of the railroad right-of-way of the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company, about sixty (60) rods west of the east line of Section 28, Township twenty-seven (27) nortn, Range six (6) west, in Jasper County, Indiana, from thence following a variable course in a general easterly direction over the best and most practicable route for said ditch, to a point about thirty (30) rods south of the north-west corner of the east half of the south-east quarter of Section twenty-seven (27), Township twenty-seven (27) north, Range six (6) west, in White County, Indiana, and there to connect with the head of a public ditch known as the E. L. Dibell ditch, and thence tn a general north-easterly direction, following as nearly as practicable the route of the said E. L. Dibell ditch to a point about ninety (90) rods south and about eighty-five (85) rods east of the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), Township twenty-seven (27) north, Range five ,(5) west, in White County, Indiana, to the mouth oif a tile ditch known as the Pugh ditch. To this point petitioners respectfully ask that said proposed ditch be constructed of drain tile of sufficient capacity; then from this last mentioned point, by a construction of an open ditch of sufficient capacity following tbs route of the said E. L. Dibell ditch to a general easterly direction through Sections nineteen (19), twenty (20), twenty-one (21, twenty-two (22) and to a point near the southeast corner of the north-west quarter of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-three (28), Town-

ship twenty-seven (27) north, Range five (5) west, in Wlhite County, Indiana, and there to terminate and empty in a large dredge ditch known as the Eli Hoagland et al (or Monon) ditch, into which said proposed ditch will empty and will have a good and sufficient outlet. 2nd. Also by the construction of Branch No. 1 to the main proposed ditch to be constructed of drain tile of sufficient capacity, beginning at a point twenty-five (25) feet south and sixty-three (63) rods and eleven (11) feet west of the north-east corner of the northeast quarter of Section twenty-seveu (27), Township twenty-seven (27) north, Range six (6) west, in White County, Indiana, thence following the course of Branch No. 1 of said E. L. Dibell ditch in a general northerly direction to a point about eighty (80) rods west and thirty (30) rods north of the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section tweny-two (22) in last mentioned Township and Range, thence in a general south-easterly direction to a point about thirty (30) rods east and about eighty (80) rods north of the south-west corner of Sectton twenty-four (24), Township twenty-seven (27) north, Range six (6) west, in White County, Indiana, and there to terminate in the main proposed ditch, where she same will have a good and sufficient outlet.

3d. Also by the construction oi' Branch No. 1 of Branch No. 1 to said main proposed ditch to be constructed of tile of sufficient capacity, beginning thirty (30) rode south and ten (10) rods east of the northwest corner of the north-west quarter of the north-east quarter of Section twenty-three (23), Township twenty-seven (27) north, Range six (6) west, in White County, Indiana, thence in a general south-easterly direction a distance of eleven hundred and ten (1,110) feet, and there to terminate in Branch No. 1 of said proposed ditch, where the same will have a good and sufficient outlet. 4th. Also by the construction of Branch No. 2 of said main proposed ditch, to be constructed of tile of sufficient capacity, beginning at a point about twenty (20) feet east and eighty (80) rods north of the south-west corner bt Section twen-ty-eight (28), Township twentyseven (27) north, Range five (5) west in White County, Indiana, thence In a general north-easterly direction following the best and moat practicable route, to a point about eighty (80) rode south and eighty (80) rods west of the northeast corner of Section twenty-one (21), Township twenty-seven (271 north, Range five (5) west, in White County, Indiana, and there terminate in the main proposed ditch, where the same will have a good and sufficient outlet. And it, is alleged in said petition

that certain lands owned by you in Jasper County, Indiana, and In White County, Indiana, and fully described in said petition will be affected by the drainage prayed for in said petition. You are further notified that said petition is now pending in said White Circuit Court of Indiana, and that the same has been set for hearing and docketing, and will be heard and docketed in said Court on the 25th day of April 1910. Dated this 17th day of February, 1910. Christian Stoller, Joseph ETnond, August Emond, Victor Leßeau, Mary E. McDuffie, Frederick McDuffie, Grant Pollock, Hendrick Swygman, Petitioners. M. B. Beard, attorney for petitioners.