Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1916 — Notice of the Filing and Docketing of Ditch Petition. [ARTICLE]

Notice of the Filing and Docketing of Ditch Petition.

State of Indiana, County of Jasper, ss. In the Commissioners’ Court to July Term, 1916. PETITION OF WILLIAM FOLGER ET AL, FOR A PUBLIC DRAIN. To Greenberry B. Lewis, Arthur R. Kresler, Minnie Grace Kresler, Rebecca F. Potts, Bruce Baker, O. Glenn Baker, Pearl Baker, Caroline Baker, Ruby Baker, Myrtle Baker, Nora Kiinberlin, Williard C. Baker, Carrie Baker, guardian of Vera and Mildred Baker, John Pi. Lewis, Isaac N. Lewis, Samuel R. Kershner, Martha M. Randle, Charles T. Randle, James Schaeffer, John F. Payne, William Folger, Joseph Wesley Pa-ice, Hugh O. Callender, Elizabeth J. Callender, Harvey Pierson, and Barkley Civil Township by Grant Davisson, Trustee, William Snedeker, Nelson Randle, guardian of George A. Baker:

You and each of you are hereby notified that on the sth day of June A. D., 1916, William Folger and others filed in the office of the county auditor of Jasper county, Indiana, their petition in duplicate and a bonds for costs, which said petition asks for the construction of a tile ditch for the purpose of draining the lands of the petitioners and lands which are shown by the transfer- books in the auditor’s office of Jasper county, Indiana, to belong to you and which lands likely to be affected by said proposed improvement are described in Said petition. Commencing at the outlet of the main line of the Mary M. Potts ditch and extending said main line a distance of about three hundred (300) feet where it will have a good and sufficient outlet in an already existing open ditch, and by the cleaning and repair of the lateral <o the main line of the Mary M. Potts ditch, by taking up, cleaning, repairing and relaying the tile in said lateral from the source of said lateral as originally constructed to a point in the line of said lateral about ten (10) feet west of the east line of the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section twenty-six (26), township thirty (30) north, range six (6) west in Jasper county, Indiana, and from this last described point by taking up the old tile and replacing them with 16-inch tile to the outlet ,of said lateral in the line of the main ditch which is at a point about forty-five (45) rods north and two hundred fifty (250) feet east of the northwest corner of the northeast quarter of section thirty-five (35), township thirty (30) north, of range six (6) west, in said county and state, but not connecting with said main line, and from this point continuing with 16-inch tile in a general northeasterly direction parallel with said main line of ditch to a point about three hundred (300) feet beyond the present outlet of the main ditch where said drain will have a good and sufficient outlet in an already existing open ditch. And by the construction of a 12-inch tile lateral to the lateral of the said Mary M. Potts ditch having its outlet in the lateral above described where the size of the tile is increased to 16-inch, and running from thence in a general southerly direction through the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section 26, crossing an east and west highway, thence south into the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section 35, all in township 30 north of range 6 west to where it will intercept two lines of tile ditch running east and west across the last described forty acres and by connecting said 12-inch tile with said two lines of tile running east and west as aforesaid. You and each of you are further notified that the petitioners have endorsed on their petition as the da£ for the docketing thereof the 3d day of July, 1916. WILLIAM FOLGER, Et Al., Petitioners. John A. Dunlap, Attorney for Petitioners. j-7-14