Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1876 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

LEGAL NOTICES. Notice to non-residents.— state of Indiana, Jasper County, ss: In the Circuit Court, September Term, 1876. Jared Benjamin vs, John G. York, Noble J. York, Jane C. York and Jonathan Edwards, Trustee of the Equitable Trust Company, New London, Connecticut. Complaint No. 1,137. Now cornea the plaintiff, by Thompson A Bro., attorneys, and flies his complaint herein, together with an affidavit that said defendant, Jonathan Edwards, Trustee of the Equitable Trust Company, of New London, Connecticut, is not a resident of the State of Indiana; notice is therefore hereby given said defendant, that unless he be and appear on the second day of the next term of the Jasper Circuit Court, to be holden on the 4th Monday of September, A. D. 1876, at the Court House in Rensselaer in said county and state, and answer or demur to said complaint, the same will be bear! and determined in his absence. Witness my name and the seal of Asaid court affixed, at Rensselaer this ( Jl'th day of July. A. D. 1876. CHARLES 11. PRICE, Clerk of JasperOircuit Court. Thompson & Bro., Att’ys for ITff. 44-3 t. OTICE TO NONRESIDENTS.—State of Indiana, Jasper County, ss: In the Jasper Circuit Court, September Term, 1876. Elizabeth Pritchard, John T. Pritchard, Emily J. Nowels and George 8. Nowels vs. William D. Pritchard, Joseph McKay, Sarah McKay, Cyrus McKay, ft al. Complaint No. 1,186. Now come the plaintiffs, by Thompson A Bro. attorneys, and file their complaint herein, together with an affidavit that said defendants Joseph McKay, Sarah McKay and Cyrus McKay are necessary parties defendant in this action for partition of real estate, and are nonresidents of tneKbtate of Indiana; notice is therefore hereby given said defendants that unless they be and appear on the second day of the next term of the Jasper Circuit Court, commencing on the fourth Monday of September, A. D. 1876, at the Court House in Rensselaer in said county and state, and answer or demur to said comfilaint the same will be heard and determined n their absence. Witness my name and the seal of /<s»<T«\said court affixed, at Rensselaer this ( JUth day of Julv, A. D. 1876. CHARLES H< PRICE, Clerk of Jasper Circuit Court. Thompson A Bro. attys for pltffs. 44-3 Notice to non-residents.— state of Indiana, Jasper county, ss: In the Circuit Court, September Term, 1876. Coiqplaint No. 1,124. Simon P. Thompson vs. Charles Jouvenat, Mary C. Jouvenat. William 8. Jackson, Jackson, wife of William 8. Jackson, Moses Me Chain and Caroline McClkht, Now comes the plaintiff aWt presents t» the Court his complaint herein, together with an affidavit that said defendants William 8. Jackson and Jackson, his wife, are not residents of the State of Indiana ; wherefore, by order of said Court, at the Mav, 1876. term thereof, notice is hereby given said defendants William 8. Jackson ana Jackson, his wife, that unless they be and appear on the second day of the next term of the said Court, to be holden on the fourth Monday of September, A. D. 1876. at the Court House in Rensselaer, in said county and state, and answer or demur to said complaint, the same will be heard and determined in their absence. Witness my name and the seal of TJAsaid Court affixed, at Rensselaer this ( ) 11th day of July, A. D. 1876. CHARLES H. PRICE, 48-8 • • Clerk of Jasper Circuit Court. ATOTICE OF SURVEY.—Benjamin Martin, 11 Isaac Miller, Charles R. Lyon, Alran P. Bowan, Jane B. Smith, Simon P. Thompson, Joseph A. Williams, 8. A. Williams and Nancy J. Bur get will take notice that I will, on Monday, July 31, 1876, proceed with the Surveyor of Jasper county, Indiana, to make a legal survey of section nineteen (19), township thirty (80) north, of range six (6) west, in said county and state, in all respects according to law. CLARK McCOLLY. D. B. Miller, S. J. C. 41-3 t. TO BBIDGE BUILDERS. Auditor’s Office, Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, July Ist, 1876. Notice is hereby given that sealed proposals will be received at this office until 10 o’clock a. m. on the fifth (5) day of September, 1876, to furnish all material and build a pile bridge over the Iroquois river at the crossing known as the “Lamson Ford,” about six miles southwest of Rensselaer, according to the following specifications, to-wit:

Length of the bridge, one hundred and seventy-five (175) feet; reserving the right to extend the same if needed. Roadway twelve (12) feet. Bents to be composed of three (3) piles and a cap, and to be placed fifteen (15) feet apart from center to center of caps, and to be braced by a two by ten (2x10) inch plank bolted to each pile and extending from the tops of the pile at one end of bent to the pile at the other end of same bent, near the surface of the water, the two braces required to each bent to be on opposite sides of such bent. Piles to be at least twelve (12) inches in diameter under the caps, aud joined to caps by tenon and mortise- of three by twelve (3x12) inches, and six (6) inches deep, fastened

by a one and one-fourth (1|) inches sound oak pin; piles to be cut from li re trees, peeled, and driven until the settlement does not exceed three (3) inches with the stroke of a seventeen hundred (1700) pound hammer, falling twenty-five (25) feet, or in the event of a lighter hammer being used, the height of fall to be increased to give an equivalent to the above; piles to be five and one-half (51) feet apart. Caps to be nine by twelve (9x12) inches and fourteen (14) feet long. Joists to be three by twelve (3x12) inches and sixteen (13) feet long, placed two (2) feet apart from center to center. Floor to be two (2) inch plank well spiked to the joists. Guards—posts to be' four by four (4x4) inches, and four (4) feet long, let into caps and spiked with sixty (60) penny nails. Railing to be four by four (4x4) inches, spiked on the posts. Plank to be one (1) inch thick, and four* teen (14) inches Wide, spiked on the inSide of posts, under the rails. All timber and lumber to be of sound white oak, or burr oak, and free from wind-shakes or cheeks. The bridge, when completed, to be four (4) feet above high water mark. The whole ts be completed in a substantial and work-man-like manner, and to the acceptance of this board, and paid for when so completed and accepted. To be completed at a time agreed upon by the board and the contractor, when the contract shall be awarded. The board reserve the right to rqject any and all propositions. Probable length qf piles, sixteen (16) or eighteen (18) feet. By order of the Board of oqmmissioned of Jasper County. ; HENRY A. BARKLEY, 42-6 t, Auditor Jasper Coipty.