Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1908 — Notice of Filing of Amended Ditch Petition. [ARTICLE]

Notice of Filing of Amended Ditch Petition.

State of Indiana, County of Jasper,SS. In the Jasper Circuit Court, to April Term, 1908. In the matter of the Petition of J. W. Heilscher, et al, for Open Drain. jZZ Cause No. 94. To Frank W. Austin, S. A. Austin, Jr., Mrs. Joseph Austin, Olive L. Austin, Ora L. Austin, Bertha Cockburn, John W. Davisson, Emma Davisson, Maria T; Biggs. Goldie Biggs, Daisy L. Erbes. Henry Finecamp, C. F. Morgan, Alonzo Wheeler, C. V. Jones, The Chicago & Eastern Illinois R. R. Co , Henry Ferrell, John S. Knox, Mark j Knapp, Clara Christena Keen, the Chicago & Wabash Valley Railroad Company, Ernest W. Rudelius, William D- Meyers, John Misch, Willie E. McNeil, Thomas K. O’Byrne, Margaret O’Byrne, W. S. Potter, Fannie Potter, Ira Shoemaker, Herman Joseph Alerding, F. Guy Barnard, Elijah Grantham, Benjamin J. Gifford, Ella R. Stuppy and John A. Williams. John W. CaLoway, Henry G. Calloway, Wm. H. Bryan, Wm. B. Austin, you and each of you are hereby notified that the petitioners in the above er titled cause have filed their amend* petition in the office of the Clerk of the Ja per Circuit Court, and that said amended petition prays for the location and construction of an open ditch and drain upon and alongthe following described route, to-wit: Commencing at a point on the East line of the, West one-half (1-2) of the North-east Quarter (1-4) of Section Eighteen (18) Township Thirty-one (31) North, Range Six (6) West, in Jasper Connty, Indiana, and immediately North of the right of way of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad Company, and running thence North to the Center line of Section Seven (7), above Township and Range, thence East One-fourth (1-4) mile, to the source of the old Tanner Ditch, thence East along the line of the Tanner Ditch to a point about thirty {3O) rods West of the right of way, of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad, thence in a northeasterly direction parallel to the said right of Way and following the line of said Tanner ditch wherever practical to a point about thirty (30) rods north of the center of «the southeast quarter (1-4) of Section Four (4), Township Thirty-one (31) North, Range Six (6) West, thence East to the East boundary line of said Section Four, thence northeasterly across Section Three (3), Township Thirty-one (31) Nortfy, Range Six (6) West, and Sections Thirty-five (35) and Twenty-six (26), To wnship Thirty-two (32) North, Range Six i(6) West, along the line of the old Tanner D tch to the line of the Chicago Indiana and Southern Railroad at a point about Twenty (20) rods West of the East line of said Section Twenty-six (26) where the proposed drain will have a good and sufficient outlet in the Wheatfield Ditch, already constructed. That said amended petition is now pending and your lands are described therein as being affected. J. W. HEILSCHER, ET AL. Petitioners. ’ Attest C. C. Warner Clerk Jasper Circuit Court. Abraham Halleck, Attorney for Petitioners.