Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1908 — Page 6 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

NOTICE OP DITCH PETITION AND DOCKET TNG. State of Indiana, County of Benton, ss. In the Benton Circuit Court, to Octobber Term, 1908. In the Benton Circuit Court, to OctoJames H. Gilbert et al for a public ditch and drain in Giiboa Township, Benton County, Indiana, and Carpenter Township, Jasper County, Indiana. r— —Petition for Public Drain. To Sarah Blumier, Dina Blumier, Fred Shoenbeck, Kever Clymer. You are hereby notified that on the 14th day of August, A. D. 1908, one James H. Gilbert et al. filed their verified petition in duplicate in the office of the olerk of the Benton Circuit Court, at Fowler, Indiana, praying for the location and establishment of a certain public ditch and drain, part open and part tile, in Giiboa Township, Benton County, State of Indiana, and Carpenter Township, Jasper County, Indiana, thei general route of said drain being described in said above petition as follows: A public ditch and drain commencing on the public highway running east and west on the south side of section two (2) in township twentysix (26) north, of range seven (7) west in Benton County, Indiana, at a point about six (6) rods due east of the south-west corner of said section, and running thence through said section two (2) in a general northeasterly direction to the county line road between Eenton and Jasper Counties, State of Indiana, and intersecting said County line road at a point about sixty (60) rods due west of the north-east corner of said section two (2), thence running east on and along said County line road to the north-east corner of said section two (2), thence in a general northeasterly direction through the southwest quarter of section thirty-six (36) township twenty-seven (27) north, of range seven (7) west, in Carpenter township, Jasper County, Indiana, to a point about four (4) rods due east of the north-east corner of said south-west quarter, thence due east on the half section line dividing said section thirty-six (36) into north and south halves for a distance of about sixty (60) rods, where the same ends and terminates in a natural water course, known as “Carpenter Creek.’’ That the location and establishment of said drain will effect! your lands and real estate in Carpenter township, Jasper County, Indiana.

You are further notified that said petition in duplicate is now on file in the office qAthe Clerk of Benton Circuit Court dF Benton County, Indiana, and that the same is now pending before the said Benton Circuit Court, at the Court House at Fowler, Indiana; and that the time set for the docketing of said petition and cause of action in said Court is the Fifth day of October, A. D. 1908, the same being the First Judicial day of the October term, _A. D. 1908, of said Court and that said petition will be heard and the same will come on for hearing before said Benton Circuit Court at said date so set for the docketing of the same. Witness my hand and the seal of the Benton Circuit Court at Fowler, Indiana, this 24th day of August A. D. 1908. : jrjg JAMES R. TURNER. James H. Gilbert, et al, Petitioners. I certify that the above is a true and exact copy of the original notice in this cause. JAMES H. GILBERT. _ E. Barce, Atty. a. 28.5.4.

NOTICE OF DITCH SALE. In the Matter of the Petition of Michael Ringeisen, et al, for a Public Drain. Cause No. 93 of the Jasper Circuit Court. Notice Is hereby given that the undersigned, Superintendent of Construction, will, on the 10th day of September, 1908, at the office of the Surveyor of Jasper County in the Court House in Rensselar, Jasper County, Indiana, receive sealed bids for the construction of the Michael Ringeisen et al ditch, according to the plats, profiles and specifications thereof, as the same are now on file in the office of the Clerk of the Jasper Circuit Court. Each bidder will be required to file with his bid a good and sufficient bond, with a penalty In the sum of not less than SI,OOO, conditioned that if the work be awarded him, he will enter Into a written contract for the construction thereof, and give bond, conditioned for the performance of said contract as provided by law. The superintendent reserves the right to reject any and all bids. JOHN R. PHILLIPS, Superintendent of Construction. Aug. 31-28. The trouble with some people is that they cry while you are eating their cake.