Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1908 — Notice of Ditch Petition and Docketing. [ARTICLE]

Notice of Ditch Petition and Docketing.

County Of Benton, State of Indiana, eg: ’ x To October Term, A. D. 1908. In the Benton Circuit Court. In the matter of the petition of William Stltz et. al. for a public ditch and drain .In Gilboa and Union Townships, Benton County, Indiana, and Carpenter Township, Jasper County, Indiana. . Notice of Ditch Petition. To Edward L. Meyers. You and each of you, are hereby notified that on the 4th day of September, A. D. 1908, one William Stltz et. al. filed their verified petition In duplicate in the office of the Clerk 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 tlle,ln Gilboa and Union townships, Benton county, Indiana, and in Carpenter township, Jasper county, Indiana, together with two laterals to the same, the general route of said drain and the laterals thereto, being described in said above petition as follows:

A public tile drain made of large tile, frt>m the source to terminus, commencing at a point about 8 rods due east of the public highway running on the west side of section 10, township 26 north of range 7 west, in Gilboa township, Benton county, Indiana, and about 25 rods southeast of the northwest corner of said section 10, and ruhning thence in a general northeasterly direction to the public highway on the north side of said section 10, thence following the line of an old natural watercourse through the west one-half (%) of the southwest one-quarter of section 3, township and range aforesaid to the public highway on the west side of said section 3, thence running across said public highway into section 4, township and range aforesaid, into Union township, Benton county, Indiana, and following the line of said natural watercourse for a distance of about 25 rods, thence following the line of said natural watercourse in a general northeasterly direction for a distance of about 80

~rodz ~to th 6 noftheast corner of the southeast one-quarter (’A) of caid rectum 4; thence following the line of said natural watercourse along and upon the public highway between sections 3 and 4 aforesaid, for a distance of about 80 rods, thence east Into said section 3 for a distance of about 4 rods, thence almost due north and following the line of said natural watercourse through said section 8 for a distance of about 80 rods to the county line road between Benton and Jasper counties, Indiana, thence due north and following the line of said natural watercourse for a distance of about 30 rods into the southwest one-quarter (%) of section 34, township 27 north, of range 7 west in Carpenter -township, Jasper county, Indiana, thence following the line oL said natural watercourse in a general northeasterly direction fdr a distance of about 160 rods across said southwest one-quarter (%) of said section 34 where the same ends and terminates in a public ditch and drain, known as the "Clymer Ditch, 1 * and said laterals to said above drain being described as follows: A lateral joining said main line of drain by and near the point where said main ditch crosses the said highway on the west side of section 3, in township 26 north, of range 7 west, in Benton county, Indiana, and running thence almost due southwest for a distance of about 110 rods, and a second lateral joining said main line of drain at a point where the said main line of drain turns and runs in a general northeasterly direction in the south-west-quarter (%) of section 34, township 27 north, of range 7 west, in Jasper county, Indiana, and running thence northwest for a distance of about 15 or 20 rods to the public highway on thd west side of' said section 34.

That the location and establishment of said drain and laterals thereto will effect your lands and real estate in Carpenter township, Jasper county. In dlana. Ton are further notified that said petition in duplicate is now on file in the office of the Clerk of the Benton Circuit Court of Benton county, Indiana, and that the same is now pending before the said Benton Oir-

cult 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 Monday, the 19th day of October, A. D., 1908, the same being the 13th Judicial day of the October term, 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 Sth day of September, A. D., 1908. , ? . JAMES R. TURNER, Clerk of Benton Circuit Court. Wiltlam Stltz et al, petitioners. I certify that the above Is a true and exact copy of the original notice in this cause. WILLIAM STITZ, • Petitioner. E. Barce, Atty. . s.ll-18