Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-04
Order of Publication.

In the Circuit Court Of Iron County, Mis-
souri,, in vacation, August 10, 1902.
John d. Stephens, plaintiff,
against
Robert Stephens, G. W.. Stephens, c. C,
Farmer, Mrs. Ann Logan and James NJ,
Logan, her husband, j. II. P. Stephens
and Maggie Stephens, his wife, ]. R.
Stephens, Ann E. Stephens, G. w,
Stephens, IT,, G. B. Stephens and julia
Stephens, his wife, Ida B.. Stetson and -
- S~tetson, her husband, Ruby Laidlow
and H. X. Laidlow, her husband, Nettie
Stephens, Susan Pencil and VIM. Pencil,
her husband, Sarah Hopkins and Samuel
M. Hopkins, her husband, Joseph Muir
rey, Mary Brown and George Brown, her
husband, Elizabeth Pidcock and VIM.
Pidcock, her husband, Agnes Lusher and
VIM. Lusher, her husband, and the un-
known heirs Of Catherine Pencil, de-
ceased, defendants.
(Suit to quiet title.)
Now at this day comes the plaintiff, by his
attorney, and files his petition, duly verified
by affidavit, setting forth, among other
things, that the defendants, Robert Stephens,
G. w. Stephens, ]. H. P. Stephens, Maggie
Stepens, !. X. Stephens, Ann E. Stephens,
G. w. Stephens, Jr., G. B. Stephens, Julia
Stephens, Ida b. Stetson, - Stetson,
Ruby Laidlow, II. X. Laidlow, Nettie
Stephens, Sarah Hopkins, Samuel M. Hop
kins, Mary Brown, George Brown, Eliza
beth Pidcock, Wm. Pidcock, Agnes Lusher
and VIM. Lusher and the unknown heirs of
Catherine Pencil, deceased, are non-resi-
dents of the State Of Missouri, and that the
ordinary process of law cannot be served
upon them; it is therefore ordered by the
undersigned Clerk of the Circuit Court of
Iron County, Missouri, in vacation, that
publication be made notifying said defend
ants an action has been commenced against
them with said other defendants in the
Circuit Court Of said county, State aforesaid,
the object and general nature of which is to
obtain a decree of said court declaring the
title OF the following described real estate to
be vested in plaintiff, under and by virtue of
the statute to perfect title in such case made
and provided:
The west half Of the southwest fractional
quarter of section 23, in township IS, north
of range 2 east, containing Sly acres;
also the northeast quarter of the southwest
fractional quarter of fractional section 23, in
township s., north OF range 2 east, con-
tanning 2I.34 acres; also the southeast
quarter Of the southwest quarter Of said
fractional section %, containing Alt acres;
also the northeast quarter of the southeast
quarter of section az, in township IS, north
Of range 2 east, containing 40 acres, all of
said lands being in Iron County, State of
Missouri.
And unless they be and appear at the
next term of said court, to be holden at the
courthouse, in the city Of %Ironton, within
and for said county, State aforesaid, on the
fourth Monday in October next, 1907, and
on or before the third day thereof (if the
term shall so long continue, and if not, then
before the end of the term) and plead to said
plaintiffs petition, the same will be taken
against them as confessed.
It is further ordered that a copy hereof be
published according to law in some weekly
newspaper published in said County of Iron,
State Of Missouri.
ARTHUR HUFF, Clerk.
A true copy from the record.
Attest with seal this 10Th day Of August,
1902.
[sEAL1 ARTHUR HUFF,
Clerk Circuit Court Iron County, Mo.
BY c. G. WHITwoRTH, Deputy.
VIM. r. Edgar, Atty for plaintiff.