The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-06-26
June 26. July 3, 10.

June 26. July 3, TO-
STATE OF MINNESOTA County of
Blue Earth.-ss: In District Court.
Sixth Judicial District.
In the Matter of the Petition of the
Town of South Bend, Blue Earth
of Certain Portions of Minneopa
Cemetery and of the Plat of Minneopa
Cemetery herein described
Notice is hereby given by the Town
of South Bend, Blue Earth County Min
nesota, and Richard Jones, d. 7. Bow
en-, and j. w. Roberts. supervisors of
said Town of South Bend, that said
town through its attorney. A. r. Pfau,
Jr., has filed in the District Court of
Blue Earth County, Minnesota, petit
ton praying for the vacation of certain
portions of Minneopa Cemetery which
portions are described as follows, to-wit:
All that POI portion of the northwest
section q, in township 1OS north of
range 81 west, described as follows:
Bounded on the north by a line 135
side of, and parallel with, the center
line of the proposed railway of Chi
cago st. Paul Minneapolis & Omaha
Railway Company as said center line is
the deed from Town of South Bend to
said Railway Company, dated June
", 1905, surveyed staked out, and To-
Gated over and across said land bound
ed on the east by the east line of the
northwest quarter of the northwest
quarter of said section 81; bounded on
the south by the northerly line of strip
of land conveyed to the ST. Paul and
Sioux City Railway company by said
Town of South Bend. by deed dated
May 21st, 1872, and recorded with the
register of deeds of said county, in
book B of Miscellaneous at page SO,
said lire being the northery boundary
of the present Chem right of way of
said railway company; and bounded on
the west by the west line of the north
west quarter of the northwest quarter
of said section II.
And also the following portion of said
MinneOpa Cemetery:
Commencing at the point of intersec-
ton of the north line of block 9S, of
Minneopa Cemetery according to the
office of the register of deeds, of Blue
Earth County, Minnesota, with the
northerly line of the right of way of
said railway company; thence west on a
block 101 of said cemetery; thence
southwesterly on a straight line to the
northwesterly corner of block ia of
said cemetery; thence southwesterly on
a sraight line to the point of intersec-
ton of the west line of block 1873 of
said cemetery with the northerly line of
said right of way; thence northeasterly
on straight line to the point of be-
ginning; the latter line coinciding with
said northerly line of right of way.
That an order has been entered in
said district court directing that said
petition for vacation of said portions of
Minneopa Cemetery will be heard and
passed upon by the judge of said Dis
trict Court at a special term thereof, to
be held upon Monday, July 20, 1908, at
two o'clock p. M, at the district court
house in the City of Mankato. said
county and state
That any and all persons interested
in said matter may appear and be heard
in the matter and that said petitioners,
at said time and place will present said
petition to the court and ask that the
prayer thereof be granted, and that said
portions of Minneopa Cemetery be va
Gated.
That this notice is being published
pursuant to said order of said court and
to the statute in such case made and
provided.
Dated June 20, 1908.
TOWN OF SOUTH BEND.
BY Richard Jones, d. T. Bowen. John
w. Roberts, Supervisors of said Town.
A. r. PFAU. JR.,
Attorney for said petitioners,
Mankato, Minnesota.