Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-11-17
ORIGINAL NOTICE.
In the District Court Howard County,
Iowa, December term, 1911.
Christian Gronwoldt, Plaintiff,

In the District Court Howard County,
| Iowa, December term, 1911.
| Christian Gronwoldt, Plaintiff,
VS.
| The unknown claimants of the swL OF sec.
| 5. twp. 80, range l2, west OF the 9th p. NJ.
Ozias r. Palmer, O. G. Wanless. l.. F..
Thomas, Marsh n Lambert, Caleb F. Harris.
| Emily S. Harris, and the unkno heirs. de-
visees, spollses, legal representatives.. assign
| ces and SUCCESSORS in right of the above
| named defendants, and all claimants OF said
premises or any part thereof claiming by,
| through or under the above named defend
ants or any Of them; Defendants.
| To the above named defendants:
You and each of you are hereby notified
| that there is now on file in the Office of the
clerk Of the district court OF Howard coun.
| ty, Iowa, the petition OF the plaintiff, Chris
tian Gronwoldt, claiming that he is the n b.
| solutc owner in fee simple title of the above
described real estate, to-wit: The swA Of
section 5, township 80, range IL, west Of the
| 9th p. M; that he and his grantOrs, under
! whom he claims title, have been for more
than ten years last past, and plaintiff is now
In the actual, continuous, visible notorious,
exclusive, hostile and adverse possession OF
said real estate under color of title and claim
right. That he is credibly informed and
| believes that the defendants make some
claim thereto adverse to his right and title
therein, but that In fact defendants have no
interest III said real estate, and any interest
that may appear In the record title thereof
in them is cut of by conveyances and by
! will and is abandoned and barred by the
statute Of limitations; that the names Of the
| said unknown claimants and their resi-
dences are unknown to plaintiff and he has
sought diligently to learn the same.
That the apparent interest of the 'tf,nd
ants ant the unknoAn Claimants under
each OF trem respectively is derived ~
reason of tie following cor ditions of the
reco title, and the mode IF dev olution
thereof in each instance as Is hereinafter
stated; to-wit. The defendant Oztas F.. Pal
mer became owner Of the W q Of the said
premises and conveyed the same to Thomas
r. Davies, but signed his name o. +. Palmer
in said conveyance and the said Ozias E.
Palmer and o. +. Palmer are one and the
same person.
The defendant o. G. Wanless acquired
title to the VIZ of said premises and convey
ed the same to ". d. barrow, but signed his
name Oliver G. WanIess in said conveyance
and said o. 6. Wanless and Oliver G. Wan
less are one and the same person.
That the defendant f. F. Thomas became
the owner of an undivided half OF the eL Of
said premises and he conveyed the same to
defendant Caleb F. Harris, but in said con-
veyance signed his name Edward F. Thomas
and that Edward F. Thomas and +. F..
Thomas are one and the same person.
That the defendant Marsh l. Lambert was
a co-partnership, its members being Il. p.
Marsh and S. S. Lambert, and 1t acquired
! title to the VIZ Of said premises and after
wards dissolved, and it's property became
the property of its individual members
named and they conveye.. the said VIZ OF
said premises to A. p. Hewett.
That the defendant Caleb F. Harris, who
also writes his name end = one and the
anne person with Caleb Fiske Harris ac-
quircd title to the ea of the abve described
real estate in 1862, land he died testate seized
thereof in 1881. leaving last will and tesla
ment by which all his property, including
the above described, was devised to his wife,
the defendant, Emily S. Harris, whose name
is also written Emily Stephenson Harris,
and said Emily Stephenson Harris and
Emily $. Harris are one and the same per-
son, and she and her heirs acquired title to
the e1a of said premises by virtue of the will
Of said Caleb F. Harris. That said Emily $.
Harris died intestate at the same time and
in the same catastrophe with her husband
the defendant Caleb F. Harris, and her heirs
thus acquired title to said eh Of said premi-
ses. That she left heirs, but their names and
residences are unknown to plaintiff, and he
has sought diligently to learn the same.
That they have abandoned any right or title
they might appear by the record to have in
said premises and permitted same to be con-
veyed by the heirs Of Caleb F. Harris tie
plaintiffs grantors who took title to the
same in ignorance of any right or claim Of
said heirs and paid therefor and have been
in possession thereof, as above stated, and
the rights Of the said unknown heirs OF
Emily S. Harris have been forfeited, aban.
dOned and barred by the statute of limita-
lions.
That at the time of his death Caleb Fiske
Harris left us his sole heirs the following:
One brother stephen Harris, and Francis
Cham bers Harris, who was u grandson of a
brother Cyrus then deceased and whose son
the father Of Francis Chambers Harris was
also dec 4ased, and the following named
chldrt II of his sister Eliza Green Smith also
decea ed, to-wi Eliza II. Smith, Sarah
Smltn, Florence Smith and Maria NJ. vii,
llams all OF whom conveyed said premises
t. Henry c. Salisb Try, but in fact said heirs
had no interest, unless they acquired some
by quit claim deed from James McGregor
and Charles Rye, who at on time had some
claim on the said premises and conveyed
same to the heirs of G. F. Harris, deceased
said Z. F. Harris being Identical with Caleb
F. Harris.l
Full particulars as to the c.nveyances and
| viii mentioned herein with Doc and pa &c
where recorded, are fully set forth In the
said petition to which defenda nts are refer
red. And plaintiff asks for decree If said
court quieting In him the title to sal premi-
res and forever barring and estopping the
through or under them or either of them
| Fl ON having or claiming any interest IN said
premises adverse to his title.
And that unless you appear thereto ana
defend on or before noon of the second day
, of the next Decem Der term of said court 1911
which will commence and be held at Cresco
| in said county on Monday the 4th day of De-
cember, A. d. 1911, default will be entered
against you and judgment and decree rem
dered thereon.
d. d. MURPHY,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
| The foregoing original notice collected
| from the ayerments of the petition men,
toned therein is hereby approved by me
| and ordered published for period Of four
consecutive weeks in the Cresco Plain Dealer
! a weekly newspaper published ut Cresco,