Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-10-27
ORIGINAL NOTICE.
Iowa, December term, 1911,
Christian GronWOldt. Plaintiff.

visees, spouses, legal representatives. assign
! ees and success RS In light OF tho 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 alb.
solute Cwner In fee simple title Of the above
described real estate, to.wit: The swi, of
section &, township ", range ~, 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
ofright. 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 In 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 defend
ants and the unknown claimants under
each of them respectively is derived by
reason of the following conditions of the
record title, and the mode of de> olution
thereof In each instance as Is hereinafter
stated: to-wit. The defendant Ozias +. Pal
mer became owner Of the VIZ of the said
premises and conveyed the same to Thomas
p. Davies, but signed his name o. +. Palmer
In said conveyance, and the said Ozias T..
Palmer and o. Il. Palmer are one and the
same person.
The defendant Q. G. Waniess acquired
title to the VIZ of said premises and convey
ed the same to W. d. barrow, but signed his
name Oliver G. Wanless In said conveyance
and said o. G. Wanless and Oliver G. Wan
less are one and the same person.
That the defendant f. F. Thomas became
the owner OF an undvided half Of the ela of
said premises and he conveyed the same to
defendant Caleb +. Harris, but in said con-
veyance signed his name Edward F. Thomas
and that Edward F. Thomas and E.. +.
Thomas are one and the same person.
That the defendant Marsh Il Lambert was
q CO partnership, its members being II. =,
Marsh and S. s. Lambert, and 1t acquired
title to the VIZ of said premises and after
wards dissolved, and Its property became
the property of Its individual members
named and they conveyed the said VIZ of
said premises to A. p. Hewett.
That the defendant Caleb F. Harris, who
also writes his name and is one and the
same person with Caleb Fiske Harris ac-
CURED title to the e1s of the above described
real estate In 1862, and he died testate seized
thereof In 1881, leaving last will and testa-
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 e19 of said premises by virtue of the will
OF said Caleb +. Harris. That said Emily S.
| Harris died intestate at the same time and
| In the same catastrophe with her husband
| the defendantCalebF F. Harris, and her heirs
| thus acquired title to said e1I 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.
| lhat 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 tt Z
plaintin's grantOrs who took title to the
sam 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 :. Harris have been forfeited, abal-
doned and barred by the statute of limita-
| tions
That at the time of his death Caleb Fiske
Harris left as his sole heirs the following:
One brother Stephen Harris, and Francis
Chambers Harris, who was u grandson Of q
brother Cyrus then deceased and whose son
the father of Francis Chambers Harris was
also deceased and the following named
children of his sister Eliza Green Smith also
deceased, to-wlt: Eliza II. Smith, sarah
Smith. Florence Smith and Maria NJ. VIII
liams. all Of whom conveyed said premises
to Henry c. Salisbury, but In fact said heirs
had no Interest, unless they acquired some
by quit claim deed nom James Mctiregor
and Charles Rye. who at one time had some
claim on the said premises and conveyed
said c. F. Harris being Identical with Caleb
+. Harris.
Fun particulars as to the conveyances and
Will mentioned herein, with book and page
where recorded, are fully set forth in the
said petition to which defendants are refer
red. And plaintiff asks for decree of said
| court quieting In him the title TO said premi
ses and forever barring and estopping the
defendants and all persons claiming by,
through or under them or either of them
hnv VI n int
premises adverse to his title.
And that unless you appear thereto and
defend on or before noon of the second day
of the next Decembe Der tel III Of said court 1911,
which will commence and he held at Cresco
In said county on Monday the 4th day of lie
cember. A. u. 1911, default Will be entered
against you and Judgment and decree rem
dered thereon.
ID. y. MURPHY,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
| The foregoing original notice collected
from the averments OF the petition men,
toned therein is hereby approved by me
and ordered published for u period of four
consecutive weeks In the Cresco plain Dealer
a weekly newspaper published at Cresco.
| Howard county, Iowa, the last publication
to be not less than ten days before the first
day ofsaid term.
Witness my hand this Dist day OF October.
| 1911. a. n. HOBSON,
Judge 18th Judicial District ofIowa
IN PROBATE.
In the District Court of the state of Iowa. In
and for Howard County.
| In the Matter OF the Estate of
| John MakOvec, Deceased.
Notice of appointment of Administrator