The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-08-27
DRAINAGE PUBLICATION.
Non Resident Notice.

In the County Court of Obion Coun-
ty, Tennessee, before the Honor
able George R. Kenney, County
Judge for Obion County, Tennes-
see.
10 Mrs. w. F. Boyd; ". G. Bar
nett, individually and as admins
traitor of r. j. Barnett, deceased;
J. r. Clark, trustee for The Union
Central Life Insurance Company, a
corporation with it's situs and prin-
cipal place of business at Cincinnati,
Ohio; Antionette Callahan and hus-
band, H. B. Callahan; Mrs. Lula
Chapman and husband, Lonnie Chap
DUNN; HI. T. Edwards; Mrs. Lulu
Edwards; Thurman Fowlkes; Deu-
tray Cant; A. P Harris, trustee for
J. G. Harris; j. c.. Harris; Martha
Hunter and husband, Harrison
Hunter; Kosci Jack and husband, w.
H. Jack; Edward Jackson; w. p.
Murrell; Doctor George Majors; Tom
Muckle; Mrs. Susie Morris; The
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance
Company, corporation, with it's
situs and principal place of business
in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,; Mrs.
Birdie Parks and husband, l.. S.
Parks; Joseph Roberts; Matilda
Ross and husband, Edward Ross;
Mrs. Edna Rufin and husband, j. l..
Ruffin; James Rucker, ST.; Leora
Rucker, Annie Rocker, Christine
Rucker; James Rucker, ,Jr.; Lottie
May Snow; Mrs. Pearly Thomas and
husband, Marshall Thomas; The
Union Central Life Insurance Com
pany corporation, with it's main
Office and place of business in Gin
cinnati, Ohio; Laura Bell Young and
husband, R. A. Young; B. F. Cham
bers; John Wade:
In this cause, it duly appearing by
affidavit duly filed, that you and
each of you are non-residents of the
State of Tennessee, you and each of
you are hereby notified of the Petit
ton of j. A. Shell, ct al. filed on
May FL, 1914, in the County Court
of Obion County, Tennessee, before
the Honorable George r. Kenney,
County Judge for Obion County,
Tennessee, and which Petition was
also filed on same date in the Coun
ty Court of Weakley County, Ten
nessee, before the Honorable G. T.
County, Tennessee, and that said
Petition was amended in both Courts
on the 18th day of August, 1915;
and you are further notified of the
tendency of said Petition of j. A.
Shell ct AL, so filed and so amended
as aforestated in both of said courts,
and that same was filed for the pur-
pose of establishing bi-county
Drainage District, or if necessary or
desired a bi-county Drainage and
Levee District, for the reclamation of
hands in Obion County, and Weakley
County, Tennessee, subject to and
affected by the overflow from and OF
the North Fork of Obion River and
it's tributaries, and pursuant to
Chapter 1856, Senate Bill No. 229,
of the 1909, Acts of the Legislature
of Tennessee, and amendments
thereto, and that said Petition as
amended is still pending in said
courts; that on account of the great
number of Petitioners and Defend
ants in this cause and matter the
court has decreed that it would un-
necessarily cucumber the record to
name all of said parties in each in
stance and that the style of this
cause shall be T. ]. Taylor ct al. VS.,
W. L. Jones ct al, and that by or
der and decree of the court each
and all of the Defendants named
herein were required to be made
such by nonresident publication
agreeable to said Act of 1909 as
amended; and you are further nott-
fed that w. c. Kelly, the engineer
heretofore appointed in this matter
and cause, has duly filed his returns,
proceedings and report as such
engineer in duplicate, filing one with
G. S. Talley, Clerk of the County
Court of Obion County, Tennessee,
and one with w. J. Jeter, Clerk of
the County, Court of Weakley Coun-
ty, Tennessee, and that the report
of said engineer and said Petition
as amended both recommend for
organization into bi-county Drain
age District a territory situate in
Obion County and Weakley County,
Tennessee, and subject to and affect
ed by the overflow from and OF the
North Fork of Obion River and its
tributaries, and containing 1874
acres, more or less; that the prayer
of said~ tition, substantially but
not in detail, is that the court APP
point a disinterested and competent
engineer, etc., to examine and sur
vey accurately by metes and bounds
the territory described in the Petit
, tion and any other territory adjacent
thereto that may be proper and
necessary, and to survey and locate
such drains, bitches and improve
, ments as are best calculated to carry
lout the purposes of the Petition,
etc, and that said engineer be or
fdered to snake return of and file his
report and proceedings with re-
kpectively the Clerk of the County
Court of Obion County and the
Clerk of the County Court of Weak
1ey County, Tennessee, setting forth
the starting points, routes, termini,
letc., of the proposed bitches and i'm
Iprovements, etc., together with a
plat and profile showing bitches,
letc., elevation, ETC., the fall obtain
able across the district, ETC., and the
boundaries of the proposed district,
a description of the realty and
tracts therein, together with the
probable costs of the proposed i'm
provements, etc., and also such other
facts and recommendations as he
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