Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-09-02
Order of Publication.

Order of Publication.
In the Circuit Court of Iron County. Mis-
sour, in vacation, July ~. 1915.
The State Of Missouri, at the relation and
to the use OF B. P. Burnham, Collector
OF the Revenue OF Iron County, Mis-
souri,,
against
Frederick B. Townsend, H. S. Cnppen,
Enos ID. Williams, Otis G. Hill and
Silas G. Hubbard. if living: or the I'm
known heirs and devisees OF Frederick
B. Townsend, H. S. Crippen, Enos ID.
Williams. Otis @. Hill and Silas O..
Hubbard, II they be dead; and Maria
]. Edwards and Mamie Walker, sole
heirs OF John F. I. Edwards, deceased,
defendants.
faction to Enforce Lien for Taxes.)
Now at this day comes the plaintiff, B..
P. Burnham, Collector ofihe Revenue of
Iron County, Missouri, and files his
petition and affidavit, setting forth among
other things, that the defendants, Freder-
lex B. Townsend, II. s. Cnippen, Enos
ID. Williams, Otis G. Hill and Silas c..
Hubbard, are non-residents Of the
State OF Missouri, and that they cannot
be served with summons in said State.
Plaintiff states that the defendants,
Frederick B. Townsend, H. s.. Crippen,
Enos D.. Williams, Otis G.. Hill and Silas
G.. Hubbard,
have not been heard offor many years that
plaintiff is not informed whether they be
living or dead; that if they be dead their
heirs, or if they died leaving a will, their
devisees, are Interested in the subject
matter OF this petition; that the lanes of
such heirs or devisees, or both, cannot be
inserted herein because they are unknown
to plaintiff; that the said Frederick B.
Townsend, H. S. Crippen, Enos d. Will
liams, Otis G.. Hill and Silas G..
Hubbard were the record owners
of the land described herein, but
plaintiff has no information except as
herein stated OF the nature OF the interest
and estate in said land owned by said
Frederick B. Townsend, H. S. Crippen,
Euos D. Williams, Otis G.. Hill and
Silas G.. Hubbard and therefore is
unable to particularly describe the same,
and that in the event OF the death of the said
Frederick B. Townsend, H. S. Crippen,
Enos D.. Williams, Otis G. Hill and
Silas G. Hubbard, their said heirs
and devisees have, by descent OF
devise, succeeded to the said interest and
estate of the said Frederick B. Townsend,
H. S. Crippen, Enos D. Williams,
Otis G.. Hill and Silas G. Hubbard,
from whom their interest in the
property herein described is derived. 1t
is, therefore, ordered by the Clerk of the
Circuit Courtof Iron County, Missouri, in
vacation, that publication be made notify
ing said defendants that an action has
been commenced against them in the
Circuit Court OF said County, the object
and general nature of which is to enforce
the lien OF the State OF Missouri on the
following real estate, belonging to the
said defendants for back taxes for the
years 1912 and 1918, to-wit:
The southeast quarter; and the east
one half of the east one half of the south
west quarter of section ID, township sc
north, range 3 east, 200 acres-all in Iron
county, Missouri.
Can itemized statement in the nature
of a tax bill showing the amount OF taxes,
interest and cost now due on said real es-
tate for the years aforesaid, amounting in
the aggregate to the sum of Twenty and
45-Ioo dollars, is filed with said petition
as provided by law
And unless they be and appear at the
next term Of said Court to be holden FOL
the County of Iron, and State of Missouri,
at the Court House in said County on the
fourth Monday in October next, 1915,
and on or before the third day thereof
(f the term shall so long continue; and,
il not, then before the end OF the term)
and plead, answer or demur to said
plaintiffs petition, the same will be taken
as confessed, judgment rendered in
accordance with the prayer OF sale
petition, and said real estate, or so much
hereof as may be necessary to satisfy
aid judgment, interest and costs, be sole
under a special ieri facias to be issued
thereon.
1t is further ordered that a copy here
Of be published according to law in the
IRON COUNTY REGISTER, a weekly
newspaper published in said County o.
Iron, and State Of Missouri.
JESSE NJ. HAWKINS,
Circuit Clerk.
A true copy from the record:
Witness my hand and official seal, this
[sEAL] 22d day of July, 1915.
JESSE M. HAWKINS, Clerk
Circuit Court, Iron County, Mo.