Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-07-04
REPORT AND PETITION FOR AD-
OPTIONAL ASSESSMENTS
STATE OF wIsCoNsIN-CIRCUIT

STATE OF CONSIN-CIRCUIT |
COURT FOR WOOD COUNTY.
In the Matter of the Cranberry
Creek Drainage District.
TAKE NOTICE that the Commits
sioners of the Cranberry Creek Drain
age District did on the the 18th day
of June, 1918 file in said Court a re-
port and petition wherein they re-
ported ID That in their first assess
ment for construction in said matter
said Commissioners reported to the
Court a smaller sum than is necessary
to complete the work of construction
of the bitches in said district, here
tofore confirmed by the Court, and that
next year an additional sum will be
necessary to pay the principal of and
interest on lawful indebtedness of said
district,
| (2) That such additional assessments
is necessary because the Court after
said assessments for construction were
confirmed authorized a compromise
which relieved some of the lands in
said district of part of the assessment
which had not been placed thereon
by the Commissioners, to-wit; the
lands included in the Lawrence Ward
contest, and because part of the said
assessment. to-wit: the assessment a.
gainst the Ole Walden, Frank Walden
Robert Walden and Emma Walden
lands in said district were re-
monstrated against and never been
confirmed by the Court and hence have
not been and are not available to
make such payment and because no
corresponding assessment was made
at the time that the cleaning out of
certain of the old bitches in the dis
trict was authorized by the Court, and
further because approximately S12,-
100000 of assessments against the
lands in said district confirmed by the
Court and now past due have been
returned to the County Treasurer de-
linquent, and are not paid, and there
by there is and will be an insufficiency
| of money in the treasury of said dis
trict to pay the bonds and notes of
said district and interest to become
due within the next year prior to and
on January 1, 1919.
FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that it
is necessary, by this additional assess
ment, to raise the sum of $31 ,6363T
which sum in said assessments has
been and is apportioned against the
lands and corporations of said district
in proportion to the sum of all assessed
benfits against the same heretofore
approved by the Court,
FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that
: said report and petition and the as
sessments therein made are on file in
the office of A. B. Bever, Clerk of
said Court, at Grand Rapids, Wood
County, Wisconsin and are subject to
your inspection.
FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that
the Court on June II, 1918 ordered
that said report and petition be heard
before said Court at the Court House
in the City of Grand Rapids, Wood
County, Wisconsin, on the 18th day
of July, 1918 at 1000 o'clock A. M
, or as soon thereafter as counsel may
: be heard at which time all interested
, parties may be heard in said matter
Said report and petition pray that
the Court confirm said additional as
sessments and authorize the Commits
5 sioners to temporarily borrow money
: on the notes of said district and to
issue bonds of said district payable
in installments to pay said sums due
} and interest thereon.
Dated June II, 1918:
William I'll. Bowden,
Anton Brost Commissioners.
l. A. Haverberg.
B. M. VAUGHAN,
Attorney for said district,
P. O. Grand Rapids, Wis.
(1st pub. June 20, last July A.