Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-10-25
Notice Of Hearing ON Drainage Petition

Notice Of Hearing ON Drainage Petition
In the matter of Drainage District
No. 6. Howard county, la. To G. NJ.
Plummer; Edna Breedlove; Chas. Kei-
del; Edgar Mackay; John A. Cray and
J. B. Cray, administrators for the John
Cray estate. A. J. Cray; VIM. Gallo
way and H. T. Reed, owners of the
real estate hereinafter described.
To John A. Cray and Roy Brouhard,
lien-holders and incumbrancers of por-
tions of the said real estate hereinafter
described.
To w. w. Cray, Township Clerk of
Chester Township, Howard county, Ia;
J. w. Conway, chairman of the Board
of Supervisors of Howard county, Ia.,
and to all actual occupants and to all
persons having or claiming any right,
title or interest in and to the following
described real estate, to.wit:
Chester Township, 100-13.
The Northeast4 Section 49, South
east / of Section q; the Northwest /
Section q; Southwest / Section q; the
Northeast t Section SO; Northwest
Section "a and North ] of Southwest /
Section "a; Northeast / Southeast /
Section 80; Highways of the Township
Road System of Chester Township in
cluded in the District; and Highways of
the County Roai System included in
the District.
You and each of you are hereby noti-
fed that there is now pending before
the Board Of Supervisors of Howard
county, Iowa, q petition signed by one
or more of the owners of said land. ask
ing that competent engineer be ap-
pointed to examine and survey said
lands; that drainage district be estab-
lished including said lands and other
lands located in said District that may
be properly included, and that such
bitches and drains be constructed with
in said districts a. will drain the sur
face water from said lands; that it will
be Of public benefit and utility and con-
ducive to the public health and vel
fare to construct within said district
such water. courses, bitches and drains
- will drain the surface water from
said lands; that said land can be drain
ed as aforesaid and said improvement
made by tile drain with its starting
point near the south line of the North
west t Of Section "a, Township 100,
Range l3, and following the natural
waterway, or nearly so across said
quarter section to the Northwest cor
ner of said quarter section, thence fol-
lowing said natural waterway across
the east side. of the Southeast / Of
Section % lOO.13, and across the South
east corner of Northeast /, Section g.
1OO-l3. and on down across
the Northwest / of Section 27-l00-l3,
and terminating in Beaver Creek, to-
gether with such other drains and lat
erals ~ may be proper to drain the
surface water from said lands.
That the Engineer 50 appointed has
reported favorably thereon, recon-
mending tho establishment Of said Dis.
trict. s..
That said plan may be amended by
the Engineer before final action by the
Board of Supervisors or the establish
ment of said District.
For a more complete description of
said proposed DRAIN see Engineers re-
port on file in the Auditors Office.
That same will come up for hearing
before the Beard of Supervisors of
Howard county, Ia, at the Court House
in Cresco, Ia, on the 14th day of No.
vember. 1918. "
That all claims for damages as COM
pensation for or on account of the con-
struction of such improvement must be
filed in the office of the Auditor of
Howard county, Ia, on or before the
9th day of November, 1918
Witness my official signature with
the seal of Howard county. Iowa, here
to affixed this 18th day of October,
1918.
(sEAL) E A. Hoopman,
County Auditor.
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