The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1919-02-14
PUBLICATION NOTICE.
In the matter of the establishment
of the Dyer Lcvee District, pending
in the County Court of Dyer Coun-
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In the matter of the establishment
of the Dyer Levee District, pending
in the County Court of Dyer Coun-
ty, Tennessee.
Notice is hereby given to all per-
sons, firms, and corporations, con-
cerned as owners, lien holders, en-
cumbrancees, mortgages, occupants,
guardians, tenants, lessees, or in any
way interested, whether residents of
the State of Tennessee, or non-resi-
dents of the State of Tennessee, of
the hearing, on the 10Th day of
March, 1919, at the hour of two (2)
O'Clock p. m, before the County
Court of Dyer County, Tennessee, at
the Office of the Honorable D. l..
Anderson, Judge of the said County
Court of Dyer County, Tennessee, in
the courthouse in Dyersburg, Ten
nessee, of the petition on file in, and
pending in, the County Court of Dyer
County, Tennessee, seeking the es-
Enlistment of the Dyer Levee Dis
trict, as prayed in the said petition,
and as shown in the returns of the
engineer now on file, and to all of
which reference is hereby made for
further and fuller information as to
the purpose of this proceeding, the
purpose of the hearing being to de-
termine whether said district shall
be established, and passing all or
ders thereunto appertaining.
The engineer appointcd by this
court to make the preliminary survey
and investigation required by law,
for the proposed Dyer Levee District,
has made said preliminary survey
and investigation required, and has
filed and made due return of his pro-
ceedings in the promises, plat, blue
prints, and profile, together with his
report of and on said Dyer Leveee
District, and all of which is on file in
the Office of the County Court Clerk
of Dyer County, Tenn, and to all
of which, together with the petition,
reference is hereby made for further
and fuller information as to the pur-
pose of the proceedings herein ad-
vertised
The land embraced within the pro-
posed Dyer Levee District being a
body, or district of land lying in the
counties of Dyer, Lake and Obion, in
the State of Tennessee, and described
as follows, to-wit:
Beginning at the mouth of the
Obion River where the same empties
into the Mississippi River, and run
ming thence with the meanderings of
the Obion and Forkcd Deer Rivers To
the junction of the South Fork and
North Fork, thence up the said South
Fork of the Forked Deer River, and
with the meandcrings of the over
flowed lands in Dyer County to a
point south Of the town of Dyers-
burg, Tennessee; thence with the
overlooked lands to the bridge cross
ing the river at the town of Dyers-
burg; and thence with the overfiowed
or swamp lands in westwardly di-
rection, running south of tee town
of Finley, thence in n northerly di-
rection, following the foot of the
hills, and along the line of the Chi
cago, Memphis & Gulf Railroad COM
pany to where the said line crosses
the Obion River, and thence with the
mcanderings of the said Obion River
to point at or near the Lanes Ferry
bridge, and thence in a westWardly
direction and northcrly direction
around the foot of the hills, includ-
ing the swamp lands and those lands
subject to overflow on the eastern,
northern and western edge of Reel
foot Lake in Obion and Lake Coun-
ties, and running with tho edge of
the said Reelfoot Lake at high water
mark, and to the western and north
ern edge of what is known as the
"Washout," and thence in west
wardly direction, including the low
and swamp lands, to a point on the
Mississippi River farthereCt south of
the town of Tiptonville, Tenn, that
is above overflow, thence down the
said Mississippi River with meander-
ings to the beginning, and to include
the overlooked lands, or lands subject
to overflow from the Mississippi
River lying in the counties of Dyer,
Lake and Obion, and also any other
low or second bottom lands within,
or contiguous to, the said territory in
need of protection from leyee to
keep back the waters of the Missis-
sippi River, or that would be bene
flied and protected from the over
flows occasioned by the floods in the
River, and all of which is
set out, shown and described on the
blue prints and report of the engi-
neer on file, above referred to, and to
which reference is hereby made for
further and fuller information as to
same, and this proceeding.
1t is further ordered that this no
tice be published and printed for two
weeks in the State Ga
zette, a semi-weckly newspaper, pub
lished at Dyersburg, Tennessee, in
the County of Dyer, in the Lake
County News, weekly newspaper
published at Tiptonville, Tennessee,
in the County of Lake, and in The
q weekly newspaper
published at Union City, Tennessee,
in the County of Obior, all of which
Is ordered by the court.
This February 10, 1919.
JNO. r. MENZIES,
County Court Clerk of Dyer