The circle banner., 1920-06-04
NOTICE OF CONTEST

| Department of the Interior, Unitet
States Land Office, Miles City, Mon
tana, May 4th, 1920.
To Henry A. Noffke, of Savage, Mon
tana, Contestee:
| You are hereby notified that George
e. Lenz, who gives Rose Valley, Mon
tana, as his post-office address, did or
| May 4th, 1920, file in this Office his
duly corroborated application to con
| test and secure the cancellation oi
your Homestead, Entry No, Serial No
| O39126, made May, 18th, 1917, for Lots
3, 4, 5, & and SEA of NWA and E11s
of SWA of Section 6, Township 21 N.
Range 44E., Montana Principal Meri
dian, and as grounds for his contest
he alleges that you have not complied
with the requirements of the home.
stead law as to the cultivation thereof
and have never cultivated any of said
land altho over two years have ell
apsed since the date of your entry;
that you have never at any time nor
at all maintained a residence upon
said land or any part thereof suffi-
cient to meet requirements of the
homestead law; that you have been
wholly absent therefrom for greater
period in the last residence year than
is allowed by the homestead laws;
FURTHER That the said absences
therefrom and failure to establish and
maintain residence thereon, and fail
ure to cultivate as required by the
homestead laws, as is hereinbefore
stated, is not due to your employment
in the military service of the United
States rendered in connection with
operations in Mexico, or along there
OF, or in any of the mobilization camps
elsewhere, or in any military or nav
al organization of the United States
or in the National Guard OF any of the
several states thereof.
You are, therefore, further notified
that the said allegations will be taken
by this office as having been confess
ed by you, and your said entry will be
hereunder without your fur
Lher right to be heard therein, either
before this office or on appeal, If you
lall TO file in this office within twenty
days after the FOURTH publication
Il this notice, as shown below, your
answer, under oath, specially meeting
Ind responding to these allegations
)f contest, or ii you fail within that
line to lille in this office due proof
nat you have served copy OF your
inswer ON the said contestant either
n person or by registered mail. If this
'ervice is made by the delivery OF a
copy OF your answer to the contest
INT in person, proof OF such service
must be either the said contestants |
written acknowledgment OF his re-
eipt Of the copy, showing the date of |
Is receipt, or the affidavit of the per- |
on by whom the delivery was made |
tating when and where the copy was |
if made by registered |
nail, proof of such service must con-
ist OF the affidavit of the person by !
1hom the copy was mailed stating
yhen and the post office to which it
ras mailed, and this affidavit must
e accompanied by the postmaster's
eceipt for the letter.
You should state in your answer
ne name OF the post Office to which
Ou desire future notice to be sent to
ou.
G. w. Myers, Register.
First publication May 14th, 1920
Second publication May 81, 1920
Third publication May 28 1920
Fourth publication June 4th, 1920.
lorence w. Stephens
Attorney for Contestant
Circle, Montana.