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NOTICE OF CONTEST

| Department of the Interior, United
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. LEM, who gives Rose Valley, Mon
tana, as his post-office address, did on
May 4th, 1920, file in this office his
duly corroborated application to con-
| test and secure the cancellation OF
your Homestead, Entry No, Serial No.
039126, made May, 18th, 1917, for Lots
3, 4, 5, & and SEA of NWA and Eh
of SWA of Section 6, Township FL NJ,
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
1T 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 |
cancelled Hereunder without your fur |
Their right to be heard therein, either |
before this office or on appeal, if you |
fail to file in this office within twenty |
days after the FOURTH publication |
Of this notice, as shown below, your
answer, under oath, specially meeting
and responding to these allegations |
Of contest, or if you fail within that
line to file in this office due proof
hat you have served a copy of your
answer on the said contestant either
n person or by registered mail. II this
Iervice is made by the delivery of a
,opy Of your answer to the contest
mt 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
eliyered; if made by registered
nail, proof of such service must con-
list of the affidavit of the person by ;
7hom the copy was mailed stating
yhen and the post office to which it
yas 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
GU desire future notice to be sent to
on.
G. w. Myers, Register.
First publication May 18th, 1920
Second publication May 81, 1920
Third publication May % 1920 I
Fourth publication June 4th, 1920.