It shall be the duty of the clerk of the court in which said petition is filed, to enter, in a separate book to be kept for the purpose, the names of the petitioners and defendants, the date of filing said petition, and a description of all the lands included therein, which record shall be at all times open to the public. All lands in each separate town, addition, section or subdivision shall be entered on the same page or consecutive pages, with an index to said book showing on what page any such separate town, addition, section or subdivision may be found. Said clerk shall also, in all cases, cause publication of notice to be made of the filing of said petition, which notice shall be entitled "Land Title Notice", and shall be substantially as follows:
A. B. C. D. etc. (here giving the names of all known defendants, if any), and to all whom it may concern:
Take notice ______ that on the ____ day of _____, A. D., 19___, a petition was filed by the undersigned in the _______ court of ______ county, to establish his title to the following described lands (here insert a full description of the lands in said petition). Now, unless you appear at the _____ term of said court (naming the first term after thirty days from the first insertion of said notice), and show cause against such application: said petition shall be taken for confessed, and the title or interest of said petitioner will be decreed and established according to the prayer of said petition, and you forever barred from disputing the same.
R.L. 1910, § 7287.