Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 2, Decatur, Adams County, 15 March 1906 — Page 5

Macadam Road Petitions (Continued fiom Sixth Page) on the Grant Struckler road KSi sections 35. 3*. to sect la. 33; thenee th on section line between sections 34 and sj“* , he Blue Creek township line between Blie Crrek and St. Marys township and there to terminate □ nropoeed road to be a double track Sen! and to be known as the Grant StrickJ/r xa‘adam road, and to be forty feet wide. SIXTH The sixth road htrewith petitioned for 1 ‘ commence at the Piqua and Fort w.vne road at or near the s .uthwest cornet " the east half of the northeast quarter ot Setion seven (7). township |37) north, range arteen (IM east, said county and state; run thenee east on the F. W Dailey road Jhrouib sections 7. 8. 9. Wand Hand terml'Jona at the state line road where the K XV Dailey road intersects with the state line road. Said proposed road to be double track sys , .n and to be known as the E W Dailey tnaea dam road and to be forty feet wide. SEVENTH The seventh road herewith petitioned for -hull commence at the Piqua and Fort Wayne n <1 at a point about (10) rods north of where :Lsection line of section sixteen (16). town■hlD north, range (15) east, strikes said Piuua ind Fort Wayne road at the Dan Lee house running then e east through sections li; 15a’rd !• on the John W Brodbeck road Ud terminating at lite state line road where the John W Hrodbeck road intersects with the state Hue road. <a d proposed road to be a double track v.tem and to be known as tlie John W Brod beck macadam road, and to be forty feet wide And your said petitioners ask that said imnroyements. severally, be paid for by bonds issued ny said county of Adams state of Indiana. the -ame tobe|made pavable in twenty equa semiannual installments, for the oaytnent of which bonds we ask that there be levied a tax upon all the taxable property of the said Saint Marys township in a sufficient •mount to pay the interest and principal of •a d nds as the sai ,e shall severally be come due. and that the taxes oe so levied upon tb-- said township in the proportion required by and in all respects in accordance with an act of the General Assembly of the St ile if Indiana, approved March 8. 1905, also aua-t approved March 11. 1901. and in accordance with any and all amendments made by the General Assembloof the State of Indiana as amendments thereto, and in compliance with the said statute and statutes we ask that such steps as shall 1* necessary to cause an election to be held in the said Saint Marys township at the proper voting precincts thereof for the purpose of determining whether or not a majority of the people of the said township desite the roads constructed on the routes as in this petition mentioned and described, and for which we will ever pray. NAMES OF PETITIONEES. W H Teeple W H Alexander I w Broibeck Wm Custer Charles W Yager Samuel Steele Fred Benner John Custer J WatK.'ns Steward Watkins Salmdai rouch Edwin W France .1 H Edington J W Vizard Chris Fortney A M Fuller Henry steeie J D Winans .lohu Stewart A J Case 1 "at XV H Bunner W A Comer A S Acker John Troutner Irven ( ar er LD Brown Geo I Davis J R Moses AW Guiick MO Bigham I a Stevenson Warren Jones S A Hoop 'V P Johnson C H Carter W A Carter PF Jones Harry Brodbeck EHCowan Irwin Shaffer John W Thatcher Almond Shaffer G A Bunner BeuSColer a M Bowen VViils w Myers Mell Davis H M Daniele C A Shell E xv Dailey XV E Falk W H Brodbeck A J Smith J T Dailey JW Hakes John II Barrone Htnry l oiter John H Harshman Albert < hronfster Daniel Jackson Reuben Woodruff Wm Chronister J LChronister Frank Trotner Grant Strickler Charles Beam W H Beam Fred Strickler ft M Matheson W J Case A A Roe Peek W I. Omder J S Lin-btenberger Simrn Trawter be Gaunt Fred Geiger Kate smith J W Cowan George Gay John E Teeple Davis Dailey P B Koop JoCotner M M Bovd I RBovd Henry A Tindall Henry L Warner Jacob F Mitch < XV Rmdbeck Washington Kern Verner Weaver Clyde Bleam XV G Teeple Millard Winner John Noll JCCown S J Durbin McClellan Tague Monday, April’ 2, 1906. Hie same being the regular Feb. session of eaid board and at which time any tax-payer of said St Marys township, may (appear and make such objections as the law may provide for. C. D. LEW TON, Auditor. Adams County, Ind. PETITION FOR EXTENSION OF THE C Bolinger macadam road. i 9 hereby given that there has > een “ltd in the Auditor's office. Adams Ccunty, attention for the ocatiun and construction 21* certain stone road, signed more ti-an • hityi.Ti freeholders and voters of Monroe township, in said county, which petition is in the tollowing words, to-wit: State of Indiana, Adams County, Bef< re the Board of Commissioners of Adams tounty, Indiana. David f. Lehman. Peter Nusbaum, et al, M parte. Io the Honorable Board of County Com“ttssloners of Adams County. Indiana: “O* the undersigned’ all resident 'reeholders and voters ot the. township of «onme. in the county of Adams and Indiana.ana would most re. peetfully petition your honorabla board to cause to bUI -’a free macadam road on and along l“ a tullowlng described route in Monroe «>> k D ' Aaan ‘ s county, Indiana, and upon 2 ic highway already laid out and es--aii.siied. which route is described as fol*0W&; ■ .Sy'h’tvncing at a point on the C. E. Bol■■u<cr Macadam road at the northwest cornw, ■ ’cuttiwest quarter of section tweutownship twenty-six lAb north, I na?s.‘ ourle< ’ n ( l4 ' eaßt - lu Adams county, and thence to run east tough said sections st and kl in said townip twenty-six noitb. range fourteen east, oil Baia ' on the public highway already dn „?'B aba established on said line to tne , ~5. xeoruer of the southeast quarter i ,h»l Secl ‘ oa twenty-one. tn said township. ' ■ terminate J aud state as ■'fesaid, and there tvriov p ’’ ,, P o! ‘ed road will be in length about “hd Will oe connected at the *na .'n l he C. E. Boiinger macadam road, •tinti.? ee ,“tend with tne Monroe Towneave»h!l ra . ma< -adam road, both of which l un kud ejection U t>UUt pursuant “ petl " yf’A't when c impleted shall be named utthei 'v.f David F. Lehman Extension E. Bolinger Road. sa;d'r!,o Pe i*ti°nerß would recommend that that tut". Pulll “ a double track road, and tstintyX-’iml" graded to the width of ‘>n ilie^.wJ 1 ' • fee t and tnat stone be placed twe.ve^o?} 1 9,de ’hereof to the width of Maceo r h'o — t. and that stone screenings be thereon on top of said stone. lu ’tt.er I ni!? oners would most ’haito ~P . 7 ll 0“ tliat sa >d road oe bulb au-l Payable in » Or the sanie , bonds be issued Pcient .m,< weoty se tni-instaUn.eats, in su.w -tn tn,.7.? uoc> lo hay for same, togeih.-r 9.*li al building and expenses ot ’’tert. tilt. * ’ _o fl,r a*’ ll bonds and tsxaMn n!.„ eon a ,aI be levied upon the A'Uns. P , p “ r '- r "i-ialf Monroe townsh.p. fikia y ’ ‘hdtaaa. petluoners would further asks that

said road be built and such proceedings be ' b. a 2il o .i' i ulld ' es tablish and pay tor same a! isl? u^‘. t !F?hV re r b . le the*Aots of the Mareh 9H 'io s ’ at,; °t In liana, approved I'los AJ K& as , a “ended March 4, 1 '.Acts of 190.), page 1 ij NAMES OF PETITIONERS David F Lehman A N Snrunver eter Nusbaum J W t'raiSg Darnel Zurceer cinis Stengel Abe sprungei James Long s pryuger Robert Schwartz Benjamin Sprunger Burkhart Lehman A.l Moro S ch«?!° 8 i er EII I,au mgartner h haries Lenman N„ a h Williams Lleophas Lehn an Samuel Stuckey pan sprunger Jacob J F.lfer 7 e r V i A hunger c H Frank ukni pru l n>! u r . Menno Burkhalter Benjamin Habegger Paul Gerber •lacoh Huser Amos Burkhalter Dkiie I’avid P Sommers v h,l u S^ hug J Schug Lu K’ nb *n D S Wittwer Emanuel Sprunger Amos Eileuberger Christian Brauchz Peter boidnt r g Ellinberger “*V mgarruer •’ p Nupourn I pste.ner David fechwartz John M Amsteuz Jacob L’nsser hmil b Juilberat Peter F Mazelln >oah Ellenburger E Franz ' kuginbiil John J Schwartz PJ Baumgartner David D Wmteregg John-Kohrer Jcssan B Sinmoru h sNeuenschwander Dennis Stnkep >amuel Wittwer \V FSchug J F Lehman a Khusser GenzSpuuger • ?*ald petition will be presented to the B jard ot Commissioners on Monday, April 2, 1906, Jhe same being the regular April session oi said board and at which time any tax payer Monroe township may appear and make Mich objections as the law may provide for. <’• D. LEWTOX. Auditor. Adams County, hidPETITION FOR EXTEN HON OF MACAA DAMIZED STONE ROAD. Notice is hereby given that there has been tiled in the Auditor's office. Adams county, a petition for tne location and construct’on of a certain stone road, signed by more than fifiy (50) freeholders and voters ot WashingU n t »wnship. in said county, which petition is iu the following words, to-wit: State of Indiana, Adan s County In Commissioners’ Court. Petition for exteasion of macadamized stone road. We the undersigned resident freeholders and voter, iu Washington township. Adams County, in the State of Indiana, do hereby m< st respectfully petition your Honorable Body, that you proceed and and take the necessary and proper steps to have a free macadamized stone road built, constructed and completed in said Washington township, over <••• and upon the public highway located and situated on and upon the following described route, to-wit; Commencing at the West Washington township macadamized road, the same being a macadam zed stone road, at the northeast corner of section twenty in township twentyseven north, range fourteen east. Adams County. Indiana, thence to run south on over and upon the public highway between secTinis twenty and twenty-one. betwetn sections tweLty-eight and twenty-nine, and between sections thirty-two and thirty-three., in ta d township and range aforesaid to the inwi shin line ot the townships of Washington and Monro* In said Adams County. Indiana, at the southeast corderof said section it'irt two. ami the distance of three miles, and there terminate. And we pray that you take such action upon t his petition as you are directed and authorized to do under and by virtue of an Act ot the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, approved March the Sth. 1906, and under any and ail oilier Acts of said General assembly mentioned in said Act of 11X5. We further ask that said improvement be paid for by bonds issued by said County of Adams, payable in twenty semi-annual equal installments, for the payment of which bonds we ask that a tax be levied on tne taxable property of >aid Washington township iu a sufficient amount to pay interest and principal of said bonds as the same may mature and become due and payable, under and according to the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, approved S, 1905, and any and ail amendmen thereto. The improvements herein praved for to be supplementary to and continuation or extension of the said West Washington township macadamized road at and from the said point of commencement aforesaid, over and upon the >aid located htghw v to the said township line at the southeast corner of said section ihiriy two. township and range aforesaid. The said West Washington Township Macadamized road having been heretofore constructed according to and under iaws heretofore and then existing and in force and in pursuance to an election lawfully had and held for that purpose, said terminal point of the road herein prayed for being at the south township line of said Washingion township. Respecttully submitted. NAMES OF PETITIONERS c B Andrew. J H Voglomode H n,te XV XV Graham Julius Kobne Anthony Kohne Bernart Kohne L M Andrews LG Kohne John Lengerlsh Bernard Lengerich Frank Heimann Gerhard Kohne Marion Andrew. Frederick Hahnent James S Johnston F W Busche ■' -M Andrews M B Berrv Perry Andrews j N Burknead T J Durkin F. B Broth George Colcliln Alison Andrews Joa Heimann LevlEstell Michael Miller T H Tabler D A Tablet C M Carter Perry sanders J B Corson T F Carson ffm Reppert Bam i ost j W .x c .earn Jr T Dean C W Merryman . I P Crist Milton Kidd Jonas H ftman T H Haltzell M J Butler (' H Pol iutr G L BarnbS-1 I H Barnhart Theo Lenench J W McKean, st XX „ Archbold M E Hower R jS C S Niblick A M Flsbet A D Altman >• J T Merryman J< A F riston LGEllinghatn D E bm.th Fred Hodman T J Lahr I T Fiinhnsev * M Aoorews x Jh Man void George Geels JR Parish ißTumbleson Said petitZon will be presented to the Board of Commissioners on Monday, April 2. 1906. the same being the regular April session of s Jd board and at which tm.e .any tax payer In Washington township may appear and make such objections as the law may provide for. C. D. LEWJON. Auditor. Adams County. Ind, PETITION FOR STONE ROAD the following words, to-wit. State of t lndiana, Adams County, ss. Before the Board of Commissioners of said Adams County, Ind: Petition for construction of stone road in Harttoru township. along the following described route, to-wit: Commencing at twenty-oue (31). Iu » t lerm inus ot north. ’’ an!!e ,J'‘7 t ;u“ [ ,r u a9 ntnli from that ,r *i e /. r hßnce"o ru “ south on half section point, thence to ru section twenlitie through south halt of totll d'r s l tance O o7one and one-halt miles, and there to terminate.

■ Said improved highway to run over and up- I pon the public highway now located on abote described route We recommend that the width of the said proposed stone road be ten feet and be properly drained and graded before pla*ing stone thereon, and be properly dressed with stone screenings. We further ask your Honorable Body that bonds be issued for the payment of the cost of such Improved road, acd that a tax be levied upon said township for the payment thereof as provided by law for such improvements. We also ask that said improvement beer- ! tablithed, ordered and constructed without submitting the question of the making of the same to an election of the voters of said township us Hartford, and for any further necessary of your body in said premises. All of which is respectfully submitted. NAMES OF PETITIONERS L O Bears J W Heller J I North Noah A Pusey Abraham Egly J B Ze hr Peter Roth Win Hall ESHail T G Ceais E E Stout Franies Ralston W 8 Wilson B W Bears G E Snyder mes Stauffer b J Shepherd Peter Hoffman Samuel Opliger A Schlagenhauf i David Falb Beu Mershberger Andrew French Georae W Gentis John G Adler August Scheldt gger Salford Runyon Fred Bubach • John Hall Sam Hail Ezra Buge Peter I Liechty C O Moser John Snyder Arnold A'*hleman Wm An erson Sherman Higgins Curls Hiercby Martha C 8u x der Jpuus ’Pierce David FielUa caivin Fields Jas A Engle John W Cross j Alexander Bolds A Enslev E M Lindsey \\ m Giendening >herman Glendening P M Beard Wilson Sweaney Rudolph Lehman Alonzo Pouess Simeon Sales John Yoder Noah Bibt r-tlne Chris Eicker Thomas Bruadstock J Cbas E Pursey W N Shephered Said petition will be presented to the ■ Board of Commissioneis on Monday, April 2, 1906. the same being the regular April session of said board and at which time any tax payer n Hartford township may* appear and make such objections as the law may provide for C D. LEXVTON. Auditor. Adams County. Ind. PETITION FOR MACADAMIZED ROAD. I Notice is hereby given that there has been filed in tne auditor's office, Adams county, a petition tor the location and construction or a certain stone road, signed by more than fifty (su) freeholders and voters ot Hartford township, la said county, which petition is in the following words, to wit; State of Indiana, County of Adams, ss. In the Commissioner's Court, April term. 1106. Petition tor macadam road. To the Board Commissioners ot Adams County, Indiana: We. the undersigned, each and all of whom are resident treehol .ers and legal voters ot Hartlord town.h p. in the coun.y of Adams 1 and state of Indiana, do lieri-b.- respectfully petition yonr Honorable Body that you pro- ' ceed to have a free macadamiteu stone road bonstructedand completedin said Hartford township, over and upon the public highway. : situated upon the following route, to-wit: Commencing at the southeast corner of the southwesi quarter or se tion nine i9> in townsnip twepty-tive (.5) north, range thirteen (13) < a t. in the center of the gravel road known as me Reynolds gravel road, in Adams cot nty. Indiana: thence to run north through toe cen'erof section four (4), the same being a 1 puun highway to the uorth l.ne of said sec- : tio < four (4). to the public highway running 1 east and west, and there terminate, being an ' exiention of the Reynolds gravel road, and t, be known as extention No. 2 of the said Reynolds gravel r ad, tlie said road herein petitioned for being all in said Hartford township, and being one mile in length. And that you take such action upon this petition as you aredirecttd to do under and by virtue of an act of the General Assembly of the state of Indiana, approved March 8, 1905. and under any other act or acts of the Gener .1 Assembly of the said state >f Indiana. applicable to the said construction of the road herein petitioned for. XVe further ask that the same be constructed as a single track, fourteen feet in width, and that the entire road be graded he entire length. XVe further ask that said improvement herein prayed for be paid by bonds issued by said county of Adams, payable in twenty semi-annual equal installments for tbe payment of which bonds and tbe interest thereon. we ask that a tax be levied upon tbe taxable property of said Hartford township in a sufficient amount to pay the said Interest and principal of said bonds as the same become due and payable under and according to the provisions ot said act of tbe General Assembly of the state of Indiana, approved March 8.1915. The Improvement herein prayed tor to be supplemental y to and a continuation of the said Reynolds gravel road, and connetets at n'rth end wlili tbe Eek rote extension No; 1. which said gravel road is and was constaucted accoiuiug to the lbws ot the state ot Indiana Respectfully subitted. NAMES OF PETITIONERS TaltordJßunyon E G Hall Wm Anderson Wm Hall Ezra Bud Noab A Pusey John Hoffman Fred Studler Ben jamine Nichols J A Lindsey Alfred Johnson Sherman Higgins Robby Myers Hebert Gerber John Pearson Benjamtne Banter DR Miller S S Reynolds J K Ycaer . Abe Bierie J A Engie Geo W Holloway John H Souers Elmer C Bunt Daniel A hekrate Joseph E Eckrate Daniel Augsburger E C Runyon Levi Augsburger Samuel Opliger John G Adler Alouzo Runyon W A aunt Geo A Adler Charles Tremp Benj Meshberger Albrecnt Heber Andrew French L O Bears David Falk Isa Falk John M Chrisman John J Augaburger John Simson Sam Nusbaum A Schlagenhauf Christ Study C E Slawson David Heller. Sr A Shanks August Scheidegger Rufus Meshberger George W Gentis Peter Hoffman L E Bandelive Chas E Pusey L C Dunbar Daniel Yoder Cbas Chrisman David Mesberger Fred Llddy Emanuel Wanner Peter Mosser • eV r .J Liechly I a Pusley Badglev Anderson Samuel Hall Noah Blberstine Charles Reynolds John W Cowens T J Shepherd Said petition will be presented to the Board ot Commissioners on Monday. April 2, 1906, the same being the regular April session of said’board and at which time any taxpayer in Hartford township may appear and make such objections as the law may provide tor. C. D. LEXVTON, Auditor. Adams County. Ind. NOTICE OF STONE ROAD PETITION Notice is hereby given that there has been filed In the Auditor’s office, Adams County, a netitlon for the location and construction ot a certain stone road, signed by more than flfiv (56) freeholders and votets of Hartford township, in said county, which petition is in the following wot ds. tj-wit: State of Indiana, Adams County. Before the Beard of Commissioners ot Adams County. Indiana. April Term, 1906. "ren’tiotrfor construction of St ine road in Haitford township. Tbe undersigned petitioners, each an) ail of whom are resident freeholders and voters in Hartford township, in tbe county of Adams, and S-ate of Indiana, respectfully petition y< ur Honorab'e Body to cause to be built constructed and comp.ettd a single track crushed stone road over, upon and along tbe following described route, to-wit:

Commencing at a point on the free gravel road running north and south on the half section line in section fifteen, township twen-to-five north, range thirteen’ east, in Adams county. Indiana, wlure the halt' section line running east and west through said section fifteen crosses said improved highway; thence to run east over, along and upon the public highway rmw located on said half section line running east and west through said section fifteen, and on the half section line running east and west through section fourteen. said township and range, county and state aforesaid, and to tbe east boundary line ot section fourteen to ths free improved gravel road, a total distance of about one and one-half miles, and there to terminate. We also ask tliat the said public highway > s now located be graded and drained to the full width thereof. And we recommend that the width of such proposed macadam road be twelve feet in width. And that said proposed stone be properly drained and graded before placing the sione there, and that the same be properly dressed with stone acreenlngs. We further ask that bonds be issued for the payment for tbe cost of such improved road and that a tax be levied upon said township for the pa) ment thereof as provided by law in such improvements. W’e further ask that ?aid improvement be established, ordered and constructed without submitting tbe question of tbe building of t >e same to the voters of said townshp of Hartford, and tor any turtner necessary order in tne premises Respectfully Submitted NAMES OF PETITIONERS. Abraham Egly Christian Eicher George Zupi Sol Stockey teter Mosser Peter N Musser Simeon Bales Noah A Pusey Amos Stauffer Noah Runyan Silas Kizer Samuel Opliger Fanny Steiner (by Moses Ausburger) Jacob J Flory David Woorberger George XV Gentis C E Siaweon A Schiageri, aut L U Dunbar John G Adler Chas Hlrschy Samuel Hail boah Riberstine John Hall C Moffner L O Bean Spichiger S Dolt Peter Fox Johu I Liechty J D Mutner Adam Beberstem Charles Martin Peter Stucky A B Bixler Levi Schaupp Jonu Schindler Emanuel Warner John Snyder Samuel Egly CeC'Moser Sarah Vine Miller John B Zehr Peter-Roth FreuStyaler < has E Pusey Jonn J Augsburger William Schugenhorf James John L L Dunbar David Eabb Isaac Fabb Christian Stucky Geo Emick Peter Hotman L D Dunbar Rufas Meshberger Ley! Augsburger U C Stucky ■I A Pusy Wm Anderson Badgley Anderson Ezra Berch Wm Hall A Shanks Arnold lebletnan Daniel Yocher Andrew Schertz John Ycder Peter J Liechley Ed Stably Joel Schaffter Michael Zehr W H Sheperd Said petition will be presented tc the Board ot Commissioners on Monday, April 2, 1906, the same beinurthe regular April session of said ooard and at which time any tax paver in Hartford township, may appear and tuakd ouch objections as the law may provide tor, C. D. LEWTON'. Auditor. 2-3 Adams uouuiy. Ini, DETITION FOR FREE CRUSHED STONE 1 hO3 D. Notice is hereby given that there has been filed in the Auditor’s office, Adams county, a petition for the location and construction us a certain macadam road, signed by more than fifty i,50) freeholders and voters ot tiai tturu township »aiu county wuLuu pennon is O the following words to-wit:. State of Indiana. County of Adams, ss. Commissioners’ Court, To the Honorable Board of Commissioners Os Auams County, Indiana: We, the undersigned petitic ners. freeholders and voters ?of Hartford township, in auams County, Indiana, do reßpecnuxly petition your Honorable Board ot Commiseiuners to construct or cause to be constructed a free crushed stone road in Hartioru township Adams county upon the following described ioute to-wit: Commencing at the northwest quarter of section (9) in township twenty-five north, range thirteen Li) east, tneuce running sou h un tne halt section hue o sections niuedb and sixteen (16) to the southeast corner us the southwest quarter of sect.uu sixteen (16). tuwnsliip and range aforesaid, and there to terminate. The estimite length of the above described road wit, ue about two (3) mixes. The above road when completed shall be called tbe Reynolds extention No. We«sk that the above described rosd shall constructed of crushed stone and that tbe grade of the same be not les, than twentytwo (32) feet in width and that the stone shall be placed thereon to a width of leu (10) feet ana a depth ot ten lu,. inches >n the center and eight (8) on tbe sides, and that the right-ot'-way shall be forty i 0) feet. Your petitioners ask that said proposed imrrovements be paid tor by bonds ssued by tne Couxiiy of Adams payable in twenty equal semiannual installments, as near is the same may be for the payments ot which bonds they ask thata tax oe levied on all taxable property ot Hurtford township, in said Adams county. Indiana, in a sufficient amount and rate annually to pay the interest | and principal of said bonds as they shall become due respectively, and that said tax sba,l be'levied on said tewnship in the proportion requirt d by tne laws ot the State of Indiana, and that tbe said proposed road be ordered constructed and that tne same be built, completed and paid for in all respect agreeable to to an Act of the General Assembly of the State of Inliana, approved Ma.oh 8. 1905. And that said highway Improvement be so ordered made and c moisted without submitting the question of the building thereof to an election of tbe voters of said township as provided in said Act of the General Assembly, and for any and other rights and benefits that yourpetitioners may be entitled to in the piemises. The improvement herein prayed for connecting at each end with an improved free gravel road within said township to-wn: At the north end with the Reynolds free gravel road and at the south endwifth the Rieffe tree gravel road. NAMES Os PETITIONERS. J A Engle Samuel Oplinger A Schlagenhauf xvilliam Schligenhof Isaac Falb David Meshbe ger Rufus Meshberger Robert Gierber .Its K Yoder Lt. Dunbar Unanes Reynolds Rufus Kreps C C Stucky Ezra Brigs Peter Hoffman George W Gentis John Pearsun Alonzo Runyan John M Chrisman D H Miller Lee S Higgins Abe Bierle Alfred Johnson n r " te „ g S Hall Geo ft Holloway Tai ford Runyon Eimerllutt Jonn H Souss Benjamin Bantes J A Lindsey E G Bears Andrew French I. O Bears F J Shephard David Heller, Sr Daniel Augsburger EC Runyon Fred L studler Silas Kizer Noah Runyon Fred Dubach David Spiehiger John Yoder John Hall < hrist Husehy 1’ M Muudhend B W Bea- s James Price A'lsdii DA Eckrate sS Reynolds John XV Cowen Said petition will be presented to tie Board of Commissioners on Monday, April 2, 1906 the same being the regular April session of said board atd at which time any tax payer in Hartfora tjwnship may appear and make such objections as the law may provide toT ' c, B. LEXVToN. Auditor. Ada tn s County. Indiana J3ETITION FUR MACADAMICED ROAD Notice is hereby given that there has been

filed in the auditor’s office. Adams county, a petition for the location and construction of 1 a certain stone road, signed by more than I fifty tSO) freeholders and voters of Hartford I township, in said county, which petition is in the following words, to-wit: State of Indiana. Adams County, ss. Before the Board of Commissioners, at the April term of said Commissioner's Court, 19U6. Petitions or macadamized road. To the Bnard of Commissioners cf Xdams County, Indiana: We. tbe undersigned, each and all of whom are resident freeholders of Hartford township. in Adams county. Indian •, do Hereby respectfully petition your Honorable Body that you proceed to have a free macadamized sione road constructed and completed in taid Hartford township over and upon the puolic highway situated on the tol owing route, to-wit: Commencing at then orihwest corner if section twenty-five (25), In township twentyfive north. range thirteen (13) east, in Adems county. Indiana, at the puce known as ine • Jlmtown pike” in said townshiuand range; thence to run west on the public highway Between sections fourteen (14) and twenty-three (23), a d sections fifteen and twentv-two(22), and sections sixteen (16) and twenty-one (2D. and t here terminate. The sai l road herein petitnned for being alj in said Hartford township, in said county and state, and being twoand one-half 2^ 2 ) miles in length, to be known as Jlmtown Extention No. 1. And tnat you take such action upon this petition as you are directed and authorized to do under and by virtue of an act of the Genera! Assembly of the state of Indiana, approved March 1005 and under any other acts of the said General Assembly. We further a«k that the same be constructed as a single track, twelve feet in width along the entire length of the said road herein petitioned for. Wo further ask that said improvement be pa d for by bonds issued by said county of Adams, payable in twenty semi-annual equal installments for tbe paj ment of which bonds we ask that there be a tax levied upon the taxable property of said Hartford township in a sufficient amount to pay the interest and principa of bonds as the same shall become due and payable uno er and according to the provisions of said act of the General Assemb’y of the .March the Sth, 1905. The improvement herein prayed for to be supplementary to the pike atoresaid and mentioned herein, which said road is a pike approyed by the said Board of Commissioners ot said county. Respectfully submitted, NAMES OF PETITIONERS Wm Anderson Badgley Anderson J A Pusley W H Shepherd Samuel Egly J H Riff Sul Strick y Sarah Millgr John 11 Zt hr Chris Eicher Noah A Pusey Samuel Hall Ezra Bugh E S Hall T G Bears David and Lucy Fields John Hall A Shanks John Hall Noah Blberstine Chas E Pusey Noah Runyon Silas Kiz*r Cathrine Lesley George W Gentis David Macbarger Alonso Runyon John W Cowens John G Adler David Fox Peter Fox C E Slawson Dav.d Heller, Sr Dr Geo Emick Christ Steiky L D Dunbar David Falb A Schlagenhauf Isa FaU) Daniel Augsburger James Rohn John M Chrisman D A Miller SamuelOpiinger L C Dunoar August Scheidegger TDRuiyon Sery Ktberstin Uliforbuif Wufborum Albrecht Reber Char Chrisman Mam Nusbaum Mary Nausbaum Ben Banter Levi Augsburger Peter Hoffman Chris Hlrschy John T Dintz David Yoder CC Stucky Levi Schaupp Fred Lickty John Schindler Pater Mosser N Mosser Elisabeth Mosser Wm Hall Emanuel Namur > Shoemaker Michael Zehr Dani* 1 A Eckrate Abraham Egly L O Bears Said petition will be presented to the Board us Commissioners on Monday, April 2, 1906, the same being the regular April session of ‘•aid ooard. and at which time any taxpayer iu Hartford township may apuear and make such objections as the law may provide tor C. D. LEWTON. Auditor. Adams Cquntp, Ind. NOTICE OF FILING DITCH PETITION Case Number 7145. State of Indiana, Adams countx, S. S. In the Adams Circuit Court, February Term, 1906. Henry Scherry, Jr., et al., Expart. petition for drain. To Catherine Shady, Gertrude M. Snyder, Henry J. Kolmerten and Emma L. Kolmerten, Catherine Steele. Heirs at law Louisa Konrad, heirs at law of William Kirschner, heirs at law of Henry C. D. Beiberick, heirs at law of John Wefel. You are hereby notified that Henry Scherry, Jr., et al., have filed in the circuit court of Adams county? state of Indiana, a petition for a drain to be constructed o n and along the following described route, to-wit: Commencing at a point located three hundred eighty (380) feet least and one hundred fifty (150) ! feet south of the corner stone located at the northwest corner of section three (3) in township twentyseven (27) north of range thirteen (13) east, Adams county, State ot Indiana, thence in a southeasterly direction through the northern part of section three (3) in township ■ twenty-seven (27) north of range thirteen (13) east across the lands 1 of Henry J- Kolmerton and Emma L. Kolmerton and Daniel J. C. Scherry, and Henry Worthman, thence across the public highway running north and south between sections two (2) and three (3) in township twenty-seven (27) north of range thirteen (13) east, thence running in a northeasterly direction direction through the northwest part of section two (2) in township twentyseven (27) north of range thirteen (13(east through the lands of Christian Borne. Henry Worthman, and Henry Scherry, Sr„ thence running across the public highway running north and south dividing section two (2) in township twenty-seven (27) north of range thirteen (13) east in the middle, thence in an easterly direction through the northern part, of section two (2) in township twenty-seven (27) north of range thirteen (13 ) east througn the lands of Henry Scherry, Jr„ and Edward Kirchner, thence across the public highway running north and south between sections one (1) and two (2) in township twenty-seven (27) north of range thirteen (13) east, thence running i na northeast- ’ erly direction through the northwest I corner of section one (1) in towni ship twenty-seven (117) north of 'range thirteen (13) east through ! the lands of* David Werling, thence I across the public highway which ’ runs east and west through the • lands of David Werling, thence I across the public highway which 1 runs east and west along the town- ' ship lines between section one i in township twenty-seven (27)

I north of range thirteen (13) east land section thirty-six (36) in township twenty-eight (28) north of range thirteen (13) east, thence running in a northerly direction through section thirty-six (36) in toxvnship twenty-eight (28) norta of range thirteen (13) east between the lands of Jefferson Klopfenstein and David Werling, thence across the right-of-way or the Chicago & Erie Railroad (formerly known as the Chicago & Atlantic Railway) in said section, township and range, thence in a northeasterly direction through the southwest corner of section thirty-six (36) in townshin twenty-eight (28) north of range thirteen (13) east through the lands of David Werling, thence across the public highway which runs north and south between sections thirty-five (35) and thirty-six (36) in township twenty-eight (28' north of range thirteen (13) east, thence in a northwesterly direction through the east one-half of section thirty-five (35 in toxvnship twenty eight (28) north of range thirteen (13) east through the lands of C. O. Holbrock, William Grote and Marie Hoffman, thence in a northwesterly direction through the southwest corner of the southeast, quarter of section twenty-six (26) in township twenty-eight (28) north of range thirteen (13) east through the lands of John G. H. Hoffman, thence across the public highway which runs north and south and divides section twenty-six (26) in the middle, said section twenty-six (26) being in township twentyeight (28) north of range thirteen (13) eact, thence running in a northwesterly direction through the west quarter of section twenty-six (26) in township twenty-eight (28) north of range thirteen (13) east through the lands of Jacob Schuler, thence across the public highway which runs east and west and divides in the middle section twentysix (26) in township twenty-eight (28) north of range thirteen (13) east, thence in a northerly direction through the northwest quarter of section twenty-six (26) in township twenty-eight (28) north of range thirteen (13) east through the lands of Frederick Scherry and Christian Ehlerding, thence in a northerly direction through . the west one-half of section twentythree (23) in township twentyeight (28) north of range thirteen (13) eact through the lands of Williah Schaekel, John Bieberick and Charles Ewell, and terminating in the William Reinhardt ditch and terminating on the lands of Charles Ewell located in the east one-half of the northwest quarter of section twenty-three (23) in township twen-ty-eight (28) north of range thirteen (13) east near the center of said east one-half of said one-half of said northwest quarter in said section, township and range aforesaid, following as near as practicable the channel of the old ditch. That said proposed drain will effect your lands described in the said petition: that said petition so filed is now pending in said court aforesaid and that Thursday, April 26th 1906 is set for hearing the said petition. HENRY SCHERRY, JR. JOHN HOFFMAN WILLIAM C. GROTE I . CHRIST BORNE HENRY WORTHMAN DANIEL SCHERRY. OTICE OF SALE OF MACADAM ROAD BONDS. Notice is hereby given that I, J. F. Lachot, treasurer" of Adams county, state of Indiana, will on Monday. April 2. 1906, at the room of the board of commissioners in the auditor’s office in the city of Decatur, Indiana, receive sealed bids for the purchase and sale of certain macadamized road bonds hereinafter described issued by tho board of commissioners of said county for the construction of the roads hereinafter named as follows, to-wit: For the construction of the West Washington No. 4 macadam road in Washington township, Adams county, Indiana, the entire issue of bonds for said road being in the sum of $3,640, being in twenty (20) semi-annual payments, bearing date of March 15, 1906, and each bond being in the sum of $lB2, with per cent interest, payable semi-annually with coupons attached. Sealed bids will be received until 10 o’clock a. m. of said day. Each bid must be accompanied with a certified check in amount equal to three (3) per cent of the amount of the bid, which check must be drawn against monies deposited in any reliable bank in said county; such check must be made payable or, endorsed to the board of commissioners and shall be held as guaranty for tbe performance of such bid, and should such bid be accepted the said check shall be forfeited to the county, should the bidder faii to comply with the conditions of his said bid. Each of said bonds will bear date of March 15, 1906, and should the bonds be not ready for delivery on the day the said bids are received and accepted, the interest will be refunded by the purchaser at the rate of four and one-half per cent from the date of March 15, 1906, until the date when the purchase price of said bonds are paid to the county treasurer.and the bonds delivered. The above described bonds will become due on the 15th day of Novem ber 1908, and the 15th day of May. 1907, of each year, commencing on the 15th day of November, 1906. and are made pavable, including interest, at the First National Bank, Decatur, Indiana. Said bonds are issued exclusively for the expense of the construction of the above described roads pursuant to the laws of 1897, 1899 and 1903 The amount of bonds to he sold including bonds already issued in said township for the free gravel and macadam roads is less four (4) per cent of the total valuation of said township for taxation. Further particulars will be furnished on application. Bids must be on each set of bonds p LJCHOT 2t3 ’ County Treasurer.