Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 3, Decatur, Adams County, 22 March 1906 — Page 7

Macadam Road Petitions from Sixth Page) . nn the Grant Struckler road ibroocl; »> l J j , liue between sections 34 and sen l ' 1 u ti ne Creek township line between S ; ' wt rrek and St. Marys township and there ??teruiu> a,e ’ . „, ia ed road to be a double track Said.proP‘J« known as th. Grant Strlcki*' am road, and to be forty feet wide, ler mac» u " SIXTH road herewith petitioned for Tbe S1 ,’mence at the Piqua and fort si:B- ' .a at or near the siuthwest corner ff ,yiier ’aa a northeast quarter of of the township (37) north, range section W'e‘ ; s(lld county and state; run ''"re east on the fi W Dailey road ring , e ,i,, n s ” 8. '■*. 1° and 11 and termltl'ri,ug ‘/'i he s"ate' line road where the K W Dat i".y “road intersects with the state line roS<l '. nnaed road to be double track sysSaid be known as the E W Dailey macaJ® ““ad and to be forty feet wide. SEVENTH -onth road herewith petitioned for The seventh toa ttiepiqua al)d Kort Wayne shallcoii.ni • a hout' 10) rods north of where a \ rt ; ‘“e of see ion sixteen (lfi).toWn-[l.e-f. O'- 11 '' ratl ge (15) east, strikes said iiiip •" I r ,rt Whvne road at the Dan Lee Piqua ' in then e east through sections >°“' e; r i i m the John W Urodbeck road lbal .inatimt at the state line road where snd I'™ tV Brodbeck road Intersects with Estate line road. PXo d be"nown^he^ d o 0 h U M and be forty h et vide , a vnnr said petitioners ask that said imAtdvmre llv> h e paid for by bonds phV'iients. tv f Adams state ot InjiS .jPd ! bJimade payable in twendiaaa. the n’ lial installments, for the tyeiual f ' h * h bonds we ask that there be MS J tax upon all the taxable property of lened » tax ui n township in a sufficient lt,eS naMhe interest and principal of amount nd U as the san.e shall severally beand that the taxes be so levied upsod township in the proportion reftl .bv». <i in all respects In accordance »• .1 the General Assembly of the Mnd ana approved March 8.11)05. also Su f n. rV, d March 11. 1301. and in acoorK'.'e w?th any and ill amendments made by Assemble of the State of Indiana k amendments thereto, and in compliance ,’r he said statute and statutes we ask that X Thus as shall be necessary to cause an feetion hi be held in the said Saint Marys at the proper voting precincts Srrrf fir 'tie purpose of determining , b beffie f r or not a majority of the people of to Slid township desire the roads eonstrucLd’n the routes as in this petition men; “Jd and described, and for which we will ever pray.

NAMES OF PETITIONERS. „ H Tec Die w H Alexander W Brolbeck Wm Charles W Yager Samuel Steele 'red Benner John Custer i Kutuins Steward Watkins Linda Crouch £ rance J H Edington {mflrct Iris Fortney AM Fuller Heorj Steele J D W Inans ohn Stewart A J Case - 1 V: W H Bunner * A Gom( T A s’ Acker John Troutner Irrentarer L D Brown Im I Davis J R Moses AW Gulick MO Bigham ' B*tt*v’t*rß'>d Warren Jones SA Hood WPJohnson I "er W A Carter PF Jones Harry Brodbeck SH Cowan Irwin Shaffer John w Thatcher Almond Shaffer GA Bunner Ben BCoier A M Bowen Wills W Myers (ell Davis H JJ Daniels ; a Shell K W Dailey W E Falk W H Brodbeck A J Smith J T Dailey fW Hakes John H Barrone Henry Colter John H Harshman Albert Chronister Daniel Jackson Reuben Woodruff Wm Chronister J L Chronister Frank Trotmer GrantStrickler Charles Beam W H Beam Fred Strickler H M Matheson W J Case AARoebeek W L Omder Jr Litehtenberzer Simon Trawler le Gaunt Fred Geiger Isaac Smith J W Cowan George Gay John F. Teeple bans Dailey D B Roop Jo Comer M M Bovd JRBoyd Henry A Tindall Henry L Warner Jaoob F Mitch CW Brodbeck Washington Kern Verner Weaver Clyde Bleam WGTeeple Millard Winner John Noll JCCown B J Durbin McClellan Tague Monday, April! 2, 1906. the same being the regular Feb. session ot fed hoard and at which time any tax-payer C said S* Marys township, may lappear and make such objections as the law may provide for. C. D. LEW TON. Auditor. Adams County, Ind.

OETITJi'N FOR EXTENSION OF THE t” c BOL.NGEK MACADAM ROAD. Notice i-hereby given that there he-been tied Auditor’s office. Aoams* oniity. apetit: >u : >r the location and construct: >n 'ls certain stone road, signed more ti an • sty ."a freeholders and voters of Monroe twii-l. p. in said county, which petition is in the following words, to-wit: State ot Indiana. Adams County. Befori't' e Board of Commissioners of Allans County. Indiana. David F Lehman. Peter Nuso.iuin, et al. Ft parte. Toth,- Ho .orabie Hoard of County Com-Hissiuinr-ul Adams County. Indiana: Conies a., v the undersigued' all resident Iteehoiders and voters ot the. township i f Monroe, m the county of Adams and Mate of Indiana, ano would most re. peetf u ly Petition your honorabla board to cause to t*oulit a tree macadam road on and alone the folloning described route in Monroe townshiu Aoams couuty, Indiana, an J up ui k public big .way already laid out and estatilMied. wnleu route is described as follows: Uomtrenctng at apoint on the C. E Hol htiftr Macadam roan at the northwest corner of the southwest quarter of section t *enD il l . in township twenty-six c*.' north, huge fourteen 14. east, in Auams eouuty. Indiana, and thence to run east through said sections zb and 21 in said townfbip tweuty-six tx.itb, range iourutn east, as ifmesain, on the public highway already ‘Mdout anu established on said line to the northeast corner of the suuiueast quarter ' out section twenty-one. in said township, range, county and stale as >resaid. and ihere *o terminate. ’aid proposed road will be in length about two Co mites and will be connected at the *est won me C. E. Buduger macadam road, ahu at the east end with the Munroe TownjatpCentral macadam road, boil, ot which '■avr already been budt pursuant to a petition and election. "aid road when c rmpleted shall be named and called tbe David F. Lehman Extension ottuec. E. Bolinger Road. .'j' I '' Petitioners would recommend that ata roau be built as a double track road, and t»o». • Bame he graded to the width of feet.and that stone be placed aide thereof to tbe width of . f v’-t. ano that stone screeaitigs be exueu thereon an top of said stone. tn'ol 1 Petitioners would most respectfully r Petition that said road be built and flrsaii lor the same, bauds be issued ID twenty semi-lnstallmeuts. in su.- j si! ? am "unie to par for same, together ’ inui / . COS ! ’ , building and expenses < f than..??,’ au(l ttmt K) pay tor said bonds ami tax»i^l tl ‘ ere<>n a ’ax l -e levied upon the Aiar e Property o*|eaif Munroe township. ’* c '--'‘duty. Indiaaa, 1 *'« petitionets wjuld turthez ask that

as i^^c t !sXorpage 8 ri a “ eDdC<l ® arch *' NAMES OF PETITIONERS David F Lehman A N Snrummr Peter Nusbaum J WtS” Daniel Zurceer Chris Stlpgel Robert M“ r ‘ oDtiprUn|!er 0 DtiprUn|!er lj Chtran Samuel Stuckey I’anbprunger Jacob J Felfer I r li~.^ ruuger c B Era » k R.-TrL?m4n S o r >. Menno Burkhalter iu,! . w Habegger Paul Gerber lend p| user Amos Burkhalter PI,K{" David P Sommers I htl Schug j c gchug Noah Luglnbill [i g Wittwer 1,, r.m ers > er Emanuel feprunger Amos Ellenberger Christian Brauchz Peter Soldner G Ellinberger F; ““““Sartner j p Nupourn , !' S J, e '“ er David Schwartz l. ‘.'i Ab'steuz Jacob Unsser Eml F Jullberat Peter F Mazelin Noah Ellenburger E Franz v o jU g 1 üß i! i John J Schwartz I Baumgartner David D Winteregg vk’ ll “ ,o^rer Jossan B Sinmorn h Neuenschwander Dennis Strikep >amuel Wittwer WFSchug JI Lehman A Rhusser Genz Spunger Said petition will be presented to the Board ot Commissioners on Monday, A; ril 2, 1906, Jbe same being the regular April session ot said ward and at which time any tax payer Monroe township may appear and make such objections a> the law may provide for. „ . <■’. D. LEWTON. Auditor. Adams County, Ind-

pETITION FOR EXTENTION OF MACA--L DAMIZE D STC )N E 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 a certain stone road, signed by more than fifiy (50)freeholders and voters of Washington township, in said county, which petition is in the following words, to-wit: State of Indiana, Adams County In Commissioners’ Court. Petition for extension of macadamized stone road. We the undersigned resident freeholders and voters in 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 on 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 macadamized 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 aud upon the public highway between sections twenty and twenty-one. between sections twenty-eight and twenty-nine, and between sections thirty-two and thirty-three, in said township and range aforesaid to the township line or the townships of Washington and Monroe in said Adams County. Indiana, at the southeast corner of said section (birt’ .two. and the distance of three miles, and there terminate. And we pray that you take such action upon this petition as you are directed and auth )rized to do under and by virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana. approved March the Sth. 1906. and under any and all other Acts of said General Assembly mentioned in said Act of 1905. We further ask that said improvement be paid for by bonds issued oy 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 said Washington township in 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 8. 1905, and any and all 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 said located highway to the said township line at the southeast corner of said section thirty-two. township and range aforesaid. The said West Washington Township Macadamized road having been heretofore constructed according to and under laws 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 liue of said Washington township.

Respectfully submitted. NAMES OF PETITIONERS C B Andrews J H Voglomode H Hite W W Graham Julius Kohne Anthony Kohne Bernart Kohne >< M Andrews I. G Kohne John Lengerish Bernard Lengerich Frank Heimann Gerhard Koline Marion Andrews Frederick Hahnent James S Johnston F W Busche J M Andrews M B Berry Perry Andrews J N Burkhead T J Durkin E B Booth George Colchtn Alison An Irews Jos Heimann Levi Esteil Michael Miller T II Tabier L A Tabler C M Carter Perry Sanders J B Corson T F t arson Wm Reppert Sam tost .) tv McKean. Jr T Dean C W Merryman L C Pease I P Crist Milton Kidd Jonas II ttin.in T H Haltzel! MJ Butler *b . C H Poling • L Barnhart .1 H Barnhart Theo Lenench Robert Wespor Ke uben . .1 tv McKean, sr " J Archbold M E Hower K K A'hsmi CS Niblick A^ FIS ? eJ A D Altman KhmMi J T Merryman H A F rision I. G Ellinzham Fr d Hoffman TJ La nr I T Idahnsey C M Andrews N .ah Mangold George Geels ,j r p at ßh I K Tumbleson Said petition will be presented to tire Board of Commissioners on Monday. April 2. 1906. the same being the regular April session of said board and at which time .any tax P a J®t lu Washington township may appear and make such objections as the law may provide tor. C. D. LEWTON, Auditor. Adams County. Ind, pETITION FOR STONE HOAD Notice is hereby given that there has been the following words, to-wit. State of.lndiana. Adams County, ss. Before the Board of Commissioners of said A dams County. Ind. Petition for construction of stone road in Hartford township. , T w \Vm D l?e Si^id d voters in ‘reepecUuliy U twenty-one t- 1 1. to n u at ~.r nii nus ot north. ra nze tlnruen from that tree grav*l road half Be( , lion point, thence to ru section twenfine ball of lwrQty . £ township, range ?oul di a s’tlnce°o7one and one-halt miles, and there to terminate.

baid improved highway to run over and uppon the public highway now located on above described route. We recommend that the width of the said proposed stone road be ten feet and be properly drained and gradedh before planing 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, aud that a tax tie levied upon said township for the payment thereof as provided by law’ for such improvements. We also ask that said improvement bee~tabllbhed. ordered and constructed without submitting the question of the making of the same to an election of the voters ot said township of Hartford, and for any further necessary of your body in said premises. All of which is respectfully submitted. NAMES OF PETITIONERS LO Bears J W Heller J 1 North Noah A Pusey Abraham Egly J B Zehr Peter R th Wm Hall E > Hail T G Gears EE Stout Franies Ralston W S Wilson B W Bears (•ESnyder AmcsStauiTer F J Shepherd Peter Hofiman Samuel Opliger A Schlagenhauf David Falb Ben Mershberger Andrew French George W Gentis John G Adler August Scheidegger Salford Runyon Fred BUbach John Hall Sam Hall Ezra Buge Peter I Liechty (’('Moser John Snyder Arnold A<’hleman Wm An ierson Sherman Higgins Chris Hierchy Martha C Snyder James ■» Pierce David Fields Calvin Fields Jas A Engle John W Cross Alexander Bolds A Enslev E M Lindsey Wm Giendening Sherman Giendening P M beard Wilson Sweaney Rudolph Lehman Alonzo Pouess Simeon Sales John Yoder Noah Chris Eicker Thomas Bruadstock Chas 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 in Hartford township may appear and make such objections as the law may provide for C D. LEWTON. Auditor. Adams County. Ind. PETITION FOR MACADAMIZED 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 a certain stone road, signed by more than flfiy (50) freeholders and voters of 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. 1906. Petition for macadam road. To the Board Commissioners of Adams County. Indiana: We. the undersigned, each and all of whom are resident freehol ers and legal voters ot Hartlord townsh p. in the county of Adams and state of Indiana, do hereby respectfully petition yonr Honorable Body that you proceed to have a fit e macadamiteo stone road bonstructed and completedin said Hartford township, over and upon the public highway, situated upon the following route, to-wit: Commencing at the southeast corner of the southwest quarter of section nine (9) in township twenty-five (*5) north, range thirteen (13) east, in the center of »he gravel road known as the Reynolds gravel road, in Adamscounty. Indiana: thence to run north through the center of section four (4), the same being a pubii ■ highway to the north line of said section four (4). to the public highway running east and west, and there terminate, being an extention of the Reynolds gravel road, and t • tie known as extention No. 2 of the said Reynolds gravel read, the 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 are directed 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 General Assembly of the said state jf Indiana, applicable to the said construction of the road herein petitioned for. \\ e further a<k that the same be constructed as a single track, fourteen feet in width, and that the entire road be graded he entire length. We further ask that said improvement herein prayed for be paid by bonds issued bysaid county of Adaiue. payable in twenty >emi-annual equal installments for the payment of which bonds and the interest thereon. we ask that a tax be levied upon the 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 of said act of the General Assembly ot the state of Indiana, appjoved March 8, 1905. The improvement herein prayed tor to be supplementary to and a continuation of the Srttd Reynolds gravel road, and connects at north end with the Eckrote extension No; 1. which said gravel road is and was constnucted according to the ISws ot the state of Indiana

Respectfully subltted, NAMES OF PETITIONERS TaltordJßunyon EG Hall VVm Anderson Wm Hall Ezra Bod Noah A Pusey John Hoffman Freu Studler Ben jamine N ichols J A Lindsey Alfred Johnson Sherman Higgins Robby Myers Keuert Gerber John'Pearson Benjamine Banter D H Miller b 8 Reynolds J K Yoaer Abe Bierie .1 a Engle Geo W Holloway John 11 Souers Elmer Count Daniel A lickrate Joseph E Eckrate DanielAugsburger EC Runyon Levi Augsburger Samuel Opliger John G Adier Alt uzo Runyon W A aunt Geo A Adler Char c < Trcmp I^ l uj Meshbcrfrcr Albrecht Reber Andrew French 1 O Bears David rdlk Isa Falk Jehri M Chrisman John J Augsburger John Simson Sam Nusbauin A Schlagenhauf Christ study <’ E Slawson David Heller. Sr A shanks August Sclieidegger Rufus Meshberger George W mentis Peter Hoffman L E Bandelive Chas E Pusey LC Dunbar Daniell Oder Chas Chrisman David Mesberger Fred Liddy Emanuel Wanner Peter Mosser eet» r J Liechly I A Pusley Badgley Anderson Samuel Hall Noah Biberstme Charles Reynolds JohnM Cowens T .1 Shepherd Said petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners on

Monday. April 2, 1906, the same beine the regular April session of “lid board and at which time any taxpayer in Hartford township may apoear and make such objections as the law may provide for. * C. D. LEWTON, Auditor, Adams County, Ind. STONE ROAD PETITION Notice is hereby given that there has been fllSd in the Auditor office. Adams County, a netitlon for the location and construction of a certain stone road, signed by more than flf,v (5(1) freeholders and voteis of Hartford township, in said county which petition is in the following woids, to-wit: State of Indiana. Adams County Before tbe Board of Commissioners ot Adams County. Indiana, April Term. 1908. TetHicn for <construction of st me road in Hartford township. The undersigned petitioners, each and all of whom are resident freeholders and voters in Harts ri township, io ’be county of Adams and State of Indiana, respectiuliy netition your Honorable Bod> to cause to be Sui t, constructed completed a single ct “shed stone' mad oyer, upon and the fo'iowing described route, to-wit.

Commencing at a point on the free gravel road running north and south on the half section line insection fifteen,townshiptwen-to-fivu north, range thirteen east, In Adams county. Indiana, where the half 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 now 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 townshir* and range, county and state «foresaid, and to the east boundary line of section fourteen to th© free improved gravel road, a total distance of about one and one-half miles, and there to terminate. We also ask that 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 stone there, and that the same be properly dressed with stone screenings. We further ask that bonds be issued for the payment for the cost of such improved road and that a tax be levied upon said township for the payment thereof as provided by law in such improvements. We further ask that said improvement be established, ordered and constructed without submitting the question of the building of t *e same to the voters of said townshp of Hartford, and for any further necessary order in tne premises Respectfully Submitted.

NAMES OF PETITIONERS. Abraham Egly Christian Eicher George Zu pi Sol Stockey reter Mosser Peter N Musser Simeon Sales Noah A Pusey Amos Stauffer Noah Runyan Silas Kizer Samuel Opliger Fanny Steiner (by Moses Ansburger) Jacob J Flory Dayid Woorberger George W Gentis C E Slawson A Sciuageni.aut L C Dunbar John G Adler Chas Hirschy Samuel Hail Noah Riberstine John Hall C Moffner L O Bears David Spicbiger S Doll Peter Fox John I Liechty J D Mufner Adam Beberstem Charles Martin Peter Stucky A B Bixler Levi Schaupp John Schindler Emanuel Warner John Snyder Samuel Egly U_C-Moser Sarah Vine Miller John B Zehr Peter- Roth FredStyaler < has E Pusey John J Augsburger William Schugenhorf Janies John L L Dunbar David Fabb Isaac 1 abb Christian Stucky Geo Emick Peter Holman L D Dunbar Rufas Meshberger Leyi Augsburger C C Stuckv J A Pusy Wm Anderson Badgley Anderson Ezra Berch Wm Hall A Shanks Arnold Ichleman Daniel Yocher Andrew Schertz John Yoder Peter J Liechley Ed Stably .luel Schaffter Michael Zehr »V H Sheperd

Said petition will be presented t<_ tbe Board of Commissioners on Monday, April 2, 1906, the same being the regular April session ot said Board and at which time any tax paver in Hartford township, may appear and inako sucli objections as the law may provide lor, C. D. LEWTON. Auditor. 2-3 Adams County, Ind, PETITION FOR FREE CRUSHED STONE ROAD. Notice is hereby given that there has been filed in the Auditor’s office. Adams County, a petition for tne location and construction of a certain macadam road, signed by more than fifty (50) freeholders and voters ot Haritoru.luwnship in said county which petition is i’j the following words to-wit:. State of Indiana, County of Adams, ss. Commissioners’ Court, To the Honorable Board ot Commissioners of Azams County, luulaua: We, the undersigned petitlcners. freeholdersand voters .of Hartford township, in Adams County. liidiana.au respectlu.ly petition your Honorable Board ot Commissioners to construct or cause to be constructed a free crushed stone road in Hartford tow nship Adams county upon the following described route to-wit: Commencing at the northwest quarter of section >«) in township twenty-nve (25) north, range thirteen (13)east. thence running south on the halt section line o. sections niue(li) and sixteen (H>) to the southeast corner of the southwest quarter of section sixteen (IB), township and range aforesaid, and there to terminate. The estimate length of the above described road will ue about two (8) miles. The above road when completed shall be called the Reynolds extention No. 8. We ask that the above described road shall constructed of crushed stone and that the grXße of the same be not less than twentytwo (28) feet in width and that the stone shall Be placed thereon to a width of ten nth feel ana a depth of ten (10) inches 'n the center and eight (n) on the sides, and that the right-of-way shall be forty ('0) feet. Your petitioners ask that said proposed irnr rovements be paid tor by bonds .ssued by tbe Couuiy us Adams payable in twenty equal semi annual installments, as near <.s the same may Be tor the payments ol which tioaos they ask that a tax be levied on ail taxable property ol Hartford township, in said Adams county, Indiana, in a sufficient amount and rale annually to pay the interest and principal of said bonus as they shall beCume due respectively, and that said lax shall bo levied on said township in the proportion required by tbe laws of the State of Indiana, and that the said proposed road be ordered constructed and that toe same Be built completed and paid for in all respect agreeable to to an Act of the General Assembly of the Stateof Inliaua, approved March I'.Kib.

And that said highway improvement be so ordered made and c nipleted without submitting the question of the building thereof to an election of the voters of said township as provided in said Act ot the General Assembly, and for any and other rights and besetits that yourpetitiouers may be entitled to in tbe piemises. The improvement herein prayed for connecting at each end with an improve 1 free gravel road within said township to-wit: At the north end with the Kevnolds free gravel road and at the south endwifth the ii.effe free gravel road. NAMES OT PETITIONED. J A'Engle Samuel Opiinger A Schlagenhauf William Schligenhof Isaac Falb David Meshbe.ger Kufus Meshberger Robert Gierber Jos K Yoder L C Dunbar Charles Reynolds Kufus Kreps C C Stucky Ezra Brigs Peter Hoffman George \V Gentis John Pearson Alonzo Runyan John M Chrisman D H Miller LeeS Higgins Abe Bierie Alfred Johnson Jesse E Eekrote E s Hall Geo W Holloway Talford Runyon Elmer Hunt John H Souss Benjamin Bantes J A Lindsey EG Baars Andrew French L 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 HaU l ;lirls . t . Hirs ehy I M Mundhend B w Bears James Price Wm 8 Wilson DA Eckrate S S Reynolds John W Ccwen Said petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners on Monday, April 2,1906 tlie same being the regular April session of said board and at which time auy tax payer in Hartford t iwnship may app-ar and make such objections as the law may provide C. B. LEWTON, Auditor. Adams County. 1 ndiaua JIETITION FCR MA''4DAMICED ROAD Notice 18 hereby given that there has been

filed in the auditor’s office. Adams county, a petition for the location and construction of a certain stone road, signed by more than fifty (.50) freeholders and voters of Hartford 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, 1906. Petltionf or macadamized road. To the Board of Commissioners of Adams County. Indiana: We, the undersigned, each and all of whom are resident freeholders of Hartford township. in Adams ounly, Indian i, do hereby respectfully petition your Honorable Body that you proceed to have a free macadamized sione road constructed aud completed in said Hartford township over and upon the public highway situated on the fol owing route, to-wit: Commencing at the n or th west corner of section twenty-five (25), in township twentyfive north, range thirteen (13) east. In Adams county, Indiana, at the pike known as tne ■ Jimtown pike” in said townshin and range; thence to run west on the public highway between sections fourteen(l4) and twenty-three (23). a d sections fifteen and twenty-two (22), and sections sixteen (16) and twenty-one(2l>, and there terminate. The said road herein petitioned for being alj in said Hartford township, in said county and state, and being two and one-half (2(4) miles in length, to be known as Jimtown Extention No. 1. And that you take such action upon this petition as you are directed and authorized to do under and by virtue of an act of the General Assembly of the state of Indiana, approved March 8,10C5 and under any other acts of the said General Assembly. We further ask 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 paid for by bonds issued by said county of Adams, payable in twenty semi-annual equal installments for the paj inent of which bunds 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 said bonds as the same shall become due and payable under and according to the provisions of said act of the General Assembly of the state,of Indiana, approved March the Sth, 1905. The improvement herein prayed fur to be supplementary to the pike aioresaid and mentioned herein, which said road is a pike approyed by the said Board of Commissioners of said county. Respectfully submitted, NAMES OF PETITIONERS Wm Anderson Badgley Anderson J A Pusley W H Shepherd Samuel Egly J H Riff Sol Si rick j y Sarah Millgr John B Z»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 Riberstine Chas E Pusey Noah Runyon Silas Kizer Cathrine Eesley George W Gentis David Macharger Alonso Runyon John W Cowens John G Adler David Fox Peter Fox C E Slawson David Heller, Sr Dr Geo Emick Christ Steiky L D Dunbar David Falb A Schlagenhauf Isa Fall) Daniel Augsburger James Rohn John M Chrisman D A Miller Samuel Oplinger L C Dunbar August Scheidegger T D Runyon Sery Keberstin Cliforbulf Wufborum Albrecht Reber char Chrisman Sam Nusbaum Mary Nausbaum Ben Banter Levi Augsburger Peter Hoffman Chris Hirschy John T Dintz David Yoder C C Stucky Levi Schaupp Fred Lickty John Schindler Pater Mosser Ppter N Mosser Elisabeth Mosser Wm Hall Emanuel Namar S Shoemaker Michael Zehr Daniel A Eckrate Abraham Egly L O Bears Said petition will tie presented to the Board of 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 appearand make such objections as the law nay provide lor C. D. LEWTON, Auditor, Adams Countp. Ind

NOTICE OF FILING DITCH PETITION Case Number "14 5. State of Indiana, Adams county, S. S. In the Adams Circuit Court, February Term, 190 G. 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 ab 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 on and along the following described route, to-wit: Commencing at a point located three hundred eighty (380) feet east and one hundred fifty (150) feet south of the corner stone located at the northwest corner of section three (3) in township t wen tvseven (27) north of range thirteen (13) east. Adams county. State of 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 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-sevbn (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 (I) and two (2) in township twenty-seven (27) north of range thirteen (13) east, thence running i na northeasterly direction through the northwest corner of section one (1) in township twenty-seven (27) north of range thirteen (13) east through the lands of David Welling, thence across the public highway which runs east and west through the lands of David Werling, thence across the public highway which runs east and west along the township lines between section < 1 ’ in township twenty-seven (27) north of range thirteen (13) east

and 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 township 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 k Erie Railroad (former y 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 township 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) ease, thence in a northwesterly direction through the east one-half of section thirty-five (35 in township twentyeight (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 north* westerly 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 (2S) 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 ' . CHRIST BORNE HENRY WORTHMAN DANIEL SCHERRY.

Notice 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, recei”e sealed bids for the purchase and sale of certain macadamized road bonds hereinafter described issued by the 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 83,640, being in twenty (20) semi-annual payments, bearing date of March 15, 1906, and each bond being in the sum of $lB2, with 4j percent interest, payable semi-annually with coupons attached. Sealed bids will be received until 10 o’clock ,a. nt. of said day. Each bid must be accompan ed 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 tbe 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 November 1906, 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 1597. 1899 and 1903. The amount of bonds to be 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 separately. p LACHOT 2t3 County Treasurer.