Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 7, Decatur, Adams County, 19 April 1906 — Page 6

Legal Advertising Continued from Page Two. provements shall be on ground at place of Improvement before the old materials are removed. The Board of Commissioners, the engineer and the superintendent reserve the right to inspect the materials used and condemn the same if necessary. and all materials so condemned shall 'not be used in any part of the construction, but removed from the right-of-way. Corner-stones, landmarks, etc., must be respected by the contractor while making said improvement. It is expressly understood that the contractor is not compelled to place In any tile, culverts, bridges or approaches at any private lane, crossing, road, etc., and if any fence, post or similar matter be within the limits of the right-of-way of the proposed improvement is not not removed by the partv to whom they belong, then the contractor shall remove the same. It is expressly understood that when the times come for accepting the road, the contractor shall have the side drains in good condition and shall have leveled the entire road and have in all respects complied with the specifications. PAYMENTS. All payments for said improvement will be paid for in cash at the Treasurer’s office in the City of Decatur. Indiana, on estimates made by the engineer complying in all respects with the Acts of the General Assembly of the state of Indiana, approved March Sth. 1905. ESTIMATES. The length of the proposed improvement is 10,725 feet, or 2.05 miles. No. vds. stone for road SOOS No. yds. stone for approaches.... 100 Total 3108 3108 vds. stone $1.15 for 5t0ne.53574.40 3108 vds. stone 40 ets hauling. . 1243.20 3108 yds. stone 15 cts spreading 466.20 Grading <25.00 Wells and connections 100.00 Sewers and bulkheads 70.00 Repair of bridge and extension of arch 250.00 Total 6128.80 AH Os which is respectfully submitted, < WALTER L. THORNHILL, DAVID ZIMMERMAN. Viewers. L. L. BAUMGARTNER. Engineer. Subscribed and ss.’orn to before me. this the lot hday of Marell. 1906. C. D. LEWTON, Auditor.

ED. MOSES STONE ROAD. To the Honorable Board of Commissioners of Adams county, Indiana. We. the undersigned viewers and engjper appoitned by your Honorable Board at the March term. 1306, ami in pursuance to the within order of said petition w„uld m n st respectfully submit the following reportIn pursuance of said order, we, Michael Miller and Charles Oeting a s viewers. ami L. L. Baumgartner, as engineer. met at the office of county audi tor. in Decatur. Indiana, and after being duly sworn as prescribe,] by la -. we proceeded to examine, lay out am straighten said road as shown by tht part of our report marked exhibit "A." and which report shows the route o' the proposed road. Also a profile showing the grade of said road as established and showing "cuts and fills." a|so locations ot drains and sewers; said profile it marked exhibit "B." the same being 01 file at the Auditor s office in Decatur Indiana. We further find that the proposed improvement In accordance with the plans and specifications herein set forth would be of public benefit arpi utility. We further find no claims for damages of any kind whatever. We further estimate the cost of the proposed improvement to be seven thousand, eight hundred forty-one dollars and ninetv-two cents, <7,841.92.) DESCRIPTION OF ED. MOSES STONE ROAD. Commencing at the north-west corn er of section six (6) in St. Mary's township, or the south-west corner ot section thirty-one <3l) in Union township. Adams county. Indiana, at a point where the Ed. Moses gravel road ends, running thence east to the north-east corner of section five (5) in township twentv-seven north, range fifteen <ls- - in said countw and Sate, thence running south to the south-east cornet of the north-east quarter of section five <5) in township twenty-seven (27) north, range fifteen <ls) east in said county and State, connecting with the north St. Mary's Macadam road and there to terminate. The length of the proposed improvement is 13.415 feet, or 2.54 miles. ROADWAY, GRADE, ETC. The roadw. y must be clear of al! fences, trees, stumps. logs and all other rubbish f whatever nature it may be All stump s must be grubbed or blasted out in drains or grade. The right-of-way must be forty (40) feet. If at any time during the construction of or before final acceptance >f the same, the grade should settle, the contractor shall fill all depressions an . restore the same to the origin.'.! spt -- fications. Th. grade shall be of the d<".i' le track system and ; a uniform width of twentv-six i-6' et fro ■ slioulde* to shoulder with a slope of four (4). inches from <•< ..- r side. The sub-grade shall be rolled by the contractor at such times and places as mav be deemed necessary by the superintendent or engineer with a roller of not less than six <6) tons in weight before placing any stone thereon. The road-bed shall be made in a smoothe and workmanlike manner and inspected and accepted in l.liOO feet sections before any material is placed thereon. Grade and line stakes set by the engineer and destroyed by the contractor through negligence will be set again at the contractor’s expense. DRAINS. The side drains shall be cut not less than eighteen (18) inches below the hip of the grade. All drains to be constructed in a neat and workmanlike manner, with sufficient fall and outlet to carry all the water that may accumulate therein, and remove the same from highway. SEWERS. Cast iron sewers shall be placed at the following places: At station 101 a 19” sewer 26 feet long. At station 109 plus 80. a 6” sewer 26 feet long. At station 120 a 10' sewer 26 feet long. At station 128 plus 50 a 10" sewer 26 feet Jong. At station 134 an 8 sewer 26 feet long. BULKHEADS. At ea< h end of sewer pipes to be put In bv th contractor, and at each end <>f tiio. . '.he '■tra >

build bulkheads composed of one ill part Bronson’s Portland Cement . and two <2i parts clean sharp sand and two (2) parts crushed stone, all parts of said stone that will not pass through a two-inch ring shall not be used in said concrete. . All bulkheads shall commence eighteen (18) inches below the bottom of pipe and extend six <6l inches above the surface of the stone placed on the road-bed, and shall be fifteen (15) inches thick and extend eighteen (18) inches on each side of pipe, except at stations 7 plus SO. and 30 plus 9«. there the bulkhead shall extend two (2) feet on each side of pipe. from station 30 to 36 there shall be placed on north side of grade a string of rive-inch tile laid to grade given hereafter by the engineer. WELLS. There shall be wells built at the following places, At station 16 plus 75 one -well on south side. . At station 54. two wells, one on each side. . At station 76, two wells, one on each side At station 71 plus 20, one well, on south side. __ At station 90 plus 40 one well, on south side. Said wells to be built of the best hard-burned brick flatwise and to extend 18 inches below the bottom of the tile and walled up to the surface of the side drains, said wells to be not less than three (3) feet in diameter and arched at the top so as to receive an eighteen (18) inch cast iron grate securely fastened thereon. Said brick in said wells to be laid up in mortar composed of one (1) part Bronsons Portland Cement and two 12) parts clean, sharp sand. All wells to be connected up with the tile drain already in. the contractor to furnish all tile for connections, and said tile to be no smaller than that already in. The contractor shall repair all damages that he may cause to tile drain already in along sides of grades. BRIDGE. Xt station 68 plus 50 there shall be built an eighteen (18) foot bridge with i sixteen (16) foot roadway and a ■oncrete floor. Said bridge shall be built according to plans and specifications hereto attached. CRUSHED STONE. The crushed stone shall be placed on the sub-grade or road-bed to a width of ten <lO > feet, and to a depth of ten < 10) inches in the center and eight (8) inches at sides, and shall be placed on east and north sides of grade or roadbed. leaving a space of three feet between the east and north shoulder of jrade and the stone placed thereon. The upper four (4) inches of said ■rushed stone shall be composed of screenings. All material to be placed on grade in a neat and workmanlike manner. The stone to be graded in before final acceptance. All stone must be so crushed that at least 80 per cent, will pass through a .wo-inrh ring. Where stone is unloaded all the ■parser particles shall be raked to the oottom. Said stone to be equal to the produ t >f the Linn Grove or Decatur quarries. At bridge f( 68 plus 50 the dirt road ■hall be stoned for 50 feet on each side f bridge. STIPULATIONS. The work as it progresses will be tld out by the engineer and stakes ct by him must be preserved.

The material for the various im- • rovements shall be on the grdund at dace of improvement before old maerial is removed. The Board of Commissioners, the enineer and superintendent reserve the ight to inspect the materials used and ondemn the same if necessary, and all materials so condemned shall be re..oved from right-of-way and not used t any time in the construtcion of said :,.pro'ven;ent. Corner-stones, landmarks, etc., must ‘.e respected by the contractor while making said improvement. It is expressly understood that the ontractor is not compelled to place n any tile, culverts, bridges or apiroaches at any private lane, crossing, oad. etc., and if any fence, post or imilar matter be within the right-of-,-ay of the proposed improvement is iot removed bv the party to whom ney belong after having had sufficient lotice. then the contractor shall remove the same. It is expressly understood that when he time comes for accepting the road he contractor shall have scraped in he stone and leveled the entire road .nd have in all respects complied with he specifications. The telephone poles within the ight-of-way shall be removed to the ,-dge of the right-of-way by the paries owning them when so ordered by he contractor. PAYMENTS. All payments for said improvement .rill be paid for in cash at the Treasurer's office in the city of Decatur. Indi.na. on estimates made by the engineer unplving with the Acts of the Generil Assembly of the State of Indiana, ■pproved March Sth, 1905. ESTIMATES. The length of the b -posed improvement is 13.415 feet, or 2.54 miles. <o. vds stone for road 3726 No. yds. stone for approaches.... 60 Total 3786 J7s6 vds stone, SI 25 for 5t0ne.54732.50 )756 ids. stone. 32c for hauling 1211.52 :J7i>6 vds. stone 15c for sprading 567.90 Grading 550.00 Wells and connections ,0.00 Sewers and bulkheads* 175.00 Domestic tiling 35.00 Bridge . 500.00 Total 7841.92 All of which is respectfully submitted. MICHAEL MILLER, C. H. GETTING. Viewers. L L. BAUMGARTNER,-Engineer. Subscribed to and sworn before me this 15th day of March. 1906. C. D. LEWTON. Auditor. PETITION FOR STONE 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 township in said county, which petiroad, signed by more than fifty <SO) ship- in said county, which petition is freeholders and voters of Hartford township, in said county which petition is in the following words, to-wit: State of Indiana, County of Adams. Commissioners’ Court, May Term, 1906. To the Honorable Board of Commissioners of Adams County, Indiana: We. the undersigned petitioners freeholders and voters of Hartford township. in the County of Adams and State of Indiana, respectfully petition your Honorable Body to cause a double track, crushed stone road to be built and ■ -instructed on. along and over the following described route, to-wit: Commencing at the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of section fifteen, in township twenty-five north, of range thirteen east, in the County of Adams and State of Indiana, on the east side of the macadamized public ' highway running north and south on

the halt’ section line through section ten and section fifteen in said township and range, and known as the Eckrote free highway on th mfwypvm twyp free gravel road, thence running east on, along and over the public highwav on the section line dividing sections ten and fifteen and sections eleven and fourteen, all in said township and range, to the north-east corner of said section fourteen and there to terminate at the west side of the macadamised public highway running north and south along the east side of said sections fourteen and eleven, and known as the Jimtown Free Gravel Road, a distance of one and onehalf miles. Your petitioners ask that the above described road be properly graded and drained and improved by causing a double track road to be constructed thereon, and that the grade of the 1 same be twenty-four (24) feet in width and the stone placed on the same to a width of ten (10) feet. The name of the above described road "when completed shall be the Ashleman & Spichiger Macadam Road.” Your petitioners also state and show to your Honorable Body that the pub lie highway from the north-west corner of the north-east iu inter of said section fifteen, township and range aforesaid, to the north-east cornet cf the north-east quarter of said section fifteen (being a part of the highway herein petitioned to be improved), as located and established is only thirt:two feet wide. That to properly build, construct and complete lim improvement of said public highway, the said highway should be enlarged an 1 widened to the width of forty feet by ex- ' tending the width of said highway four feet on each side thereof And your petitioners say that said proposed enlarging and widening of said part of said highway from feet to forty feet will be of public utility, and such widening to forty feet is necessary to properly grade, drain and macadamize the same as prayed for herein. Your petitioners ask that said improvement be paid for by bonds issued by the County of Adams, in the State Indiana, payable in twenty semi-an-nual installments or series, and for the payment of which bonds and the interest that may accrue thereon we ask that a tax be levied on the taxable propertv of said Hartford township in a sufficient amount to pay the interest and principal of said bonds as the same shall become due. and that said road be built and said bonds issued and said tax levied upon said property of said township in acordance with the Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, app-oved March 8 1905. The improvement herein prayed fol connects at each end with at? improved free gravel road within said township to-wit: At the west end with the "Eckrote Free Gravel Road." and at the east end with the "Jimtown Free Gravel Road.’’ and we therefore ask that said improvement be established, ordered and constructed without submitting the question of building the same to an election of the voters of said Hartford Township, in said county and state . Arnold Achleman, David Spichiger. John Yoder. Christ C. Moser. John Schindler, Martin L. Kizer. • ■re 1 Lil. Enic.r.’.wl NX.rr.-r C. C. Stuckv, Jas. K. Yoder, Peter Fox. Christ. Eicher, John J. Lieehty, Peter N. Musser. Johann D. Meyers. Samuel Opliger. Chris. Hirschy, Abe Bierie, David Fox. Fred Reffe. Ben Mesehberger. George W. Gentis. John J. Augsburger. C W. Liby, L. D. Dunbar. W. A. Hunt, Geo A. Adler. J oh nosimiS.nm Geo A. Adler. )hn Simison, I. D. Shepherd. An-.rew French. A. Schlagenhauf, A. Runyon. Isia Falb. John G. Adler, David Falb. Robert Gerber. Peter Hoffman. Smith Runyon. Soluphin Balt. David Mesehberger. Rufus Mesehberger. Ben Banter J. A. Lindsey. Jefferson Dunbar. Levi Moeschberger, John A. Sours D H Miller. John W. Cower. Elmer C. Hunt. FreJ L. StudlfCharles Reynolds, Silas Kizer. John Huffman. Noah Runyon Noah A Pusey, Chas. E .Pusey. Noah Biberstine, John Hall. Samuel Hall. L. O. Bears. S E. Stout, Simeon Sales. Said petition will be presented to the Board of. Commissioners on Monday. May 7. 1906, the same being the regular May 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, Indiana. PETITION FOR STONE 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 fifty (50) freeholders and ovters of Root township. in Adams County, and of Madison township, in Allen County, which petition is in the following words, to-wit: To the Honorable Board of Commissioners of Adams County, Indiana. We. the undersigned all resident freeholders and voters of Root towil ship. Adams County. Indiana, and of Madison Township in Allen County. Indiana. most respectfully petition your honorable body to cause to be built and constructed a stone road on and along the following route, to-wit: Commencing at the north-west corner of section six (6). township twentyeight (2’x> north, range fourteen <l4, erst. running thence east on the pul) li highway known as the. County Line road, a distance of one mile and terminating at the north-east corner of the section sir ,6). township twenty-eight (2S) north, range fourteen (14) east, the road thus sought to be improved and macadamized is on the line dividing Adams County. Indiana and Allen County. Indiana, and is a part of the highway at th- south side of Madison township, in Allen eaunty. Indiana and said highway is at the north line of Root township, in Adams County. Indiana. the said highway thus sought to be improved at the commencement thereof, is connected with a free gravel road known as the Koenemann Gravel Road, and at the terminus said highwav thus sought to be improved Connects and is connected with the free gravel road known as the Williams Branch Gravel Road. Said highway thus sought to be improved is an unimproved highway and does not exceed three miles in length. Your petitioners further ask your honorable body that said highway above described be graded, and that broken stone be placed upon the grade, and that there be built, constructed and made upon said highway what is known as a Macadamized Road, and your petitioners further show that the public highway sought to be improved is a public highway already established and is what is known as a dirt road, and is situated as above described on the line dividing Adams and Allen Counties in the State of Indiana. The name of said road above described shall be called "The Joint Root and Madison Townships” road. We ask that said improvement shall be paid for by bonds issued by the counties of Allen and Adams in the State of Indiana, payable in twenty semi-annual installments or series for the payment of which we ask that a tax be levied upon the taxable property of Root Township, in Adams County. Indiana, and upon the taxable property of Madison Township, in Allen "County. Indiana, in a sufficient amount to pay the interests and principal of said binds as they may become due. that said road be built and that said - A ’O i ljn ■’• properly of said e

Townships, heretofor mentioned in ac- . I S’ a in. -■ ami approved March .th, 190... & G H H Jason Hold's: William <’• i Andrew Fuelling: . Heazor Biggs. frank M( . c^ one il, , Iv \ Funner. Reuben Baxter. 1 N.GrandsUff. Smith: 'wHder' ' Fred H Witte. W W Watts, Wilbur Moldthann, Henrv Zwick Henry Doehrman Ernst Schroeder. Coelz B '.‘'\y ie John W. Emerick. Lout» " Jeremiah Draper, i/f Morris' John C. Houck Dr. E. E. Morn George L. Bobilya, C- E Harrod, w;n r E B RolH meyer ’ E SmHley: Paul «mit?ev' Ed B Baybe. Chas ‘France John Mclntosh. iitatlK Benj. Mclntosh. Henry Heckman, Tj Henry niVkson Inhn Henry Dirkson. Chas W Mauley. Fred Hockemeyer. Chas. Hockemeyer, Wm. Hoekemejer. J. E. Mann. ■>° Frit'’ ser. Fred Mutscblei. F R Roop Charles Dirkson. Said petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners on Monday, 'lay 7. 1906. the same being the regular May session of said Board and at which time an? tax paver of Root township. Adams Countv, ’ami Madison township. Allen Countv. Indiana, may appear and make such objections as the law may provide for. a?, d. lewton. Auditor. Adams County. Indiana. , ■ PETITION FOR 'TONE ROAD. Notice is herebv givefi that there has been filed in the auditor’s office. Ad- | ams county. Indiana, a petition for the location and construction of a certain free stone road, signed by more than fiftv ,50) freeholders and voters of Union Township, in said county, which petition is in the following words, towit: State of Indiana. County of Adams. , In the Commissioners’ Court of Adams County. j Henry Kruckeberg, Christ. Marbach, et al., ex Parte. Petition for extension of Macadam road. To the Honorable Board of Commissioners of Adams County, Indiana. Comes now the undersigned, all resident free holders and voters of Union Township. Adams County. Indiana, and would most respectfully petition your Honorable Body to take all necessary steps to caus to be graded and macadamized the highway already laid out and established on and along the following route in L’nion Township, Adams County. Indiana, to-wit: Commencing at the solith-east corner of section twenty-eight (28 > in township twenty-eight 128) north, range fifteen (15) east in said County, thence running north between sections 28 and 27 and 21 and 22 to the north-east corner of section twenty-one 8 21) in said township aforesaid and there to terminate. Said petitioners would further show that said road when completed will be an extension of the Steigmeyer Macadam Road and will be about two miles in length and will connect at the southern extremity with the Steigmeyer Macadam Road, and at the northern extremity with the Bleeke and Hart Macadam Roads, all of which are in process of construction pursuant to a petition and election. Said road when completed shall be called "Extension No. 2” of the Steigir.eyer Macadam Road. Said petitioners would further ask that said road be built as a double track road and that the same be graded to a width of twenty-eight (28) feet and that crushed stone be placed thereon to the width of ten (10) feet and that stone screenings be placed thereon on top of said stone. Said petitioners would further ask that said road when completed shall be paid for bv thesale of bonds payable in twenty semi-annual installments and to pay said bonds and the interest thereon, a tax be levied upon the taxable property of said Union Township. Said petitioners would further ask that said road be built and said proceedings be had to establish same in all things as provided by the Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana. and by said General Assembly as amended March 4th, 1905. (Acts 1905, page 171.) Henry Kruckeberg. C. C. Miller. Christ. Marback. Fred Steigmeyer. Friedrik Thieme, Henry Haugk, Fred Koldewey, Charley Grote. (Vilhelm Klink, Amos Walters, Ed. C Bleeke. John Grimes, Fred Kruckeberg. John H. Railing. .1. A. Barklev. Henry Reinking. W. W. Mumma. Henry Grote, W. A. Whlttenbarger. Theodore Bleeke. W. F. Bleeke. Martin Bleeke, Julius Haugk. Ernest Kruckeberg J. P. Spuller, Charley Kruckeberg. Fred Welland. John McGill, Frank Schnepp. Geo. Stevens, Theodore Thieme. H F. Thieme. A Debolt. A. A. Brodbeck. I". Blake. O. D. Myers. Chas. Schamerloh, W. E. Bleeke. Otto Bleeke. H. F. Reinking. .1 W Blakey. John Erhardt. Stephen Miller. Joseph Crozier. F. F. Freeh. Wm. D. Barrone, Richard Bischoff. Smith Stevens. Ferdinand Bleeke. H. S. Miller. Godfrey Lehrman. Wm. Kruckeberg Albert Lehrmann. Wm. Schamerloh. Said petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners on Monday. May 7. 1906. the same being the regualr May session of said board and at which time any tax' payer in Union township may appear and make such objections as the law may provide for. C. D. LEWTON. Auditor. Adams County. Indiana. PETITION FOR STONE ROAD. Notice is hereby given that there has been filed in the auditor s office. Adams county, a petition for the location and and construction of a certain stone road, signed by more than fifty (50) freeholders and voters of Union Township. in said county, which petition is in the following words, to-wit: State of Indiana, County of Adams. In the Commissioners' Court of Adams County. Godfrey Lehrman. et al., ex-Parte. Petition for Extension of the Schamerloh Macadam Road. To the Honorable Board of Commissioners of Adams County, Indiana: We. the undersigned all resident free hofilers and voters of Union Township! Adams County. Indiana, would most respectfully petition your honorable body to take neeesary steps to cause to be graded, drained and macadamized the highway already laid out and established on and along the following route in Union Township. Adams County, Indiana, to-wit: Commencing at the north-west corner of section twenty-eight (28) in township twenty-eight (28) north, range fifteen (15) east, in said Adams County. Indiana, and at the east side of the Schamerloh Ma adarn Road, thence to run east betw.- •■ < number 21. 22 and fract.

’ aid, and sections num«g Vh-tVes of Ohio and Indiana. , bO and a to termi- > nate. Macadam Road. screenings on top of said stone. dafil petitioners would further ask tliat said road be built and that to pay for the same, including expenses of location be paid for by an issue of bonds payable in twenty semi-an n ual instaHK t f kviert upon 'the taxable property of said Union Township, Adams County, Indiana. Said petitioners further show . that said proposed road when built will be .in extension of the Schamerloh MacacoStruct‘ion W pu < rsiiant I to a perition and e?eetion, and will connect at one end with said road and at the other end with the boundary line of said I nion Township. Said petitioners further ask that said road lie built and said proceedings had in connection therewith as provided for bv the acts of the General Assembly of ti e State of Indiana, amended and approved March 4th, 1905. (See Acts of 1905, Page 171). Godfrey Lehrman, Ernest A. F. Thieme, ’ a '■ Christ. Marbach. Jeff Manly, Fred Koldewey. Fred Kruckeberg. Charles Blakey. Chas. Kruckeberg. Martin Bleeke. Adam J. B enz. Fd (? John H. Blakey, Theodore Thieme, Wm. Schamerloh. Ferdinand B eeke. Henry Kruckeberg, O 1 !? § ee^ e ' William Bleeke. M. E. B e eke, Wm. D. Barrone, Theodore Bleeke. John Erhardt. J. A. Ehrman. Abraham Debolt. Geo. Hindenlang, A. A. Brodbeck. Fred Weiland, H. E. Baxter, F F. Freeh. H. F. Reinking. H S Miller. Ferdinand Reinking. J. E. Erexson, Chas. Schamerloh. L. H. Bailey, Frank Schnepp, I. J. David. Amos M alters. Henrv C. Bittner, John Geimer, Herman Bittner, Fred Steigmeyer, John Clem. Anthony Wertzberger. Samuel Darr, Henry Haugk. g Hart Charley Grote, Stephen' Miller, Charles Knibe, Joseph Ceovill, Jno. D. Longmeyer. Ed S Moses, Geo. B. Cline, C. D. Spuller. John P. Spuller, John Steigmeyer, Jacob Koos, Frank J. Knlber. Said petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners on Monday. May 7. 19(16. the same being tls regular May session of said board and at which time any tax payer in Union township may appear and make such objections as the law may provide for. C. D. LEWTON. Auditor, Adams County, Indiana. PETITION FOR STONE ROAD. Notice is hereby given that there has been filed in the auditor's office. Adams county, a petition for the location and 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 wors, to-wit: State of Indiana, County of Adams. In the Commissioners’ Court of Adams County. David Meshberger. et al., petition for extension of Jimtown Pike, Hartford Township. To the Board of Commissioners of Adams County: We, the undersigned all resident freeholders and voters of Hartford Township. Adams County, Indiana, would niost respectfully petition you honorable body to take necessarv steps to cause to be graded, drained and macadamized with crushed stone the highway already laid out and established on and along the following described route in Hartford Township, Adams County, Indiana, to-wit: Commencing at a point on the Jimtown Pike at the south-east corner of sei tion two (2) in township twenty-fixe (25) north, range thirteen (13) east, in Adams County. Indiana, thence running west on said section line road on the south side of said section two (2) to point where said public highway leaves said section line and runs north-west toward the town of Linn Grove. Adams County. Indiana, thence to run northwest on said road leading to said town of Linn Grove to the bridge over the «abash River on the highway leading to said town and there to terminate. Said petition further show that said proposed road when completed will he an extension of the Jimtown Pike and will be about one mile in length.

Said road shall be called Meshberger extension of the Jimtown Pike Road. Said petitioners would further ask that said road be built as a double track road and that it be graded to the width of twenty-six (26) feet and that crushed stone be placed thereon to a width of ten (10) feet, and that stone screenings be placed on top of said stone. Said petitioners would further ask that said road be built and that to pav for same, together with the expenses of location thereof, a series of bonds be issued payable in twenty semi-annual installments ami that to pay said bonds and interest thereon a tax be levied upon the taxable property of Hartford Township. Adams County, Indiana. Said petitioners further show that said proposed road when built will be an extension of the Jimtown Pike Roa-1 which has been built and established pursuant to a petition and election and win connect at one end with the Jimtown Pike and at the other with the Reynolds Gravel Road, both of which are free macadam roads of said c.ounty. Said petitioners further ask that said road be built and such proceedings had as will build and establish and pav for said road as provided by the Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, as amended and approved March 4th, 1903. (Acts of 1905, Page David Meshberger, Peter N. Moser, John Snyder. Rufus Meshberger, Cathrine Enslev, Peter Stucky, Wm. Anderson John Schindla, Charles Reynolds, £l u S ky ’ Fred Chas. Chrisman, David Fox Daniel Yoder. Ben Banter! Robert Gerber. John W. Cowens Samuel Opliger. Elmer C. Hunt. George M . Gentis. Sherman Higgins Daniel Augsburger. John H. Sours, Bagley Anderson, Taiford Runyon. Ben Meshbarger, John J. Augsburger. lib^»A? d « r V Chris. Hirschy. c John J - Liechtv. Elt ?.“ r ’. Peter Fox, & ,e . rie ’ John Pearson. Abraham Egly, John R. Zehr 2 S ot r ' Schartz Andran. mi,L Robert Meyer. S'ffiison, A Schlagenhauf. I -rs ?milh Runyon, John YotPer 1 '- DaVi £ Pi< » bn osser - Charles Martin; I aeon J. Flory, Marv Srhaunn Peter t Hc l ff y ' M “ ry E ' P..tei Hoffman. "* Andrew Frpnfh Pioneer Milling Co., Edwffi Heller! petition will be presented to the

Board of Commissioners Monday, May 7, Ihiu;. ■ the same being the regular Mt IH Sion of said board and at > ' '" s - any tax payer in Hartford ’r,',,’. ' may appear and make s u . j, ’; s mp as the law may provide for. C. D. LEWTON Hn Auditor, Adams (’.mnn p , iana PETITION FOR »TONE Ro Al) 1 Notice Is hereby given that o M been tiled in the auditor s ~ffi, I , lds county, a petition for the |... .■’,! ’’’ 1! »» ■ and construction of a certain ' d BE road, signed by more than tis- 1 e Bl freeholders and voters of Uni.„i J ■ Boot townships, in said ei.mu', M petition is in the following wo-js , 1 State of Indiana, County of .\d. t!ns H In the Commissioners' Court ■. , ams County, Indiana. '■*' To the Board of Commissi >ners ■ > H ams County, Indiana: ■ Comes now the undersigr., d H dent free holders and v n,.... '. * M townships of Union and ~ ’ M County of Adams and State of i Bl ami w. uld most res) t:’u'', M your Honorable Body to take ,ii .7 sary steps to cause to be grmi . .... i n . rd and macadamized witli ere-7, tne higtiway already laid op ■ tablislied on and along (In- M line between the townships of ; H and Root in said Adams (.'omit-,, |,_ M ana an 1 described as follows, t.H Commencing at the south-cam B of said Root township or at th-- . ub- B west corner of said Union t-wesim, B tlience running north between - ’ B thirty-six (36) in Root townsl.p an q B section thirty-one (31) in Unim town- B ship to the north-west corn-: ~f B said section thirty-one, or the north- B east corner of section thirt) --ix and B there to terminate. H Said petitioners would further show ■ that said proposed road will b- when ■ completed about one mile in length. ■ Said road when completed w : be I called the Bauserman-Wolfe Maia<laiii ■ Hoad. I Said petitioners would recommend I that said road be built as a double I track road and that the same be grad- 9 ed to a width of twenty-eight feet I and. that crushed stone be placed fnere- I on to the width of ten (10) feet and I that stone screenings be placed there- I on on top of said stone. I Said petitioners would further show | that said road when completed will be I in length less than three (ID miles I and will connect at the southern ex- I tremity with the Ed. S. Moses Ma adant I Road and at the northern extr, mity I witli the Steigmeyer Macadam R-.id I and the Erwin Gravel Road, both <f which said roads are free Macadam Roads. Said petitioners would further ask I that said road be built and to pay for same bonds be issued payable in twenty semi-annual installments, and to pay said bonds, including interest m ime a tax he levied upon tlie taxable pr-p---ertv of said townships of Union a: I Root in said Adams County, and State of Indiana. Said petitioners would furthe: -k that said road be by said Board ord-r---ed constructed without first submitting the question of building the same t- an election of ttie voters of said tow;.ships of Union and Root, as aforesaid, and that such proceeding lie had to establish and build same as provided f.>r by Section 6788 Burns' 1905 Supplem-nt to 1901 Statutes of Indiana, and the following sections: (See Burns' 19-5 Supplement Vol. 4, Section 6788 and following sections.) Geo. Bauserman, E. F. Miller, A. It. Wolfe, Ed. S. Moses, J. A. Swartz, A. H. Hackman, Paul Miller. Howard Manlier, Geo. W. Cramer, Geo. Hindenlang, Jacob Koos, J. C. Moses. Aurie Dxkeman, J. E. Ulman, E. Cunningham Abe Brown, Philbert Gase, E. H. Nidlinger, John P. Spuller, Oliver Walters, Elijah Waiters, Geo. B. Cline, John H. Railing, W. A. Whittenbarger, J. H. Blakey. William Bleeke, W. E. Bleeke, Otto Bleeke. Ed. C. Bleeke, Chas. Schamerloh, Henry Grote, Henry Haugk. Fred Steigmeyer, Charles Kurber Anthony Wertzberger Frank J. Kurber, John Steigmey-r, Friedrlck Thieme, James H. Knavel, Samuel Workinger, F. W. Dibble, Abe Boch, A. J. Bailey, R. A. Drummond, J. D. Nidlinger, J. A. Ehrman, C. S. Mumma, W. J. Miller, Chas. W Ahr, E. J. Ahr, John A. Mumma, Geo. Ohler, John A. Barkley, C. D. Spuller. John G. Bittner, Ernst Conrad, Frank McConnell, Fred Koldewey. Said petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners on Monday. May 7. 1906. the same being the regular May session of said Board and at whie htime ary tax payer of Union and Root townships may appear and make such obje’ tions as the law may provide for. C. D. LEWTON Auditor, Adams County. Indiana.

PETITION FOR STONE 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 i“ >. signed by more than fifty (50) lr- - 1 holders and voters of Monroe t r, w•>ship, in said county, which petition is in the following words, to-wit: State of Indiana, Adams county. In the Commissioner’s court of Adams county, Term, 1906. Petition for extension of Macadualized Stone Road. To the Honorable Board of Cimmissioners of Adams county, Indiana: We. the undersign'd, resident freeholders and voters in Monroe township. in Adams county, Indiana, do hereby Vnost respectfully petition y ir Honorable Body. that.you proceed and take t.ie necessary steps to have a tree macadamized stone road built, completed ami constructed in said More;*' township, over, on and upon th- 3 public highway located and situate! -m and upon the following described route, to-wit: Commencing at a point on the Pleasant Valley and Oak Grove Macadam Road, at the south-east corner of section twenty-three (23). township twen-ty-six (26) north, range fourteen <l4» east, in Adams county, Indiana, thence to run east on. over and upon the punlie highway on the section line inning east and west between section twenty-four *24) and twenty-five (-a I in said township and range, to tne township line between the of Monroe and Blue Creek, in saia County, and to the south-east of said section twenty-four, townsnip and range aforesaid, a distance of one mile and there to terminate. And we pray that you take such action upon this petition as you are authorized and directed to do. under ana by virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, appro - ed March 9th, ISO 3. and under an Act of the General Assembly of said btate* approved March 4th, 1905. amending said Act. We further ask that said imp , ' ment be paid for by bonds issued • . said County of Adams. P a y a " lv . *' Q twenty semi-annual equal install • * for the payment of which bonu- ' ' ask that a tax be levied able property of said Monroe in a sufficient amount to pay the interest and principal of said bond? • the same shall mature and become a a »