Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 8, Decatur, Adams County, 26 April 1906 — Page 6

Legal Advertising Continued from Page Two. nrovements shall be on ground at place of improvement before tne old materials are removed. The Board of Commissioners, the engineer and the superintendent reserve the right to inspect the materials used and condemn tire same it 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 tice 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 tiie 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 300 b No. yds. stone for approaches.... 100 Total 310 S 3108 yds. stone $1.15 for stone. $3574.40 3108 yds. stone 40 cts hauling . 1243.20 310 S yds. stone 15 cts spreading 466.20 Grading 4 £5.00 Wells and connections 100.09 Sewers and bulkheads Repair of bridge and extension of arch -50.00 Total 6128.80 All of which is respectfully submitted. WALTER L. THORNHILL, DAVID ZIMMERMAN. Viewers. L. L. BAUMGARTNER. Engineer. Subscribed and sworn to before me. this the 15t hday of March. 1906. C. D. LEWTON, Auditor. ED. MOSES STONE ROAD. To the Honorable Board of Commissioners of Adams county, Indiana. We. the undersigned viewers and engiper appoitned by your Honorable Board at the March term. 19«'6. and 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 n s viewers. and L. L. Baumgartner, as engineer. met at the office of county auditor. in Decatur. Indiana, and after being duly sworn as prescribe,! by law we proceeded to examine, lay out anc straighten said road as shown by that part of our report marked exhibit "A.' and which report shows the route of the proposed road. Also a profile showing the grade of said road as established and showing "cuts and fills," a]so locations of drains and sewers, said profile is marked exhibit "B.' the same being on 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 and utility. We further find no claims for dam ages of any kind whatever. We further estimate the cost of th, proposed improvement to be sever 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 (6i in St. Marys township, or the south-west corner o' section thirty-one (31) in Lnion town ship. Adams county. Indiana, at a poin' where the Ed. Moses gravel road ends running thence east to the north-eas corner of section five (5) in townshi) twentv-seven north, range fifteen i laeast. in said couni'ir and Sate. themi running south to the south-east come of the north-east quarter of sectior five <5) in township twenty-seven <_. north, range fifteen (15) east in sab county and State, connecting with thnorth St. Mary's Macadam road ar. . there to terminate. The length of the proposed improvement is 13,415 feet, or 2.54 miles. ROADWAY, GRADE. ETC. The roadway must be clear of ali fences, trees, stumps, logs and all other rubbish of whatever nature it may be All stumps 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 of the same, the grade should settle, the contractor shall fill all depressions an 1 restore the same to the original specifications. The grade shall be of the double <rack svstern and of a uniform width of twenty-six (26) feet from shoulder to shoulder witli a slope of four (4> inches from center to either side. The sub-grade shall be rolled by the contractor at such times and places as mv 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 smootlie and workmanlike manner and inspected and accepted in 1.000 feet sections before any material is placed thereon.

Grade and line stakes set by tlie 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 <IS) 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 atation 101 a 10" 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 long. ... r At station 134 an 8" sewer 26 feet long. BULKHEADS. At each end of sewer pipes to be put In bv'th contractor, and at eaHi end of those already in, the contractor shall

build bulkheads composed of one (.1) part Bronson's Portland Cement and two (2) parts clean sharp sand anti 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 <lB 1 inches below the bottom of pipe and extend six (6) inches aboxe the surface of tiie stone placed on tne road-bed. and shall be fifteen (b) inches thick ;.nd extend eighteen (lx) inches on each side of pipe, except at stations 7 plus S". and *0 plus 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 five-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 At station 54. two wells, one on each At 'station 76. two wells, one on each side. ~ At station 71 plus 20, one well, on 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 is inches below the bottom of the tile and walled up of the side drains, said wells to be not le«s than three (3) feet m diametei and arched at the top so as to receive an eighteen (18> inch east iron giate securely fastened thereon. Said brick in said wells to be laid up in mortar composed of one (1> part Bronsons Portland Cement and two (2) 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. At station 68 plus 50 there shall be built an eighteen (IS) foot bridge with a sixteen (16) foot roadway and a concrete 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 (10) 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 grade and the stone placed thereon. The upper four (4) inches of said crushed 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 two-inch ring. Where stone is unloaded all the coarser particles shall be raked to the bottom. Said stone to be equal to the product of the Linn Grove or Decatur quarries. At bridge 7i 68 plus 50 the dirt road shall be stoned for 50 feet on each side of bridge. STIPULATIONS. The work as it progresses will be laid out by the engineer and stakes -ret by him must be preserved. The material for the various improvements shall be on the ground at place of improvement before old ma--rial is removed. The Board of Commissioners, the engineer and superintendent reserve the ight to inspect the materials used and •ondemn the same if necessary, and all naterials so condemned shall be repaved from right-of-way and not used it any time in the construtcion of said mpro’vement. Corner-stones, landmarks, etc., must je respected by the contractor while ...king 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 ..ad. et .. and it any fence, post ot similar matter be within the right-of-vay of the proposed improvement is ’.ot removed by the party to whom thev belong after having had sufficient tot'ice, then the contractor shall recove the same. It is expressly understood that when he time comes for accepting the roa< he contractor shall have scraped ir he stone and leveled the entire roac tnd have in all respects complied wit!, the specifications. The telephone poles within the -ight-of-wav shall ue removed to tht ?dge of the right-of-way by the par ties owning them when so ordered b: the contractor. PAYMENTS. All payments for said improvement will be paid for in cash at the Treasur:r s office in the city of Decatur. Indi trta, on estimates made by the enginee. tomplying with the Acts of the Generil Assembly of the State of Indiana, .pproved March Sth. 1905. ESTIMATES. The length of the proposed improvement is 13.415 feet, or 2.54 miles. No. vds. stone for road 3726 No. yds. stone for approaches.... 60 Total 37.6 3786 vds stone, 51.25 for stone. $4732.50 3786 yds. stone. 32c for hauling 1211.52 '(786 vds. stone 15c for sprading 567.90 Grading 550.0'' ■Vens and connections 70.00 Sewers and bulkheads 175. 16 Domestic tiling ’5.00 Bridge si«'.o-' Total ~ 7841.92 All of which is respectfully submitted. MICHAEL MILLER. (’. 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 HOID. Notice is hereby given that there has been tiled 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 (50) 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 th P Honorable Board of Commissioners of Adams County, Indiana: We, the undersigned petitioners freeholders and voters of Hartford township. in the County yf Adams and State of Indiana, respectfully petition your Honorable Body to cause a double tra< k. crushed stone road to be built and constructed 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 rang, 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 half 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 high, way 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 macadamized 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 construct'd thereon, and that the grade ot the same be twenty-four '24) feet in Waith 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 Yshleman & Spichiger Macadam Road.” Your petitioners also state and show to vour Honorable Body that the pub lie highway from the north-west corner of the north-east luarter ot said section fifteen, township and range aforesaid, to the north-east cornet < t the north-east quarter of said section fifteen (being a part of the highway herein petitioned to be improved), a.. located and established is only thirty - two feet wide. That to properly build, onstruct" and complete the improvement of said public highway, the said hic-hwav Should be enlarged and widened to" the width of f p rt Y feet by extending the width of said highway four feet on each side thereof. And vour petitioners say that said proposed enlarging and widening of said part of said highway from thirty-two 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 bv 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 property 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 aeordance with the Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, approved March 8, 1905. The improvement herein prayed for connects at each end with atb 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. drner*>>. and constructed without submitting the question of building the same an election of the voters of said Hartford Township, in said county and state . Arnold Achleman, David Spichiger, John Yoder. Chrlrt S' John Schindler, Martin L. Kizer, Frei Liddy, Emanuel IVrner. C C. Stucky, Jas. K. I Oder. Peter Fox Christ. Eicher, John J. Liechty. Peter N.Mosser. Johann D. Meyers, Samuel Opliger Chris. Hirschy, David Fox. 1' *l?d Reffe. Ben Meschberger, George W. Gentis, John J. Augsburger, C. Dib>, L. D. Dunbar. TV . A. Hunt. Geo A Adler, Joh nosimis.nm Geo A. Adler. /'hn Simison. L D. Shepherd. Andrew 1- rench, A. Schlagenhauf, A. Runyon, Isia Falb. John G. Adler. David Falb. Robert Gerber. Peter Hoffman, Smith Runyon Soluphin Balt. David Meschberger. Rufus Meschberger, Ben Banter ') A Lindsey. Jefferson Dunbar. Levi Moeschberger, John A. Sours, D H Miller. John XV . Cowens. Elmer C. Hunt. Fred L. Studler, Charles Revnolds, Silas Kizer, John Huffman. Noah Runyon Noah A. Pusey, Chas. E .Pusey, Noah Biberstine, John Hall, Samuel Hall, L. O. Bears. E. E. Stout, Simeon bales. 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 ippear 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. Adims County, a petition for the location and construction of a certain stone road, signed by more than fifty (50) freeholders and ovters of Root town--hip. in Adams County, and of Madison -ownship, in Allen County, which peition is in the following words, to-wit: 7o th P Honorable Board of Commissioners of Adams County, Indiana: We. the undersigned all resident ■'*eehalders and voters of Root towil thip. Adams County, Indiana, and ot UaJison Township in Allen County. Inliana. most respectfully petition your lonorable body to cause to be built and (instructed a stone road on and along tiie following route, to-wit: Commencing at the north-west corner of section six (6). township twentyright '2B > norih. range fourteen (14, east, running thence east on the pul) lie highway known as the County Line "oad. a distance of one mile and terminating at the north-east corner of the section sir (6). township twenty-eight UM north, range fourteen ,14) east., the road thus sought to be improved and macadamized is on the line dividing Adams County. Indiana and Aller. County. Indiana, and is a part of the highway at the south side of Madison township, in Allen caunty. 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 highway t> ns sought to be improved tonne ts 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 vour 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 Comity. Indiana, in a sufficient amount to pay the interests and principal of said bonds as they may become due. that said road I>e built and that said bonds be issued, and that said tax be levied, upon said property of said

Townships, heretofor mentioned in ac(•onlance With the Acts of the legislature ot the state of Indiana, now in Arce and passed in the year 1905. as appears in the Acts of 191'1... page 493, and approved March 7th. 1905. , > z- C. H. Getting, Ernest Buuck. Ja='.n Hobbs S William C. Gallraeier, A igust Koenemann. Fred ' i- pizoi- Bis - ??. Andrew 1* uelling, H C Getting Frank McConnell, w A. Fonne?. Baxter. L. N. Grandstaff. th C a a i wTlder’ Ured" Hi Witte: W W' Watts. Wilbur Moldthann. Ernst' sThroeder. CoeVßutlemScr. George !.. Bobiiya. C- E. Harrod, Henry Broekmeyer, JWm. E. Rohr. Ravbe’ Chas S Fi-ance' Melntosh, Silas' Miner Benj. Mclntosh. Henry Heckman. Hem Tdhn Schurger. Hemx Dirkson, Chas. W. Magiey. Fred Hockemeyer, Chas. Hockemeyer. Wm. Hockemeyer, i p Mann John E. Mann. Erastus Fritzinger, Fred Mutschler, F. L. Roop, Charles Dirkson. Said petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners on Monday. May 7. 190(>. the same being the regular May session of said Board and at which time any tax payer of Root township. Adams Cou’ntv, and Madison township. Allen County. Indiana, may appear and make such objections as the law may provide for. C. D. LEWTO'*. Auditor, Adams County, Indiana. PETITION FOR STONE ROAD. Notice is hereby given that there has been filed in the auditor's office. Adams 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. 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 Accessary steps u> caus to be graded 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 south-east corner of section twenty-eight (28) in township twenty-eight (28) 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 (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 m process of construction pursuant to a petition and election. Said road when completed shall be called "Extension No. 2” of the Steigmeyer 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 by 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 1305, page 171.) Henry Kruckeberg, C. C. Miller, Christ. Marback. Fred Steigmeyer. Friedrik Thieme, Henry Haugk. Fred Koldewey, Charley Grote. Wilhelm Klink. Amos Walters, Ed. C. Bleeke, John Grimes. Fred Kruckeberg, John H. Railing. J. A. Barklev, Henry Reinking. W. W. Mum’rna. Henry Grote, W. A. Whittenbarger, Theodore Bleeke. W. F. Bleeke. Martin Bleeke. Julius Haugk. Ernest Kruckeberg I B. Spulier. Charley Kruckeberg. Fred Weiland. John McGill, Frank Schnepp. Geo. Stevens, Theodore Thieme, H. F. Thieme. A. Debolt. A. A. Brodbeck. C. Blake. O. D. Myers, Chas. Schamerloh, W. E. Bleeke. Otto Bleeke. H. F. Reinking. J. W. Blakey, John Erhardt. Stephen Miller. Joseph Crozier, F. F. Freeh. Wm. D. Barrone. Ri. hard Bischoff. Smith Stevens. Ferdinand Bleeke, H. S. Miller. Godfrey Lehrman. "Wm. Kruckeberg Albert'Lehrmar.n, Wm. Schamerloh. Said petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners on Mondny. May 7. 19;.G, 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 RO ID, 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 ot 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 tine Honorable Board of Commissioners of Adams County, Indiana: We. the undersigned all resident free holders and x’oters of Union Township, Adams County. Indiana, would most respectfully petition your honorable body to ! take necesary 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 I County, Indiana, and at the east side of the Schamerloh Macadam Road. I thence to run east between jettons number 21, 22 and svvtio.) 4

Union Township, and there to termi nate. -••i.i netitione-rs would further erloh Macadam RoaL and (.ill b»- • • two (2) miles in length. Said road shall he caUed Lehrman extension of the s< hamei 10.1 Macadam Road. sefd petitioners would further ask that said roac be built as a double track road aid that it be graded to tk width of twenty-eight (28) feet a„d that crushed stone be placed the width of fourteen (14) feet, with screenings on top of said stone.. Said petitioners would further ask that said road be built and that to p . for the same, including expenses ot location be paid for by an issue of bonds pavable in twenty semi-annual installment'-', and that to pay the same a tax be levied upon the taxable property of said Union Township, Adams Counts, Indiana. Said petitioners further show that said proposed road when built will be an extension of the Schamerloh Macadam Road, which is now in process ot construction pursuant to a petition and election, and will connect at one end with said road and at the other end with the boundary line of said Inion Township. Said petitioners further ask that said road be built and said proceedings had in connection therewith as prox ided for bv tiie acts of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, amended and approved March 4th, 1905. (See Acts of 1905, Page 171). Godfrey Lehrman, Ernest Kruckeberg. A. F. Thieme. »? ey ? r ’ Christ. Marbach. Jeff Manly, Fred Koldewey, Fred Kruckeberg. Charles Blakey, Chas. Kruckeberg. Martin Bleeke, Adam J. Bienz. Ed. C. Bleeke. " John H. Blakey, Theodore Thieme. Wm. Schamerloh, Ferdinand Bleeke. Henrv Kruckeberg, Otto Bleeke, William Bleeke. W. E. Bleeke, Wm. I). Barrone, Theodore Bleeke, John Erhardt, Wm. Hoile, .1 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 Walters, Henrv C. Bittner, John Geimer. Herman Bittner, Fred Steigmeyer, John Clem. Anthony Wertzberger, Samuel Darr, Henry Haugk. E. Hart, Charley Grote. Stephen Miller, Charles Knibe. Joseph Ceoyill, Jno. D. Longmeyer, Ed. S. Moses, Geo. B. Cline. C. D. Spulier, John P. Spulier. John Steigmeyer, Jacob Koos. Frank J. Kniber. Said petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners on Monday. May 7, 1909, the same being tl|> 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 RO ID. 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 ot Hartford Township. Adams County. Indiana. would most respectfully petition you honorable body to take necessary 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 section two (2) in township twentv-five (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 be a ’l 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 pay-able in twenty semi-annual Installments and that to pav said bonds and interest thereon a tax lie levied upon the taxable property of Hartford 1 ownship, Adams County, Indiana. Said petitioners further show that said proposed road when built will be an extension of the Jimtown Pike Road which has been built and established pursuant to a petition and election and will connect at one end with the Jimtown Pike and at the other with the Reynolds Gravel Road, both of which are tree macadam roads of said cpunty. Said petitioners further ask that said ™ a< J .?, e . bl !'. I . t an< J such proceedings had as will build and establish and pav for sa!d road as provided by the Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, as amended ami approved March 4th, 1903. (Acts of 1905, Page ?r2 ;''?m f hberger ’ Peter N Moser, o xr*' 1 John Snyder, s Meshberger, Cathrine Ensley, VohVa Wm. Anderson. John Schindla. Charles Reynolds £■ £ & u ? ky ’ Fre<i Rette, £ ba ‘L, C U ri ? man ' David Fox, Daniel Loder, Ben Banter. Robert Gerber, John w Cowens, Samuel Opliger, Elmer C Hunt George W. Gentis, Sherman Higgins Alburger, John H. Sours. Sn tLh n d erS ' ,n ' , Taiford Rufiyon. ? en K M ro h d^. rser ’ John AhHs C F P n eber ' John j. Liechtv: Chris. Eicher, Ppfpr Abraham Bierie, John Pearson Egly , Pearson. Fevl MwS Schartz Andran. ,eG Moeshberger, Robert Mever c° E ttaw-X’ A SchlagenhiuL Lilaflin Do?"’ DavTd^oM 50 "- John Yoder. Da ' *1 ?? IC ?25 er ' &j e] £°o 9 4 er ’ ' Peter' Hoff mar Man ’ Pioneer Milling Co., A Edw£ hSR 4 . -’tition will be presented tq the

Board of Commissioners on Monday. Muy 7. 1006, the same being the regular May session of said board ami at which time anv tax payer in Hartford Townslm, nuiv appear and make such objections as tiie law may provide for. C. D. LEWTON, Auditor. Adilins County, Indiana. PETITION FOR STONE ROAD. Notice is hereby given that there lias 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 fiftv <SO) freeholders and voters of Union and Root townships, in said county, which petition is in tiie following words, towit: State of Indiana, County of Adams In the Commissioners’ Court of Adams County, Indiana. To the Board of Commissioners of Adams County, Indiana: Comes now the undersigned, all resident free fielders and voters of the townships of Union and Root in the County of Adams and State of India: a, and would most respectfully petition vour Honorable Body to take all necessary steps to cause to be graded, drained and macadamized with crushed stone the highway already laid out ami established on and along the township line between the townships of Union and Root in said Adams County. Indiana and described as follows, to-wit: Commencing at the south-east corner of said Root township or at the southwest corner of said Union township, thence running north between sc tion thirtv-six (36) in Root township and section thirty-one ,31) in Union township to the north-west corner of said section thirty-one. or the northeast corner of section thirty-six and there to terminate. Said petitioners would further show that said proposed road will be when completed about one mile in length. Said road when completed will be called the Bauserman-Wolfe Macadam Road. Said petitioners would recommend 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 show that said road when completed will be in length less than three (3) miles and will connect at the southern extremity with the Ed. S. Moses Macadam Road and at the northern extremity with the Steigmeyer Macadam Road and the Erwin Gravel Road, both of which said roads are free Macadam Roads. Said petitioners would further ask 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 on same a tax be levied upon the taxable property of said townships of Union and Root in said Adams County, and State of Indiana. Said petitioners would further ask that said road be by said Board ordered constructed without first submitting the question of building the same to an election of the voters of said townships of Union and Root, as aforesaid, and that such proceeding be had to establish and build same as provided for by Section 678 S Burns’ 1905 Supplement to 1901 Statutes of Indiana, ami the following sections: (See Burns’ 1905 Supplement Vol. 4, Section 6788 and following sections.) Geo. Bauserman, E. F. Miller, A. R. Wolfe, Ed. S. Moses, J. A. Swartz, A. H. Hackman, Paul Miller. Howard Mauller, Geo. W. Cramer, Geo. Hindenlang, Jacob Koos. J. C. Moses, Aurie Dykeman. J. E. Ulman, E. Cunningham Abe Brown, Philbert Gase, E. H. Nidlinger, John P. Spulier, Oliver Walters, Elijah Walters, 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 Steigmeyer, Friedrick Thieme, James H. Knave), Samuel Workinger, F. W. Dibble, Abe Boch. A. J. Bailey, R. A. Drummond, J. D. Nidlinger, J. A. Ehrman, C. S. Mumtna, W. J. Miller. Chas. W. Ahr, E. J. Ahr. John A. Mumma, Geo. Ohler, John A. Barkley, C. D. Spulier. 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 whic htime any tax payer of Union and Root townships may appear and make such objections as the law may provide for. C. D. LEWTON. Auditor, Adams County, Indiana. PETITION FOR STONE RO ID 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 r<’a<l, signed by more than fifty (50) freeholders and voters of Monroe township. in said county, which petition is m the following words, to-wit: State of Indiana, Adams county. In the Commissioner s court of Acams county, Term. 1906. Petition fbr extension of Macadamized Stone Road. To the Honorable Board of Cirnmissioners of Adams county, Indiana We. the undersigned, resident freeholders and voters in Monroe township. in Adams county. Indiana, oo hereby most respectfully petition your Honorable Body, that you proceed and taKe the necessary steps to have a tree macadamized stone road built, completed and constructed in said Monroe township, over, on and upon the public highway located and situated "n and upon the following described route, to-wit: Commencing at a point on the Pleasant Valley ami Oak Grove Maca . in. Road, at the south-east corner of section twenty-three (23), township t" ' l }' ty-six (26) north, range fourteen 'H’ east, in Adams county, Indiana, them e to run east on. over and upon the P ul ’" lie highway on the section line canning east and west between sectiy-i twenty-four (24) and twenty-five in said township and range, to tne township line between the townsnip' of Monroe and Blue Creek, in s,ll ‘ County, and to the south-east of said section twenty-four, townsmi and range aforesaid, a distance of on 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 ai by virtue of an Act of the General A semblv of the State of Indiana, appro ed March 9th. 1903. and under an A of the General Assembly of said ... approved March 4th, 1905, amending said Act. * We further ask that said Impro e ment be paid for by bonds > ssu ®'“ ~, said County of Adams. payable _ • twenty semi-annual equal instalim for tiie payment of which ask that a tax be levied on the■ t.. able property of said Monroe tow-.' in a sufficient amount to pay the terest and principal of said bond- _ the same shall mature and become u •