Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 8, Decatur, Adams County, 26 April 1906 — Page 7

vnble under and according to and P a >?“| ’ 8 o f gaid Act of the Genth* I’!'. ’midv of the State of Indiana, eral - wjarch n, 1901, and any and »PP r '’,\ondments thereto, or any other all a , ho ' zing the levy of said taxes law of said bonds ' ~ imnrovement herein prayed for I, 11 ' ‘..nplementary to and a eontinto be 1 t l hi , pal(i Pleasant Valley & Hfl’.'ve Macadam Hoad, at and from Oh’i jnt of commencement as aforesaid I’ o1 "* „ n(1 upon the located higli«»id’,?,aid township line at the southwa.' t" 1 r of said section twentyeast '> 4 > township and range aforefaur The said Pleasant Valley & Oak Slid- m.,, adam Road having been here Grove constructed according to and to ‘?. nws heretofore and then existiD ,le: i in force, and in pursuance to *" g .nrtiofi lawfully held and had for an nose. Said terminal point of that road herein prayed for being at tl; e ™g t township line of said Monroe {ownship. Respectfully submitted; „ „ r „ P W Gates, x Thomas E. Macy, Ge ?s~;- e rr Silas Oliver, i v I ehman. Amos McCune. 8 I'. h .. ... ne David Cook. t Waggoner, G. M. Hidington, v direr Menno Burkhalter. John Rohrer. 1a ,, 0b Eglpy Hncker. Fred Rohrer. I \v-iggoner, James McCune, A C T„'sk° Edwin H. Gtlliom. «„iimin Nusscommer. 1. G. Kerr, itriker Andrew Gottschalk. J iihug Fred K. Shaefer, R. B. Smith. . |. l)Se James Long. J - W. Craig, Ph’*./ <tpneel Jacob Huser, C hrl 7A Miller Emil Erhart. 2 an Habegge’r, F. M. Cottrell. Klu Reynolds. Daniel K. Stauffer. . ppiisser. F. C. Foreman. Franz. W. Baumgartner, O Riumgartner, N. O. Baumgartner, "bill. K. M. Buffenbarger. ieV W Schenk. Emil !• luckiger, Vance Mattox. said petition will be presented to the ► Board of Commissioners on . Monday. May 7. IftOff. Dhe same being the regular May session 'if said board and.at which time any. tax payer in Monroe township may appear and make such objections as the law may provide for. C. D .LEWTON. f i Auditor, Adams County, Indiana.

* PETITION FOR STONE HOAD. Notice is hereby given that there has been riled in the auditor's office. Adams bounty, a petition for the location and [construction of a certain stone ligned by more than fifty (50) freeholders and voters of Monroe tow n ship, i n said county, which petition is in the following words, to-wit: ■ State of Indiana, County of Adams. I In the Commissioners’ Court of AdCounty. Indiana. I David Habegge r . et al., ex Parte, Petition for Macadam Road. |To the Honorable Board of Commi<f siuners of Adams County, Indiana: > The undersigned, all resident voters and free holders of the township of ■Manroe. in the County of Adams, and State of Indiana, would most respectfully petition your honorable body to Sake all necessary steps to cause to be graded drained and macadamized with Kshed a 1 ertain highway already laid out and established on and along the following described route in ’the township of Monroe, in the Count v of Adams and State of Indiana, and described as follows, to-wit: ■ Commencing at a point on the Reynolds Gravel Road, which is ten (10) teds west of the south-west Corner of .. . > in townshir* 6renty-si.\ < 26) north, range fourteen kl4> east, in Adams county. Indiana. Jthence to run north-east to a point Kich is on the west line of said sectruf said sec tion thirty-five (35) thence ion thirty-five (35) and twenty-eight rods north of the south-west cornt# run north on the west side of said notion thirty.five (35) to the northwest corner of said section thirty-five JJSi and there to connect with the mead ain Road running east and west •ilong the north side of said section ‘thirty-five (35) as aforesaid, and ,known as Extension No. one (1 ) of the Monroe Township Central Macadam itead and there to terminate. I Said petitioners would further show jthat said road proposed to be graded, waited and macadamized is about one Mil mi’e in length and will wnen comhkted connect at the southern extremity with the Reynolds Gravel Road and it the northern extremity with the Monroe Township Central Macadam fltoad, both of which roads are im- ■ proved free Macadamized roads, ami will be wholly within the tow n ship of llonroe as aforesaid I Said petitioners would further ask [that said road be built as a double ■track road, and that it be graded to ■thr width of twenty-six (26) feet and ■that crushed stone be placed thereon ■to the width of ten (10) feet and that ■jtone screenings be placed thereon on said stone ■ Said road shall be called the Ila■*?ger Macadam Road. Said petitioners would further ask ■pat to pay for said road a series of be issued payable % in twenty ■kmi-annual installments and to pay ■toe said bonds and interest thereon, a be levied upon the taxable properof said Monroe Township. Adams Said petitioners would further ask said r<>;id be ordered constructed submitting the question of same to a vote of the voters Monroe Township and that such be had to build and essaid road as provided by the of the General Assembly of the of Indiana, approved March Sth. a (See Acts of 1905. page 521.) Bn/: David Luginbill, W Habegger, Hobt Si-hanz. Nusbanm. H. S. Midland. A Habegger. C. E. Stucky. Lehman. C J. Lieehty. Luginlall. David I. Lehman. art Lehman. David Sohlner. ■ < “ M, Cune. Ben Habegger. Lehman. Christian Branz, Lehman. Peter Burkhalt*r. Lehn n. Louis Habegger. . n<lril ks. Lewis Sprunger. ■ .••Lieehty. Emauel G. Lieehty. ■iL JPninger. John .1- Soldner. IKi.' Liethty. Lwi Moser. Lie, htv. Samuel Simison. IHF'k, > l" v ander. XV )’. iiimmirt:**-' IBV V 1 r. Emanuel Spi •Mt’sbauin. Fred Sprunger. Huckiger. John Eicher. Sprunger. Deter Lehman. ns< ’ h ' v ' l 'der. .1. E Air’s'.ii’ u* ' • Sprunger, A A. Sprunger sprunger. Charles Lehman. ? r unger. Abe Beer. McClain Mark Burdg. A XV H. Par*. simison. Benj. Sprung*-:' LugnbiH. Jopl Lehman. (•'e*.“ ma n. Jacob S. Moser. ■W,' - srhug. J. c. Seliug. Le presented t n th, BH I 01 Commissioners on Monday. May 7. IfWMi. 'he regular June s* -- tav y,' 1 board and at which tin i'" r in Monroe township * ■■k* ma'™ Rlak> ' s,|p h objections < ■ BH . Provide for. iHH . C. D. LEWTON. gSMaI Auditor. Adams County, It* ■ ’ ,pTlTl *o i oh mom: bo\i>. fiiadV':;''' ■ g'V'T .1 Im t t:--l. a r^,'- s orti-. o. Ad:"' bv „ 1 p certain stem r■ ■■ ’ han fifty ' HHI u uters ip inion Towns;. ,'

in said county, which petiton is in the following words, to-wit: State of Indiana, County of Adams. In the Commissioners' Court of Adam« County, Indiana. Frederick Thieme, et al., ex Parte, Petition for Extension of Schamerloh Macadam Road. To the Honorable Board of Commissioners of Adams County: U°Y, the un 'iersigned all resident freeholders and voters of Union J® "bslup, Adams County, Indiana, and would most respectfully petition your Honorable bou> to take all myessarv to cause to be graded and macadamised the highway already laid out and established on and along the fol•in' 111 ? r °ute Adams County, IndiComencing at the south-east corner ot section twenty (20) in township twenty-eight (28) north, range fifteen (la) east, and at the Schamerloh Macadam Road and thence to run west between section twenty and nineteen (19) on tlie nortli and sections twenty-nine (291 and thirty (30) on the south to the south-west corner of section nineteen (19) in said township and to the western boundary line of said Union Township, and there to terminate Said road when completed will be an extension of the Schamerloh Macadam Road and will be about two (2) miles in length and will connect at the eastern extremity thereof with the bchemarloh Macadam Road, which is now in process of construction pursuant to a petition and election and will extend on the west to the western boundary line of said Union Township. Said road when completed shall be called the Frederick Thieme extension of the Schamerloh Macadam Road. Said petitioners wcl.ld further ask that said road be built as a double track 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 Qf top of said stone. Said petitioners would further ask that the road whencompleted shall be paid for by an issue of bonds payable in twenty semi-annual installments and that to pay said bonds adn interest therein a tax be levied upon the taxable property of Union Township. Adams County. Indiana Said petitioners further ask that said road be built and all proceedings be had therewith 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 of 1905, page 171.)

Friedriek Thieme. F. W. Bienz. Christ. Marbuck. Charley Grote. Henry Krueckeberg, Wm. Sehamerloh. M’ilhelm Klink. Martin Bleeke, Ed. C. Bleeke. H. F. Iteinking. Fred Krueckeberg, J. H. Blakey, Jno. A. Barkley. Ferdinand Bleeke. AX’. F. Reinking. Theodore Bleeke, XX’esley XX’. Mumma. Henry Grote, Wm. Bleeke. G. XX’. Bauserman. XX’. A. XX’hittenbarger. Abe Brown. Philbert Gase. Oliver XX’alter, E. H. Nidlinger, Aurie Dvkeman, J. H. Railing. J. D. Nidlinger. Henry lieinking. Nelson ,H. May. Henrv C. B ’ettner, X’ohenn Mailer. E. Hart, C. D. Spoiler. S XX’. Darr. Geo. Hindenlang, Charles Ahr. John P. Spoiler. XX’m. P. Barkley. E. F. Miller, Chas. Sehamerloh, Jacob Koos, Otto Bleeke. A. F. Thieme. Fred XX’eiland Jeff Manly. Ernest Krueckeberg. John McGill. Chas. Krueckeberg, Theodore Thieme, C. C. Miller. Amos Walters. J. C. Moses, J. E. Ulman. Said petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners on Monday. May 7. H»O«. the same being the regular June session of th" board and at which time any tax payer in Union township may appar and make such objections as the law may provide for C. D. LEWTON. 7-t3. Auditor, Adams County. Ind. PETITION FOR STONE ROAD. Notice is hereby given that there has been tiled in the auditor’s office, Adams eountv. a petition for the location and construction of a certain stone road, signed by more than fifty (o 0 freeholders and voters of Union Township, in said county, ".vhich petition is in the following words, to-wit: State of Indiana, County of Adams. In the Commissioners’ Court of AdCounty. Indiana. Adam Bienz. Dwight Wass, et al., ex Parte. Petiton for extension of Schameroh Macadam Road. To the Honorable Board of Commissioners of Adams County . We. the undersigned, all resident free holders and voters of I mon township. Adains County, would most respectfully petiton your Honorable Bode to take all necessary steps to cause to be graded, drained and pi with stone, the highway. T?J out an<l established on and along the ’following route in L’nion Township. Adams County. Indiana, to-v\it. Commencing at the north-east corner of section seventeen (17) in s^ d S h &eeV V in's'ai’d County. Indiana, and the nm-Uiern RoTd"n said Township, thence running rortli between section.; eight ana five CD m towns hip on th e w cst said Township.*' which' P«int 'is also at the boundary line of said township, and there to terminate Said petitioners would further show that said road proposed to be macadamized will be an extension of the gchamerloh Macadam Road winch is no'v in proves of construction pursuant to a petition and election, and will be when completed about two (-> miles in length. <iid road shall be called ‘ Extension No 3” of the Schamerlah Macadam Road. Said petitioners further ask that said road be built as double track road and that the same be graded to a width of Iwntv eight <2S) feet and that crushed "tone be placed thereon to a width of ten 1101 feet and that stone screenings be placed theron on top ot said stone. to'a wherein' the same is located. <soid netitioners ask that when said STU T.u of 1905, page 111.) , John Gleeker. Adam J. bienz. iibert Knave!. A. F. Thieme. - . ,j Baile.' Godfrey Lehrman. .. D wasp, Josephus A. I leming. sha f e r. j. D Nidlinger. A W herrv. XX’m. D. Barrone, • y Ehrnian. E. J. Al'r. George Bailer, Frank Gleeker. y . direr. Jacob Baker. Wn- i’ ’-' G. W. MHlei. G udlU S2l ‘ '

Henry Lehrman. C. L. V. Sheets, Jacob C. Barkley, F. F. Freeh, Webley W. Mumma, H. S. Miller, J. A, Barkley. S. A. Miller, \v. A. Whittenbarger, S. W Darr, AV. I. B Wass, J. E. Erexson, )Vm. I’. Barkley, Richard Bischoff. "m. W. Shaffer, John Erhart. S. Curtis Miller. Harmon Bittner William Kline, Henry C. Buettner, Willie L. Magner, J. D. Krick. Carle. Ahr, Wm. Reinking. John Clem, H F. Reinklng, E. Hart. W. E. Bteeke, I. J. David, Otto Bleeke, W. Hakins. Ed. C. Bleeke, AA'illiam Bleeke. Ferdinand Bleeke, J. H. Blakey. Said petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners on Monday, May 7. 1900. tlie same being the 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. LEAVTON, 7-t3. Auditor, Adams County. Ind.

. PITION FOR STONE ROAD. N. .ice 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 voters of Preble township, in said county, which petition is in the following words, to-wit: State of Indiana, County of Adams. In the Commissio~~rs’ Court of Adam s County, Indiana. Charles Ewel, Jr., et al.. ex Parte, petition for Macadam Road. To the Board of Commissioners of Adams County, Indiana: AA'e. the undersigned, all resident free holders and voters of the Toivnshlp of Preble, in the County of Adams, and State of Indiana, would most respectfully petition your honorable body to take all necessary steps to cause to be graded, drained and paved, with crushed stone, the highway already laid out i.r.d established on and along the following route to-wit: Commencing at the north-east fcOrHef of the north-west quarter of sectidii twenty-three (23) in township twentyeight (28) north, range thirteen (13) east, in said Adams County. Indiana, thence to run south through the center of said section nventy-three (23) to the southern boundary line of said section. thence on in a southern direction through the center of section twentysix (26i in said township aforesaid and to terminate at the cross roads at the center of said section twenty-six (26) township and range aforesaid Said petitioners would further show that the above road when completed will be about one and one-half (1%) miles in length, and shall be called tne Charles Ewel. Jr. Macadam Road. Said petitioners would further show that it wo lid be practicable to build said road'as a single track road'and that the same to be graded to the width of twenty-six (26) feet and that crushed stone crushed to the one-inch size, be placed thereon to the width of ten (10) feet, with stone screening placed thereon on top of said stone. Said petitioners ask that the crushed stone placed on said road shall be the depth of eight (8) inches and tlie screenings placed thereon shall lie placed to a depth of four (4) inches. Said petitioners further ask that said road be built, and that to pay for same bonds be issued payable in ten semiannual installments, and to pay said bonds together with the interest thereon and tlie costs of location, a tax be levied upon the taxable property of Preble Township, Adams County, Indiana. Said petitioners would further show that said road when completed will connect at the southern extremity with the Decatur and Magley Gravel Road and at tin- northern extremity with the Decatur and Ossian Gravel Road, botli of which are free Gravel Roads. Said petitioners would further show ilia: said road be by said Commissioners ordred constructed without first submitting the question of the building of the same to a vote of the voters of said Preble township, and that sw 'i proceedings be iiad .o bu-:d and establish same as provided by the Acts of the General Assembly of the kimte of Indiana, as approved March 8, 19('o. (See Acts 1905. page 521) Charles Ewell. Jr., J. C. Kldfer. Martin Kiefer. , r William Schackel. John Lupright, John Bleberich. Charles Kiefe., William Ehlerding. T. N■ Lupton. Fred Koenemann, „ C Schakel. Henry Fuhrman. Fred Ostermeyer. AV. D. Conrad, Wm. Kruetzmann, C. ZwlcK. Otto Ewel. Henry C. Schmidt. Lewis Koenemann, John G. Hoffman, Henrv Dirkson. Theodore Ewel. August Gallmeyr. Daniel Bieberick. Louis Kleine. AV. .1. Bieberick. Henrv Scheuman, H- Ehlerding. Wm. C. Grote. Dr. J. C. Grandstaff. Wm. Linnemeier, Ernst Doehrman. Martin Reppert, Conrad C. Doehrman, AVm. Weiling, Andrew Fuhrman. Conrad Doehrmann, F red Buuck, Wm. Koldewey. John G. Miller. Mcicko Jacob Schuelei. Henrv Wefel. Wm. M. Meyer. C D F. Bieberick. H. L. Buuck, Wm. F. Jobker. Henry M Jeff Klopfenstein, F. Fuhrman, Charles Conrad Said petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners on Monday. May 7, 100(1. the same being the regular May session of said Board, and at which time anv tax paver in Preble township mae Appear and make such objections at the law may provide lor C. D. LEWTON. 7_t3. Auditor, Adams County. Ind.

PETITION FOB STONE ROAD. Notice is hereby given that there has been filed in the auditors office. Adams eountv. a petition for the location and construction of a certain stone road, signed by more than fifty (50) freeholders and voters of Jefferson and Wabash townships and town of Geneva, which petition is in the following words, to-wit: To the Honorable Board of Commissioners of Adams County. Indiana. We the undersigned each, and all of whom are resident free holders, taxpavers and voters of in the townships of iefferson and Wabash and the incitv of Geneva. Adams Count'. Indiana. Said city of Geneva twing situated in said XX abash townn mil having a population of less than' tldrtv thousand inhabitants, hereby petition vour honorable body that vou proceed to construct and improve *1 certain public highway already established which said public highway is located as follows: Commencing at the South Jefferson Macadamized Roa* at the south-east , nt of the i-west quarter of section 20 .iship 25 north, range u. east public highway mnv establb e running east and west between sections 20 and 29 and sections 19 and 30 of said Jefferson Township, thence to run west. on. over and upon said nubile highway running east and west as aforesaid, to the township line between the said Jefferson and XV ai,aqh Townships and thence into Waash Township, on. over and upon the nn'hlic highway now established be- ! > „ the east half of the south-east barter of section 2 I and the Last half of the north-east, quarter of section 25 n said Wabash Townshjp to the s<’Uth,"st corner of the -.vest half of the south-east quarter of section -4. of Wabash Township, thence south nn. d ovei ? and upon the public highway ~ .... ° T ' " ”' r „UO U41V«»“ O< “ 1 UaU Ui BCCUUU

25, for one mile to the south line of said section terminating at the William Burk Gravel I toad now established and running east and west on the section line between sections 25 and 36. By grading, draining and paving witli crushed stone said highway for a distance of two ami three-fourths (2 3 i) miles. One and one-half miles of said improvement to be in Jefferson Township, and one and onefourth (1U) miles of said improvement to be in said Wabash Township. Your petitioners would respectfully petition your honorable board to establish and order the construction of said road without submitting the question of building the same to an election of the voters of the said township of Jefferson and Wabash and the said city of Geneva. That both of the roads above referred to, as the starting and terminal of the proposed road are free roads, one improved by macadamizing and the other by graveling. And your petitioners would further rcommend that said road be constructed with double track .that is with stone on one side and space for dirt road on the other side of said highway, and that said road be constructed, including sided rains forty feet in width and that crushed rock be placed thereon the usual width for country roads. We further ask that viewers and an engineer be appointed by your honorable body, to aid in the construction of the improvement prayed for . We ask that said improvement shall be paid for by bonds issued by the County of Adams, the State of Indiana. payable in twenty semi-annual installments or series and for the payment of which bonds we ask that a tax be levied upon the taxable property of the said Jefferson township in a sufficient amount to pay the interest and principal of said bonds as the same shall come due together with incidental expenses in proportion to the full amount of bonds issued and incidental expenses as its proportion of said road is to the whole road asked to be constructed. and we ask that a tax he levied upon the taxable property of the said Wabash township and the city of Geneva in a sufficient amount to pay the interest and principal of said bonds 23 the same shall become due together with Incidental expense In proportion to the whole amount of bonds Issued dffd licidetital expenses as its proportiOfi of *aid road is to the whole road asked tO be constructed. And that said road be built and bonds issued and said tax levied upon said property of said townships and city of Geneva, in accordance with the Acts of the Legislature of the State of Indiana approved March 11. 1901. and any and all amendments thereto. Names of petitioners. Isaac Teeple, W. B. Miller, John F. Neril, Franklin Snyder, Wm. H. H. Bears, Butler Woodruff. Aaron Helmberger, David Wintram. E. D. McCollum, E. Woodruff, H. H. Snyder. J. W. Barr. Jacob Stuber, M. F. Aspy, Edwin Ferry. S. H. Teeple, J. A. Buckmaster. Lafayette Rape. Joseph Robin. S. W. Hale, R. E. Derickson. C. I). Porter. Homer Charleston, John W. Barr, Christ. Steiner. Nathan Shepherd. Ardon S. Burley, ’ I>. D. Blackmore J. T. Burlev, George Meaner. Michael Engle, A. J. Miller, Carey W. Claycomb, Homer Pontius. D. B. Ford. James Miller, Nelson Campbell. H. Decker, W. V. Buckmaster, Thos. E. Mann, A. D. Buckmaster, J. W. Kelly. Sr., I. H. Ornsdorff, J. L Aspy. J. T. Kelly. A. G. Briggs. W. Z. Hetchen, ' Daniel Buher. L. M. Fogle, F. AF. Connor. Patt Fahey. Henry Miller, Henry Fogle, Chas Pyle, A. G. Kraner, John Brown, John Riche. M. E. Hutton, J. L. Love. J- B. O’Donnell, Peter Kinney. Said petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners on Mondhy. May T. l«0«, the same being tlie regular May session of said Board, and at which time any tax payer in Jefferson and Wabash townships and the city of Geneva, may appear and make such objections as the law may provide for. C. D. LEWTON. 7-t3. Auditor. Adams County. Ind.

PETITION FOR STONE ROAD. Notice is hereby given that there has been filed in tlie auditor's office, Adams County, a petition for the location and construction of a certain stone road, signed bv 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, Indiana. Fred Krueckeberg, et al., petition for an extension of the Steigmeyer Macadam road, in Union Township. To the Board of Commissioners of Adams County: We, the undersigned all resident free holders and voters of Union township. Adams County. Indiana, would most espectfully petition your honorable bodr’ to take ncessary steps to cause to be drained, graded and macadamized with stone, the highway already laid out and established in said Township. County and State, on. and along the following route to-wit: Commencing at a point where the Steigmeyer Macadam Road terminates at the north-east corner of section thirtv-three (33) in township twentyeight (28) north, range fifteen (15) east, in said Adams County, and state of Indiana, thence to run east between section.twenty-seven (27) and fractional section twenty-six (26) in said township on the north and section thirtyfour (34) and fractional section thir-ty-five (35) in said township twentyeight (28) north, range fifteen (15) east, in Adams County. Indiana, to the state line road dividing the states of Indiana and Ohio, and there to terminate. Said petitioners further show that said proposed road when completed will be an extension of the Steigmeyer Maadam Road, and will be about one mile in length. Said road shall be called “Extension No. 1. of the Steigmeyer Macadam iioad.’’ Said petitioners would further ask said road be built as a double track road, and that it be graded to the width of twenty-six (26) feet and tliat iblied stone be placed thereon to the width of ten (10) feet with stone screenings on top* of said stone. Said petitioners would further ask that said road be built and tliat to pay for same including expenses of location be paid for by an issue of bonds payable in twenty (20) semi-annual installments and that to pay said bonds a tax be levied upon the taxable property of said Union Township. Adams County. Indiana. Said petition* i s ftirtlier slew that said proposed road when built will be an extension of the Steigmeyer Maca’dam Road which is now in process of construction, pursuant to an election and petition and will connect at the one end thereof with said’ road and at the other end will extend to the boundary line of said Union Township, in said county .and state. Said petitioners further ask that said road be built and the proceedings be had to establish and piv for the same as provided by the Acts of the Genral Assembly of the State of Indiana, approved March 4. 1905. (Acts of 11105, page 171:) Fred Krueckeberg, i’r 1 Koldewey, Charles C. Miller. Ferdinand Bleeke. John McGill. John Steigmeyer. .-. Ty. A ■>”hit»en- ' -*-. xneodure luierae, Ed. C. Bleeke,

Geo. Stevens, Wm. Bleeke, Christ. Marbach, Wm. F. Reinking, Henry Krueckeberg, Geo. B. Cline, W. Klinke. Philbert Gase, Henry Schamerloh, P. B. Dykeman Frederick Thieme. John Geimer, J. A. Barkley, Amos Walters, Charles Krueckeberg, Frank Schnepp, J. W. Shifferly, Charles Kuber, Wm. Drake. Ed. S. Moses, Elias Enritch, J. C. Moses, John Drake, John P. Spuller, Theodore Bleeke, Henry Reinking, Carl Beyer. J. H. Railing, Geo. Hindenlang, E. FI. Nidlinger, John s. Maulle,.. C. W. Bauserman, Fred Steigmeyer, Oliver Walters, Anthony Wertzberger, F. W. Bienz. Charley Grote, Henry Haugk. Henrv Grote. A. A Brodbeck, A Debolt. Martin Bleeke, ’’ed Weiland. A. F. Thieme, Ernest Krueckeberg, Jos. S. Longenrich. Said petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners on Monday. May 7. HMHJ. the same being the regular May session of said board, at which time any tax payer in Fnion township, may appear and make such objections as the law may provide for. C. D. Lewton. 7-t3. Auditor, Adams County, Ind.

THE STEEL SQUARE. Story of the Invention of the Tool Used by Carpenters. The large steel squares used by carpenters are such common tools that perhaps few know when and where they were first made and how they came to be used or even give the matter a thought. The making of them Is a great industry now, but when the last century came in there was not one In use. , vs. * is. -4*'*'** ■*' The inventor was a poor Vermont blacksmith, Silas Howes, who lived In South Shaftsbury. * One dull, rainy day a peddler of tin ware called at his shop to have the blacksmith fasten a shoe on his horse. Such peddlers traveled up and down the country, calling at every farmhouse, buying everything in the way of barter. This one had a number of wornout steel saws that he had picked up in Various places, Howes bargained for them, shoeing the peddler's horse and receiving the saws in payment, and eacJi thought he had an excellent trade. His idea was to polish and weld two saws together at right angles and thus make a rule or measure superior to anything then in use. After a few attempts he succeeded in making a square, marked it off into inches and fractions of inches and found that it answered every purpose that he intended it for. In the course of a few weeks he made quite a number during his spare hours. These he sent out by the peddlers, who found every carpenter eager to buy one. Soon he found orders coming in faster than he could supply the detnand. One of his steel ‘'squares” would sei, for $5 or .s(>, which was five times as much as it cost him. He applied for and obtained a patent on his invention so that no one else could deprive him of the profit it gave him. It was just after the war of 1812, and money was scarce and difficult to get, but he worked early and late, and as he earned money he bought iron and hired men to help him. In a few years he was able to erect a large factory and put in machinery for the making of squares, which by this time had found their way all over the country and had made their inventor famous. Such was the small beginning of a large and important industry. People came miles to see the wonderful forges, the showers of sparks flying from beneath the heavy hammers, and listen to the din of the thousand workmen. Silas Howes lived to be a millionaire, and he did a great deal of good with his money.—Congregationalism

POINTED PARAGRAPHS. When good nature is noisy it is almost as disagreeable as ill nature. You are interesting to your friends as long as you are keeping something from them. Never watch others unless you are prompted by the desire to find something to applaud. Somehow your right always seems full grown and the other man's right is a dwarf in comparison. If you know of any patience that is not the patience of a mother, compared with that kind it is an adulterated brand. A good many times when you think you are accepting a complimentary from a friend you are getting a seat in the gallery at box prices. If we could see our backs, we would probably find them blushing at things said behind them to spare the feelings of our faces.—Atchison Globe. Age of Some Noted. Universities. It is said the University of Oxford was founded by King Alfred the Great in 872. The University of Cambridge, or, rather, the first of the colleges at present comprised in it, was founded by Hugo, bishop of Ely, in 1257. The University of Paris was founded by King Philip 11. about the year 1200. The first German university was established at Prague in 1348. Trinity college, Dublin, was incorporated by royal charter in 1591. The University of Edinburgh was first chartered in 1582 by King James VI. of Scotland. Harvard college was founded at Cambridge, or, as it was then known, Newtown, Mass., in 1630. Yale university was first established at Saybrook, Conn., in 1700. It removed to its present location, New Haven, in 1716. The Bine Scarecrow, The farmer's scarecrows were all garbed in blue. ‘‘A blue. scarecrow,” said the man, “does more good than ten ordinary ones, for birds hate and fear blue as you and I hate and fear typhoid and consumption. A professor pointed out to me that blue was the thing for birds. At first I was unbelieving, but I experimented and found that professor to be right.”—Philadelphia Bul-

IVORY CARVING. The Chinese Still Excel In Makin® Elaborate Fan Sticks. “You may say that the Chinese still excel in the elaborate carving of ivory for fan sticks,” said a fan importer. “Years of labor are represented in some of the tans made in the orient. For nearly two centuries the manufacture of fans for the European market has been an important industry of China. “The Chinese workmen, brought to Paris in the seventeenth century in order to teach Frenchmen the art, aided greatly in giving the prominence to French fans. At Dieppe and other Industrial centers in France flue examples of carved ivory fan sticks arc produced, and many of tht most beautiful fans reaching the New York market come from there. There is a wida choice of material for the sticks, comprising ivory, mother-of-pearl, tortoise shell, horn, sandal and other woods, with occasionally filigree work io metal. “The most common materials, of course, are wood and bone, which are decorated with prints or pressed work. On? of the most notable fans, made with metal sticks, is the one of carved silver said to have once belonged to Marie Antoinette. This fan is now in the South Kensington collection. The mother-of-pearl sticks give an excellent opportunity for artistic carving and also for clever gilding.”—Jewelers’ Circular-Weekly. _ - *77 Children’s Names In Enarland. The vicar ot Meinbury, Derbyshire, writes in his parish magazine, “A hundred and thirty-eight baptisms, and I have not yet had a ‘Sarah Jane’—that delightful, old fashioned name!” Amused, as he said, by the vicar's sad wail, a parishioner replies to the vicar, saying the reason is not far to B££k. Th§ custom of the parents residing in these parts is to consult with their incumbent regarding the choice of the name for the offspring. The natural consequence is that all children born on a saint’s day are called after the saint. Thus a girl born on St. George’s day would be christened Georgiana and one on St. Clement’s dav Clementina, and so on. —London

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