Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 13, Decatur, Adams County, 31 May 1906 — Page 2

Legal Advertising BOARD OF REVIIA* Notice its hereby given that the board of Review of Adams county. State of Indiana, will meet at the Commissioners' Court room in the city of Decatur, in said county at nine o'clock a. m., on Monday. June 4, 190*. at which time and place all complaints of unequal or unjust valuations for assessments of personal property will be heard. Valuations of personal property will be equalized and all property omitted will be added to the tax list. A uniform valuation of all personal property will be made as nearly practicable as defined by law. Returns made by the township assessors will be corrected-aud amended so as to make a uniform valuation of all property as nearly as practicable. C. D. LEWTON, 12- Auditor Adams County. Indiana. NOTICE OF RECEIVING BIDS. Notice is hereby given that estimates are on file in the auditor’s office of Adams county, Indiana, for the furnishing of supplies for the county asylum. Said estimates of supplies are divided under the following headings: Groceries. Shoes, Dry Goods, Drugs, Hardware and Clothing, Mill Feed. Sealed bids are requested for each class of goods separately. All bids must be filed in the auditor's office not later than ten o’clock a. m.. on Monday, July 2, 190*. The contract will be awaided to the lowest reponsible bidder. I The Board reserves the right to reject any or all bids. Successful, bidders will be required to enter into contract for the faithful performance of his bid. C. D. LEWTON, 13- Auditor Adams County, Indiana. NOTICE FOR BIDS. Notice is hereby given that the Common Council of the City of Decatur, Indiana, will receive sealed bids or proposals for the improvement of Second street, commencing at the north side of Monroe street .thence north to the corporation line of the city of Decatur, Indiana, said improvement to be with modern paving blocks or bricks. The improvement of said Second street from Monroe street north to Jackson street to be 40 feet wide and from Jackson street north to the corporation line to be 34 feet wide, according to the drawings and specifications now on file in the office of the ctty clerk of said city on the 19th. day of Juae, 19M, bids to be received between the hours of eight o’clock a. m. and'six o’clock p. m. Each bidder must file with the clerk of said city, when he files his bid, the usual statutory affidavit and deposit with him the sum of One thousand dollars, in money or certified check as a guaranty that he will accept said bid and carry out the construction of said work. The successful bidder will be required to give bond with surety to be approved by the Common Council insuring the faithful completion of said work according to the contract. The Common Council reserves. the right to reject any and all bids and readvertise for bids for said improvement, this 23rd day of Mav, 1306. CARL O. FRANCE, 12-4 t. City Clerk. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. Office of the Board of Trustees of the School City of Decatur, Indiana. Decatur, Ind., May 25, 1906. Notice is hereby given by the Board of Trustees of the School City of Decatur, Indiana, that sealed proposals will ->< tecei ed by them at • or flee in said city up to 12 o'clock noon on the 9th day of June, 19CO, for the construction of the following improvements: 1. For the construction of a twostory brick addition to the Central School building in said city. 2. For the installing of a complete steam heating system in said school building and proposed addition. All work to be done in making of aforesaid improvements shay be in accordance with the plans and specifications now on file with the President Os said Board. Separate bids will be received for the above improvements, the bidder in submitting a proposal for either of aforesaid work must accompany eachb*,d y ,th a cert >fie<i check in the suhi of sooo, payable to said School Board, as an evidence of good faith that he will execute within six days from the acceptance of his proposal, a contract for the construction of said improvements, and a bond in equal amount of the contract price, conditioned for the faithful performance of said contract and for the payment of- all labor and material ■ used in the construction of said improvements, all to the satisfaction of said Board. A failure of the successful bidder to enter into such contract and bond as aforesaid, will forfeit the check and sum of money payable thereon to the said School City of Decatur, as agreed and liquidated damages for such failure. Bids shall be made so as to give the amount for which said building . will be constructed for cash, payable on estimates to be made by the architect in charge not to exceed 85 per cent.- of any one estimate out of the funds to be heretofore raised by sale of bonds as required by law. Each bidder will be required to file affidavit as provided by law. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Board of Trustees of the School City _of _ .D_ecatur. Indiana. — _————- AUGUST H SELLEMEYER President. ROBERT D. PATTERSON, Treasurer. THOMAS W. WATTS, Secretary. PETITION FOR MACADAM'RO AD. To the Honorable Board of Cdmmisjioners of Adams County. Indiana: We, the undersigned, each and all of whom are resident freeholders taxpayers and voters of and in the Township of Wabash and the incorporated city of Genva, Adams County, Indiana, said city of Geneva being situated in the said Wabash township and having a population of less than thirty thousand inhabitants, hereby petition your honorable body that you proceed to construct and improve a certain public highway already established which said public highway is located as follows: Commencing at a point on extension No. one (1) of The South Jefferson Macadamized Public Highway at the

nprth-east corner of the north-west quarter of the north-east quarter of section 25 township 25 north of range 14 east, running thence west on over and upon tne public highway now established betwen sections 24 and 25 and between sections 23 and 26 Between the east ha|f of sections 22 and 27 to the Joseph Chrisman Macadamized Extension No. one (1) of extension No. 2, of the Geneva Ceylon & Wabash township Macadamized Public Highway and there to terminate at the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of section 27 north of range 14 east in said Wabash township. That the extension No. one from The South Jefferson Macadamized Highway from whence this proposed macadamized public highway starts and the Joseph Chrisman Macadamized Public Highway extension No. 1 of extension No. 2 of the Geneva, Ceylon & Wabash Township Macadamized highway where this proposed macadamized public highway terminates, are both free macadamized public highways to be. That you improve the above described public highway to a width of 40 feet including side' drains, by grading, draining and paving with crushed stone said highway, and your petitioners would further recommend 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 That crushed stone be placed thereon of the customary width and depth of country roads. Your petitioners would respectfully petition vour honorable board to es.tablish 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 Wabash and city of Geneva, as provided in section 70 of the Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, approved March 8, 1905.

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 Wabash township and the said city of Geneva, 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 said bonds issued and said tax levied upon said property of said township and said incorporated 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 And that your honorable body appoint an engineer and viewers to aid in said improvement. That this road shall be known as the J. L Aspy extension No. 1 of extension No. 1 of the South Jefferson Macadamized public highway. NAMES OF PETITIONERS. J. L Aspy, Joseph Chrisman, George Weaser, Orton F. Wheeler, J. A. Wheeler. Robert C. Speicher, George E. Fink, Alphons E. Lintz, Solomon Habegger, J. L. Love, Eldridge Weaver, W. H. Rodenberger, John Ring, Owen Sapp, W. H. H. Bears, John F. N6ril, R. E. Derickspn, W. R. Mann, Chris. Steiner. Ardon S. Burley, Michael Engle. Bartimens Boice, Abe Kneuss. F. M. Buckey, August Heuselman, * James Miller, D. B. Ford. F. S. Armstrong, Charles Armstrong, Henry Miller, W. L. Thornhill. W. C. Feltz, John H. Barn, J. W. Barr, M. F. Aspy, John B. Shamp, Thos. Duer. A. P. Haviland, J. W. Kelley. Sr.. J. H. Kelley, Nathan Shepherd, John M. Holloway, Willis Follin, A. J. Miller, H. A. Baird. Samuel Egley, L. L. Malley, S. W. Hale, P. A. Macklin. John A. Anderson, A J. Juday. Jacob Butcher, Wm. Speicher. A. G. Briggs. S. H. Teeple. PETITION FOR MACADAM ROAD. State of Indiana, Adams County. In the Commisisoners’ Court of Adams County, term, 1906. Petition for macadamized road. The undersigned petitioners, all of whom are resident freeholders and voters in the townships of Preble and Kirkland, respectively in Adams County, Indiana, respectfully petiton your Honorable Body to cause to be built, constructed and completed a double tracked crushed stone road, over, upon and along the'following described route to-wit: Commencing in the public highway on the township line between said townships of Kirkland and Preble, and at the south-west corner of section thirty-four, township twenty-eight north, range thirteen east, in said Adams County, Indiana, thence running east over and upon said public highway and township line aforesaid, a distance of two miles and to the southwest corner of section thirty-six in said township twenty-eight north, range thirteen east, in said County and State, .to an. improved gravel road, and there to terminate. The beginning and terminus of the macadamized road herein prayed for connects at each end with a free graved road Said road to be known as the Magley & Preble Macadam Road. We further ask that bonds be issued tor the payment of the cost of making such improved road and that a tax be levied on the taxable property of said two townships aforesaid for the payment of such bonds as the law in such cases provides. We further ask that said improvement be made and established, ordered and constructed without submitting the question of the building of the same to an election of the voters of said townships of Kirkland and Preble, and for any further necessary order in the premises. Respectfully submitted. Peter Holthouse, Chas. Wilkinson, H. F. McGill, Christian Annen, Chris. Scherry, Samuel Jaberg, W. H. Dettinger, Joseph Conrad, John Scherry, Wm. Fruchte, L. J. Kruetzmann, John Rupright, Ernest Blinker, Henry Fruchte, Wm. Sautbine, Wm.. Dellinger, W. H. Beineke, S. W. Beineke, Lewis Worthman, Albert Shady, Henry Hildebrand, Edward B. Scherry, Peter Helmrich, Fred C. Kiefer, Peter Bauer, Charles Dettingen, Robert Case,’ W. F. Bieneke, Jacob Barger, E. H. Kruetzman, L. Schlickman, H Worthman, Christ. Boene, Henry Scherry, Jr., Henry Scherry, Sr., H. L. Buuck, Wm. F. Jaebker, D. J. Dilling, W. J. Goldner, Jeff Klopfenstein, F. Fuhrman, Charley Conrad, C. D. F. Bieberich, C. O. Hobrock, Chas. Werling, p. v. Lewton, Dr. J. C. Grandstaff, L. E. Sickafus, David Werlihg, Eh Er Goldner, W. A. Straub, Ehlerding;, Wm. Bieberich, Fred Ehlerding, Chas. Arnold, L. D Lin brand, Albert Arnold, T r m n^-uT"'?' d ’ s - J - Bowers, J. T.’Niblick. c. F. Bieberlck, Daniel Scherry. PETITION FOR MACADAM ROAD. State of Indiana, County of Adams, ss In the Commissioners’ Court of Adams County Louis Worthman, et al., ex parte. Petition for Macadam Road. T< Countv-' d ° f Commißsioners of Adams T W®- V le undersigned, each and all of ™h°m are resident freeholders and voters of and in Preble township in the County bf Adams and the State of Indiana. respectfuly petition your honorablp board to take all necessary steps

Ito cause to be graded, drained and paved. with crushed stone, the highway already laid out and established on and along the following route, to-wit; Commencing: at the intersection of a highway running north and south with the highway running east and west at the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of section twentyseven (27) in township twenty-eight (28) north of range thirteen (13) east. Adams County, State of Indiana, thence running north over the highway lying between sections twenty-six (26) and twenty-seven (27) and over the highway lying between sections twenty-two and twenty-three, all in township twen-ty-seven (27) north of range thirteen (13) east. Adams county, State of Indiana and terminating at the intersection of the road running north and south with the road running east and west at the north-east corner of the north-east quarter of section twenty, two (22) in township twenty-seven (27) north of range thirteen (13) cast Adams county. State of Indiana. Said petitioners would further show that the above road when completed will be about one and one-half miles in length, and shall be called the Louis Worthman Macadam Road Preble township exenslon number 2. Said proposed road commences at Its northern end at the Free Gravel Road running east and west, known as the Ossianßoad. said Ossian road being already built and constructed as a free gravel road, thence running south, terminates at the free gravel road running east and west parallel with the aforesaid Ossian Road, lying one and one-half miles south of said Ossian Road. Said proposed road connects two already constructed and built free gravel roads, lying one and one-half miles apart in said Preble township, Adams county, State of Indiana. Said petitioners would further show that it would be practicable to build said road as a single track road to be graded to the width of twenty-s;x (26) feet and that crushed stone to the one inch sjze be placed thereon to the width of t P n feet, with stone screenings placed on top of said stone Said petitioners ask that the crushed stone placed on said road shall be the depth of eight inches and the screenings placed thereon shall be placed to a depth of four inches. » We ask that you take such action upon this petition’as you are authorized and directed to do under and by virtue of an Act of the Genera) Assembly of the State of Indiana, approved March 9th, 1903, entitled ‘‘An act entitled an act concerning the construction of free gravel, stone or other macadamized roads, and for the payment of the costs thereof and their maintenance, declaring an emergency,” and amended bv the General Assembly of said state, said amendment being approved March 4th. 1905. and any other acts of the General Assembly mentioned in said act of 1905, approved March 4th, 1905. We further ask that said improvement be paid for by bonds issued by the-County of Adams, State of Indiana, pavable in twenty semi-annual installments for the payment of which bonds we ask that a tax be levied upon the taxable property of Preble township in sufficient amount to pay the interest and principal of said bonds as the same shall become due and payable under and according to the provision of an act of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana aproved March 11th. 1901, and any and all amendments thereto. We further represent to this board that this petition is signed by more than fifty resident freeholders and voters of said Preble township, Adams County, State of Indiana. Respectfully submitted. Lewis Worthman, Fred Scherry, William Schaekel, John Bieberich. Wm Koldewey, Jacob Keafer, John G Miller. Conrad Doehrman, John Rupright, Frank Judd. August Worthman, W. H. Bieneke, Jacob Reppert, Olliie Reppert, Samuel Jaberg, Henry Fruchte. Wm. Sellemeyer, Wm. Fruchte, Ernst Blomker. L. J. Kruetzman, Christ. Reppert, Christ. Scherry. Jr, H. F. McGill, Robert Case, Peter Bauer, John S- herry, Lewis Conrad, Christ Borne, Christ. F. Biberich, Henry Wefel, John D. Werling, Dan Wefel, 1 Gust Reinking, Henry Miller, Christ. Conrad, Frd Blomenberg, Christ. Bultemeier August Conrad. Christ. Stoppenhagen, Wm. Elckoff. Wm. Boesse, Wm. Bultemeier, Otto Ewell, ~ Charles Ewell, Jr., Mart Keifer, Martin Reppert, Wm. Kruetzman, Fred Ostermeyer, Jacob Schueler, Fred Koenneman, C Schakel, J. Hoffman, John Miller, Wm. M. Meyer, David J. Dilling, Wm. C. Grote. Christ. Kiefer. PETITION FOR MACADAM ROAD. State of Indiana, Adams county. In the Commissioners’ Couit, of Adams County. John M. Frisinger, et. al., ex parte. Petition for extension »f macadam road. To the Board of Commissioners of Adams County. Comes now the undersigned all resident freeholders and voters of Washington township, Adams county, Indiana, would most respectfully petition your honorable body to take all necessary steps to cause to be graded and macadamized, the highway already laid out and established along the following route in Washington township, Adams county, Indiana, to-wit: Commencing at the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of section one (1) township twenty-seven (27) north, range fourteen (14) east, in said county and state, thence running west on the half section line through said section one (1) to the Tricker pike, there to terminate. Said petitioners would further show that said road when completed will be an extension of the North St. Marrs Macadam Road and will be about onehalf mile in length, and will connect at the eastern extremity with the North St. Marys Macadam Road and at the western extremity with the Tricker pike. Said road when completed will be called extension No. one of the North St. Marys 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-six (26) feet and that crushed stone be placed thereon to a width of ten (16)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 the sale of bonds payable in twenty semi-annual installments and to pay said bonds and the interest thereon, a tax be levied up?n the taxable property of said Washington township Said petitioners would further ask that said road be built and said proceedings be had to establsh same in all things as provided by the Acts of the General Assembly of the state of Indiana and by said General Assemblv as amended, March 4, 1905 (Acts 1905, page 171.) Frisinger, j no . Niblick, Eli Sprunger, J. w. Teeple, Geo. Tricker, J. q. Neptune, S D . u » an > B. W. Sholty, T. M. Andrews, Fred Scheimann, B - J- Smith, L. R Fulk, J°hn T. Myers, J. Bryson, J. C. Patterson, N. A. Loch, 5" A?. tman ’ - Fred H - Heuer, R. K. Allison, U. S. Drummond, Jacob Atz, C. Radamacher, C. D. Lewton, W. H. Zwick,

• D. B. Erwin, A. Van Camp, ' Peter Holthouse, J. S. Boyers I John Baker, N. C. Anderson, Decatur Lumber Co., H. F. Linn. Dyonia Schmitt, i P. B. Thomas, i L. Ellis. I David E? Staith, i H. J. Yager, Eli Meyer. I F. V. Mills, R. S. Peterson. > W. W. P. McMillen, F. L. Litterer, • L. C. Helm. F. C. Burns, t C. V. Connell. C. S. Clark, . E. M. Peoples. J. L. Gay. s J. A. Smith, W. J. Archbold, : Fred Sellemeyer. M. Kirsch. I Fred Hoffman, H. A. Fristoe, - H. Hite, D. E. Studabaker. > i I ETITION FOR MACADAM ROAD. I State of Indiana. County of Adams., I i In the Commissioners’ Court, . Term, 1906. i Petition for Macadam Road. To the Board of Commissioners of Adams County, Indiana: i We, the undersigned, each and' all of i whom are resident freeholders and le- > gal voters of Adams county. Indiana, and of French and Hartford townships in said county and state, do hereby i respectfully petition your Honorable [ Body that you proceed to have a free , macadamized stone road constructed and ; completed over and upon the public i highway in said Hartford and French townships situated on the following route, to-wit: i Commencing in the center of the gravel road known as the Reynolds Gravel Road running east and west between sections four and nine at the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section four in town- : ship twenty-five north, range thirteen ( east in Adams county, Indiana, thence running north on public highway running north throughout the center of section four, one mile to the public highway running east and west on the north line of said section four, thence east on the public highway a distance of about three-quarters of a mile to the Eckrote gravel road and there to terminate, being less than two miles in length and connecting the said Reynold and Eckrote gravel roads. which said roads have been constructed according to laws heretofore In force and being free gravel roads. And that you take such action upon this petition as you are directed and author’zed to do under and by virtue of an Act passed by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, approved 1905. and under any other acts of said General Assembly of the State of Indiana. ti’e ffirther ask that the same be .constructed as a single track twelve feet in width along he entire distance of the said road petitioned for herein. We furher ask that said improvement herein prayed for be paid for by bonds issued by said county of Adams payable in twenty semi-annual equal installments for the payment of which bonds we ask that there be a tax levied upon the taxable property of said Hartford and French townships in a sufficient amount to pay the interest hnd principal of said bonds as the same become due and payable, under and according to the acts of the said General Assembly of the state of Indiana. Respectfully. Taiford Runyon, Chas. Reynolds, Dan. A .Eckrote, ' Andrew French, John Simison, John J. Augsburger, Charles Tremp, John G. Adler, August Habegger, Wm. Schlagenhauf, Sam Nussbaum, POter Hoffman, John (M. Chrisman, L. E. Boendelier, David Falb, A. Schlagenhauf, Isaac Falb, Samuel Opliger, Christian Stucky, H. A. .Morrow, C. E. Slawson, E. C. Runyon. David Heller, Sr., Fred Wright. George W. Gentis, J. E. Eckrote, Sarah Bieberstein, A Runyon, N. A. Hunt, David Meshberger, Rufus Meshberger, • L. C. Dunbar, Samuel Hall, L. D. Dunbar, Joseph E. Eckrote, Elmer C, Hunt. Ben Baxter, D. H. Miller, John H. Sours, Abraham Bierie, G. W. Holloway, Sherman Higgins, Alfred Johnson, F J. Shepherd, J. A. Engle, A. Shanks, Ezra Bugh, John Hall, Chas. E. Pusey, Simeon Sales, Badgley Anderson, James A. Pusey, Wm. Anderson, Chris. Eicher, Peter M. Mosser, Peter Mosser, Emanuel Warner, Fred Liddy, John Schindler, Chas Chrisman, Daniel Yoder, Levi Meschberger, Rufus Kreps, Albrecht Rebus, Fred Studler, Jacob Meschberger. Sanford S. Reynolds, Fred Miller, John Pearson, David Runyon, J. P. Stiner, Levi Augsburger, John D. Mosser, A. B. Bieberstein, Kathrina Schindler, C. J. Augsberger, N. S. Stucky, John Mosure. Peter Baumgartner, Jr., J. A. Amstutz, Christ. J. Gerber, J. J. J. Moser, John Rief. Christ N .Stucky Gfeo. A. Adler, Smith Runyoni C. M. Lby. George Heller, Paul Grandlinard, L. E. Julllerat, Robert Meyer, J. K. Yoder, Robert Gerber, Noah Schindler, David Zimmerman, A. J., Reynolds, Chas. C. Fouts, ' Mrs. Minger, D. Simon, Ed. Meschberger, Peter Meschberger, Daniel Augsberger, Christ Meschberger, F. Rinehart, J. Neuenschwande r , D. Meschberger, Christ Luginbill, . . .JDavid Schinuier, Emile Egley, Phillip Youtrier, Lewis Reynolds, Benjamin Idichaels, Moses Augsberger, John VV. Coniens, Arnold Achleman, J. A. Lindsey, Peter Bieberstine. Ben Meschberger. petition for macadam road. To the Honorable Board of Commissioners of Adams County, Indiana: We. the undersigned, each and all of whom are resident freeholders taxpayers and voters of and in the township of Wabash, and the incorporated city of Geneva, in said township in Adams county, Indiana, said city of Geneva having a population of less than thirty thousand inhabitants hereby petition your honorable body that you pr.oceed to construct and improve a certain public highway already established which said public highway is located as follows: Commencing at extension number two of the Geneva, Ceylon & Wabash township Macadamized Highway running east and west between sections 15 and 22 at the northwest corner of the north-east quarter of section 22 township 25 north of range 14 east, in said county and state and running thence south on over and upon the public highway now established on a half section line through said section 22 to the highway now established running east and west between said section 22 section 27, in said section 27, thence south on the public highway now establshed about eighty rods to a point where said public highway runs west on the south line of the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section 27 in said township about seventy rods to a point where said public highway now etablished about eighty rods to the William Burk Gravel Road, being a free improved public highway, now established running east and west from the city of Geneva to the Indiana and Ohio state line and there to terminate. Said proposed public highway being less than three mles in length That That sad improvement be by grading, draining and paving with crushed stone said highway. Said road to be forty feet in width including the side drains and 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. That the stone be placed on said road in width and depth as like roads in said county. Your petitioners would respectfully petition your honorable board to estabt lish and order the construction of said road without submitting the question of building the same to an election of the voters of said township and the said citv of Geneva, and your petitioners further ask that viewers and an engineer be appointed to aid in said construction.

8^ id ‘mprovament be s 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 Wa- , bash township and the said incorporat- , ed of Geneva in a sufficient amount , to pay the interest and principal of said , bonds as the same shall become due . with all other expense,, and that said , road be built, said bonds issued, and , said tax levied upon said property of , said township, and the said incorporat- . ed city of Geneva, In accordance with the Acts of the Legislature of the’ 1 - state of Indiana, approved March 11, 1901, and any and all amendments thereto. That extension number two of the Geneva, Ceylon & Wabash township - Macadamized Public Highway is a free macadamized public highway. That said road shall be known as the Joseph Chrisman Extension Number ■ One of the extension number two of the Geneva, Ceylon & Wabash Macadamized Public Highway r" B . - NAMES OF PETITIONERS. i Joseph Chrisman, J. f, Aspy, r George Weaver, S. H. Teeple, s Orton F. Wheeler, J. A. Wheeler, > Robert C. Speicher, George E. Fink, I Joseph E. Lintz, Solomon Habegger, : Love - Eldridge Weaver, i w H. Redenbarger, John Ring, ; Owen Sapp, . W. H. H. Bears, John F. Neril, R. E. Derlckson, W. R. Mann, Christ. P. Steiner, 1 Ardon S. Burley, Michael Engle, : S. N. Burket, Bartemens Boice, t Abe Kneuss, F. M. Buckey, : August Heuselmann, James Miller, : D. B. Ford, Charles Armstrong, F. S. Armstrong, Henry Miller, i Walter L. Thornhill, W. C. Feltz, : John H. Barn, J. W. Barr, ■ MF. Aspy, John B. Schindler, A P. Hardison, J. W. Kelley, Sr., ■ James H. Kelley, Nathan Shepherd, > John M Holloway, Wilier Folia, > A. Miller, H. A Baird, : Samuel Egley. L. L. Mattox, 1 S. W. Hale, P. A. Macklin. ' John A. Anderson, . A. J. Juday, i Jacob Butcher. Wm. Speicher, J. W. McCray. PETITION FOR MACADAM ROAD. State of Indiana, Adams county. In the Commissioners’ Court, June Term. 1906 Petition for free macadamized rpiß. The undersigned, your petitioners, freeholders and voters in the townships of Washington and Kirkland, in the county of Adams in the State of Indiana, respectively, petition your Honorable Body to cause to be built, constructed and completed, a double tracked, crushed stone road, over, along and upon the following described route, to-wit: Commencing on the township line between the townships of Kirkland and Washington in said county, and state, and on the south side of the Decatur & Bluffton Macadamized Road, at the north-east corner of section twelve township twentyseven north range thirteen east, in said county and state, thence running south on said township line along and upon the public highway thereon situated a distance of about two miles and to the south-west corner of section eighteen in said township twenty-seven north range fourteen east, and to the north side of the West Washington Macadam Road-and there> to terminate. That said proposed road be known and called “The "Washington-Kirkland Macadam Road.” iWe further ask that the crushed stone portion of said road be laid, placed and built on the east side of said highway, and that, the stone so placed on said highway be covered and dressed with stone screenings. We further ask that you take such action upon this petition as you are authorized and directed to do under and by virtue of an act of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, approved March Sth, 1905, and under and bv virtue of any and all other laws of the State of'lndiana. authorizing the construction of free macadamized roads. We further ask that said improvement be paid for by bonds issued by the said county Adams for and on behalf of said townships of Kirkland and Washington aforesaid, payable in twenty semi-annual installments and for the payment of said bonds we ask that a tax be levied upon the taxable property of said Washington and Kirkland townships in a sufficient amount and rate to pay the interest and principal of said bonds as the same shall severally become due and payable, as provided by law. The proposed road herein prayed for when built and constructed will connect the Decatur & Bluffton Macadamized Road and the West Washington Macadam Road. Respectfully submitted. A. M. Fisher, J. c. Sutton, Dan M. Niblick, John Niblick, Ulysses S. Drummond, €W. Boknecht, John Baker, Michael Smith, N. C. Anderson, C. S. Niblick, L. T. Brokaw, A. L. Burdg, Wm. Harting, W. A. Kuebler, E. X. Ehinger, C. A. Dugan, C. C. Schafer, „ Coffee & Rinehart, Ben Schrank, ' Elias Crist, C. Radamacher, D. D. Clark, John D. Stults, J. M> Rice, C. F. Trute, A. Van Camp, L. Yager Sons, John. Everett, John W. Tyndall, Jos D. Beery,, David Gerber, C. A. Hunter, Lewis Goldner, Gustav Yager, J. T. Baker. David Steele, Alvy Aurand, J. W. Brown, G. E. Ernst, - W. A. Straub, R. B. Johnson, C. M. Weldy, Fred Ehlerding, Henry Worthman, Fred Schlickmann, Charles Arnold, N. Ehrman. F. Arnold, Wm. D. Hoffman,. Wm. Zimmerman, C. D. Lewton, A. Shoaf, R. K. Allison. C. C. Cloud, H. H. Bremerkamp, I. L. Babcock, J. W. Teeple, ‘ J. F. Snow, Wm. Butler, N. A Loch, S. J. Laman, Christ. Beery, Martin Beery, Joseph Shoaf, Wm. Shoaf, Reuben Beery, Geo. Martin. Samuel D. Beavers, E. E. Zimmerman, G. H. Bright, Joshua Bright, Jas D. Brown, Ezra Reber. George Clrist, T. P. Crist. Ben Liniger, Mrs. S. J. Andrews, C. M. Andrews, Seth D. Beavers, A. J. Beery, Julius Haugk, Jas. D. Brown, Jr., W. E. Fulk. > _ D, D. Heller, John Steele. H. R. Moltz, Dick Neptune, H. A. Fristoe, J. W. McKean, Sam Shell, Eli Engle. Samuel Doak, W. B. Weldy, A. N. Steele. TISH BBOODERY COMPLETED The fish broodery at Winona Lake i- now completed. It has a eapaeily for 75,000,000 and is ift charge of 2tfr. , Dougherty. The consignmet of 2,500,000 wall-eyed pike recently reeeived from the g.»vernntt-r:; has a compartment 60 by 100 feet and is doing very well. About June.s : ,!.e remainder of the broodery will be filled with bass taken from the bass beds in Winona Lake. W. F. Hill, deptuy fish and game warden, cordially invites the citizens of Warsaw to assist in gathering the spawn. This invitation is especially extended to the members of the Kosciusko Game and Fish Protective Association. . |

—— ■ THE PURPOSE OF INSPECTION ! L ‘ Is Not to Discontinue, but Better Rural Route Service. — Washington, May 25.—A statement >, issued by the fourth assistant past-master-general says that the purpose 1 of the inpections of rural free deliver>- routes recently ordered by the de- , partment is to ascertain and remove, if possible, the cause of any adverse conditions that may exist, such, for instance, as lack of interest, hostility of postmasters whose cancellations are interfered with by the rural carriers or opposition on the part of those holding contracts for star route service whose employment is menaced, and if such be the case, to suggest a remedy for such* adverse conditions. The statement says the reports that those inspections are with a view to discontinuance of such service or its reduction from a daily to tri-weekly service, particularly in the south, are without foundation. NEW OFFICERS WERE ELECTED Occasion a Pleasant One—Club Decided to Hold a Picnic on ; June Sth. j The Euterpean Society held the closing meeting of the year at the home of Eli Meyers Thursday evening and the occasion was one of the most pleasant of the ytar. The subject was Copley and Mrs. H. A. Fristoe served as leader Mrs. J. S. Peterson gave a character sketch of Copley; Mrs. W. 11. Nachtrieb, a criticism; Mrs. J. C. Patterson and Mrs. D. E. Studabaker discussed Copley’s art and Mrs. Fristoe gave a description of his pictures. Officers were elected for the ensuing years as follows: Mrs. W. H. Naehtrieb, president; Mrs. Eli Meyer, vice-presi-dent and Miss Mai-y Miller, keeper of records. It was decided that the society hold a picnic at Steele’s park on Thursday, June sth. Carriages. r will be provided for the members and the event will be made a happy and enjoyable one. A SPLENDID DISTRICT SESSION A Big Delegation From Decatur and Berne Attended—Mrs. Erwin on Program. The annual district convention of the Rathbone Sisters of the counties of Adams, Wells, Jay, Blackford, Grant, Miami, Wabash and Huntington was held at the I. 0. 0. F. temple at Marion Thursday. A large delegation from Decatur and Berne was present and report it a splendidoccasion. In the eight counties of this district are twenty-four temples, and these were all represented at the contention. The officers of the district are Mrs. Laura Smith, district deputy grand chief; Mrs. Mae Reardon, district secretary; Mfs. Ellen Starr, district treasurer, all of Marion. Two of the state officers of the Rathbones, Dessie C. Hershey of Carmel, grand chief, and Miss Cora Hood, of Ossian, G. M. of R. and C./ ' were in attendance at the convention. ; Miss Elizabeth Coleman of Bedford, grand junior, was unable to attend the convention, but sent greetings in a letter which was read. During the morning the informal reception and registering of guests occupied the time. In the afternoon the session of the convention was formally called to order, Mrs. Laura Smith, D. D. G. C, presiding After the opening prayer and ode the welcoming address was given by Miss Mayme Jacobs, most excellent chief of the Marion temple. She welcomed the guests in a clever address, which was responded to by Miss Cora Hood of Ossian. During the program which followed, Mrs. R. K. Erwin, of this city, read an interesting paper. In , evening ritualistc work was exemplified and Grand Chief Dessie Hershey delivered an address. An elegant banquet given by the Knights of Pythias concluded the convention. .... r When the city council meets tomorrow night, a resolution will be introduced authorizing the issuance of „ $42,000 of refunding bonds and there ' is not the slightest doubt but that the resolution will carry. At the same ' time, the council feels sure thatriE ' will be able to carry out the present' plans and dispose of bonds as intended. The idea now held is to sell the' bonds at not less than par and they are to bear not to exceed four per cent interest. If these conditions cannot be met the bonds will not be sold. However, the council, while not caring to divulge all its information, has positive knowledge that the bonds can be disposed of as above set forth.— | Bluffton Banner.