Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 16, Decatur, Adams County, 21 June 1906 — Page 8

Legal Advertising NOTICE TO BIDDERS. In addition to the requisition for supplies at the County Infirmary, bids will also be received for 150 pounds of binder twine. C. D. LEWTON. Auditor. ' • . , NOTICE. . All parties interested in the the ’ Straight Branch ditch are hereby notified that there will be a hearing at this office on Saturday, June 16. 1906. on /(itch assesments for repair of above ditch. 15-lt. L. L. BAUMGARTNER. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. Notice Is hereby given that sealed bids will be received up to July 16, 1906 at the office of the secretary of the Decatur Cemetery Association for a crushed stone street on said Cemetery grounds as per plans and specifications now on file in the secretary’s office. J. H. STONE, Secretary. June -14, 1906. 16-3 t. NOTICE. All taxes on Fourth, Monroe. Rugg, Fornax, Sixth Street Brick, Second and Winchester Streets and Bowers Alley Sewers, Brick alleys, Gregory Alley, Gay Alley Sewer, Krick, or Thirteenth Sewer, Marshall Street Sewer, Meyer, Erwin and Miller Branch Sewers, William Harting Sewer and Elm Street Sewer, are delinquent June Ist, and subject to penalty. W. J. ARCHBOLD, 149-3wks.daily Treasurer. NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed receiver for the firm of Loch, Dirkson & Co., of Decatur. Indiana. All accounts and notes due said firm must be paid at once. Persons knowing themselves indebted to said firm, will please call and pay same. Those having claims against said firm will please file same with me as provided by law. Accounts may be paid to receiver, or to Dore B. Erwin, attorney. JAMES P. HAEFLING, Receiver. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received at Hoffman’s office, till the h n ur of 2 o’clock p.m., July 3th, 190®, for the erection and completion of a two-roomed brick and stone school building for District No. 1, Preble township, Adams County, Indiana, according to plans and specifications prepared by Oscar Hoffman. Plans are now ot file at Trustee’s office and at Hoffman’s office, room 7, Studabaker building, Decatur, Indiana. The right is reserved to reject any and all bids. LOUIS KLEINE, Township Trustee Preple township, Adams County, Indiana. : ’ Dated June 12. 1906. NOTICE FOR BIDS. Notice is hereby given that the Common Council of the City of Decatur, Indiana, wil receive sealed bids or proposals for the improvement of First street commencing at the north side of Marshal street thence south to Ad- I ams street of the city of Decatur, In- I diana, said improvement to be with modern paving blocks or bricks The Improvemen of said First sti-eet from Marshal street south to Adatns street to be 30 feet wide according to the drawings and specifications how on file in the office of the city clerk of said city on the Iftth day of July, 199®, 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 rit of sa i<i city, when he files his bid, the usual statutory affidavit and deposit wittu- 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 tty give bond with surety to be approved by the Common Council insuring th’U faithful completion of said work according to the contract The'Common Council rel be ri ? ht t 0 reject any and all bids and readvertise for bids for said 1906 ement Th ‘ S 20th day of June ’ „ CARL O. FRANCE, b ' 3t ’ ' City Clerk. application for liquor license — - — Notice is hereby given to the citi--s?"® s ot tb ® Third ward, in the City of Decatur, Adams County, and State of fnhah”?’ * bat I’ Henry Scherry, a male inhabitant and resident of said ward a person over the age of twenty-one years, and a. person not in the habit °„_ be 1 cor " in ? intoxicated, and a fit per- ?° t n b , e with the sale of t?An X t^ a }l ng t> lqu 2 rs ’ win make applica!l, On r> to t^ e B . oard of Commissioners, of ~u?„ Co <> unt; k of Adams - at their Julv sesnfor - tb . e year 1906 - for a license ,-„ S £! r ! tu ?- us ’ '' nous and malt and other intoxicating liquors in less quantities than a quart at a time, with the privilege of allowing the same to “tank on the premises where sold. The place where I desire to sell said intoxicating liquors is a one story brick building fronting on Monroe street in said city being the ground floor, with front and rear openings and situated on the following described premises, to-wit: Commencing 41 feet west from the south-east corner of' inlot No. 120 in the City of Decatur, Adams County, Indiana, thence running north 132 feet, thence west 13 feet, thence south 132 feet to the north line of Monroe street; thence east to the place of beginning. Said building is situated on the south end of the above described real estate and is 31 feet long by 12 feet 8 inches wide on the inside. I will at the same time ask permission from said board of commissioners to keep and maintain a lunch counter in aforesaid room for the purpose of selling lunch. 14-3 L HENRY SCHERRY, Applicant.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC LETTING. Notice is hereby given that the Board I ot Commissioners ->f Adams county, in- • diana. will receive bids for the coni' struction of a macadamized road in Hartford township in sa'.d county, | known as the Jimtown extension one ' Macadam Road, up and until 10 o’clock I A M.. on * • I ■ Friday, July 13, 100®, I I at a regular session of said Board of Commisioners held in the city of Decatur, Adam s county, Indiana, sealed bids will be received for th p construction of said road in accordance with the plans, specifications and report of the Viewers and Engineer whic are - now on file in the Auditor’s office of • said County, said roads to be built of 3 crushed stone alone. i » A good bond must accompany each bid twice the amount of the bid filed conditioned for faithful performance of said work and that the bidder if awarded the contract therefor will enter into contract therefor and complete the same according to such contract and in accordance with the bid filed. 1 All bids shall be made so as tp give ; the amount for which said road will be . constructed for cash payable on esti- . mates to be made by the Engineer in ' charge, not to exceed eighty per cent. ’ of any one estimate out of the funds to be hereinafter raised by the sale of bonds, as required by law. Each bidder will be required to file affidavit as provided by law. The Board of Commissioners reserve i the right to reject any and all bids. C. D. LEWTON, ’ 14-3 t Auditor of Adams County, t NOTICE OF PUBLIC LETTING. I Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of Adams . county, Indiana will receive bids for the construction of a macadam road in ’ French township, in said county known as the Reynolds Extension No. three . Macadam Road, up and until 10 o’- • clock A. M. on Friday, July 13, 190®, at a regular session of the Board of . Commissioners, held in the City of De. catur, Adams county, Indiana, sealed bids will be received for the construe. Uon of said road in accordance with plans, specifications and report of the Viewers and Engineer, which are now on file in the Auditor’s office or said County, said roads to be built of crushed stone alone. A bond must accompany each bid in twice the amount of the bid filed, conditioned for faithful performance of said work and that the bidder if awarded the contract therefor wi]l enter into contract therefor and complete the same according to such contract and in accordance with the bid filed. All bids shall be made so as to give the amount for which said road will be constructed for cash payable on estimates to be made by the Engineer in charge, not to exceed eighty per cent, of any one estimate out of the funds to be hereinafter raised by the sale of bonds as required by law. Each bidder will be required to file affidavit as provided by law. The Board of Commissioners reserve the right to reject any and all bids. C. D» LEWT&N, 14-3 t Auditor of Adams County. NOTICE OF PUBLIC LETTING'. Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of Adams county, Indiana will receive bids for the construction of a macadam road in .French township, in said county known as the French Township Central Extension No. two Macadam Road up and ' until 10 o’clock A. M., on Friday, July 13, 190®, at a regular session or tne Board of Commissioners, held'in the City of Decatur, Adams county, Indiana, sealed bids will be received for the tion of said road in accordance with the plans, specifications and report of the Viewers and Engineer, which are now on file in the Auditor's office of said County, said roads to be built of crushed stone alone. ' A bond must accompany each bid in twice the amount of the bid filed, conditioned for faithful performance of said work and that the bidder if awarded the contract .therefor will enter into contract therefor and complete the same according to such contract ■ and in accordance with the bid filed. i All bids shall be made so as to give the amount for which said road will be constructed for cash payable on estimates to be made by the Engineer in charge, not to exceed eighty pbr cent, of any one estimate out of the funds to be hereinafter raised by the sale of bonds as required by law. Each bidder will be required to file , affidavit as provided by law. The Boarci of Commissioners reserve . the right to reject any and all bids. . C. D. LEWTON, 14-3 t Auditor of Adams County. J • NOTICE OF PUBLIC LETTING. ; Notice is hereby given that the : Board of Commissioners of Adams • county, Indiana will receive bids for s the construction of a macadam road in I French township, in said county known • as the French Township Central Exi tension No. one Macadam Road, up and > until 10 o’clock A M., on } Friday, July 13, 190®, j at a regular session of the Board of 1 Commissioners held in the city of De--1 £ a t ur ’ Adams county, Indiana, sealed bids will be received for the construe, tion of said road in accordance with 5 the plans, specifications and report of i the Viewers and Engineer, which are , now on file in the Auditor’s office of . said County, said roads to be built of “ crushed stone alone. ; A bond must accompany each bid in i twice the amount of the bid filed, con- - ditioned for faithful performance of ’ said work and that the bidder if I awarded the contract therefor will eni ter into contract therefor and complete the same according to such contract and in accordance with the bid filed. All bids shall be made so as to give

the amount for which said road will be constructed for cash payable on estimates to be made by the Engineer In charge, not to exceed eighty per cent |of any one estimate cut of the funds to be hereinafter raised by the sale of bonds as required by law. | Each bidder will be required to file affidavit as proviied by law. The Board of Commissioners reserve the right to reject any and all bids. C. D. LEWTON, 14-3 t Auditor of Adam? County. NOTICE OF PUBLIC LETTING. Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of Adams county, Indiana. will receive bids for the construction of a macadamized road in Hartford township in said county, known as the Sckrote extension No. 2 Macadam Road, up and until 10 o’clock A. M., on Friday, July 13, 190®, at a regular session of said Board of Commisioners held in the city of Decatur, Adam e county, Indiana, sealed bids will be received for th A construction of said road in accordance with the plans, specifications and report of the Viewers and Engineer whic are now on file in the Auditor’s office of said County, said roads to be built of crushed stone alone. A good bond must accompany each bid twice the amount of the bld filed conditioned for faithful performance of said work and that the bidder if awarded the contract therefor will enter into contract therefor and complete the same according to such contract and in accordance with the bid filed. AR bids shall be made so as to give the amount for which said road -will be constructed for cash payable on estimates to be made by the Engineer in charge, not to exceed eighty per cent, of any one estimate out of the funds to be hereinafter raised by the sale of bonds as required by law. Each bidder will be required to file affidavit as provided by law. The Board of Commissioners reserve the right to reject any and all bids. C. D. LEWTON, 14-3 t Auditor of Adams Cbunty. APPLICATION FOR LIQUOR LICENSE Notice is hereby given to the citizens of Hartford township, Adams county, Indiana, that the undersigned, a male inhabitant of Hartford township. Adams County, Indiana, over the age of twenty-one years and a continuous resident of said township for more than ninety days, last past, will make application to the board of county commissioners of Adams county. State of Indiana, at the next regular session thereof, to be begun and holden at the court house at Decatur, in said county and state, on the first Monday of July, 1906, for a license to sell spirituous, vinous, malt and other intoxicating liquors in a less quantity than a quart at a time; with the privilege of allowing the same to be drank ori the premises where sold, for the .period of one year, on the first floor of the twostory frame blinding, situated on the following described real estate, in Adams county, in the state of Indiana, to-wlt: Commencing at a point which is north 26% degrees, west eleven rods, from a stone which is north 26% degrees west three rods from a stone which is 34 rods and fifteen and one-half Jinks north, 12% degrees east of the southwest corner of section two, in township twenty-five north, range thirteen east, thence north 63% degrees, east ten rods and five feet; thence '■ south' 33 degrees, east 40 feet; thence south 63% degrees, west ten rods and five feet, thence north and west to the' place of beginning. Said room in which said applicant is desirous of conducting said business fronts to the west on Water street, in the town of Buena Vista and has one double door, two windows and one single door in front, one door in east end and ope door in the south, and said building is twenty-four feet (Wide and thirty feet long. The single door in front opens into a stairway leading to the second story of said building, said second story to be occupied as a residence. The undersigned will ask permission to put lunch counter in connection with said saloon. 14-3 t. J. M. EHRSAM, Applicant. NOTICE OF SALE OF’ MACADAM ROAD BONDS. Notice is hereby given that I, 3. F. Lachot, Treasurer of Adams cojinty,, State of Indiana, will, on K Monday, June 25, 190®, at th® room of the board of commissioners in the auditor’s office in the city of Decatur, Indiana, receive sealed bids f®f the purchase ana sale of certain macadam road bonds hereinafter described issued by the board of commissioners of said county for the,construction of the roads hereinafter named as follows, to-wit: For the construction of the Geneva, Ceylon & Wabash Township No. 3, macadam road in Wabash township Adams county, Indiana, the entire issue of bonds for said road being in the sum of $7,480, being in twenty (20) semi-annual payments bearing the date of May 15, 1906, and each bond being in the sum of $374.00, with 4% per cent, interest, payable semi-annually with coupons attached. Sealed bids will be received until 10 o’clock a. m. of said day. Each bid must be accompanied with a certified check in amount equal to three (3) per cent of the amount of the bid, which check must be drawn against monies deposited in any reliable bank in said county; such check must be made payable or endorsed to the board of commissioners and shall be held as guaranty for the performance of such bid and should such bid be accepted the said check shall be forfeited to the county should the bider fail to comply with the conditon of his said bid. Each of said bonds w.UI bear date of June 15, 1906, and should the bonds be not ready for delivery oi the day the bids are received and accepted, the interest will be refunded by the purchaser at the rate of four and one-half per cent, from date of June 15, 1906, until the date when the purchase price of said bonds are paid to the county treasurer and the bonds delivered. The above described bonds will become due on the 15th day of May, and the 15th . day of November of each year, commencing on the 15th day of May, 1907,and are made payable, including interest, at the First National Bank, Decatur, Indiana Said bonds are issued exclusively for the expense of the construction of the above described roads pursuant to the laws of 1905 The amount of bonds to be sold including bonds already issued in said township for the free gravel and macadam roads is less four (4) per Cent, of the total valuation of said township for taxation. Further particulars will be furnished on application. Bids must be on each set of bonds separately. . JOHN F LACHOT, ib.it. w ltd County Treasurer. NOTICE OF SALE OF MACADAM ROAD BONDS. Notice is hereby given that I, J. F. q? o c Jl 0t A# T T e j? urer of Ada ms county, State of Indiana, will, on Monday, June 25, 190®, at the room of the board of commis-

■loners in the auditor’s office tn the city ot Decatur, Indiana, receive sealed bids for the purchase and sale of certain mieadam road bonds hereinafter de- ; scribed issued by the board of commissioners o* F?ld county for the cor.stri. .■tier. r>- the roads hereinafter named us ivliu.es, to-wit: For the construction of the Monroe Township Central No. 2. in Monroe ! township. Adams County, Indiana, the entire issue of bonds for said road being in the sum of $5,560, being in twenty (20) semi-annual payments. • bearing the date of June 15, 1906, and each bond being in the sum of $278.00, with 4% per cent, interest, payable semi-annually with coupons attached. I Sealed bids will be received until 10 . o’clock a. m. of said day. Each bid . must be accompanied with a certified i check in amount equal to three (3) per , cent of the amount of the bid, which > check must be drawn against monies r deposited in any reliable bank in said county; such check must be made payable or endorsed to the board of commissioners and shall be held as guaranty for the performance of such bid ■ and should such bid be accepted the ■ said check shall be forfeited to the 1 county should the bider fail to comply with the conditon of his said bld. 1 Each of said bonds will bear date of ; June 15, 1906, and should the bonds be ; not ready for delivery on the day the ; bids are received and accepted, the interest will be refunded by the purchaser at the rate of four and one-half I per cent, from date of June 15, 1906, until the date when the purchase price ’ of said bonds are paid to the county ’ treasurer and the bonds delivered. i The above described bonds will be- : come due on the 15th day of May and the 15th day of November of each year, commencing on the 15th day of May, 1 1907, and are made payable, including ! interest, at the First National Bank, Decatur, Indiana. Said bonds are issued exclusively for the expense of the . construction of the above described , roads pursuant to the laws of 1905. The amount of.bonds to be sold, including bonds already issued in said township . for the free gravel and macadam roads is less four (4) per cent of the total valuation of said township for taxation. Further particulars will be furnished on application. Bids .must be on each set of bonds separately. JOHN F LACHOT, • 16.1t.w ltd County Treasurer. ——— ———- NOTICE OF SALE OF MACADAM ROAD BONDS. Notice is hereby given that I, J. F. Lachot, Treasurer of Adams county, State of Indiana, will, on Monday, June 25, 190®, at the room of the board of commissioners in the auditor’s office in the city of Decatur, Indiana, receive sealed bids for the purchase and sale of certain macadam road bonds hereinafter described issued by the board of commissioners of said county for the construction of the roads hereinafter named as follows, to-wit: For the construction of the E. S. Moses macadam road in Union and St. Marys township, Adams county, Indiana, the entire issue of bonds for ssild road being in the sum of $6,940, being in twenty .(20) semiannual payments, bearing date of Jijne 15, ’ 1906, and eachbond being in the sum of $347.00, with 4% per cent, interest, payable semiannually with coupons attached. Sealed blds will be received until 10 o’clock a. m. of said day. Each bid must be accompanied with a certified check in amount equal to three (3) per cent of the amount of the bid, which check must be drawn against monies deposited in any reliable bank Jn said county; such check must be made payvable or endorsed to the board of commissioners and shall be held as guaranty for the performance of such bid and should such bid be accepted the said check shall be forfeited to the county should the bider fail to comply with the conditon of his said bid. Each of' said bonds will bear date* of June 15, 1906, and should the bonds be not ready for delivery on the day the bids are received and accepted, the interest will be refunded by the purchaser at the rate of four and one-half per cent, from date of June 15, 1906, until the date when the purchase price of said bonds are paid to the county treasurer and the bonds delivered. The above described bonds will become due on the 15th day of May and the 15th day of November of each year, commencing on the 15th day of May, 1907, and are made payable, including interest, at the First National Bank, Decatur, Indiana. Said bonds are issued exclusively for the expense of the construction of the above described roads pursuant to the laws of 1905. The amount of bonds to be sold, including bonds already Issued in said township soy the free gravel and macadam roads is less four (4) per cent of the total valuation of said township for taxation. Further particulars will be furnished on application. Bids must be on each set of bonds separately. JOHN F LACHOT, 16_lt.w ltd County .Treasurer. TOWNSHIP LINE ROAD. To the Honorable Board of Commissioners of Adams County, Indiana: We, the undersigned all resident free holders and voters of Root ownship and of Union township, in Adams county, Indiana, would most respectfully petition your honorable body, to cause to be built a stone road, on and along the following routd, to-wit: Commencing at the south-east corner of section twenty-five (25) lown-' ship twenty-eight (28) north, range fourteen (14>. east, at the place where 'the township line between Root and Union township aforesaid crosses the public h'ghway on the south line of said section thirty (30) township twen-ty-eight (28) north, range fifteen (15) east. That there is now a public highway extending north between said townships from said beginning point, and your petitioners now petition your honorable body that said stone road be constructed upon said public highway to a point north of said beginning point continuously on said Township line and public highway for a distance of two miles ending at the public highway which crosses said township line road, at the north-east corner of section twenty-four (24), township twenty-eight (28) north, range fourteen (14) east, and there to terminate on said section line, being two 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 and made upon said highway what is known as a “Macadamized Road,” and your petitioners would further show that the public highway sought to be improved is a dirt roa£, and is one of the public highways of said townships. Your petitioners Would further ask that said roads as above described be graded to. a width of ( ) and that broken stone be placed thereon to a width of ( ) feet, and that said road be constructed as a double track, one of dirt and the other of broken stone. The name of said road above described shall be called the Drummond Road. We ask that said improvementsshall be paid for by bonds issued by the County of Adams, in the State of Indiana, payable in twenty semi-an-

r nual installments, or series, and for 3 the payment of which we ask that a i tax be levied upon the taxable proper- - ty of Root township and Union town- - ship, in Adams County, Indiana, in a - cufflcient amount to pay the interest - and principal of said bonds as they may become due. e That the said road be built and that e said bonds be issued, and that said e tax be levied, upon eaid property of - said townships, in accordance with the i Acts of the Legislature of the State of Indiana, now in force and passed 1 in the year 1905, as appears in the Acts of 1905, page 550. e’ ? • We further ask that the board take the different steps required by law 9 y*?, h ,° ut submitting the question of I building the same to an election in i said townships. That the road thus r sought to be improved is to be an extension of the Stegmeyer Macadam g Road, a road which had heretofore j been voted upon by the voters of Union _ 'township and is no.v under construc- _ tion. That the road thub sought to be improved is less than three (3) miles j in Icng’th. ® R. A. Drummond, J. A FlemineTnhn?’^ iUng ’ D - Ntdlinler, JohnAEhrman, c. S. Mumma? f P 1 ?? I*®’ 1 *®’ Cha s- Ahr, 1 JQnn A. Mumma, E. J. Ahr » Jno. A. Barkley, Geo. Oh’r r - Pr»Pcu 1 n king - J A A - Ehrm’an. r red C. Hoile, Howard Manlier - Elijah Walters, ■ Wm BrelnS. ’ t J. a. Lower. F. W Dihhlo ’ j ( ; h y T J' u £ ninsr ’ John Buchee,’ Mumma. Abe Boch, r f red Nj: u . eckeberg ’ H - Krueckeberg, q™^k T a h A eme ’ ? red KoMewey? Smith Stevens, John McGill, 5 ni.»F r 2-® cke^? r s’ Geo. Stevens, 1 Chas. Krueckeberg, C. C. Miller wA d e . l . land ’ * A - A. Brodbeck, ; JrVR?’ William Bleeke, ’ t B l a kay, Otto Bleeke, ’ A T o a ?, e ' E - F. Miller, ’ w ? ailey ’ Ed S. Moses, 3 J- E. Ulmar, . j. p Soulier J Moses" 6 ’ & N ’ G’-andstaff, 3 i: Moses, w. e rippVa ' W WnXr er ’ E’ H - Nidlinge’r. ’ r w^S rden ’ Geo- Cramer, ’ o Bause J ra an, Aurie Dykeman 1 CumUnsham. J. H. Knavel, • § a, S Workinger. W. J. Miller S. Curtis Miller, , Frederick Thieme, - 1 Paul Miller: W. A Whittenbarger, F. W. Bienz, Nathaniel May, G. Bittner. x, ® ald petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners, on Monday, August 6, 190®, . the same being the regular July session of said board and at which time i any tax payers of Union and Root townships may appear and make such objections as the law may provide for. ’ C. D. LEWTON, 14-3 t. Auditor, Adams county, Indiana. PETITION FOR MACADAM ROAD. ' Township Line Road. L To the Honorable Board of Commissioners of Adams County, Indiana: We the undersigned all resident free holders and voters of Root township and n f Union Township, in Adams county, Indiana, would most respectfully petition your honorable body, to • cause to be built a stone road, on and ■ along the following route, to-wlt: : Commencing at the south-east corner ~ of section twenty (25), Township tweni- ty-eight (28) north, , range fourteen (14)east, at the place where the township line between Root and Union townships aforesaid crosses the public highway on the south line of said sec- | tion and section thirty (30) township twenty-eight (28) horth range fifteen I. (15) east. • ' ’ <2 That there is now a public highway i extending.north between said townships from said beginning point, and your petitioners now petition your honorable body that said stone road be constructed upon said public highway to a point north of said beginning point continuously on said township line and public highway for a distance of two miles ending .at the public .highway which crosses said township Jine road, at the north-east corner of section twentyfour (24), Township twenty-eight (28) north, range fourteen (14) east and there to terminate on said section line, being two miles in length. ’ ■ ■ - Your petitioners further ask s your honorable body that said highway above described be graded, and that broken stone be placed upon the grade. And that there be built, and made upon said highway what is known as a “Macadamized Road,’ and your petitioners further show that the public highway sought to be improved 4s a dirt road, and is one of the public highways. of said townships. ' Your petitioners would further ask that said road as above described be graded to a width of . ( ) feet, and that broken stone be placed thereon to a width of ( ) feet, and that said road be constructed as a double.track, one Os dirt and the other of broken stone. of said road above described shall be called' the Drummond Road. We ask wthat said imbrovements shall be paid for by bonds Issued by the County of Adams, in the State of Indiana, payable in twenty semi-annual installments or series, and for the payment of which we ask that a tax be levied upon the taxable property of Root and Union township, in-. Adams County, Indiana, in a sufficient amount to pay the interest and principal of said bonds as they may become due. That the said road be buflt and that said bonds be issued and that said tax be levied upon said property of said townships, in accordance with the Acts of the Legislature of the State of Indiana, now in force and passed in the year 1905, as appears in the Acts of 1905, page 550. We further ask that the board take the different steps requiredby law without' submitting the question of building the same to an election in said townships. That the road thus sought to be improved is to be an extension of the Stegmeyer Macadam Road a road which has heretofore been voted upon by the voters of said Union township, and is now under construction. That the road thus sought to be improved is less than three miles in length. NAMES OF PETITIONERS. R. A. Drummond, J. A. Fleming, John H. Railing. J. D. Nidlinger, John A. Ehrman, Chas. S. Mumma, William Bleeke. Chas. Ahr, John A. Mumma, E. J. Ahr, Jno. A. Barkley, Geo. Ohler, Henry Reinklng, J. A. Ehrman, Fred C. Hoile, Howard Mauller, Elijah Walters, Wm. Breiner, J. S. Lower, F. W. Dibble, F. W. Fuelling, John Andre, John H. Mumma, Abe Boch, Fred Krueckeberg, Henry Krueckeberg, A. F. Thieme, Fred Koldewey, Smith Stevens, John McGill Earnest Krueckeberg, Geo. Stevens Chas. Krueckeberg, C. C. Miller’ Fred Weiland. A. A. Brodbeck Wm. Hoile, William Bleeke, J. H. ’ Blakey, Otto Blakev, J. L. Gage, E. F. Miller, A. J. Bailey, Ed S Moses, J E. Ulman, J. p. Spuller, Geo. B. Cline, L. N. Grand Staff, J. C. Moses, W. E. Bleeke, Frank J. Kurber, 11 H. Nidlinger, W. Worden, Geo. W. Cramer, G. W. Bauserman, Aurie Dykeman, E. Cunningham James Knavel, Samuel Workinger, w. J. Miller, S. Curtis Miller, Frederick Thieme, A. R. Wolfe, Paul Miller, W. A Whittenbarger, L. W. Bienz*, Nathaniel May,: G. Bittner, PETITION FOR MACADAM ROAD. To the Honorable Board of Commissioners of Adams County, Indiana: We the undersigned all resident freeholders and voters of Root township,

I • Adams county, Indiana, and of Madison i township, in Allen county, Indiana, • most respectfully petition your honor- - able board to cause to be built and i constructed a stone road, on and along t the following route, to-wit: Commencing at the north-west corn- ■ ler of section six (6), township twentyt (eight (28) north, range fourteen (14) i east, running thence east on the pubs lie highway known as the County line 3 road, a distance of one mile and terms inating at the north-east earner of sec--1 tion six (6) township twenty-eight (28) s north, range road thus soughtxto be improved and macadamized is on the line dividing 3 Adams county, Indiana, and Allen coun- ’ ty, Indiana, and is a pgrt of the high- ■ way at the souttrside of Madison towni ship in Allen county, Indiana and said 3 highway is at the north line of Root ■ township, in Adams county, Indiana, i thd said highway thus sought to be 3 improved at the commencement thereof 1 is conected with a free * gravel road - known as the Koennemann Gravel 3 Road, and at the terminus of said high--3 way thus sought to be improved connects and is connected with the free gravel road known as the Williams Branch gravel road. Said highway thus sought to be improved is an unimproved highway and does not exceed threww miles in length. Your petitioners further ask your honorable body that said highway above described be graded and drained and that broken stone be placed upon the grade and that there be built, constructed and made upon said highway what is known, as a “Macadamized Road.” And ‘ your petitioners ■ further show that the public highway sought to be improved is a public highway already established and is what is known as a dirt road and is situated as above described on the line dividing Adams and Allen counties, in the state of Indiana. Your petitioners further ask that i said road as above described be graded to a width of twenty-two feet and that the broken stone be placed thereon to a width of ten feet, and to a depth of ten inches in the center thereof, and eight inches at the sides. » The name of the said road above described shall be called the Joint Root and Madison Township Road. ► We ask that said improvement shall be paid for by bonds issued by the counties of Allen and Adams in the 3 state of Indiana, payable in twenty 1 ; semi-annual installments or series for ; the payment of which we ask that a A ■ tax be levied upon the taxable property S of Root township, in Adams county, ' and upon the taxable property of Madison township, in Allen county, Indiana, in a sufficient amount to pay the interest and principal of said bonds as • they may , become due. That said road be built, and that said bonds be issued, and that said taxe be levied upon said property of. said township, heretofore ! mentioned in accordance with the Acts of the Legislature of the State of Indi- . ana, now in force and passed in the j year 1905, as appears in the Acts of . 1905, page 493, and approved March ■ 7, 1905. 1 NAMES OF PETITIONERS. i Ernest Schroeder, Tise Ulman, 1 ' John Schurger, Samuel Magley, Frederick Hoile, Andrew Fuelling, -S J. A. Fuhrman, S. Fuhrman, . William C. Gallmeier, Uriah Grim, Eleasor Biggs, Ernest Buuck, Fred 'Hockemeyer, - John E. Mann, S. J. Spangler, Chrlsin A. Selking, Fred Busse, A. B. Cunningham, ? : Phillip Barher, Joseph Stegmeyer, L. H. Ziegler, Fred Mutchler, J H. C. Getting, Martin Gerke, ? Wm. Bulmahn, Wm. Tieman, i Wm. Ostermeyer, Herman Frame, Jerry Barkley, Wm. Gerke, Chas. Boknecht, T. W. Lehrman, ' Fred Bultemeier. G. W. LaFofiette. Wm. Hockemeyer, W. Mackie, Carl Hockemeyer, J. E. Mann, B. F. Butter, Coat Cook, Thomas Elzey, Noah S. Sheets, James O. Hoagland, G. W. Ruckman, L. C. Boerger, I. F. Boerger, j John G. Hey, Frank McConnell, 1 August Koenemann, Henr.y Doehrman, fl S. Houck, W. A. Fonner, ■ J. C. Houck, Louis Weber, I Charles Dirkson, Henry Zwick, H Henry F. Fuelling, Jacob Fuelling, I | Ernest Fuelling, Herman Reiter, I Henry Dirkson, C. D. Kunkle, Kunkle, s. Pillars, ■ L. N. Grandstaff, Reuben Baxter, ! Jason Hobbs. H. F. W. Bulmahn, ■ John Bogner, Henry Weber, H Louis H. Boknecht, J. H. Fuelling. ■ LINN GROVE. I . Miss Wilma Opliger is visiting her. || brother Lawrence at Decatur this week. ' , Dr. Anderson Walser of Anderson, H Ind., was visiting friends at this place O last week. Moses Augsberger and family, Mrs. Fanny Stiner and Daniel Augsberger S and wife attended the Stiner reunion S at Bluffton, 0., June 7th. •A number of our young people at- |H tended the Chldren’s Day meeting at ! Salem Sunday evening. Miss Orilla Bierie entertained at supper Sunday evening, Misses Clara ' I Hoffman of Bluffton, Pearl Heller of ■ Berne, Leona Coffin, Messrs. Ed j Hetch, Rufus and Harry Meshberger I and Erwin Shoemaker. - ■ Merlin Dunbar left Monday mom- ■ ing for Bloomington, where he will B attend college. ’ ” - Henry Schindler, who was injured B last week by having a horse fall upon fl him, is up and around again. Miss Anna and Mr. William Kalt- B wasser of Bluffton, spent Sunday with I their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Phil ■ Bauman, west of town. Daniel Beelei' raised his barn last B Thursday. This one is to take the ,Bi place of the one destroyed by fire a , few weeks ago. ’M Children’s Day services will be a held at the Christian church Sunday j evening, June 24th. | The Evangelical congregation of this 1 place and Salem baptized two persons IM here Sunday. H Misses Core and Nellie Neaderhous- I er and Messrs. David Yoder and Nel- fl son Gentis of Bluffton, were home I over Sunday. W Miss Minerva French entertained I I the Misses Flossie Funk, of Berne, , I and Nona Hoffman, and Messrs. Sam- Bl uel Baumgartner, Lawrence Yager and ElMerlin Dunbar at her home on Sunday i evening. |B| A number of our people attended ||l the Neuenschwander funeral at Vera |||| Cruz Monday.