Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 21, Decatur, Adams County, 26 July 1906 — Page 5

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NOTICE. 1 Notice is hereby given that the lowing report of the viewers appointed at the June session of the Board of Commissioners of Adams County, Indiana, to view the proposed road in Preble township, to be known as the Louis Worthman Macadam Road, was filed with said board on June 18th, 1908, and ordered published at the July session of said board. LOUIS WORTHMAN MACADAM ROAD To the Honorable Board of Commissioners of Adams County, Indiana: I We, the undersigned viewers and engineer appointed by your Honorable Board at the June term, 1906, and In pursuance to the within order of said petition would most respectfully sub- , ifiit the following report: \ . ! In pursuance to the within order, I we, William Huffman and Charles Oeting, as viewers and L. L. Baumgartner, as engineer, met at the office of county Auditor in Decatur, Indiana, and after being duly sworn as prescribed by law A we proceeded to examine, lay out and straighten said road as shown by that • ' part of our report which is marked exhibit “A” and which report shows the route of the proposed road. Also a profile showing the grade of said road as established and showing . showing “cuts” and fills”, also location I Os drains and sewers; said profile is marked exhibit “E” the same being on file in the office of the Auditor of Adams County, Indiana. We further find that the above, improvement in accordance with the’ plans and specifications herein set fourth would be of public benefit and utility. ‘ We further find no claims for damages of any kind whatever. We further estmate the cost of the A proposed Improvement to be Four Thousand One Hundred thirty two dollars. DESCRIPTION OF THE LOUIS WORTMAN MACADAM ROAD. Commencing, at the intersection of a highway running north and south with highway running..east>and- west at the south-east corner of the northeast quarter of section twenty-seven (27), in township twenty-eight (28) north, range thlrten (18) east in L Adams County, State of Indiana, thence running north over the highway lying between the sections 26 and 27, and over the highway laying between sections twenty-two (22) and twenty-three (28) all in township twenty-seven north of range thirteen (13) east Adams County, State of Indiana and terminating at the intersection of the hghway running norl and spjijth with the road running eapt and west at the north east corner rfftne north- east quarter of section twsntytwo in township twenty-seven north range thirteen east Adams County, State of Indiana ,J ROADWAY, GRADE, ETC ■ roadway milst be clear At all fences, trees, stumps, logs and all rub* Kish of whatsoever nature it may ba All stumps must be either grubbed dr blasted but in the drains or on the . 11,- I • h “* l u . If at any time? during the construction of of before the final acceptance of the same the grade should settle the contractor shall fill all depressions arid restore the same to the original I. specifications. ' The grade shall be of the single track *yttem of a uniform width of , twenty-two (22) fset from shoulder to \ shoulder with- a "slope >Of four (4) J inches from center to either side r X The sub-grade shall be rolled by the contractor at such times and, places as may be deemed necessary by the superintendant or the engineer, with a » roller of not less than six (6) tons in • weight before placing any stone thereon- ri '• The roadbed shall*be made In a neat manner and inspected and accepted in 1000 feet sections ’ before any material is placed thereon. r Grade and line stakes set be the engineer and destroyed by the contractor’s expense. k ‘ DRAINS. The sde drains shall be cut not less I than eighteen (18) Inches below /the hip of the grade. ‘ All drains to be constructed in a neat and workmafilike manner with sufficient fall and outlet to carry all the water that may accumulate therein and remove the sam6 from the highI way. k SEWERS. „ At the following stations the contractor shall place across grade Triple Expansion Culverts At station 13 plus 10 ,10” sewer. At station 37 plus 12, 10” sewer. At station 52 plus 80, 18” sewer. , At station 57 plus 30, 10” sewer. 1 i At each end of above sewers there I there shall! be built bulkheads compos--1 ed of one ' (1) part good Portland Cement, one (1) part clean sharp sand and two (2) parts srushed stone All .. aT parts of said stone that wll not pass through a two inch ring shall not be D used in said concrete. All bulkheads shall commence eighteen (18) inches below the bottom of

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I the sewer and extend six (6) inches above the surface of the stone placed on roadway, and shall be fifteen (15) inches thick and extend eighteen (18) inches on each side of sewer, except at station 52 plus 80, the bulkhead shall extend three (3) feet on each side of sewer and shall be twenty inches , thick. WELLS. At station 0 plus 10” one well on east side. At station 13 plus 80, two wells, one ; on each side of grade. At station 18 plus 40, two wells, one on each side of grade. At station 24 plus 60, two wells, one on each side of grade. At station 37 plus 30, two wells, one on each side of grade. At station 66 plus 90, two tyells, one on each sde of grade. Said wells to be built of the best hard burned brick laid flatwise and to extend eighteen inches below the bottom of the tile and walled up to the surface of the drains, said wells to be I not less than three feet in diameter on the inside and arched at the top so as to receive an eighteen (Ifi) cast iron grate securely fastened thereon. Said brick in said wells to be laid up in mortar composed of good Portland Cement one part and. two parts of clean sharp sand. All wells to be connected up with tile already in the contractor to furnish all tile for connections, and tile to be no smaller than that already in. CRUSHED STONE, KINDS, ETC. The crushed stone shall be placed on road-bed to a width of ten (10) feet, that is five (5) feet on each side of center of roadway, and shall be ten (10 - ) inches deep n center and eight (8) inches at the sides, except from station 65 to 79 plus 40 there shall be placed on top of gravel already on grade, screenngs to a depth of four (4) inches and to a width specified above. j The upper three (3) inches of said stone to be composed of screenings. All material to be placed on the grade in a neat, smooth and workmanlike manner The stone shall be graded in before final acceptance. All stone must be so crushed that at least 80 per cent of same will pass through a two (2) inch ring. 1 Where stone is unloaded all the coarser particles shall be raked to the bottom Said stone shall he equal ’to the product of the Linn Gfove or Decatur quarres. STIPULATIONS The work as It progresses will be laid out by the engineer, and stakes set by him must be preserved. The material- for the various im provements shall be on the ground before the old material is removed. 1 The Board of Commisioners, the engineer and Superintendent reserve the right to inspect the materials Used and condemn the same if necessary, . and all material so condemned shall ' be removed from the right-of-way and not used at any time in the construc- , tion of said improvement It is expressely understood that the contractor is not compelled to place in any tile, culverts, bridges or approaches at any private lane or crossing, road, etc., and if any fence, post or similar matter be within the right of-way of the proposed improvement is not removed by the party to whom they belong after having sufficient notice, then the contrfeelqr shall remove the same. \ It is expressly understood that when the time comes for accepting the road the contractor shall have the side drains In good condition and shall have scraped,, in the stonft and leveled the entire rbad and shall have in all respects complied with the specifications. PAYMENTS. : ■ ' All payments for sfiid improvement Will be paid for in cash at the Treas. urer’s office in the city of Decatur, Indigiia, on estimates made by the engineer complying in all respects with the Acts oi the General Assembly of the state Os Indiana approved March Bth, 1905. - ( | ESTIMATES. ‘ ' Total length of proposed improvement is 7,940 feet, or 1.5 miles. - No. yds stone for road, .1,985 1985 yds stone |1.20 for -5t0ne.>2,381.00 1985 yds stone .40 for hauling.. 794.00 1985 yds stone .15 for spreading 2 q 7 J 5 Wells and connections .. 110 00 Sqwers and bulkheads 150.00 Total’ 1 • 4,132.00 All of which is respectfuly submitted, WM D. HUFFMAN, Viewer. C. H. GETTING, Viewer. Lu L. BAUMGARTNER, Engineer. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this the ! 16th day of June, 1906. 19-3 ts. C. D. LEWTON, Auditor. PETITION FOR MACADAM ROAD. |tate of. Indiana, Adams County. tri, the Commissioners’ Court, Aug- , ust Term, 1906. Petition for free macadam road. To the Board of Commissioners of said Adaips County, Indiana: The undersigned freholders and voters in Root township in said Adams . County, Indiana, respectfully petition your Honorable Body to cause to be properly drained, graded, built and 1 constructed a single track crusheu 1 stone road over, along and upon the following described route, to-wit: Commenting in the public highway, ' known as the Winchester Road, at the ; point and place where said Winchester road crosses the public highway known and called the -Ossian Road, which is 1 a. free grgvel road, and which lies between sections eighteen and nineteen in townshp twenty-eight north, range fourteen east, in said Adams county in I the state of Indiana, and to run thence 'in a northwesterly direction on and along the public highway* as now located and used, tP the township line between the townships or Root and . Preble in said Adams county; Indiana, . upon which township line there is 1 now, at such point and place of term--1 ination of the road herein prayed for, a free gravel road, and there to terminate. Said proposed road hereby prayed for to be about one mile in length. And wfe ask'that the said road herein prayed for be made to the width of thirty-six feet We ask that the road hereby petitioned for be/ known and called the “Hockemeyer Macadam Road.” We further ask that said proposed road be built of crushed storte and properly covered with screenings’- in , the usual and proper manner , /. . X j We further ask thgt 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 said State of Indiana, approved March Sth, 1905, and under and by virtue of any and all other laws of the State of Indiana authorizing the construction of free macadamized stone roads. | We further ask that the road hereby petitioned for be built without any election being ordered or had on this petition. We further ask that said improvement be paid for by bonds

issued by the said Adams County, In- . diana, for and on behalf of said Root township, payable in twenty semi-an-nual installments, and for the payment of said bonds, we ask that a tax be levied upon the taxable property of said Root township, in sufficient amount and rate annualy or otherwise provided by law, to pay the interest and principal of any' and all of such bonds as they severally become due and payable as provided by law. 1 The proposed macadam road hereby I prayed for when built and completed ! will connect said, free gravel -„road, known as said Os6ian road, and said free gravel road on said township line road between said Root and Preble townships as aforesaid. All of which is most respectfully submitted. Samuel Fuhrman, Wm. Hockemeyer, Fred Hockemeyer, S. J. Spangler, W. Macke, . W. A. Fonner, , C D. Kunkle, Carl Hockemeyer, Benj. F. Butler, Frank McConnell, L. W. Lewton, J. E. Mann, August Koenemann, John E. Mann, Coat Cook, Tise Ulman, J. O. Hoagland, C. D. Buss. L. N. Grandstaff, Geo. Dutcher, W. W. Watts, A. J. Lewton, Reuben Baxter,- D. M. Rice, E. S. Christen, Jonas Cline, Chas. E. Magley, Henry Selklng, Christ. Selkingz S. P. Sheets, Thdmas J. Elzey. A. B. Cunningham, Phillip Baker, Henry Schteferstein, Henry Zwick, Oscar Firtzinger. John Bogner, C. Roop, H. A. Fuhrman, N. C. Fuhrman, ■ Chas. Scheimann, H. N. E. Dirkson, H. F. Bulmahn, Wm. Bulmahn, J. C. Houck, John G. Hey, W. C. Gallmeier, C. H. Getting, Eleazar Biggs, Uriah Grim, Peary Draper, Louis Weber, Jason Hobbs, Henry Doehrman, J. A. Fuhrman, John Tonnelier, John Evans This petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners, on Monday, August 6, 1906, * the same being the regular August session of said board, and at time any tax payer of Root township may appear and make such objections as the law may provide for. 19-3ts.' C. D. LEWTON, Auditor. PETITION FOR. MACADAM ROAD. State of Indiana, Adams County, ss. Before the Board of County Commissioners of Adams County, Indiana ' Petition for a free macadam road. We the undersigned each and all of whom are resident freeholders and voters of and in said Township of Wabash, in the County of Adams, and the State of Indiana, do hereby respectfully petition your Honorable Body that you proceed to have a free macadamized stone road constructed and completed ill said Wabash township over and upon the public highway situated on the following route, to-wit: Commencing at the southeast corner of lot 121 in the town of Geneva, Indiana, at the eenter of Railroad street, running thence east on Shackley street to Hale street; thehce north on Hale street to the center of Line street; thence east on Line street and the center of section twenty-eight (28) to the northeast corner of the southwest quarter of section- twenty-eight (28), thence south- on the half section line to the southwest corner of the north half of the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section thirtythree (33), thenefe east eighty (80) rods to the southeast corner of the north half of the nohtwest quarter of the northeast quarter of sectlori thir-ty-three (33), thence south to the southwest corner of . the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter, thence east to the southeas' earns* of the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section thirty-three (33), thence south on the section line between sections thirty-three (33) and thirty-four (34) to the southeast cornier of section thirty-three <’33) or to the county line between Adams and Jay counties, and there to terminate, the same being about,; 2% .miles in length, all of the above Wing in townaitlp. twenty-five (1(5) north, range fourteen (14) east, said road to be extension number 3 of the Geneva, Ceylon and Wabash TOwnship Macadam Road. Y-eur 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, made and constructed upon said highway, what is known as a macadamized road, and your petitioners further show that the public highway sought to be improved is one of the public highways of said Wabash township. The Said highway thus sought to be improved Intersects and Connects with the Geneva. Ceylon and Wabash Township Macadam Road, a macadam road heretofore voted upon by the voters of said Wabash township, Adams County, Indiana, and is to be an extension of said macadam road. Your petitioners further ask that said highway as above described be graded to a width of feet, and that the broken stone be placed thereon to a width of feet, and that "the broken stone be placed thereon to*a depth of inches, at. the center thereof, and to the depth qf inches at the sides thereof. That the name of said road above described shall be called Extension Number 3, of the Geneva, Ceylon & Wabash Township Macadam Road. We ask that said improvement 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 Wabash township in Adams county, Indiana, in sufficient amount to pay the interest and principal of said bonds, as they may become due, that said road may be built, and that said bonds may 4be isued, and said tax levied upon said property of said Wabash township, 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, and that the Board take the different steps as required by law, and that the same be constructed without holding an election in voting precincts of said township, and that the same be constructed under the law now in force for the construction of extension to free gravel and macadamized roads. Respectfully submitted. NAMES OF PETITIONERS. S. W. Hale. P. A. Macklin, S. Zerkle, J. H. Linton, J. Lenstermaken, John O. Kraner, Jesse Ford, * J. E. Mann, C. A. Mann, Frank Haviland, W. A Wells, Fred E. Lindsey, Frank Haughton, Jacob H. Zehr, Ada M. Mcjtirick, Geo. B. Robinson, W. W. Briggs, Homer Pontius, M. E. Hutton, C. A Haviland, J A. And.-rson, J. M. Weils. O. C. Fink. W. C. Campbell, F. J. MacWhinney, Frank Kattcl. I Michael McGriff, J. H. Ruff, Chas. Hutt, H. .M. Aspy, ■ 1 J. Banning, John Pitts, John A Didot, O. A. Whitman, J. E. Briggs, A P. Hardison, / H. J. Greene, E.' S. Callihan, J. W. Dietsch, " F. C. Dietsch, C. D. Porter, G. E. Fink. J. T. Love, F. F. Gregg, P. F. Burk, Abe Shoemaker, D. B. Linton, Noah Shoemaker, Josephus Martin,' A. G. Briggs, I M. A. Mastick,'' Nathan Shepherd, L. L. Mattox, " C. O. Rayn, W. C. Pease, John Brand, G. Brand, A A- Mason, David Polm, Alfred Kintz. A. M. Redding, Samuel Egley, James H. Kelley, F. M. Connor,

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1 Bowen Vanenon, Socrates Cook, W. J. Nelson, Andrew Jellison. Said petition will be presented to i the Board of Commissioners, on *! i Monday, August 6, 1906, -< , j the same being the regular August session of said Board and at which time any tax payer of Wabash township may appear and make such objeci tions as the law may provide for. 19-3 ts. C. D. LEWTON, Auditor. NOTICE. Annual Meeting of Stockholders. Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Old Adams County Bank will be held at their banking house, Decatur, Indiana, at 10 o’clock am. m., on Tuesday, August 7, 1906, for the purpose of electing seven directors to serve for , the ensuing year, and to transact such other business as may come before . them. , R. K. ALLISON, 19-2 t Cashier. July 9, 1906. * Prof. Hocker has received a free scholarship to the Meridian, Miss. Female College and Conservatory of Music, whidh h? v.il give to any lady ' desiring to use it. It will save the user The Marion Postoffice Baseball team defeated the local postoffiee team yesterday afternoon by a score of six to five. This now makes a game apiece and the rubber may be played off at some future date and i on neutral grounds. Here is a snake story, the like of which has probably never been heard in this community. Abraham Egly in Hartford township killed a garden snake three feet long, that had sixtytight live young ones in her stomach, all from six to seven inches long. Evidently a snake must have about as many relatives as a rabbit. The young snakes must have been around the mother snake ard when she scented danger she most have swallowed theitn all to protect them. —Berne Witness. At Denver there were a number of Elks from Indanapolis attending the grand lodge, but only one, Edward N. Hill, answered the roll call to parade under the lodge banner. Joseph T. Fanning rode in a carriege with the past grand officers. To Hill fell the honor of upholding the lodge in the big parade. He had a banned inscribed “One Lone Buck from Inaianapolis“’ hired a negro to cany it and four more to carry his trunk and-va-lises and, with a section of the parade to himself and party, marched the full five miles »to reeeive an ovation of cheres and. a shower of flowers at every block. ALBERT SELLEMEYER CHOSQT As Principal of the Berne Schools— Mr. Kizer Superintendent. ' This year the school board has experienced more trouble in securing instructors than ever before. But now all the teaches excepting the one for 3 room No. 6 have been selected. At the meeting of the board on Thurs- i day evening, Kenneth B. Kizer, sup- j erintendent of the Poneto, (Ind.) ] schools, was chosen as superintendent here and Albert Sellemeyer of Decatur, principal. Prof. Albert Gerber, of Dalton, Ohio, had previously been elected as superintendent and Mr. Sellemeyer as teacher of room No/6, but both the-gentlemen declined the offer and fiW n abbte changes were then made. The new superintendent comes highly recommended as an able instructor and will no doubt make good with the 1 schools here. Mr. Sellemeyer’s ability as an instructor is well known - he having taught in our schools last year. While yet very young in years to fill a position of this kind, he is nevertheless a man who can fill the bill. The board is to be complimented for making the two appointments. All that remains for them is to secure another able teacher for room 6 and then we will have a corps of instructors that Berne can feel proud of. — Berne News. Charles Sether was attending to tobacco business at Hoagland today. The Aeebraey •« the Memery. In a series of experiment to test the ' accuracy of observation and memory, different persons were shown various combinations of figures, colors, etc., and called upon to reproduce or describe them after the expiration of certain state periods. Experiments showed a steady increase of error, apparently due i to persistence of old mistakes and the additions of others. An interesting point is that, where combinations had » 1 been carefully committed to memory, the percentage of error decreased with time, the memorized combinations “turning up” in the mind spontaneously. This evidently accords with common experience. MANY CHILDREN ARE SICKLY. A powder for swollen, tired, hot, smarting feet Sample sent FREE. Also Free Sample of the Foot-Ease Sanitary Corn-Pad, a new invention. Address 'Alien S. Olmstead, Leßoy, N. Y.

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ON THEIR OWN GROUNDS Geneva Fat Men Defeated Here—» Civic Improvement Society Clears Sixty Dollars. The Decatur ball team took the fourth consecutive game from Portland’s professional team yesterday, shutting them out by a score of 4 to 0 ,on their own grounds. The Jay Birds wanted to redeem themselves and played hard ball, but to no avail. Hunt, their Interstate pitcher, was batted for seven hits, while the wonderful Hay let his opponents down with one measly single. Our boys were full of ginger and used it every inning, played an errorless game and won on their own merits. Totals 28 0 0 27 9 5 Score by Inning;— Decatur 0 0003001 o—4 6 0 ortlando 0000000 o—o0 —0 1.5 Batteries—Hay and Fisher; Hunt and ■Wolfe. Summary—Struck out —By Hay, 13; Iby Hunt, 7. Bases on balls —Off Hunt, ,2. Two base hits—Hillinger 2. Three base hits—Henderson. Time of game—< 2:00. The much-talked of Fat Men’s base ball game between Decatur and Geneva, has been played and Decatur won by the close score of fifteen to fourteen, the game being called at the end of the fifth inning on account of darkness. The Geneva team arrived at two o’clock in a furor of excitement, and with a determination to wipe out last year’s awful defeat. At two thirty o’clock the teams were lined up on Second street and headed by J. Q. Neptune’s famous band, began their triumphial piarch to the ball yard, arriving there about three o’clock, the procession being forced to halt on several occasions, owing to some member of one team or the other being overcome by the heat. At three fifteen, after a short band concert, Judge R. K. Erwin, who was mutually decided upon by both teams to act as umpire, owing to his vast experience, stepped into the diamond and in his melodious voioe, sang-out, “Play ball,” and the game was on. Geneva got away in the lead and scored four runs in the first inning, owing, to the over-confi-dence of the home team, but Decatur came back with three runs and it looked like anyone’s game. Geneva came up in the second with the determination in her eyes, but was retired lifter making one run. Decatur saw the run and went Geneva four better in her half. La the third Geaevs got three and Decatur scored dn<je. The fourth was productive of five runs for Geneva ana five for Decatur- the fifth innlng, amid the gathering gloom of daAness, Geneva scored one run, thus tying the score. J Decatur waa yet to be reckoned with. Harruff was the first man up and strpek out- Murray followed suit. H. W 1 W , Who had up to that time, played a star game, stepped up to the plate with hfe trusty stick in hand, everything was quiet. The pitcher drew back his arm. “One strike,” sang out the umpire. Again the Ml came soiling! toward the plate, but this time it met the bat, x and “Heck” had hit for two bases, He stole tbM Md on a passed ball scored the winning run amid the yells of the crowd and the game was over. During the game the result of the Portland-Decatur game was received by innings at the Daily Democrat’s telephone both. The score: J Decatur 515 J—ls 13 14 Geneva < J 4 1 3 5 I—l 4 15 Batteries—Thomas and Martz; McCloskey, Bear and Mitch. ' A (ertala Cgri Achiag Feet. . Shake Into your shoes Alien’s FootEase, a powder It cures Tired, Aching, Callous, Sweating, Swollen feet, a” D’-iisrsr'sts and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample FREE. Address Alien S. CHmT.eßoy. N. Y.