Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 21, Decatur, Adams County, 26 July 1906 — Page 8

LEGAL ADVERTISING MACADAM ROAD PETITIbN State of Indiana. County of Adame. In the Commissioners’ Court of Adams couiTtj'. V- ' ” Lafayette Rape, et al. ex Parte. Petition for Macadam Road. To the Board of Commissioners of Adams County: We the undersigned all~resrdent freeholders and voters of Wabash Township in the County of Adams and State of Indiana/ would most respectfully ask W to take. a u necessary steps to cause to be graaea, drained and paved with crushed sto “®. the highway already laid out and established on and along the following route, to-wit: - , Commencing at the section line between- sections fourteen (16) and twen-ty-three (23) township twenty-five t-5) north, range fourteen (14), east at the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of said section <23) thence south along the middle line ot said section twenty-three (23. to the north-east corner of the northwest quarter of section twenty-six township twenty-five north, range fourteen (14) -east, one mile, thence south along the middle line of said section twenty-six (26) township and range aforesaid to the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of said section twenty-six, township twentyfive (25) range fourteen (14) east, and there to terminate. Skid petitioners would further show that the above road when completed -will be about two (2) miles in length and shall be called the L. Rape Macadam road. Said petitioners would further show that It would he practicable to build said road as a double track road and that the same be graded to a width of twenty-five ' (25) feet and that crushed, stone crushed to one-inch size be placed thereon to the width of ten feet, With stone screenings placed on top of said stone. Said petitioners ask that the crushed stone placed shall be the depth of " ' eight (8) inches and the screenings placed thereon shall be placed to a depth of four (4) inches. i Said petitioners further ask that ' said road be .built and that to pay for [ same, bonds be issued payable in twenty semi-annual installments and to pay said bonds, together with the interest thereon and the costs of location a tax be levied upon the taxable property of Wabash township, Adams County, In- . diana. • [ Said petitioners would further show , that said road when completed will j connect at the southern extremity with i Wm. Burk Gravel Road and at the i northern extremity with the extension i No. 2 of the Geneva, Ceylon & Wabah i Township Macadam Road, both of i which are free gravel roads. < • Said petitioners would further show that said road be by said Commissioners ordered constructed without first 1 submitting question of building same * to a vote of the voters of said Wabash ; township, and that such proceedings * be had to build and establish the same as provided by the Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, as 1 approved March 8, 1905. (See Acts of 1905, page 521.) , Lafayetteßape, s. N. Burkett, Ardan S. -Burley, Bartimus Boice, 1 Michael Engle, Christ. Steiner, < J. T. Burley, W. R. Mann, < Jacob Cook, Fred Harm. I Fred Mathys, Albert P. Ford, 1 Dean Bekey, William Lehman, Isaac D. Michael, Jacob J. Runkfel, Wm. Peel, H. M. Aspy, ; John W. Cook, Peter Bowman, J. H. Smith, Wm. Farlow, F. M. Buckey Henry Miller, 1 Charles Armstrong F. S. Armstrong, Samuel Egley, J. w. Deitsch, A. Hdrlow, Daniel Beeler, 1 Nathan Shepherd, John Kelly, James H. Kelly, M. F. Aspy, E. Barnes, Clem Michael. A. J. Juday, M. T. Atwood, b F‘«SS, J. A. Anderson, C. .A Haviland, C. F, Greene, F. C. Deitsch, Robert Poer, < Whlnney, V. H. Finch, i- F. Higgins, Thomas Drew, ] O. O. Juday, W. S. E. Sutton, t A. G. Briggs, T. E. Mann, i Hartman, C. O. Rayn, i I. N. Veley, S. A. M. Bucher. Said petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners on - ; Monday, August 6, 1906, the same being the regular July session' of said board and at which time anv tax payer of Wah'v’h .ownship may ap- ■ pear and make siKh objections as the law may provide for 14-3 t. Auditor, Adams county? Indiana.' APPLICATION FOR LIQUOR LICENSE. ' Notice is hereby given to the citi- i th * e J Third ward - in the-Citv of Decatur, Adams county, and State of inhibit t ? at I t Hen J‘ y T - 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 of becoming intoxicated, and a fit per- I son to be intrusted with the sale of 1 intoxicating liquors, wil make applica- . t' o ’ l tl l e B ° ard of Commissioners ,of the County of Adams, at their August to Teu yea F 1906> for a Hcense to sell spiritous, vinous and malt and ?,V 1 ‘ er intoxicating liquors in less quantities than a quart at a time, with ege fZ alolwin & the. same to on the premises where sold. The place where I desire to sell said Intoxicating liquors is a one story street {f ont i n ? On Monroe «S.„ eet ’j!. ®5 id sity>5 ity > being the ground front a »d rear openings and premises, to-wit: followln ® described Commencing 41 feet west from the southeast corner of inlot No. 120 in the City of Decatur, Adams county, Indiana, 1 unntnj north 132 feet, thenc4 th ®o°e south 132 feet to the north line of Monroe stret; thence east to the place of beginning. Said building is situated on the south end ? f # ab ° ve described real estate and T y feet 8 ln ches wide in side. I will at the same time ask permission from said Board of r s .to eep and maintain a , lunch counter in aforesaid rom for the purpose of selling lunch. HENRY T. SCHERRY, 18 * 3t - Applicant 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 Jimtown extension one Macadam Road, up and until 10 o’clock A. M., on Monday, August 6, 1906, at a regular session of said Board of Commisjoners held in the city of Decatur, 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 crushed stone alone. 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 en- . 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 ;>aid 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 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 Reynolds Extension No. three Macadam Road, up and until 10 o’clock A. M., on Monday, August 6, 1906, at a regular session of the Board of Commissioners, held in the City of Decatur, Adams county, Indiana, sealed bids will be received for the construction 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 oi 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 ot suia work and that the bidder it 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. LEWTON. 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 younty known as' the Frenca Township Central Extension No. two Macadam Road up and until 10 o’clock A. M., on Monday, August 6, 1906, at a. regular session of tne Hoard of Commissioners, held in the City of De. catur, Adams county, Indiana, sealed bids will be received for the construction of said road in accordance with the plans, specifications and report ot 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 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 1 eighty per cent of any one estimate out of the funa» to be hereinafter raised by the sale or bonds as required by law. Each bidder will be required to Re affidavit as provided by law. The Board of Commissioners reserve the right to reject any and all blds. C. D. LEWTON, 14-3 t Auditor of Adams County. NOTICE OF PUBLIC LETTING. Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of Ada-uo ■ county, Indiana will receive bids for the construction of a macadam road im French township, in said county known as the French Township Central Extension No. one Macadam Road, up and until 10 o’clock A. M., on Monday, August 9, 1966, at a regular session of the Board of Commissioners held in the city of Decatur, Adams county, Indiana, sealed bids will be received for the construction of said road in accordance with the planA specifications and report of the Viewers and Engineer, which are now o'n file in the Auditor's office .of* said County, said roads to be built of 1 crushed stone alone. I A bond must accompany eaeh bid in I twice the amount of the bid filed, con- I ditioned for .faithful performance of said work and that the bidder jf awarded the contract therefor will 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 i be constructed for cash payable on es- | timates to be made by the Engineer in charge, not to exceed eighty per cent i 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. i The Board of Commissioners reserve the right to reject any and all bids. C. D. LEWTON, 14-3 t Auditor of Adams County. 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 route, to-wit: Commencing at the south-east corn,er ot section twenty-five «25) township twenty-eight (28) north, range fourteen (14) east, at the place where 1 the township line between Root and Union township aforesaid crosses the : public highway on the south line of said section thirty (30) township twen-lty-‘ight (28) north, range fifteen (15) east. -1 —That there is now a public highway extending north between said townships from said beginning point, and , your petitioners now petition your i 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 four- ; teen (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 bo graded, ana that . broken stone be placed upon the r grade. And that there be built and E made upon said highway what la . known as a “Macadamized Road,” and ’ petitioners would farther show t that the public highway sought to be improved is a dirt road, and Is one of the public highways of said town- * snips. > I ■ would further' Mk ’ L h t > roadß ° *t>ove described be graded to a width of s ( ) and that broken stone be placed f thereon to a width of ( ) feet, /

——MB and that said road be constructed as a double track, one of dirt and the other of broken stone. The name of said roed above described shall be called the Drummond Road. We ask that said improvements shall be paid’ for by bonds issued by the County of Adams, in the State of Indiana, payable in twenty semi-an-nual .installm-mts, or series, and for the payment <.t which we ask that a tax be levied upon the taxable property of Root township and Union township, in Adams County, Indiana, in a . sufficient amount to pay the interest and principal of said bonds as they may become aue. That the saia road be built 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. further ask that the board take the different steps lequired by law without submitting the question of bunding 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 had heretofore been voted upon by the voters of Union township and is now under construct]?e thus sou ght to be in length 1S leSS than three (3) mil6s R. A. Drummond. J. A. Fleming iUnsr ’ J ' D. Wm wi?v rman ’ ‘ S ‘ Murnma, V"™- B1 «® ke > Chas. Ahr. i? h E - J- Ahr. Jno. A. Barklny, G eo . ohi; r Kr/a r c' I rr 1 ?i klng ’ A - Ehrm'an. Lr?. d P™ °,^ e ' Howard Mauller Elija.h Walters, Wm. Breiner. j. b. Lower, f W nthni JohT/ ™ llinK ' Joh " Buchee? L Murnma, Abe Boch, a ‘‘®w r . ue ckeberg, H. Krueckeberg, qmu’n ieme ’ Fred Koldewey, Smith Stevens, . John McGill, tk. Kr ueckeberg, Geo. Stevens, C .- c - Miller, Wm d Wnfi Bnd ’ A; A - Brodbeck,' william Bleeke J. H. Blakey, otto Bleeke, a‘ V S a £ e ’ E - F - Miller, t" w Pt? ,ley ' Ed s - Moses.. > ’ J ’ p - Spuller, his*' w J WnJS^ r ’ £■' H.^Ni<”' W ger. i n -or ords*. Geo. w. Cramer, G. W. Bauserman, Aurle Dykeman, a" Cunningham. J. H. KnaveL Sam Workinger, W. J. Aiiller *• Miller, Frederick Thieme, A) Ba ul Miller, W. A. Whittenbarger, F. W. Bienz, Nathaniel May, G. Bittner. Said, petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners, on Monditv. Awgivit 0. 1906, the same bein'? the regular July session of said board and at which time any tax paye s of Union and Root townships mt appear and make such objections as iho law may provide for. C D. LEWTON, 14-3 t. Ai”*itor. Adams county, Indiana. APPLIC ITION ?OR LIQUOR LICENSE. Notice is hereby given to the voters of the Third ward of the city of Decatur,lndiana, that I, Henry OstermeyOr will apply to the board of County Commissioners of Ada ms County at their August term, 1906, for a license to sell spiritous, vinous and malt liquors in quantities less than a quart at a time wtth the privilege to allow the same to be drank on the premises where said liquors are to be My place of business wherein said’liquors are to-be sold and drank is located on the ground floor of a two-story brick building, to-wit: .... 'Commencing at the northwest corner or inlot number two hundred-and sev-enty-one (271) in the original plat of said town (now city) of Decatur; Indiana, running thence east parallel with the alley (>6 thence south feet, thence west parallel with first line 66 feet to Second street; thence no th along Second street 23% feet to pla e of beginning. Said room being 21x33% feet. Said room has both front and ft a: openings. Ji HENRY OSTERMEYER, Applicant. NOTICE OF PUBLIC ftETTING. Notice is hereby given that the Board oi Commissioners of Adams county, Indiana will receive bids for the construction of a macadam roa4 in Preble township, in said county, known as the Charles Ewell Macadam road, up and until 10 o’clockA M., on Monday, August «, 1906, at a regular sepion of the Board ot Commissioners, held in the City of Decatur, 'Adams county, Indiana, sealed bids Will be received for the construchttonof Said road in acmfwyvmfwy), Ition of said road in accordance with [the plans, speciflcatiosn and report of | the Viewers and Engineer, which are I now on file in the Auditor’s office of I said county, said roads to be (built of crushed stone alone. A bond must accompany each bid in twice the amount of tne 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. 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 eight per cent, of any one estimate out of the funds to be hereinafter raised by the sate of bonds as required by law. Each bidder will be reqqired to file affidavit as required by law. The Board of Commissioners reserve the right to reject any and all bids. C. D. LEWTON, 18-3 L Auditor of Adams County- ■ - , PETITION FOE MACADAM ROAD. Towushlp Line Read. ' To the Honorable Board of Commissioners of Adams County, Indiana: We the undersigned all resident free holders and voters of Root town- ' ship and o f Union Township, in Adams ' county, Indiana, would most respect--1 fully petition your honorable body, to J cause to be built a stone road, on and J along the following route, to-wit: f Commencing at the south-east corner • of section twenty (25), Township twen--1 tyr-eight (28) north, range fourteen (14)east, at the place where the township line between Root and Union L townships aforesaid crosses the public ■ highway on the south line of said sec--1 tion and section thirty (30) township [ twenty-eight (28) north range fifteen 1 (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 constructr ed upon said public highway to a poinl P north of said beginning point continu- - ously on said township line and public e highway for a distance of two miles s ending at the public highway which crosses said township line road, at the north-Oast corner of section twentyr four (24), Township twenty-eight (28) y north, range fourteen (14) east anc t there to terminate on said section line, e being two miles in length. d - s Your petitioners further ask youi (1 honorable body ‘ that said highway r above described be graded, and ' that e broken stone be placed upon the grade e And that there be built, and made upor -* said highway what is known as s “Macadamized Road,* and your petifurther show that the publb k highway sought to be improved- is e e dirt road, and is one of the public highways of said townships. fl t, Your petitioners would further sat

s that said road as above described be e gra? ed to a width of ( ) feet, and that broken stone be placed thereon to a width of - ( ) feet, and that said road be conlistructed as a double.track, one of dirt 3 and the other of broken stone. i » f The name of said road above descrlb- - cd shall be called the Drummond Road, r We ask wthat said improvements shall t be paid for by bonds issued by the - County of Adams, in the State of In- - diana, payable in twenty semi-annual t installments or series, and for the t payment of which we ask that a tax r be levied upon the taxable property of Root and Union township, in Adams County. Indiana, in a sufficient t amount to pay the Interest and princi--1 pal of said bonds as they may become t due. 3 j That the said road be built and that 1 said bonds be issued and that said tax s be levied upon said property of said townships, in accordance with the Acts of the Legislature of the State of Ins diana, now in force and passed in the r year 1905, as appears in the Acts of I 1905, page 550. i i We further ask that the board take ■ the different steps requiredby law i Withofit submitting the question of i building the same to an election in said i township#. That the road thus sought ■ to be improved is to be an extension > of the Stegmeyer Macadam Road a road i 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. Nidllnger, John A. Ehrman, Chas. S. Murnma, William Bleeke, Chas. Ahr, John A. Murnma. E. J. Ahr, Jno. A. Barkley. Geo. Ohler, Henry Reinking. 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. Murnma, Abe Boch, Fred Krueckeberg, Henry Krueckeberg, A. F. Thieme, Fred Koldewey, Smith Stevens. John McGill, Earnest Krueckeberg, Geo. Stevens, Chas. Krueckeberg. it 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. Grandstaff, J. C. Moses. W. E. Bleeke, Frank J. Kurber, il H. Nidlinger, i W. Worden, Geo. W. Cramer, G. W. Bauserman, Aiple Dykeman, E. Cunningham,James Knave), S’cmuel Workiffger, W. J. Miller, S. Curtis Miller, Frederick Thieme, A. R, Wolfe, Paul Miller, W. A Whittenbarger, L W. Bienz, Nathaniel May. G. Bittner. Said petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners, on | Monday, August 0, 1906, the same being the regular August 1 session of said board, ana at which time any tax payers of Union township may appear and make such objections as the law may provide for. ’ C. D. LEWTON, 18-3 t. Auditor, Adams County, Indiana.J 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 roan in Hartford township in said county, known as the L. O. Bears extension two Macadam Road, up and until 10 o’clock A. M., on Monday, August 6, 1906, 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, 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 aid County, said roads to be built of rushed stone alone. A bond piust accompany eaeh bid in 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 an< 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 bonqs a« required by law. Each bidder will be required to file affidavit as provided by law. I The Board of Commissioners reserve the right to reject any and all bids. C. D. LEWTON, 14-3 t Auditor of Adams County. ' u—— NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS., l Notice is hereby given that sealed bidsw ill be received at the office of i the undersigned, trustee, until two o’- ; clock, p m., on Monday, July 80, 1906, I for the erection and completion of an • addition to the Pleasant Mills school i building,f or District No. five, in St. . Marys township, Adams county, Indii ana, according to plans. and specificaI tions prepared by J. W. Teeple.- Plans are now on file at the trustee’s office, and at the office of J. W. Tepele, > Decatur, Indiana. — The right is reserved to reject any 8 and all bids. W. H. TEEPLE, July 5, 1906. Trustee. 18-8 t PETITION FOB. MACADAM ROAD. To the Honorable Board of Commissioners of Adams County, Indiana: We the undersigned all resident freet holders and voters of Root township, - Adams county, Indiana, and of Madison a township, in Allen county, Indiana, - most respectfully petition your Nbnor--3 able board to cause to be built and 1 constructed a stone road,, on and along the following route, to-wit: r Commencing at the north-west corn- - er of section six (6), township twentyn eight (28) north, range fourteen (14) - east, running thence east on the puba lie highway known as the County line c road, a distance of nne _mile and term- - inating at the north-east corner of seCP tion six (6) township twenty-eight (28) n north, range fourteen (14) east, the road thus sought to be improved and macadamized is on the line dividing y Adams county, Indiana, and Aljen couns ty, Indiana, and is a part of the highr way at the south side of Madison towne ship in Allen county, Indiana and said - highway is at the north line of Root ‘t township, in Adams county, Indiana, i- the said highway thus sought to be c improved at the commencement thereof s is conected with a free gravel road h known as the Koennentann Gravel e Road, and at the terminus of said high--way thus sought to be improved con- ) nects and is connected with the free d gravel road known as the Williams B. Branch gravel road. Said highway thus sought to be improved is an unimproved highway and does not exceed three r miles in length. y it Your petitioners further ask.-your b. honorable body that said highway n above described be graded and drained a and that broken stone be placed*.upon I- the grade and that there be built, conic structed and made upon said highway a what Is known as a "Macadamized i- Road.” -.J 4 -r-.; And your petitioners further show ft that the public highway sought t® be

= k improved Is a public highway already established and is what is known, as a b dirt road and is situated as above described on the line dividing Adams and - Allen counties, In the state of Indiana, ft ;• I Your petitioners further ask that said road as above described be graded ’ to a width of tWenty-two feet and that • the broken stone l>e placed thereon to 1 a width of ten feet, and to a depth of - ten inches in the center thereof, and ; eight inches as the sides. * 8 I : I The name of the said road above desr [cribed shall be called the Joint Root ■ ,and Madison Township Road. ■J We ask that said improvement shall • be paid for by bonds issued by the I counties of Allen and Adams in the I state of Indiana, payable in twenty c semi-annual installments or series for ; the payment of which we ask that a 1 tax be levied upon the taxable property ' of Root township, in Adams county, • ’ and upon the taxable property of Mad- ’ Ison township, in Allen county, Indiana, -.in a sufficient amount to pay the interest and principal of said bonds as I 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 1 mentioned in accordance with the Acts of the Legislature of the State of Indl- [ ana, now in force and passed in the l year 1905, as appears in the Acts of 1 1905, page 493, and approved March : 7, 1905. NAMES OF PETITIONERS.' Ernest Schroeder, Tise Ulman, John Schurger, Samuel Magley, . [Frederick Hoile, Andrew Fuelling, J. A. Fuhrman, S. Funrman, 'William C. Gallmeler, Uriah Grim. Eleasor Biggs, Ernest Buuck, ,I> red Hockemeyer, John E. Mana. tS J. Spangler, Chrisln A. Selklag, jUred BusSe, A. B. Cunningham, TPhilllp Barher. Joseph Stegmeyer L. H. Ziegler, > Fred Mutchler. ■H- C. Oetting. Martin Gerke, Wm. Bulmahn, Wm. Tieman, .Wm. Ostermeyer, Herman Frame, Jerry Barkley, Wm. Gerke, Cha«. Boknecht. ' T. W. Lehrman, [Fred Bultemeier, G. W. LaFollette, | Wm. Hockemeyer, w. Mackie, £ ar ) 'Hockemeyer. > j. e. Mann, B. F. Butter, Coat Cook, .Thomas Elsey, . Noah S. Sheet?, James O. Hoagland, G. W. Ruckman, L. C. Boerger, L F. Boerger, John G. Hey, Frank McConnell, August Koenemann, Henry Doehrman, S. Houck, w. A. Fonner, J. C. Houck, Louis Weber, Charles Dirkson, Henry Zwick, Henry F. Fuelling, Jacob Fuelling, Ernest Fuelling. Herman Reiter, Henry Dirkson, C. D. Kunkle, S. D. Kunkle, S. Pillars, L. N. Grandstaff, Reuben Baxter, Jason Hobbs, H. F. W. Bulmahn, John Bogner, Henry Weber, .Louis H. Boknecht, J. H. Fuelling. I Said 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 which [time any tax payer of Root township 'may appear and make such objections as the law may provide for C. D. LEW TON, 18-3 L Auditor, Adams County, Indiana. 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 ’’ckrote extension No. 2 Macadam Road, up and until 10 o’clock A. M., on , Monday, August 6, 1906, at a regular session of said Board of Commisioners held in the city of Decatur, Adam fi county, Indiana, sealed bids will be received for th#> 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 bid filed conditioned for faithful performance of said work and that the bidder if awarded the contract therefor will eater into contract therefor and complects the same according to such contract and in accordance with the bld filed. AR bids shall bte made so as co give the amount fpt whieh said road will be constructed for cash payable on estimates to be made by the Engineer incharge, not to exceed eighty per cent, of any one estimate put of the funds to be hereinafter raised by the sale of bonds as xequired by -law. Each bidder will be required to file affidavit as provided by taw. The Board of Commissioners reserve the right to reject any and all blds. . C. D. LEWTON, 14-3 t Auditor of Adams County. notice. All taxes on Fourth, Monroe, Rugg, Fornax, Sixth Street Brick, Second and Winchester Streets and Bowers Alley Sewers, Brick alleys, Gregory Allfey, Gay Alley Sewer, Krick, or Thirteenth Sewer, Marshall Street Sewer, Meyer, Erwin and Miller Branch Sewers, Wili 11am Harting Sewer and Elm Street Sewer, are delinquent June Ist, And subject to penalty. W. J. ARCHBOLD, t 149-3wks.daily Treasurer. ST. .MARYS MACADAM ROAD EXTION NO. ONE To the honorable Board of £omissloners of Adams County, Indiana: We, the undersigned viewers and engineer appointed by your Honorable Board at the Jue term, 1906, and in pursuance to the within order of said petetion would most respectfully submit the following report In pursuance to the within order I we, William Zimmer man and L. W. L. Lewton as viewers and L. L. Baumgartner as englner met at the office i of County Auditor in“ Decatur, Indiana, , and after being duly sworn as pre- ’ scribed by law we proceded to examine, lay out and straighten said . road as shown by that part of our re- . port which is marked exhibit "A” , and which report shows the route of . proposed road. ’ Also a profile showing the grade of said road as established and showing • “cuts” ad “fills”, also location of , drains and sewers; said profile is j marked exhibie “B” the same, being : on file in the office of County Auditor . of Adams County, Indiana. I We further find no claims for 1 damages of any kind whatever. 1 We further estimate the cost of the s proposed improvement to be. 1 DESCRIPTION OF THE ST. MARYS 1 macadam road extention no. ‘ ONE. - j Commencing at the north-east cor- . ner of the north-east quarter of sec9 tion one (1) township twenty-seven B in Adams County, State of Indiana, thence running west on half section line through section one (1) to the r Tricker pike, and there to terminate. 1 . ROADWAY, GRADE, ETC. s The roadway must pe clear of all - fences, trees, stumps, logs and all r rubbish of whatsoever nature it may 1 be. . -' All stumps must be either grubbed tr or blasted out in the drains or oq the e grade.

I I I In at any time during the construct- al u” SLS I . »•=*«»■■ n 1 The grade shall be of the |||| track system of a uniform width of twenty-six feet from shoulder to HI shoulder with a slope of four (4> inches from center to either side b HI The Sub-grade shall be rolled by the B contractor at such times ard places - HI as may be deemed necesary- by rhe m| superintendant or the engineer’ with M a roller of not less than six tons in H weight before plicing any stone thereon “W g . ’ The road-bed shall be made in a ■ smoothed and workmanlike manner ■ and inspected and acepted in B feet sections before any material Mr ■ placed thereon. < lT.de and lire siak/.s set by rhe I engineer and destroyed by tlu* c--*n- 1 tractor through v will bo I set again at the contractors oper.se. I DRAINS. . a! Side drains shall be constructed on I each side of said imprqvment its enentire length,, said side drain is to be " not less than one (1) foot wide at the bottom and the banks to have a slope of eighteen (18) inches horizontal to one (1) foot perpendicular and the • .* bottom of said drains to be not- less than eighteen (18> inches below the hip of the grade, to be constructed in a neat and workmanlike manner with sufficient fall and- outlet to carry all the water that may accumu- 1 late therein and remove the same from said highway. The bottom of said drains to be un- J obstructed and continuous. * •* • ■ From station sixteen (16) to station twenty-four (24) the contractor phall place on each side of the grade, in side drains, a string of ten (10) inch tile laid to grade hereinafter given by the engineer, and said tile shall be cover- 1 ed to a depth of two (2) feet v ~ BULKHEADS. , ; | At the ends of the above strings of tile at the bridge there shall be built JE bulkheads. Said bulkheads shall com- ’q| mence eighteen (18) inches below the bottom of the tile and shall extend three (3) feet above the top of the tile and shall be eight (8) feet long and in thickness shall conform to the wings of the abuttment to which they shall be attached. There shall also be I bulkheads built three feet west of wells at station 19. Said bulkheads shall commence one (1) foot below the bottom of the tile and extend three (3) feet above top of tile and shall be six (6) feet long and fifteen (15) inches thick. The above bulkheads shall be built of concrete composed of one (1) part good Portland cement, two (2) parts clean, sharp sand and three (3) parts crushed stone. All parts of sald stone that M Will not pass through a two-inCh -ring shall not be used in said concrete VELLS. -1 There shall be wells built at the fol- I lowing places: ' At station 16, two wells, one on each side of the road. j At station 19, two weHs, one on each side of the road. Said wells to be built of th* best | hard-burned brick la<*l flatwise and to ‘ j extend eighteen (18) inches below the bottom of the tile and walled up to 11 the surface of the side drains, . .said wells to be not less than three (3) feet in dfameter on the inside and arched at top so as to receive an eighteen (18) inch, cast iron grate securely fastened thereon. Sdid brick in said wells to be laid up - J in mortar composed ot one part good fl •Portland cement and two parts clean, fl sharp sand. > ■ built abutments and a steel bridge I At station 23 plus 70 there shall be twenty-six (26) feet long with a con- I Crete floor, according to plans and specifications hereto attached . . CRUSHED STONE, KINDS, ETC. * . The crushed stone shall be plaokd on the roadbed to a ten (1%) feet and shall be ten (10)‘ ihejies deep in the center ind eight (8) inchdeW the sides, and shall be placed on tbft ndrth side of roadbed, leaving a space of three (3) feet. from north shoulder of -•grade.to edge of stoafc \. ... > The upper three (3) inches of said stone shall lxe composed of screenings. All material to be placed on grade in a neat and workmanlike manno* The stone shall be graded in before final acceptance. All stone must be so crushed that at least 80 per cent Os the same will pass through a two-inch ring. Where Stone Is unloaded all coarser particles s'hall be raked to the bottom. \ Said etone shall be equp.l so the product of the Linn Grove or Decatur quarries. STIPULATIONS. The work as it progresses will be laid out by the engineer, and stakes set by him must be -preserved. • The materia’ for the various improvements shall be on the ground before the old material is removed. The Board of Commissioners, the engineer and superintendeht reserve the right to inspect the material 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 construction of said improvement It is expressly understood that the contractor- is not compelled to place in any tile, culverts, bridges or approaches at any private lane or cross- j ing, road, etc., and if any fence, post, • I or similar matter be within the limits J of the right-of-way of the proposed N improvement is oot removed by the I party to whom they belong after hav- 1 ing had sufficient notice then (he con- I tractor shall remove the same. It is expressly understood-that when J the time comes for accepting the road, 1 the contractor shall have the side yj drains in good condition and shall .-i I have scrapdd in the stone and leveled / I I the entire road and have in all respects complied with the specifications. JM : PAYMENTS. ' All payments for said improvement A I will be paid for in cash at the Treasurer’s office in the city of Decatur, In- . diana, on estimates made by the engi- )■ neer complying in all respects with the 1 Acts of the General Assembly of the I . State of Indiana, aproved March Bth, ; 1905. I I ESTIMATES. Total length of the proposed Im- . I provement is 2,828 feet. I No. yds. stone for road 778 778 yds 81.15 for stone | 894.70 I i 778 yds stone .32 for hauling.. 248.96» , 778 yds stone .15 for spreading 116.00* I , Grading 150.00 [ ; Wells and bulkheads 90.00 I i Domestic ’ tiling 150.00 ’ Bridge and abujtpentq. 650.00 Total 2,800.36 I All of which is respectfully submit- 1 . ted, V taWer. L. W. LEWTON, Viewer. j L. L. BAUMGARTNER, Engineer. . 1 I Subscribed and. sworn to before me, sfl s this the 16 day of June. 1906. al 19-3 LC. D. LEWTON, Auditor. * | ■