Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 42, Decatur, Adams County, 20 December 1906 — Page 8

MRS., CHARLES ROE IS DEAD Was Well Known Lady of Pleasant Mills. Mrs. Ida D. Roe. wif<Rof Charles C. Roe of Pleasant Mills, died this morning at eight o’clock after an illness of a year, death resulting from tuberculosis. She was born in St. Marys township twenty-six years ago, and had practically 'made that her home all her life. She was a popular young lady and had a host of friends who will be grieved to learn of her death. She was a member of thd M. E. church at Pleasant Mills from where the funeral services will be held Friday afternoon nt one ■o'clo'S: She was a devoted Christian and church worker. Interment will be made in the Pleasant Mills cemetery, LEGAL ADVERTISING NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of the County of Adams, will receive sealed bids for the following supplies for the use of sai't courrty, on Monday, January 7 ,1907, at ten o’clock a. m., to-wit: For lightning rods on old barn at asylum. And for the furnishing wash nut coal for jail. Bidders will be required to file bonds as provided by law. The board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. 41- C. D. LEWTON, Auditor. NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE. Notice is hereby given to the creditors, heirs and legatees of B. H. Ostermeyer .deceased, to appear in the Ad-, ams Circuit court held at Decatur, Indiana, on the 4th day of January, 1907, and show cause, if any, why the Final Settlement Accounts with the estate of said decedant should not be approved; and said heirs are notified to then and there make proof of heirship ,and receive their distributive shares. FRANK H, MYER, Adm’r. Schurger & Smith, Attorneys Decatur, Ind., Dec. 10, 1906. 41-2 t. I NOTICE OF COMMISSIONER’S SALE OF REAL ESTATE Notice is hereby giveh that the undersigned as commissioner in the case of Della M. Chapman vs. Lulu May Chapman and Esther Ruth Chapman, heretofore appointed as such by order of the Adams Circuit court of Adams county, Indiana, will offer for sale at private sale at the law office of Clark J. Lutz, in the city of Decatur, Indiana, on Friday, January 18, 1907, and from day to day thereafter until the same is sold, the following described real esetate as mentioned in said order, to-wit: In-lot number forty-four (44) in the Town of Rivarre. in Adams county, in the State of Indiana, as the same is designated on the recorded plat of said town. . TERMS OF SALE —One-third cash in hand on day of sale, one-third in nine months, and one-third in eighteen months, deferred payments to bear six per cent interest from date and to be secured by freehold and mortgage security. Said sale to be made subject to the approval of the Adams Circut court, and to be sold free of liens. CLARK J. LUTZ, 42- Commissioner. NOTICE TO NON RESIDENTS. The State of Indiana, County ‘of Adams, ss: In the Adams Circuit court, November term, 1906. SARAH J. NEWPORT Vs. No. 7302. LEWIS NEWPORT. It appearing from affidavit filed in the above entitled cause, that Lewis Newport is a non-resident of the State of Indiana. — Notice is therefore hereby given the said Lewis Newport, that he be and appear before the Hon. Judge of the Adams Circuit court, on thef 14th day of February, 1907, the same being the 10th Juridicial day of the next regular term thereof, to be holden at the Court House in the City of Decatur, commencing on Monday, the 4th day of February, 1907, and plead by answer or demur to said complaint or the same will be heard and determined in his absence. WITNESS, my name and Seal of said court hereto affixed this 19th day of December, A. D., 1906. (SEAL.) DAVID.GERBER, Clerk. By PAUL BAUMGARTNER, Deputy. L. C. DeVoss, Att’y for plaintiff. 43-3 t

NOTICE OF ELECTION. To the Legal Voters of Wabash Township, Adams County, Indiana: You are hereby notified that on the Ninth day of January, 1907, between the hours of 6 o’clock a .m., and 6 o’clock p, m., of said day, aS prescribed by law for holding elections at the usual places ot holding elections in each of the precincts th said Wabash township, in said county and State. The Board of Commissioners of said county have ottered that the polls shall be opened and an election held to take the votes of the qualified and legal voters of said township upon the subject of said towfiship aiding The Fort Wayne & Springfield Railway company in constructing its railroad in said to the amount of twelve thousand dolalrs to be raised by levying a tax upon the taxable property of said township to enable said Commissioners to appropriate and donate money to said Railway company, its successors and assigns of

i i that amount upon condition that the said Railway company shall construct its said railroad in the said town t ship. Said railroad company tc expend in so constructing its said road in said township not less than said mount of twelve thousand dollars. The amount to be paid to the said company • its succesors or assigns under the do- . nation aforesaid and the amount so donated to be payable to said company ’ its successors and assigns upon com- - pletion of said road and upon the terms ; and conditions required by law. I fn witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and caused the seal of the Board of Commissioners of said I Adams county, Indiana, to be affixed this 3rd day of December, 1906. MARTIN LAUGHLIN, DAVID WERLING. WILLIAM MILLER. Board of Commissioners of Adams Co. C. D. LEWTON, 40-4 t. Auditor, Adams Co. NOTICE OF ELECTION. To the Legal Voters of Washington Township, Adams County, Indiana: You are hereby notified that on the Ninth day of January, 1907, between the hours of 6 o’clock a. m., and 6 o’clock p. m., of said day, as prescribed by law for holding elections at the usual places of holding elections in each of the precincts of said Washington township, in said county and State. The Board of Commissioners of said county have ordered that the polls shall be opened and an election held to take the votes of the qualified and legal voters of said township upon the subject of said township aiding the Fort Wayne & Springfield Railway company in constructing its railroad in said township, to the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars to be raised by levying a tax upon the taxable property of said town- 1 ship, to enable said Commissioners to appropriate and donate money to said Railway company, its successors and assigns, of that amount upon condition that said Railway company construct its said railroad in said township Said donation to be made on condition that said Rail way, company shall construct and complete in said township its said railroad. Said railroad company to expend in so constructing its said road in said township not less than said amount of twenty-five thousand dollars. The amount to be paid to the said company, its successors or assigns under the donation aforesaid and the amount so donated tb be payable to said company, its successors or assigns upon completion of said road and upon the terms and conditions required by law. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and caused the seal of the Board of Commissioners of said Adams county, Indiana, to be affixed this 3rd day of December, 1906. MARTIN LAUGHLIN, DAVID WERLING. WILLIAM MILLER, Board of Commissioners of Adams Co. C. D. LEWTON, 40-4 t. Auditor, Adams Co. NOTIOE OF ELECTION. To the Legal Voters of Monroe Township, Adams County< Indiana: You are hereby notified than on the Ninth day of January, 1907, between the hours, of 6 o’clock a. m., and 6 o’clock p. m., of said day, as prescribed by law for holding elections at the usual places of holding elections in each of the precincts in said Monroe township, in said county and State. The Board of Commissioners of said county have ordered that the polls shall be opened and an election held to take the votes of the qualified and legal voters of said township upon the subject of said township* aiding The Fort Wayne & Springfield Railway company in constructing its railroad in said township, to the amount of fifteen thousand dollars tc be raised by levying a tax upon the taxable property of said township tb enable said commissioners to appropriate and donate money to said railway company, its successors and assigns of that amount upon condition that said Railway company construct its said railroad in said township. Such donation to be made on condition that said Railway company shall construct and 1 complete in said township its said rail-■ road. Said railroad company to ex- i pend in so constructing its said road in said township not less than' said , amount of fifteen thousand dollars. The amount to be paid to the said com- ' pany, its successors or assigns under the donation aforesaid and the amount , so donated to be payable to said com-. ’ pany, its successors and assigns upon , completion of said road and upon the terms and conditions required by law. ’ In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and caused the seal . of the Board of Commissioners of said ( Adams county, Indiana, to be affixed this 3rd day of December, 1906. P MARTIN LAUGHLIN, . DAVID WERLING. WILLIAM MILLER, Board of Commissioners of Adams Co. C. D. LEWTON, j. 40-4 t. Auditor, Adams Co.

PETITION FOR STONE ROAD. To the Board of Commissioners of Adams County, Indiana: We, the undersigned, all and each of us resident free holders of Hartford township, in Adams county, Indiana, most respectfully petition your honorable body to cause to be built and constructed a stone road on and along the following route, to-wit: Commencing on half section line running east and west through section thirty-five in Township twenty-five north, range thirteefi east, at the east line of said section thirty-five, in a public highway, connecting with the Brushwood College Macadam road at that point, thence west on said half section line and over said highway to the center of section thirty-four, thence north on the half section line and over public highway to the Pontius free gravel road, all in township and range first herein named, and there to terminate, a total distance of two and onehalf miles in length. And your petitioners respectfully ;ask that your honorable body take

»' such action upon this p tition as you t are directed and author ;ed to do un- | der and by virtue of an i * of the Gen- ; eral Assembly of the St: e of Indiana, [ approved March 8, 1905, ad any other [ acts of the General Ass mbly now in > I force and applicable to this subject. ■ We further ask that aid proposed | . I macadam road bq order d and estab- .' lished at a uniform w Ith of forty | • feet the entire length i f said route .' herein petitioned for, tha same be or- J i dered, laid out and com tructed as a double track road, one 1 track to be . macadamized with crushed lime-stone | I to a width of ten feet, six inches deep [ at the sides, and ten itches in the I middle, with two inches of lime-stone sifting spread evenly ovejj top of stone, that said road be prof srly drained and all necessary culbert established. Wc further ask that ym order the issue of county bonds for the payment of the cost of said road : tnprovement, same to be paid in twent equal semiannual payments, for the payment of which said bonds, we ask hat there be a tax be levied upon the axable property of said Hartford township sufficient to pay principal and interest of said bonds as the same |may become due and payable, under and by virtue of the provisions of said act of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana first herein referred to. We further ask that said road be built without submitting same t® a vote of the voters of said township, wherein same is located. Said road to be known as brushwood College Macadam Road No. 2. See Acts 1905, Pages 521. Section 70. Respectfully submitted: J. A. Watson, Chas. F. Watson, J. W. Watson, J. A. Pusey, John R. Clendenen, W. N. Stahl, S. Stahl, Rufus W. Glendening, Henry Stahl S. Pontius, Jerry Glendening, Geo. F. Pontius, D. P. Shoemaker, John Pontius, Chas. Pontius, Elmer Stout, Ezra Gledening, Alexander Bolds, A. Ensly, E. M.,Lind'sey, Rudolph Lehman, Sherman’Glen- : dening, William Glendening, Jacob Rupel. James O. Price, B. W. Bears, W. S. Wilson, N. A. Pusey, L. O. Bears, F. M. Mundhenk, Geo. E. Snyder, T. G. Bears, Wm. Hall. Noah Mosser. Peter Roth, Peter J. Liechty, Dan Pontius, Wm. Shoemaker, Joseph Bucher, Chas, i D. Porter. Samuel Egly, A. G. Briggs,! W. H .Shepherd, J. W. Heller, Geo.: Shoemaker. John P. Shoemaker, John B. Zehr. Wm. Twigg, John Bair, Anthony Glendening. John Hall, Wm. Anderson, Simeon Sales, Noah Runyon, Silas Kizer, Moses Augsburger, Peter D. Hoffman, A. Schlagenhauf, John G. Adler, George W. Gentis, Thomas Bradstock, William Pine, S. Shoemaker, Badgley Anderson. Chris Eicher, John Huffman, David Falb, L. D. Dunbar, David Mushberger, Samuel Opliger and Ezra'Bugh. This petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners on Monday, January 7, >1907, at which time any taxpayer of Hartford township may appear and make such objections as the law may provide for. C. D. LEWTON. Auditor. Dore B. Erwin, Att’y for Petiitioners. 41-3 t. PETITION FOR STONE ROAD. To the Board of Commissioners of Adams County. Indiana: We, the undersigned, all and. each of us resident free holders of. the townships of Root and Preble, in Adams county, Indiana, most respectfully petition your honorable body to cause to be built and constructed a stone road on and along the following route, towit: Beginning at a point on the Decatur and Preble Macadam road at the southeast corner of section thirty-six in township twenty-eight north, range thirteen east, in Adams county, Indiana, thence running north on the township line road which divides the townships of Root and Preble in said county to the Decatur and Magley Gravel road, at the northeast corner of the south half of section twenty-five in said township of Preble as aforesaid, and there to terminate. Said proposed road will run between sections 36 and 25 in said Preble township and sections 30 and 31 in Root township in said county rand State Said road shall be called the Root & ..Preble Township Line Macadam Road No. 1. The length of said proposed road will be about one and onehalf miles. 1 Said petitioners ask that said road ■be built as a single track road, and [that the same be graded to a width of twenty feet and that crushed stone be ‘ placed on said grade to a width of .; twelve feet, with stone screenings on top of said stone. Said netitoners would further show : that said proposed road will connect . at its southern extremity with the De- . catur & Preble Macadam road, which . is a free macadam road, built pursuant . to a petition and an election and main- • tained at the expense of the county of [ Adams, and at the northern extremity [. said road will connect with the De- [ catur & Magley Gravel Road, which is a free gravel road, now maintained by the county of Adams. Said petitioners further pray that when said road is completed it be paid . for by an issue of bonds payable in twenty semi-annual installments, and . that to pay said bonds, including interest on same, a tax be levied upon the ■ taxable property of said townships of Root and Preble as aforesaid. Said petitoners would further ask that said road be ordered constructed without first submitting the question i of building the same to the voters of 1 said townships, aforesaid, and that , such proceeding be had to build said - road and pay for same as is authoriz- - ed by an act of the General Assembly 5 of the State of Indiana approved March Bth. 1905. (Acts 1905. Page 521. J Section 70.) i Respectfully submitted: 3 M. C. Fuhrman, J. E. Mann, John t E. Mann, S. J. Spangler, Wm. Bulmahn, i Herman Reiter,, H. Bulmahn, John C. 8 Houck, William C.. Gallmeler, Henry t Zwlck, William Macke, Wm. Hockef meyer, John Bogner, H. A,. Fuhrman, 3 Daniel Bieberich. Henry Ehlerdlng, e Henry Selking, Theodore Ewell, Wilr ham J. Bieberich, Christ Macke, Chrise tian Selking. August Selking. C. M. e Myers, Jeff Klopfenstein, Wm. F. Jaebi- ker, H. L. Buuck, J. C. Grandstaff, Fred !- Fuhrman, Charles Conrad. Henry Werling. Wm. C. Grote, John Hoffman, y Jacob Schnleler, Wm. Ehlerdlng. Wm. e Bieberich, C. D. F. Bieberich, Wm. M.

Myer, Fred Busse, Charles Koenne-! man. Benj. F- Butler, Fred Koeneman, Crist Schakel, Martin Reppert, Wil-. Ham Kruetzman, William Linnemeier,' Thomas J. Elzey, H. E. Butler, F. A, Kurt, A. B. Cunningham, Joseph Stegmeyer and Lewis Worthman. | This petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners on Monday, January 7, 1907, at which time any taxpayer of Root , and Preble township may appear and make such objections as the law may provide for. C. D. LEWTON. Auditor. D. B. Erwin, Att’y for Petitioners. 41-Bt. PETITION FOR STONE ROAD, To the Board of Commissioners of Adams County, Indiana: We, the undersigned, all and each of us resident free holders of Rodt and Preble township, in Adams county, Indiana, most respectfully petition your honorable body to cause to be built and constructed a stone road on and along the following route, to-wit: Beginning on the Decatur & Ossian Gravel road at the northeast corner of section twenty-four in township twen-ty-eight north, range thirteen east, in Adams county, Indiana, thence to run south on the township line road dividing the townships of Root and Preble to the Decatur & Magley Gravel road and there to terminate at the southeast corner of the north half of section twenty-five in said township of Preble as aforesaid. Said proposed road w’ill run between section 24 and 25 in said Preble township and sections 19 and 30 in said Root township, all in Adams county, Indiana. Said road shall be called the Root & Preble Township Line Macadam Road No. 2. The length of said proposed! road will be about one and one-half miles. Said petitioners ask that said road be built as a single track road and that j the same be graded to the width of I twenty feet and that crushed stone be :placed thereon to the width of twelve feet, with stone screenings on top of said stone. Said petitoners further show that said proposed road will connect at its, northern extermity with the Decatur & Ossian Gravel Road and at the southern extremity with the Decatur & | Magley Gravel Road, both of which are free gravel roads now maintained and kent in repair by said Adams county, Indiana. Said petitioners further pray that when said, road is completed that it be naid for by an issue of bonds payable in twenty semi-annual installments, and to pay said bonds and the interest thereon; a tax be levied noon the taxable pronerty of the townships, of Root. and Preble as aforesaid. Said petitioners further ask that said road be ordered constructed without first submitting the question of building the same to the voters of said townships aforesaid, and that such proceeding be had to build said road and pay for same as are authorized by an act of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana approved March Bth, 1905. (Acts 1905. Page 521. Sec. 70.) Respectfully submitted: Theodore Ewell, William J. Bieberich, James O. Hoagland, H. C. Fuhrman, J. E. Mann, S'. J. Spangler. Wm. Bulmahn, H. Bulmahn, Henry Zwick, Fred Hockemeyer, Fred Mutschler, William Macke, G. W. Ruckman. Ge<> Keller, Benj. F. Butler, John E. Mann, Samuel Fuhrman, Herman Reiter, John C .Houk, William C. Gallmeler, Carl Hockemeyer, Wm. Hockemeyer, Henry Dirkson, John Bogner, John Evans, Charles Dirkson, H. A. Fuhrman, Daniel Bieberich, Henry Ehlerdlng, Henry Selking, Christ Macke. Christian Selking, August Spiking, William Linnemeier, Crist Schakel, Christopher Schultz, Charles Ewell, Otto Ewell, Fred Koenneinan, Wm. Schakel, Wm.’ Kruetzman, Martin Reppert, Ernest Doehrman, Fred Ostermeyer, Charles Bieberich, Charles Kless, Charles Miller, H. L. Buuck, Wm. F. Jaebker, W. P. Goldner, Fred Fuhrman, Joseph Stegmeyer and William Grote. This petition will be presented, to the Board of Commissioners on Monday, January 7, 1907, at which time any taxpayer of Root and Preble townships may appnear and make such objections as the law may provide for. C. D. LEWTON. Auditor. D. B. Erwin, Att’y for Petitioners. 41-3 t j ——:__i PETITION FOR STONE ROAD. I To the Board of Commissioners of Adams County, 'ndiana; We, the undersigned, all and each ; of us resident free holders o£ Preble township, in Adams county, Indiana, most respectfully petition your honorable body to cause to be built and con--1 structed a stone road on and along the following route, to-wit: Commencing at the intersection of '■ a highway running north and south 1 with the highway running east and 1 west, at the southeast corner of the I southeast quarter of section fifteen in ■ twenty-eight north, range ; thirteen east, in Adams County, State ’■ of Indiana, thence running north over the highway lying between sections : fourteen and fifteen and over the I highway lying between sections ten : anct eleven and over the highway lying - between sections two and three, all : said sections being in township twenl ty-eight north, range thirteen east. Ad- - ams county, State. of Indiana, and ter- ' minatlng at what is known as the Winl Chester road, at a point located about - ten rods north of the northeast corner of the northeast quarter of section ten in township twenty-eight north of i range thirteen east. Adams County, In- , diana. Said petitioners would further show r that the above highway when complet- - ed will be about two miles and ten , rods in length and shall be called the , Fred Blomenberg Macadam Road, Pre- - ble Township, Extension No. — Said proposed macadam road com- . mences at Its southern end at the free - gravel road running east and west and 1 known as the Ossfon road. '"rtd Ossian - road being already built and construct- , ed as a free gravel road, thence run- . ning north terminates at the free grav- . el road running in a northwesterly di-

• — — I rectlon and southeasterly direction known as the Winchester road, said ■ Winchester road being already built and constructed as a free gjavel road and lying about two miles and ten rods north of said Ossian road. Said proposed road connects two already constructed and built free gravel roads, lying about two miles and ten rods apart In said Preble township, Adams county, Indiana. Said petitioners would further show that it would be practicable to build said road as a single track road to be graded to the width of twenty-six feet and that crushed stone, crushed to the one-inch size, be placed thereon to the width of ten feet, with stone screenings on top of said stone. Said petitioners ask that the crushed stone placed «n said road shall be to the depth of eight inches and the screenings placed thereon shall be placed to a depth of Jour inches. We ask that you take such action upon this petition as you are authorized and directed to do under and by virtue of an act of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, approved March 9th, 1903, entitled, “An act concerning the construction of free gravel, stone or other macadamized roads, and for the payment of the posts thereof and their maintenance, and declaring an emergency,” and amended by the General Assembly of said State,' said amendment being approved March 4th, 1905, and any other acts of the General Assembly mentioned in said act of 1905, approved March 4, 1905. W’e further ask,that said "improvement be paid for by bonds issued by the County of Adams, State of Indiana, payable in twenty semi-annual installments, for the payment of which bonds we ask that a tax be leyied upon the taxable property of Preble township in sufficient amount to pay the interest and principal of said bonds as the same shall become due and payable under and according to the provisions of an act of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, approved March 11, '1904-, and any and all amendments thereto. We further represent to this board that this petition is signed by more than fifty resident free holders and voters of said Preble township, Adams county. State of Indiana Respectfully submitted: Fred Blomenberg, Miss Boese, Conrad Doehrman, Henry Koeneman, E r * nest Doehrman, Charles Ewell. Charles iWieymann, W: Heckman, A. Fuhrman, E. D. Marschand, T. Munlor, F. Buuck. Fred Heckman, Louis Buuck. Dan j Hoffman, Ernest Gallmeyer, Wm. H. j Gallmeyer, John Witte, John F. Fuhrman. August Conrad, Wm. Gallmeyer, W. D .Conrad, Chris Conrad. Fred Luilimann. Wm. Schwarz. August Scheiman, Henry E. Schmidt, Wm. Bulteiineier, Ed Gallmeier, Herman T/eese, Ernest Buuck. Aug Miller, Charles Kiefer, Wm. Koeneman, Wm. Werling, sr; Fred Eickhoff, Fred Ostermeyer, O. N. Kiefer. Otto Ewell, Chris Eickihoff. Wm. Koldeway, Jacob C. Kiefer, I John G. Miller, Gus Reinking, Chris Stoppehacen, Wm. Eickhoff, Lewis Worthman. Wm. Schakel. Wm. Bieberich, Fred Sherry, Chris Bultemeier, and Henry Wafel. This petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners on Monday, January 7, 1907, at which time any taxpayer of Preble township may apnear and make such objections as the law mav nrovide for. C. D. LEWTON. Auditor. Fruchte & Litterer, Att’ys Petitioners. 41-3 t. PETITION FOR STDNE ROAD. To the Boar of Commissioners of Adams County, Indiana: We ,the undersigned, all and each of us freeholders of Root township, in Adams county, Indiana, most respectfully petition your honorable body to cause to be built and constructed a stone road on and along the following route to-wit: Commencing at the northwest corner of the southwest quarter of section twenty-nine, township twenty-eight north, range fourteen east, in Adams county, Indiana extending thence north over and along the public highway between the north half of sections twen-ty-nine 'hnd thirty, and between sections nineteen and twenty, to a point where said highway turns in. a northeasterly direction, thence in a northeasterly direction to a point where said highway intersects with the Ossian in section twenty, township and range aforesaid. The above improvement as prayed for is less than three miles in length and connects at each end with an im jnroved free gravel road in said townshin. Venr furth'”’ e’k vour honorable body that esH liirtiway above described be gradeff and that broken stone be placed upon the grade, and that upon this broken stone there be placed stone screenings, and that there be built, made and constructed upon said highway what is known as a Macadamized road and your netitioners further show that the public, highway thus sought to be improved is a public highway already established and is what is known as a dirt road, and is one of the public highways of said Root township. Your petitioners further ask that said road as above described be graded to a width of 24 feet and that broken stone be placed thereon to a width of ten feet, and to a depth of ten inches in the center thereof and to a depth of eight inches at the sides thereof, and that crushed be placed thereon to a depth of four inches upon said broken stone. Thst the name of said road above described shall be called The Winchester Road Extension No. 2. We ask that said improvement ’ be. paid for by bonds issued by therbountv ' of Adams, in the State of Indiana, payable in twenty semi-annual installments or series, and ft* the pavment of which we ask that f> tax be levied upon the taxable propertv of said Root townshin, in Adams county, Indiana, in sufficient amount tn pay the interest and principal of said bonds as they ma” become due. that raaid road’ be built, and that said bonds be issued, i and that said tax be levied upon said . propertv of said township in accordanc° with the acts of the Legislature • of the State of Indiana now in force • and passed in thn year 1905. hoginning • on nage 550 in the Acts of 1905 We further ask that the Board take

the different steps as required by law ■ to have said improvement constructed ■ and made, that the same be construct- ■ i ed without submitting the question of ■ construction to an election of the vot- I ers of said Root ownship, as the said I board is authorized to do under the I acts of the legislature of 1905, as the I same appears on pages 554 and 555, 1 of the acts of the Legislature of the I State of Indiana, acts of 1905 I Respectfully submitted: 1 John E. Mann, James O. Hoaglano, 11 B. F. Butler, J. E. Mann, L. N. Grano- j] staff, John A. Fuhrman, Charles Scheiman, W. Macke, Carl Hockemeyer, Fred Hockemeyer, Joseph Stegmeyer, A. J. Bailey, R. A. Drummond, Chas. E. Magley, S. S. Magley, E. Fritzinger, > John Tonnelier, W. A. Former, Fred Mutschler, Tise Ulman, John G. Hey, ' Herman Reiter, Wm. Slngjeton, H. A. Fuhrman, William C. Gallmeler, Hor-' ace E. Butler, Reuben Baxter, Jesse S. Warner, L. C. Lenhart, Jonas Cline, Oscar Fritzinger, J. A. Cline, Samuel Fuhrman, John Evans, G. W. Buckman, Henry Selking, Christ Selking, Fred Busse, Anson Cunningham, Thomas Elzey, William Ezley, James Knave!. Henry Fuhrman, E. S. Christen, and A. J. Lewton, Wm. Hockemeyer, S. J. Spangler, John C. Houk, Henry F. Fuelling, Jacob Fuelling, F. L. Roop, Henry Zwick, Coat Cook,- Frank McConnell and A. R. Wolfe. This petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners on* Monday, January 7, 1907, at which time any taxpayer of'Root township may appear and make such objections as the law may provide for. C.'D. LEWTON, Auditor. 41-3 t. PETITION FOR STONE ROAD. To the Board of Commissioners of Adams County, Indiana: < We, the undersigned, all add each of us resident freeholders of Root township in Adams County, Indiana, most respectfully petition your honorable body to cause to be built and constructed a macadamized road on and along the following route, to-wit: Commencing at the northwest corner of section eight township twenty-eight north, range fourteen east, running thence east over and along the public highway for a distance of two and sev-en-eighths miles between section five and eight and sections four and nine and sections three and ten, township twenty-eight north, range fourteen east and terminating at the northeast corner of section ten. township twentyeight north, range fourteen east. The above improvement as prayed for is less than three miles in length and connects at each end with an improved free gravel road in Root township. 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 upon such broken stone there be placed stone screenings 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 highwav thus sought to be improved is a public highway already establishd, is what is known as a dirt road, and is one of the public highways of said Root town sb in. Your netltioners further ask that said road as above described be graded to a width of twenty-two feet and * that broken stone be placed thereon, to a width of ten feet and to a depth of ten inches in the center thereof and to a depth of eight inches at the sides thereof, and that crushed stone screenings be nlaced thereon to a depth of three inches, upon said broken stone. That said mad be constructed as a single track, the same to be made of crushed stone and stone screenings placed thereon. That the name of said road above described shall be called the Harmon Reiter and Henry W. Bui- . mahn Macadam Road extension. We ask that said imnrovement 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 said Roof townshin, in Adams, county, Indiana, in sufficient amount to nay 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 he levied upon said property of said township, in accordance with the acts of the Legislature of + he State Tnd.ia.na. now in force and nessod in the ”ear 19*5 beginning on nage s r n ump;. We further that the heard take , the diffe-en*- m bv j aw 1 +havn to do e to hare said 'mnrovement constructend mnd“. tfint the sunp be constructed without submitting the same * to an election of the voters of said Root township, as the said board is authorized to do under acts of the Legislature o f 1905. as the same appears on pages 554 and 555. of the acts of legislation nf the State of Indiana, ac + s of 1905. Respectful!v submitted: Henry F. W. Bulmahn. John G. Hey, j Harry Bulmahn, Conrad Gallmeier, J. A. Fuhrman, Wm. Hockemeyer; Carlo j Hockemeyer, Charles Scheiman, Fred I Hockemeyer, W. Macke. Henry Selk- I ing, Christian Selking, Fred Busse, J. fl B. Mann, James O. Hoagland, S, 3. fl Snangler. Coat Cook. George KeMer, A Charles Dirkson, Henry Dirkson, John 1 E. Mann. B. F. Butler, Chas E. Maglefc' I John Tonnelier. John_Bogner, Wm. Bui- 9 , mahh, Jonas Cline, Herman Reiter, ■ Henry Zwick, Henry F. Fuelling, Jacob 1 Guelllng, Martin Gerke, Ed Wietfeldt, ■ John Henry Fuelling, Theodore Ho- ■ brock, William Fuelling, Ernest Fuell- I . ing, Ernest Franz. Fred Busse, Louis ■ H. Boknecht, Ernest Conrad. Ch Vies 1 . Boknecht, Jimmie Franz. William Lie- I . mann .William Ostermeyer, August ■ Walter, John C. Houk. Henry Weber, .■ Louis Weber, Frederick Hoile, Chas, K F. Fuelling. Clamor Fuelling, J. M. H Knapp, F. W. Christlaner, Henry Mar- J henke, WMIls Fonner, William C. Gall- 1 meier. August Koeneman, C. D. Kun- I kle and S .D. Kunkle. This petition will be presented to the J Board of Commissioners on Monday, January 7, 1907, J at which time any taxpayer of Root fl township may appear and make such a objections as the law may provide for, m C. D. LEWTON, Auditor. fl 41-3 t.