Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 7, Decatur, Adams County, 18 April 1907 — Page 5

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APPOINTMENT OF ADMINISTRA- , TOR. < Notice is hereby given, That the undersigned has been appointed Administrator of the estate of Pauline Kirchner, late of Adams county, de- ' ceased. The estate is probably sol- ( vent. JOHN C. GRANDSTAFF, 1 April 16, 1907. Administrator. ' Peterson & Moran, Attorneys. 7-3 t. 1 i NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS. 1 The State of Indiana, County of : Adams, ss: < * In the Adams Circuit Court, April i Term, 1907. No. 7369. Daniel I. i Weikle vs. Martha 1 C. Lynch. Suit on i I street assessment lien. i I It appearing from affidavit filed in , I the above entitled cause, that Martha I C. Lynch, the above named defendant \is a non-resident of the State of In- < ,diana. J Notice is therefore hereby given the Said Martha C. Lynch, that she be and .ppear before the Hon. Judge of the Idams Circuit Court on the Bth day f.June, 1907, the same being the 54th uridical Day of the present term, to ie holden at the Court House in the Mty of Decatur, commencing on Monay, the Bth day of April, A. D. 1907, nd plead by answer or demur to said bmpliint, or the same will be heard nd determined in her absence. i Witness my name, and the Seal of aid Court hereto affixed, this 16th Qy of April, 1907. • DAVID GERBER, Clerk. By PAUL AUMGARTNER, Deputy. A. P. Beatty, Attorney for plaintiff. I -3t N)TICE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE: Tlje undersigned, administrator with thj yvill annexed, of the estate of Mathas Schafer, deceased, hereby giveh JRWiCe that by virtue of an order of thS Adams Circuit Court, he will at . toe ©ld Adams County Bank, Decatur, Indiana, at the hour of nine a. m., on Tuesday, May the 14th, 1907 and .from day to day thereafter until, sold, oiler for sale at private sale, the following described rAfff estate: Commencing at the center* of the street on the east line of In-lot three hundred and - thirty-five (335) in the southern addition to the town (now city) of Decatur, Adams county, Indiana, thence west along the south line of the street, one hundred and thirty-two (132) feet; thence south parallel with the west line of Winchester street forty (40) .feet; thence east 'parallel with the street on the no|rth side of said lot one hundred and thirty-two (132) feet to the west line of Winchester street; thence north on the west line of said Winchester forty (40) feet to the place of Said sale will be made subject to the approval of said court, for not less than the appraised value of said real estate and upon the following terms arid conditions: ( Cash if the purchaser defeires to pay the full amount of the said'purchase money; or one third cash in hand on day of sale, one third , in ine months and one third in eighteen months, evidenced notes of the purchaser, deferred payments’ tp bear interest at the rate of six P er cent. from date, waiving rellef.prov.uing for attorneys’ fees, and secured by personal security and by mortgage on the real estate sold. Edward X. Ehinger, Administrator with the will annexed. 6-4 t - —> * NOTICE OF COMMISSIONER’S SALE OF REAL ESTATE Notice is hereby given that Jesse C. Sutton, a commissioner appointed by the Adams Circuit Court of Adams connty, Indiana, to make sale of real estate ordered sold by said court in a cause for partition in which Dyonis Schmitt, guardian of Peter J. Braun et al., is plaintiff, and John Braun is defendant, in all respects agreeable to the order of said court, pt the law office of Merryman & Sutton, over the Old Adams County Bank Decatur, Indiana, on Friday, April 26th, 1907, betweep the hours of nine o’clock a. m., and four o’clock p. m., of said day, will offer for sale at private sale wb real estate so ordered sold by | said court in said cause, described as I follows, to-wit: E Inlot number twenty in the original

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plat of the town (now city) of Deca tur, in Adams county in the of Indiana. If said real estate shall not be sole on said day, the same will be offeree for' sale at said place of sale fron* day to day until the same is sold. ■ I Terms:— One-third cash; one-thirc ■in one year; and one third in twe years; deferred payments to bear six I per cent Interest and secured by perl ; sonal surety and a mortgage on tha i said premises; but if purchaser pre| fers he may pay all the purchase mo ney in cash. All subject to the approval of saic court. JESSE C. SUTTON, I Commissioner* Merryman & Sutton, Atty. 4-4 t

NOTICE OF THE FILING OF PETITION FOR HIGHWAY. To Henry Fuhrman, William Arnold] Elsie Stalter, Harvey Smith, Sarah Barnett, John H. Barnett, Cora Crow-j ell, Lydia Nelson, Gideon Barnett, Viola Hower, Edna Ashbaucher, Edward Barnett, Olive Barnett, and allt, others concerned: You are hereby notified that DavicF Fuhrman, William Arnold, Elsie Stalter and others have filed in the Auditor’s office of Adams county, Indiana, and the same will be presented to the Board of Commissioners of Adams county, at their regular May term, 1907, a petition for the vacation \|f a portion of the*'following described highway, towit: the said high-] way being, Commencing on the east line of section twenty-five (25) in township Lventy-seven (27) north range fourth (14) east in Adams county, InJ*&na, about forty (40) rods south of the north east corner of the south east quarter of said section twenty-five (25) thence running west one mile, and that portion to be vacated being described as follows, to • wit: Commencing about two hundred rods south of the north east corner of the north east quarter of said section twenty-five (25) township and range aforesaid, thence west one-hali mile and there to terminate, and that: at the said time and in the same peti-' tion will be asked to take such steps as are necessary under the law tc open, change and locate the highway decribed as follows, towit: Commencing at the public highway at the north west corner of the north east quarter of said section twenty-five (25) in township twenty-seven (27) norths range fourteen (14) oast in saidl Adams county, Indiana as aforesaid? thence running south on the half section line to the public highway abdve f described, a distance of about two! hundred rods and there to terminate. The names of the owners of the land’, through which the said proposed high-, way will run are, Henry Fuhrman," William Arnold, Elsie Stalter, Harvey* Smith, Sarah Barnett, John H. Bar--nett, Cora Crowell, Lydia Nelson, Gideon Barnett, Viola Hower, Edna Ashbaucher, Edward Barnett, Olive Barnett] heirs of Henry Barnett deceased,! avid Fuhrman,William Arnoldi and QZteen others. 6-2 t i MACADAM ROAD PETITION. ' State of Indiana, ’ i County of Adams, ss: t Before the Board of Commissioners of. the county of Adams. We, the undersigned, each and allof whom ae legal voters, householders! and free-holders of and in the township of Root jn the county of Adams,, and state of Indiana, do hereby re-1 spectfully petition your honorable] body that you proceed to have a freemacadamized stone road constructed and completed in said Root township over and upon the public highway situated on the following route to-wit: Commencing at the north-west corner of section twenty-four (24) in township twenty-eight (28) north range fourteen (14) east, running thence north on the highway dividing sections thirteen and fourteen (13 and 14) and sections eleven (11) and twelve (12) to the north-east corner of section eleven (11), township and range aforesaid, running thence west over the public highway dividing sections two (2) and eleven (11) to the north-west corner of section eleven (11) township and range aforesaid and there terminating. Said road being ’ less than three (3) miles in length and to be known as Extension No. Five (5) of Root township. Said proposed improvement connects at the : commencement thereof with a free gravel road of said Root township, and at the end or terminus thereof said proposed road connects with a free ' gravel road of said Root township, • both of which said gravel roads at the end and commencement of this ■ improvement were constructed under 1 the laws of the state of Indiana, for » the construction of free gravel or - macadam roads. f Your petitioners further ask your } honorable, body that said highway I above described be graded and that i broken stone be placed upon the grade, and that upon such broken f i stone there be placed crushed stone ] s screenings, and that there be built,: , made and constructed upon said high-j -way what is known as a macadamized ■ t road. Your petitioners further show, that the public highway thus sought to be , improved is k public highway already 1 established and,.is. one of the public j highways of saiu- r«~ township, r Your petioners further ask, that said j road as above described be graded to a width of twenty-two (22) feet and 1 that broken stone be placed thereon to a width of ten (10) feet and to a : depth of ten (10) inches in the center thereof, and to a depth of eight (8) inches at the side thereof, and that the crushed stone screenings be placed thereon to a depth of three (3) inches upon said broken stone. That said road be constructed as a double track. We ask that said improvement be paid for by bonds issued by the county of Adams, in the state of Indiana, payable in twenty (20) semi-annual installments or series, and for the payment of which we ask that a tax be levied upon the taxable property of said Root township in Adams county, Indiana, in a sufficient amount to pay the interest and principal of said bonds, as they may become due, that said road be built and that said bonds be issued and said tax be levied upon I said property of said Root township

SHE GREATLY APPRECIATES. Mrs. Ella Mereness Thanks H Many Kind Friends. Will you allow me this method expressing my gratitude to the pe pie of Decatur and surrounding cou try, for their kindness and friend ness, shown Mr. Mereness and m self during our short sojourn wit you? We returned here after losin our hoipe and practically withot means to settle and buy stock, etc., t stock our place. What did the bus ness men of Decatur do? Refus credit? No, indeed; and one and al extended the helping hand, gave m time and more than that, never eve: asked me to settle until convenien so to do, not knowing if I would sue ceed or not. But thanks to them, will be able to settle in full in money But my gratitude for their trust am faith in my honesty will never cease I wish specially to speak of our de parted brother W. H. Niblick, als C. A. Dugan, Keubler & Moltz, A Vancamp, Holthouse Drug Co.,Shaffe Bros., Noah Lock, Baker & Andersoi Anna Winnes, Gay & Swick and th telephone girls. Many others might mention, but these in particula as my dealings were daily almos with them, and many times when th clouds were darkest and but littl hope of meeting obligations, thel words of cheer and encouragemen have kept me up, and I also wish t mention Oscar Fritzinger and wife parties who bought my home. The have been staunch friends and thank them and hope the dear ol home, “The Cross Farm,” may blot som and bloom and bring forth abur dance to repay their efforts. Now, ii leaving Decatur and my many friendi I have only this to say: The majorit; of you have seen me grow up in you midst, have known my joys and sor rows and know that I love my home here, and my only reason for evei leaving is to be near my children in my declining years. But my best wishes will remain with you one and all, and may prosperity and happiness ever be the lot of one and all in Decatur. Not being able to see you all I take the plan to say goodby and God bless you is my prayer. ELLA MERENESS. g EXPERIENCE WITH A CYCLONE Dan Schenck Writes an Interesting Letter. D. J. Schenck is in receipt of a letter from his son Dan who is teaching school in Alabama, and who recently had some experience with a cyclone. He writes as follows: Spring Hill, Ala., April 5, 1907. 'Jflyltnenl o? V which bonds,'we’asTc that there be a tax levied upon the taxable property of said Monroe township and the town of Berne in a sufficient amount to pay the interest and principle of said bonds as the same shall become due and payable under and according to the provisions of said act of the General Assembly of the state of Indiana, approved March Bth, 1905, and any and all amendments thereto. The improvement herein prayed for to be known as an extension of the Pleasant Valley and Oak Grove macadam road, the said Pleasant Valley and Oak Grove macadam road being a road petition gnd voted oh under an act of the General Assembly of the state of Indiana, approved March 3rd, 1893, and the amendments thereto, and constructed pursuant thereto. Nicholas Ri<?h, Andrew J. Muser, Ben Habbegger, Albert Meyer, David N. Sprunger, Emil Flickinger, David O. Lehman, Jacob Baker, J, B. Dull, A. B. Dougherty, J. A. Habegger, R. G. Link, W. M. Clymer, Jacob Musser, John J. Soldner, David Sprunger, Simon Gilllom, Emanuel Lehman,Wm. Reusser, Noah O. Baumgartner, J. F. Lehman, A. Sprunger, Ed Luginbill, Noah Wulliman, Paul Felber, D. S. Wittwer, David P. Somer, Wm. Miller, Chas. Lehman, D. N. Stauffer, Dr. E. Franz, J. W. Craig, J. C. Schug, Jacob Egly, Amos Ellenberger, D. L. Shalley, W. Wittwer, C. A. Augspurger, Ferd Ryf, Chr. Deusser, L. A. Sprunger, George M. Hedlngton, M. Burkhulter, E. A. Luginbill, W. Baumgartner, A. } E. Mischand, Benj. Sprunger, John | Rohrer, T. Mischand, Sam Simison, Jeff Lilchty, A. A. Sprunger, E. D. ' Engeler, E. M. Ray, C. L. Simkins, i Frd Rohrer, Amos Hirschy, Bert Parr, i Benj. Nussbaum, D. C. Lehman, S. I Sprunger, Abe Beer, Jacob Huser, W. T. Waggoner, S. F. Lehman, W. P. Hendricks. This petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners on Monday, May 6, 1907, ’ at which time any taxpayer of Monroe may appear and make such objections as the law may provide for. 7-3 t. C. D. LEWTON, Auditor. PETITION FOR STONE ROAD. , State of Indiana, County of Adams, ss. - Before the Board of Commissioners of the county of Adams, March Term, , 1907. We, the undersigned, each and all , of whom are resident free holders and i voters of and in said Wabash town- > j ship in the county of Adams, and : state of Indiana, do hereby respectful- : ly petition your honorable body that I , you proceed to have a free macadamized stone road constructed and coml pleted in said Wabash township, over ;, and upon the public highway, situated i■ on the following route, to-wit: Comi' mencing at the south-east corner of i lot number one hundred and twenty

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(120) in the town of Geneva, Wabash township, Adams county, Indiana. At the center of railroad street, running thence east on Shackley streetfto Hale street; thence north on Hal£ 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 south-west quarter of section twenty-eight (28); thence south on the half section line to the south-west corner of the north half of the north-west quarter of the northeast quarter of section thirty-three (33) thence east eighty (80) rods to the south-east corner of the north half of the north-west quarter of the north half of* the north-west quarter of the north-east quarter of section thirtythree (33); thence south to the southwest corner of thr* north-east quarter of the north-east quarter; thence east to the south-east, corner of toe northeast quarter of the north-east* quarter of section south on the section line between sections thirty-three (33) and thirty-four (34) to the south-east corner of section thirty-three (33] to the boundary line between said Wabash township, said county and state, and Jay county, Indiana and there to terminate the same being about two arid threefourths (2%) miles in length, all of the above being in township twentyfive (25) north range fourteen (14) east. Said road to be extension No. three (3) of the Geneva, Ceylon and ■ Wabash Townsnip Macadam Road. Said highway thus sought to be improved intersects and connects at the commencement thereof 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 and is an extension of said macadam road. Said highway thus sought to he improved terminates and ends on the south boundary line of said Wabash township, and there connects at the terminus and end thereof with an improved highway on the boundary line of Wabash township, Adams county, Indiana, and Bearcreek township in Jay county, Indiana. Your petitioners further ask your honorable body that said highway above described be graded and that broken stone be placed upon the grade and that there be built and construct ed upon said highway what is known as a macadamized road, and your petitioners further show that the public highway sought to be thus improved is one of the public highways of said Wabash township. Your petitioners further—ask that said highway as above described be graded to a width of twenty-six (26) feet, and that broken stone be placed theteon to a width often (10) feet and that the broken stone be placed thereon to a depth of ten (10) inches in the center thereof, and to a depth of eight (8) inches at the sides thereof. That the name of said road above described shall be called Extension No. 3, of the Geneva, Ceylon and Wabash Township Macadam Road, that the same be a double track system, one of dirt and the other of crushed stone. I 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, and upon the taxable property of the towns of Geneva, situated in said Wabash township, said county and state, in a sufficient amount to pay the interest and principal of said bonds as

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they may become due. That said road be built, that said bonds be issued and said tax be levied upon said property of said town of Geneva, and of said Wabash township, Adams county, Indiana, in accordance with the Acts of the .Legislature of the state of Indiana, passed in the year 1905, and as amended in the year 1907, in the Acts of the General Assembly of the state of Indiana for the year 1907. We further ask that the Board talje the different steps as requiied by law to have said improvement constructed and made, and that they biuld and construct the same under and by vir'tue of the Laws of the state of Indiana providing for the extension of free gravel or macadam roads. S. W. Hale, P. A. Macklin, S. Zerkle, J. H. Linton, John O. Kramer, Jessie Ford, T. E. Mann, C. A. Mann, Frank Haviland, W. A Wells, Fred E. Lindsey, Frank Haughton, Jacob H. Zehr, Ada M. McKinick, Geo. B. Robinson, W. W. Briggs, Homer Pontius, M. E. Hutter, ,C. A. Haviland, J A. Anderson, J. M. Wells, O. C. Fink, W. C. Campbell, F. J. McWinnery, Frank Kratter, Michael McGiff, J. H. Rieff, Chas. Hutt,' H. M. Aspy, J. Banning. John Pitts, John A. Didot. C. A. Whiteman. J. E. Briggs, A. P. Davidson, H. J. Greene, E. S. Callihan, J. W. Deitsch, C. D. Porter, G.' E. Fink, J. T. Love, F. F. Gregg, P. F. Bink, Abe Shoemaker, ■ D. B. Linton, Noah Shoemaker, Josephus Martin, A. G. Mastick, Noah Shepherd, L. L. Mattox, C. 0. Rayn, W. C. Pearse, John Brand,A. A. Mason,David Fox, Alfred Kinney, A. M. Redding, Samuel Egly, James JI. Kelley, F. M. Connor. Bowen Vanenon, Socrates Cook, W. J. Nelson. This petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners on Monday, May 6, 1907, at which time any taxpayer of Wabash township may appear and make such objections as the law may provide for. 2-3 t. C. D. LEWTON, Auditor. PETITION FOR STONE ROAD. State of Indiana, County of Adams, ss. Before the Board of Commissioners, of the county of Adams, March Term, I 1907. | We, the undersigned, each and all of whom are resident freeholders and voters of and in Monroe townfehip in the county of Adams, and .state of Indiana,do hereby respectfully petition | your honorable body that you proceed to have a free macadamized stone road constructed and completed in said Monroe township over and upon the public highway situated on the following route, to-wit: Commencing at the south-west corner of section seventeen (17) township twenty-seven (27) north range fourteen (14) east in Adams county, Indiana, running thence east over and upon the highway between sections seventeen (17) and twenty (20) and sections sixteen (16) and twenty-one (21) and terminates at the north-east corner of section twenty-one (21) township and range aforesaid, that the I improvement thus prayed for is less than three (3) miles in length and connects at both ends with a free macadam road both of which roads had been voted upon by the voters of said Monroe township and said roads were constructed under the laws of the state of Indiana, providing for the construction of free gravel or macadam roads. Your petiti<sners ask your honorable body that said highway above described be graded and that broken stone be placed upon the grade and]

I that upon such broken stone there be • placed stone screenings. I Your petitioners further .show that I the highway tfius sought to be imi pr< U'd is a public highway already . established and is one of the public i highways of said Jbnrci township. Your petitioners further ask that , sal ’ road is above described be graded to a width of twenty tour (24) feet,and that broken .' tone be placed thereon to a width - of ten (10) feet and to a “ depth of eight (8) inches at the sides ’ thereof and to a depth of ten(lo)inch- - es in the center thereof, and that I crushed stone screenings be placed ■ thereon to a depth of three (?D inches • upon said broken stone, that said road ' be c-ustructcd as a double trick, that the name of said road shall be Monroe , Township Extension No. 6. ; We ask that said improvement be : paid for by bonds issued by the coun- • ty of Adams, in the state of Indiana, , payable in twenty semi-annual install- , ments or series, and for the payment of which we ask, that a tax be levied , upon the taxable property of said ■ Monroe township and the towns of , Berne, and Monroe situated therein , in Adams county, Indiana, in a suffle- , lent amount to pay the interest and . principal of said bonds as they become , due, that said road be built and that , said bonds be issued and said tax be levied upon said property of said town- , ship in accordance with the Acts of • the Legislature of the state of Indiana now in force and passed in the year 1905, and as amended in the Acts of . the General Assembly of - the state , of Indiana for the year 1907. We further ask that the Board take the different steps as required by law to have said improvement constructed , and made as petitioned herein and that they construct the same under the laws of the state of Indiana now in force providing for the extension of free gravel or macadam roads. C. C. Beer, Paul Girod. Robt. Schmit, • Amos Ellenberger, Noah Ellenberger, £ Fred Neaderhouser, C. E. Stuckey, J. W. Hare, H. H. Stuckey, Emil Juilberat, C. G. Egly, John M. Amstutz, Peter Soldner, Gideon Reisen, Wm. Baumgartner, Dr. R. Sprunger, Amos, Hirschy, J. D. Winteregg, C. C. Yoder, Jerry Liechty, Dennis Striker, Ed LuI ginbill, Wm. Miller, H. S. Mischand, 'John Wlttmer, Abe Beer, Louis A. I Brounner, Emile Brunner, Jacob Hu--1 ser, Mathias Striker, Burkhart Lehman, M. Jacobs, A. J. Liechty, Fred Braun, J. J. Lilchty, Christ Iniger, Jacob Raichert, Peter Steiner, Silas I Sprunger, Peter F. Graber, Magdalena Zurcher, Peter Inuger, Peter J. Moser, Jacob Graber, Jacob Schwartz, John McCarthy, Sylvester Johnson, Rudolph Schug, D. D. Shalley, Levi Moser, Peter Nusbaum.John Nusbaum, Emanuel Sprunger, Christian Hilty, Chris Stengel, Amos Reusser, J. O. Schug, Edwin Lehman, C. C. Schug, Albert. Stauffer. Sam Johnson, John F. Mazelin, Daniel Mazelin, John J. Schwartz, Jacob Musser, William Nussbaum, John J. Soldner, Peter F. Mazelin, David F. Mazelin, Peter H. Habeggar, Christ Christener, R. E. Smith, William Sherer, Jacob J. Roth, J. E. Johnson,,Jacob J. Schwartz, Eli Beer, Victoria Graber, David D. Winteregg, Deniel H. Habegger, James K. Martz, Jacob Scherer, Albert Meyer, Joseph Rich, Ira Wagoner, David Biberstine, Wm. F. Schug. This petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners on Monday, May 6, 1907, at which time any taxpayer of Monroe township may appear and make such objections as the law may provide for. I 2-3 t C. D. LEWTON, Auditor. i ———