Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 15, Decatur, Adams County, 13 June 1907 — Page 8

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LEGAL ADTaMOm NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT, OF ESTATE. Notice is hereby given to the creditors, heirs and legatees of Joshua Bright, deceased, to appear in the I Adams Circuit Court, held at Deca-1 tur, Jndiana, on the 2nd day of Sep-1 tember, 1907, and show cause, if any, I why the final settlement accounts with I the estate of said decedent should not I be approved; and said heirs are no-1 tified to then and there make proof 1 of heirship, and receive their distributive shares. GEIRGE H. BRIGHT, NELSON W. ABBOTT, Executors. Decatur, Ind., June 4, 1907. J. T. Merryman & J. C. Sutton, Attys. !4-2t PETITION FOR STONE ROAD. State of Indiana, County of Adams, ss: | Before the Board of Commissioners i of the county of Adams, July term, 1907. We, the undersigned, each and all of whom are legal voters, householder anH fr°holders of and in the township of Wabash in the county of Adams and state of Indiana, do hereb'" r° n-'cti’ , elv petition your honorable body that you proceed to have a free macadamized stone road constructed and completed in said Wabash township over and upon the public highway situated on the following route to-wit:

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Commencing at the northwest corner of section fifteen (15) in township twenty-five (25) north range fourteen (14) east, running 1 thence 'east on the section line between sections' ten (10) and fifteen (15), eleven (ill and fourteen (14); twelve (12) arid 1 thirteen (13) to the northeast cornet of section thirteen (13) township and range aforesaid, and there to terminate, said road being less than three (3) miles in length. Said road to be known as Extension No. 4 of the Geneva, Ceylon and Wabash Township Macadam Road, a free macadam road heretofore constructed and the question of constructing the same was submitted to and voted upon by the voters of said Wabash township. Said proposed Improvement connects at the commencement thereof with the said Geneva, Ceylon and Wabash Free Macadam Road and at the end of terminus thereof said proposed road ends on the township line being the line dividing said Wabash township and Jefferson township in said county and state, and said proposed improvement at the end and terminus thereof connects with an improved highway on the township line aforesaid.

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 tscreenings and that there be built; made, and constructed upon said highway what is known as a macadamized rpad. Your petitioners further show that the public highway thus sought to be improved is a public highway already- established and is one of the public highways of said Wabash townships . n Your petitioners further ask that said road as above described be graded to a width of twenty-two (22) feet, and that broken stone be placed thereon to a width of ten (10) feet and to a depth of ten (10) inches in the cen’ ter thereof and to a depth of eight (8) inches at the sides 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 j that the name of said road shall be the I Geneva, Ceylon and Wabash Township Macadam Road Extension No. 4.

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 instalments or series, and for the payment of which we ask that a tax be levied upon the taxable property of said Wabash 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 taxi be levied upon said said property ot said township in accordance with the acts of the legislature of the state -of Indiana, ’passed in the year 1905 aMI amended lin the year 1907 in the acts of the General Assembly of the State o£ Ihidiana 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 and that they construct the same under and by virtue of the laws lof the state of Indiana, providing for the extension of Free Gravel or Macadam Roads. George Cook, Jacob Cook, Ardon S. I Burley, John W. Cook, Wm. F. Fravel, I Henry Chrisman, Samuel N. Burkett, William Follen, Jacob Runkel, Thomas E. Macy, R. B. Kerr, Sam Soldner, C. Biery, W. Z. Glancy, Wm, Peel, Wm. Shaffter, Peter Bauman, Fred Hanni, Wm. Mann, Jacob T. Burley, Christ I Stenier, William Lehman, Lafayette I Rape, T. J. Williams, Abe Kneuss, John Kuntz, J. H. Smith, Michael Enyel, Michael Schafer, Alex Itthinger, Henry Engle, Eldridge Weaver,''Nathan Shepherd, J. W. Deltsch, R. A. Macklin, S. W. Hale, J. A. Andgrson, L. L. Mattox, Adam C. Ford, S. Cook, I D. B. Linton, F. M- Ryneavson, Jacob Pease, Adam CUIly, P. C. Ford, W, W. I Briggs, Wm. Speicher, Andrew idlewine, S. H. Teeple, BartimOus Boice, John Brown, Jacob Kneuss, Jacob Halfen, George Aumiller, Peter Aumilller, Daniel Baumgartner, Wtri. Hat' low, Russel Long, August Huselman, I Fred Mathys. This petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners on Monday, July 1, 1907, at which time the taxpayers of Wabash township may appear and make , such objections as the law may provide for. i 115-ot . i C. D. LEWTON, Auditor. I r- — ! PETITION FOR STONE ROAD. I State of Indiana, County of Adams, ss: I *®. e . fore the Board of Commissioners |or the county of Adams, July term,

1907. We, the undersigned, each arid all of whom are resident freholders and voters of Washington township, and the city of Decatur, 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 Washington township, said county and state, over and along the public highway, situated on the following route, to-wit: Commencing at a point in the center of the highway running north and south and dividing section three (3) and four (4) in township twenty-seven (27) north, range fourteen (14) east, and about 132 feet north of the. north line of the right-of-way of the Chicago and Erie railroad company, running thence east along and over the public highway, for a distance of about thirteen hundred (1300) feet, thence running in a south-easterly direction over the public highway for a distance of about one-fourth (%) of a mile and terminating at th® east Washington Macadam Road in section two (2) township twenty-seven (27) north range fourteen (14) east, in

Adams county, Indiana. That said improvement as prayed for is less than three mites in length and connects at both ends with a free macadam road, in said Washington township, and that 'this improvement is to be a continuation of and an extension of the Decatur and Monroe Macadam Road extension and is to be called Decatur and Monroe Extension No. 5. Your petitioners further ask your honorable body that said highway above described, be drained and 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 ft known as a macadamized road. And your further show that the highway thus sought to be j improved is a public highway already established and is one of the highways of said Washington township. We ask that said improvement be paid for in bonds issued by the county of Adams, in the state of Indiana, payable in twenty semi-annual instal-

ments or series, and for ■ the payment of which we ask that a tax be levied; upon the taxable property of said Washington township, and the city of Decatur, situated in said township, all 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, that said bonds be issued and said tax be levied, upon said property, of said township and said city, in accordance with the acts of the legislature of the state of Indiana, parsed in the year 1905, in the acts of 19.07, and any and all amendments therbfo. We further ask the board that the proposed improvement be constructed, without submitting the question of building the same to the voters of said Washington township, and that the board take the different steps to have said highway improved as prayed for in this petition, and that they construct the same under and by virtue of the laws of the state of Indiana, providing for the extension of free gravel or macadam, roads. L. G. Ellingham, Geo. W. Roop, Fred Schafer, H. B. Heller, C. Radamacker, Eli Meyer, H. Krick, J. Q. Neptune, Julius Haugk, B. Fred H. Heuer, Simeon J. Hain, H. R. Moitz, J. F. Lachot, E. Woods, David Gerber, E. Burt Lenhart, C. A. Dugan, P. K. Kinney, Fred Hoffman, J. H. Yager, C. S. Clark, A. Van Camp, W, J. Archbold, B. J. Sholty, H. M. DeVoss, J. D. Stults, Roy Archbold, T. R. Moore, P. Kirsch, Fred Reppert, David E. Smith, C. C. Schafer, L. A. Graham, D. M. Hower, H. F. Callow, J. B. Holthouse, P.Houlthouse,N. C. Anderson,M. Bums, P. B. Thomas, A. J. Smith, F. Y: H. F. Linn, C. D. Lewton, R. K. Erwin, L. C. Helm, J. C. Sutton, Charlie Voglewede, A. P. Beatty, John T. Myers, Ed Bultemeyer, Dyonis Schmitt, F. A. Peoples, J. H. Heller, G. Reynolds, S. E. Shamp, J. C. Tritch, ■ W. H. Lee, Wm. Jackson, Thomas T. , Lister, Orval Harruff, L. Ellis, D. B. ’Erwin, A. F. Welfley, Harry N. Heim, • Dan M. Niblick, H. F. Costello, D. D. Clark, G. Christen. ThJ? petition will be presented to I the Boird of Commissioners on ■j Monday, July 1, 1907, ■ at which time any taxpayer of Washington township may appear and make such objections as the law may provide for. 15-3 t <v\ C. D. LEWTON, Auditor. —» NOTICE. 1 , All persona assessed in the Werllng

and Meyers ditch take notice that; ten per cent of your assessment on said ditch is due and payable at the 1 county surveyor's office on the last! Saturday of June 29, 1907, and one installment of ten per cent on the I last Saturday in each month until I paid in full. L. L. BAUMGARTNER, 14-lt. Supt. of Construction. NOTICE OF PUBLIC LETTING. Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of Adams county, Indiana, will receive blds for the construction of a .macadamized road in Washington said county .known as the Raudenbush-Hain Macadam Road, up and until 10 o’clock a. m., on Monday, July 1, 1907, at a regular session of said Board ot Commissioners held in the city of Decatur, Adams, county, Indiana, sealed > blds will be received for the construction of said road tn accordance with the plana, specifications and report of the Viewers and Engineer which are now on file in the Auditor’s office of said county; said roads to be built of crushed stone alone. A good bond must -accompany each bid twice the amount of the bid filed conditioned for faithful performance of said work and that the bidder if awarded the* contract therefor will enter into contract therefor and complete the same according to such contract and in accordance with the bid filed. All bids shall be made so as to give the a mount-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 . oner 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, wjll receive bids for the construction of a macadamized road in Hartford township in said county, known as the Reynolds Macadam Road Extension No. 4, up and until 10 o’clock a. m., on Monday, July 1, 1907, at a regular session of said 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 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 enter into Contract therefor and complete the same according to such contract and in accordance with the bld filed. All bids shall be made so as to give the amount for which said road will be constructed for pash 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.

"n ~ t NOTICE OF PUBLIC LETTING. i Notice is hereby given that the f Board of Commissioners of Adams £ county, Indiana, will receive bids for the construction of a macadamized > road in Monroe township, in said county, known as the Huser and Wag- < goner Macadam Road, up and until 10 ] O’clock a. m., on I - Monday, July 1, 1907, at a regular session of said Board of Commissioners held In the city of Decatur, Adams, county, Indiana, sealed ] bids will be received for the construe- , tion of said road in accordance with 1 the plans, specifications and report of ; the Viewers and Engineer which are , now on file in the Auditor’s office of ( said county, said roads to be built of crushed stone alone. A good bond must accompany each bld twice the amount of the bld filed conditioned for faithful performance ; of said work and that the bidder if awarded the contract therefor will enter into contract therefor and complete the same according to such contract and in accordance with the bid filed. „ All bids shall bfi ; made so as to give the amount for which said road will be constructed for cash payable on es- 1 tlmates 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 blds. C. D. LEWTON, 14-3 t Auditor of Adams County. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. Notice is hereby given that the. un- , dersigned, superintendent of the construction of the John L. Helms ditch, in Preble township, Adams county, 1 Indiana, on Saturday, June 22, 1907, at 10:30 o’clock a. m., at the office of the County Surveyor, in the City of i Decatur, in said county, receive sealed • blds for the construction of said ditch in accordance with reports, plans and specifications therefor, now on file in said’cause. Biffs will be received and contract; let as follows: Section 1 from Station 24 to 34 plus 38 ; | Section 2 from Station 14 to 24.

Section 3 from Station 0 to 14. and to the lowest aid best bidder or Bidders will be required to file with their bids affidavits as required by law, upon forms furnished by such superintendent and each bid shall be accompanied with a good and sufficient bond in a sum equal to the amount of such bid, conditional far the faithful performance of said contract, and that such bidder will enter into contract if the same be awarded to him, such bond to» be approved by said superintendent; ' ... The baid superintendent reserves the right to'reject any and all bids. No bids will be accepted fai excess of the Estimated cost of such work, or in excess of the benefits found. , L. L. BAUMGARTNER, 14-2 t Superintendent of Construction NOTICE OF PUBLIC LETTING. . Notice k ls hereby given that the Board of 1 ' Commissioners of Adams county, Indiana, will receive bids for the construction, of a macadamized road in Wabash township in said 1 county, known as the Geneva, Ceylon and Wabash Township Macadam Road Extension No. 3, up and until 10 o’clock a. m., on Monday, July 1, 1907, at a regular session of said Board of Commissioners held in the city of Decatur, Adams county, Indiana, sealed bids will be received for the construction of said road iri accordance with the plans, specifications and report of the Viewers and Engineer which are now on file in the Auditor’s office of said. county, said roads to be built of crushed stone alone. A good bond must accompany each bid twice the amount of the bid filed conditioned for * faithful performance of said work, and that the bidder if awarded the contract therefor will enter into contract therefor and complete the same according to such contract and in accordance with the bid filed. All blds 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. De 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 macadamized road in Root township in said county, known as the J. A. Cline Macadam Road, up until 10 o’clock a. m., on

Monday, July 1, 1007, at a regular session of said Board of Commissioners held in the city of Decatur, Adams, county, Indiana, sealed bids will be received for the construction of said road fn accordance with the plans, specifications and report ,of the Viewers and Engineer which are now on file in the Auditor’s office of said county, said 1 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 enter into contract therefor and complete the same according to such contract and in accordance with the bid filed. All blds shall be made so as to give the amount for which said road will be constructed sor 6 cash payable on estimates to be made by the Engineer in charge, not to exceed eighty per cent. Os 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 blds for the construction of a macadamized road in Washington township in said county, known as the West Washtnton Macadam Road Extension No. 5, up and until 10 o’clock a. m„ on Monday, July 1, 1907, at a regular session of said 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 of said county, said roads to be built of crushed stone alone. A good bond must accompany each bld twice the amount of the bld filed conditioned for faithful performance of said work and that the bidder if awarded th® contract therefor will enter into contract therefor and complete the same according to such contract and in accordance with the bld 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 ail 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 Adams county, I Indiana, will receive bide left the construction of a macadamised road in Kirkland township la laid county, known as the Otto Reppert Macadam Road, up and until Id o'clock , ’. I .V . ypWflA^*flp

s. m., on ' Monday, July 1, 1907, 1 at a regular session of said Board of ’ Commissioners held in the city of Decatur, Adams, county, Indiana, sealed j . 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 of said county, said roads to be built of ! Crushed stone alone. A good bond must accompany each • bid°twirer tjtje amount of the bld filed -Conditioned for faithful performance ?, of said work and that, the bidder if. awarded the-eontract therefor will enter into contract ‘ therefor and complete the same according to ’such con-' tract and in accordance with the bid filed. All blds 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 chqrge, 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 RECEIVING BIDS FOR SUPPLIES. Notice is hereby given that on Monday, the Ist dhy of July, 1907, and up until ten o’clock a. m., of said day, the Board of Commissioners, of Adams county, in the state of Indliana, constituting the Board of Turnpike directors, as such Board will receive sealed bids for the furnishing of crushed stone and other materials for turnipke repairs in said Adams county for the ensuing year, bids will be received and entertained as follows, in carload lots to vary with the needs of the county, and siibject to the order of said Board ■ or its superintendents, prices per yard f. o. b. at the. following railroad stations in said - county, to-wit: Bingen, ' Decatur, Monroe, Berne,Geneva, Craigville, Peterson, Pleasant Mills, Rlvarre, Preble. Magley, also per yard loaded in- wagons at, quarries in Decatur, Linn Grove, Hartford township, Jefferson township, Blue Creek township,. Pleasant Mills and at Willshire, 0., Said stone to be furnished upon order aforesaid, optional with said Board, and according to> specifications now on file in the Auditor’s office of Adams county, Indiana, bids will' also; be received for bridge plank, bidder to give place of delivery, bids will also be received fbr common drain tile in sizes from three to eighteen inch, bidder to give price at factory named by him, bids will also be received fop hard ! burned brick, suitable for wells, bidder to state prices at kiln. Bids wifi also be received for salt glazed tile, sizes from six to twenty-four Inches, each bid shall be accompanied by a good and sufficient bond In the sum of $2,000 with, either free hold or surety, and with the necessary affidavit as requited by law, the Board reserves the right to reject any and all,bids. ■ MARTIN LAUGHLIN, - DAVID WERLING, ’ WILLIAM MILLER, Board of Turnpike. Directors of Adams county, Indiana. Attest:—C. D. Lewton, Auditor. ■ NOTICE OF RECEIVING BIDS. Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of the county of Adams tn the state of Indiana, will on the first day of July, 1907, and up until 10 o’clock a. m. of said day, receive sealed bids for the furnishing of all material and labor necessary for the construction of the following Bridges, Arches and Abutments, for the use of said county, to-wit: Wm. Kuklehan Bridge, Root township, 16 by 32, also concrete abutments at same bridge. John McKean Bridge on Monroe township line, 22 by 16 foot span, George Jacobs bridge, Blue Creek township, 24 by 16 foot span. River Bridge at Linn Grove, 160 by 16 foot span, concrete abutments at same place. Bidders on structural, concrete work on Linn Grove job will also state price which they will pay or allow for old Bridge. Bidders may bid on structural and concrete Work as a Whole or separately. All according to certain surveys, profiles and general i plans, Which have heretofore been pfei pared and deposited and are now on- ’ file in the office of the Auditor of said 1 county and which are now open, tot - I public inspection. Bids will also be ■ received at the same time arid place , for painting court house roof, ’ and barns at county infirmary, according to plans and specifications now on file at the Auditor’s office. , No bid will be received or entertained by said Board unless such bid i is accompanied by an affidavit such as is now required by governing ’ bids for Bridges. ' } ’ , Each bid must be accompanied by a ; good and sufficient bond, equal to the ; amount of the bid, made payable tp ; the State of Indiana, signed by at ' least two freehold sureties, residents of the county, or by a properly author- ! ized and qualified bonding or surety b company; which bond shall guarantee ; the faithful performance and execution ; of the work so bld for, in case the same is awarded, and that the contractor shall promptly pay all debts ini Curred by him in the prosecution of such work, including labor, materials , furnished, and for boarding the labor 4 - . era thereon. Any one desiring to submit plans and specifications tor com- ! petition at the same letting may do , so by filing the same with the county Auditor of said county not less than ten days before the said date of letting. ! » / If any such plans and specifications so submitted include the use of any patented device or of any article coni trolled by a monopoly, the specifications shall be accompanied by a statement of the terms upon which suctw ' device or article may be used or otr talned. The Board reserve the right to reject any and all blds. i MARTIN LAUGHLIN, l DAVID WERLING, t . WILLIAM MILLER, r Board of Commissioners tit Adams I bounty, ladlana, i; :—43. D. Lawton, Auditor.