Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 17, Decatur, Adams County, 27 June 1907 — Page 7

When you aak for the BEST COUGH CURE and do not get Kemps Balsam You are not getting the beet and will be disappointed. KEMP’S BALSAM costs no more than any other cough remedy, and you are entitled to the best when you. ask for it. Kemp’s Balsam will stop any cough that can be stopped by any medicine, and cure coughs that cannot be cured by any other medicine. It is always the Best Cough Cure. At all druggists, 25c., 50c. and sl. Don’t accept anything else. y The warm lava are making business for the people who tell door and window screens. Flies and other insects have made their a;parance and the screens are needed. Many screens have to lie renewed every season, although if they were cared for through the winter it is probable they would last longer. Columbia City was to have paved two streets this year, but when the bids were opened the price was considered too high and now the city council has wisely decided to wait until next January to let the contract. At thdt time of the year contractors are keen for jobs and material men are selling cheaper than when the rush is on. —Garrett Clipper. Her is the latest —A farmer has made the discovery that will be of vast importance to farmers during a dry season. He has found that by planting onions and potatoes in the same field in alternate rows the onions being so strong, brings tears to the eyes of the potatoes in such volumns that the roots of the vines are kept moist and a big crop is in spite of the drouth. The remains of Vilas Corey, the three year old son of John Corey, of Berne, were taken through Friday, leaving here on the noon train for Hume, Ohio, where burial will occur on Saturday morning. The following people accompanied the remains: John Corey, his two sisters, Miss Edna Corey, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas and Bert Ibbotson. —Portland Review. Girls have been advised that if their best fellow overstays his time when he comes to see them, spring this on him and if he does not “take a tumble” he is too stupid to ever call again ■says an exchange. Here it is: Take any number between nine and one, multiply by nine, cross out left hand, figure, add thirteen, add the number you started with and watch the young man’s countenance. ' * A rumor started a run on the Van Buren bank Wednesday that for a while threatened seriously. E. N. Blackbum, cashier of the Marion National bank, came over with a wad that soon settled all fears. Then just to assure the depositors that everything was all right the bank officials called a bank examiner to go over the books and make a statement. It seems there was no cause for the excitement.

All postmasters have received orders to begin on July 1 and continue for six months before the departure of the train. This is to enable the office force to weigh each class of matter separately, a record of which must be kept and forwarded to Washington. Patrons of the office are requested to take notice that unless mail is brought to the office 30 minutes before train time it will not be dispatched until the neXt outgoing mail. Charles B. Mclntyre, for the past fourteen years an employe of the Clover Leaf railroad, had his right leg cut off, below the knee, while attempting to get on the foot board of a switch engine at Madison, Wednesday evening. Mr. Mclntyre was taken to the Heinretta hospital where the surgeons amputated his leg above the knee. The injured man is well and favorably known by the employees and they speak of him in the highest of terms. When the news of his calamity reached here his friends could not believe it for they knew him as one of the most careful of men.—Frankfort Crescent County Health Officer Dr. Louis Severin drove to Markle this forenoon and made an examination of William Schwartz, the laborer, who was found to be afflicted with smallpox one week ago Monday. He found the disease had vanished, the scales over the pox sores having been removed yesterday by Dr. Fisher, of Markle, the attending physician, and pronouncing the case completely cured, lifted the quarantine from the house. There seems to be but little chance that the disease will spread farther than the one patient, as the time has passed for those who' were exposed to the malady to become affected. The members of the SchWartz family were vaccinated as soon as the nature of his

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YOU WILL NOT DOUBT The Following Statement If You Make a Personal Investigation "To my mind the greatest discovery of this the most marvelous century is the Keeley Cure for inebriety, because its results are more far-reach-ing than all other discoveries which have been made.” Ex-GOVERNOR JOHN. P. ALTGELD, of Illinois. Dr. W. V. Daniels, Marion, Indiana, has been conducting the Marion Kegley Institute since 1894 and has cured hundreds. Write him for information. Effective July 1, many railroads will advances the minimum amount for a carload from fifteen to eighteen tons, and for this reason many buyers are increasing their orders in order to obtain the benefit of the lower rates and lower prices of carload lots. Henry I. DeFreitas, of Chicago, a representative of the South Dakota land agency is in our city assisting their agent, Mr. Watson, in securing a party to make the trip west with the view to purchasing land. Mr. Freitas is well versed in the land business and Is hopeful of securing a large party to make the trip into that territory. After being a dry town, for two years, Paulding voted wet at the local option election held yesterday. A fierce fight was waged by both sides, but it has been generally conceded that the wet element would win. It is alleged that the officials have been so lax in the enforcement of the law that the people became disgusted. The wets won by two [votes. —Van Wert Times. I The closing of the school term at the Indiana School for Feeble-Minded Youth will be observed Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock in the gymnasium hall of the school building and a very entertaining program has been prepared by the instructors. A display of the work accomplished by the students during the winter will be made at 3 o’clock in the chapel of the dernonstration building. The exhibit will also be open to visitors in the evening and the public is invited generally to inspect the progress made at the Speaking of the visit of John Owen, of this city, to Hipton in his official capacity, the Tribune says: “The pure food man who was here made a cleaning among some of the business men who had been selling certain food stuffs that did not bear the proper label. He made a pretty thorough examination among the merchants and had several of them before Mayor Young where they were assessed $lO each and the Costs, amounting to $18.20. —Frankfort Crescent. Rural route carriers report that the rains and hot weather of the last few days have been working wonders with the crops. The corn is growing remarkably fast, but it has been almost too wet for farmers to plow it as they would like to. Those who have new ground in corn, difficult to plow, are afraid the weeds will get ahead of them. The oats crop is heading. It looks as though there would be a good yield of wheat, and the outlook for a large hay crop is good. Recent rains, while they have not been so welcome to the farmers as might be, are making an abundance of early fruit. This warm weather will make the old swimming hole an attractive place for the small boy. Not only that ,it will also increase the desire on the part of the young man to take a punge in the stone quarry or the

river. Every year there are many sad cases of drowning reported just because there is carelessness about this thing of going swimming. Fear is one of the things that boys and young men never* entertain while the swimming season is here, and frequently it is the fellow who is the best swimmer who goes to the bottom and loses his life. The lad who cannot swim has sense enough generally to remain close to shore or in water that he can readily chin. It is a good time to advise people who go swimming in deep water to be careful; the advice may not amount" to much but it is good just the same. That the price of real estate in Adams county is holding its own is evidenced by the fact that Elmer Johnson, who owns two hundred and ninety-two and a half acres lying just south of our city was today offered the handsome price of twenty-four thousand dollars. The offer was made by two of our well known business men, who have for some time been desirous of owing this particular strip of land and who would have paid the entire amount in cash. Mr. Johnson refused the offer and has set his price at twenty-seven thousand dollars and will not come to any lower figure. The farm is nicely located and is well improved and is in all probability the most valuable piece of property of its size in Adams county. Up to date the

APPOINTMENT OF ADMINISTRATOR WITH THE WILL ANNEXEDNotice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed administrator with the will annexed of the estate of Johnson Nye, late of Adams county, deceased. The estate is probably solvent. BUEL G. NYE, Admr. D B. Erwin, Attorney. June 13, 1907. 16-3 t PUBLIC NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received at the Linn Grove school house till the hour of 10 o’clock a. m., July 13, 1907., for a low pressure steam heating plant to be installed in the Linn Grove school building for which plans and specifications can be had at the Opliger & Co. hardware store at Linn Grove, Ind. The right is reserved to reject any and all bids. ' MOSES AUGSBURGER, Township Trustee. Hartford Township, Adams County, Ind. Dated June 20, 1907. NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS. State of Indiana, Adams county, ss: Lydia Martin, John Martin, her husband vs. Julia Betzell (nee Kuhm), William Betzel, her husband, Amelia Kuhm et al. In the Adams circuit court, September term, 1907. No. 7396. Partition of real estate. It appearing from affidavit, filed in the above entitled cause that Julia Betzell (nee Kuhm), William Betzell, her husband, Amelia Kuhm, Edward Kuhm, Rosau Kuhm, Esther Kuhm, Lizzie Kuhm, the above named defendants, non-residents of the State of Indiana. Notice is therefore hereby given the said Julia Betzell, William Betzell, her husband, Amelia Kuhm, Edward Kuhm,Rosa Kuhm, Esther Kuhm and Lizzie Kuhm that they be and appear before the Hon. Judge of the Adams Circuit Court on the first day of the next' regular term thereof, to be holden at the court house in the city of Decatur, commencing on Monday, the 2nd day of September, A. D., 1907 and plead by answer or demur to said complaint or the same will be heard aud determined in their absence. Witness my name and the Seal of said court hereto affixed this’ 18th day of June A. D. 1907. DAVID GERBER, Clerk. By Paul Baumgartner, Deputy. Peterson & Moran, Attorneys. NOTICE OF RECEIVING BIDS. Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of the county of Adams, in the state of Indiana, will on the 16th 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 sos the construction of the following Bridge and Abutments, for the use of said county, to-wlt: G. W. Reynolds Bridge on Jay county line, 30 by 16 foot span, also concrete abutments at same place. All according to certain surveys, profiles and general plans which have heretofore been prepared and deposited and are now on file in the office of the auditor of said county and which are now open to the public inspection. No bid will be received or entertained by said board unless such bid is accompanied by an affidavit such as is now required by law governing bids for bridge. Each bid must be accompanied by a good and sufficient bond, equal to the amount of the bid, made payable to 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 company; which bond shall guarantee the faithful performance and execution of the work so bid for, in case the same is awarded, and that the contractor shall promptly pay all debts incured by him in the prosecution of such work, including labor, materials furnished, and for boarding the thereon. Any one desiring to submit plans and specifications for competition 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 controlled by a monopoly, the specifications shall be accompanied by a statement of the terms upon which such device or article may be used or obtained. The Board reserve the right to reject any and all bids. MARTIN LAUGHLIN, - — DAVID WERLING, — WILLIAM MILLER, Board of Commissioners of Adams County, Indiana. Attest: —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, July term, 1 1907. We, the undersigned, each and all . of whom are resident freeholders 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 1 and completed in said Washington : township, said county and state, over ' and along the public highway situated on the following route, to-wit: 1 Commencing in the center of the Decatur and Preble Free Macadamized' ! Stone Road at a point about 540 feet ' west of the west side of the right of ’ way of the Cincinnati, Richmond and 1 Fort Wayne railroad in section three ’ (3) township twenty-seven (27) north, 1 range fourteen (14) east in Adams 1 county, Indiana, thence to run south ' over and along the public highway a ; distance of about 2,040 feet and there J to termipate at a public highway run- ' ning east and west in said section 1 three (3) township and range afore- 1 said, in Washington township, Adams 1 county, Indiana.

extension of the Decatur and Preble Macadamized Stone Road, and is to be called Decatur and Preble Free Macadamized Stone Road Extension No. 3. Your petitioners further ask your honorable body that said highway above described, be drained and graded its entire length and 20 feet in width, 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 highway thus sought to be 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 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 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, passed in the year 1905 beginning on page 550 and as amended in the acts of General Assembly of the state of In : diana for the year 1907, in the acts of 1907, and any and all amendments thereto. We fnrthenAsk the board that the proposed improvements 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.

T. R. Moore, B. W. Sholty, C. C. Schafer, A. D. Artman, H. W. Shroll, J. B. Meibers, Fred Schafer, Joseph Helm, J. R. Coffee, P. L. Andrews, C. Radamacker, 'A. J. Teeple, John S. Falk, Peter Holthouse, Henry Schulte, Harry N. Helm J. Bryson, C. A. Dugan, F. W. Jaebker, O. L. Vance, D. K. Shackley, John Everett, E. Burt Lenhart, Ben Schrank, M. F. Rice, Fred H. Huer, J. B. Holthouse, M. Kirsch, E. X. Ehlnger, J. K. Schafer, B. J. Rice, A. L. Burdg, L. C. Helm, D. D. Clark, Geo. E. Wemhoff, C. M. Hower, John Scheiman, R. A. Perkins, Samuel Butler, J. D. Stults, J. Spangler, C. T. Rainier, Abe Stoneburner, George W. Teeple, Al W. Ross, Jacob Eady, John W. Burk, M. J. Wilker, H. C. Stetler, C. Miller, Joe McFarland,-Joe G Harris, Wm. Butler, Roy Archbold, John Lose, Chas C. Lose, Leo Auth, J. C. Sutton, H. B. Heller, F. B. Mills, Jacob Martin, P. B. Thomas. Julius Haugk, J. Charles Brock, Geo. W. Roop, J. Q. Neptune, C. J. Voglewede, Geo. Kinzle, A. M. Fisher, C. D. Murray, E. F. Gass, Elias Crist, Gustav Reinking. This petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners on 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. C. D. LEWTON, Alitor. PETITION FOR STONE IjIOAD. _ State of Indiana, County of Adams, ss: Before the Board of Commissioners of the county of Adams, July term, 1907. We, the undersigned, each and all of whom are resident freeholders and legal 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 road constructed and completed in said Washington township, said county ands tate, over and along the public highway, situated on the following route, to-wit: Commencing in the center of the Decatur and Preble Free Macadamized Stone Road, at a point about 1,160 feet west of the west line of the right of way ®f the Cincinnati, Richmond and Ft. Wayne railroad, thence to run south over and along the public highway a distance of about 3,000 feet, thence west over and along the public highway a distance of about 950 feet and terminating at the Decatur and Monroe free macadamized stone road between sections 3 and 4 in township 27 north of range 14 east, in said county of Adams and state of Indiana. The said improvement as prayed for is less than three miles in length and connects at both ends with a free macadamized stone road,'in said Washington township, and that this improvement is to be a continuation of and an extension of the Decatur and Monroe Macadam' Stone Road, and is to be called the Decatur and Monroe Extension No. 6. 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 is known as a macadamized road. And your petitioners further show that the highway thus sought to be improved is a public highway already established, and is one of the public highways of said Washington township. 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 said Washington township, and the city of Decatur, situated in said township, all in Adams county, state of Indiana, in a sufficient amount to pay the interest and principal of said bonds as they 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

page 550, and as amended in the acts of the General Assembly of the state of Indiana, for the year 1907, in the acts of 1907, and any and all amendments thereto. 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. H. Krick, Dyonis Schmitt, John W. Tyndall, Geo. Chronister, Morris G. Hay, Daniel K. Shackley, Henry Gunsett, S. B. Fordyce, J. E. Smith, Henry Hite, E. Burt 'Lenhart, John Everett, Samuel Frank, Albert A. Butler, Hirman P. Sell, C. N. Spencer, C. S. Niblick, Isaac Chronister, Daniel Sims, W. H. Zwick, C A. Dugan, Henry Schulte, Jacob Martin, Daniel Kitson, Samuel H. Amerine, Paul G. Hooper, T. H. Ernst, J. L. Gay, J. A. Smith, H. Dellinger, F. V. Mills, C. F. True, C. C. Schafer, 4- D. Artman, J. T. Merryman, J. S. Coverdale, J. M. Lenhart, M. Bums, A. H. Sellemeyer, James P. Haefling, Fred Sellemeyer, Dan M. Niblick, W. A. Keubler, Joseph Helm, Ben Schrank, Gustav Reinking, John S. Falk, B. J. Smith, Roy ArchboldJ, Fred H. Heuer, P. BThomas, W. W. P. McMillen, Fred Hoffman, Ellas Crist, H. B. Heller, Samuel Butler, L. C. Helm, Leo Smith, John C. Moran, C. B. Andrews, John F. Lachot, O. L. Vance, T. R. Moore, P. L. Andrews, C. D. Lewton, A. Fi Welfly, Joseph Schilling, D. B. Erwin, D. M. Hower, Charles Selther, Peter Sether, J. B. Holthouse, A. M. Fisher, Jos. D. Beery, David E. Smith, Norman G. Lenhart. This petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners on 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. C. D. LEWTON, Auditor.

PETITION FOR BTONE ROAD. State of Indiana, County of Adams, ss: Before the Board of Commissioners of the county of Adams, July Term, 1907. We, the undersigned, each and all of whom are resident freholders and voters of and in Preble township in the county of Adams and the state of Indiana, respectfully petition your honorable board to take all necessary steps to cause to be graded, drained, and paved with crushed stone, the highway already laid out and established on and along the following route, to-wit: Commencing at the intersection of a highway running north and south with the highway running east and west at the southeast corner of the southeast quarter of section fifteen (15) in township twenty-eight (28) north range thirteen (13) east, Adams county, state of Indiana, thence running north over the highway lying between sections fourteen (14) and fifteen (15), and over the highway lying between sections ten (10) and eleven (11), and over the highway lying between sections two (2) and three (3) all said sections being in township twenty-eight (28) north of range thirteen (13) east, Adams county, state 0f Indiana, terminating at what Is known as the Winchester Road, at a point located about ten rods north of the northeast corner of the northeast quarter of section ten (10) in township twenty-eight (28) north of range thirteen (13) east, Adams county, state of Indiana. Said petitioners would further show that the above highway when completed will be about two (2) miles and ten (10) rods in length, and shall be called the Fred Blomenberg Macadam Road, Preble Township Extension

> Number —. I Said proposed macadam road comi mences at its southern end at the • free gravel road running east and I west known as the Ossian Road, said Ossian Road being already built and . constructed as a free gravel road, [ thence running north terminates .at ■ the free gravel road running in a ■ northwesterly and southeasterly direc- [ tion known as the Winchester Road, L said Winchester Road being already . built and constructed as a free gravel road, and lying about two (2) miles ■ and ten (10) rods north of said Os- ; sian Road. 1 Said proposed road connects two al- [ ready constructed and built free gravi el roads, lying about two (2) miles and I ten (10) rods apart in said Preble township, Adams county, state of In- • ,d|ana. * ; 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 twentysix (26) feet and that crushed stone, crushed to the one (1) inch size, be placed thereon to the width of ten (10) feet, with stone screenings placed on top of said stone. .Said petitioners ask that the crushed stone placed on said road shall be to the depth of eight (8) inches, and tlie screenings placed thereon shall be placed to the depth of four 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 entitled an act concerning the construction of free gravel, stone, or other macadamized roads, and for the payment of the costs 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 4th, 1905. We further ask that said improve- ; ment be paid for by bonds issued by , the county of Adams, state of Indiana, payable in twenty semi-annual install- ■ ments, for the payment of which bonds we ask that a tax be levied 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 ;

March 11th, 1901 and any and all amendments thereto. We further represent to this board that this petition is signed by more than fifty resident freeholders and voters of said Preble township, Adams county, state of Indiana. Fred Blomenberg, William Boese, Conrad Doehrman. Henry Koeneman, Ernest Doehrman, Charles Ewell, W. Heckman, Charles Wieymann.A. Fuhrmann, E. D. Marshand, Christ Wente, F. Buuck, Fred. F. Heckmann, Louis Buuck, Dan Hoffmann, Ernst Gallmeier, W. H. Gallmeier, John Witte, John F. Fuhrmann, August Conrad, William Gallmeyer, William D. Conrad, Chris Conrad, Fred Lullamann, William Schwartz, August Scheimann, Henry E. Schmidt,William Bultemeier, Ed. Gallmeier, Herman Reese, Ernst Buuck, Aug. Miller, Charles Kiefer, William Koenemann, William Werling Sr, Fred Eickhoff, Fred Ostermeyer, O. N. Kiefer, Otto Ewel, Christ Eickhoff, Mart Kiefer, William Koldwey, Jacob C. Kiefer, John G. Miller, Gust Reinking, Christ Stoppenhagen, William Eickhoff, Louis Worthman, William Schackel, John Bieberlch, Fred Scherry, Christ Bultemeier, Henry Wefel. This petition will be presented tc the Board of Commissioners on Monday, July 1, 1907, at which time any taxpayer of Preble township may appear and make such objections as the law may provide for. 15-3 t. C. D. LEWTON, Auditor. PETITION FOR STONE ROAD. State of Indiana, County of Adams, ss: Before the Board of Commissioners es the county of Adams, July term, 1907. We, the undersigned each and all of whom are resident freeholders and voters of and in French township 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 French township, over and along the public highway, situated on the following route to-wit

Commencing at the southwest corner of section three (3) township twenty-six (26) north range thirteen (13) east, running thence south over 1 and upon the highway dividing sec- • tions nine (9) and ten (10) township and range aforesaid, for a distance of one (1) mile, and ending and ter- ‘ minating at the southwest corner of ; section ten (10) township twenty-six (26) north range thirteen (13) east. Said proposed improvement being less than three miles in length and ■ connecting at both ends with a free 1 macadam road, in said French town- ’ ship, and this to be a continuation ' of and an extension of the French , township central macadam road, extension No. 1 and this improvement is • to be called Tanners Extension No. 1. Your petitioners further ask your ' honorable body that said highway above described be graded and that broken stone be placed upon the grade 1 and that upon said broken stone that 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 highway thus sought to be Improved is a public highway already established and is one of the public highways of said French township. Your petitioners further ask that said road as above described be graded to a width of twenty-four (24) 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 center thereof, and to a depth of eight (8) inches at he sides thereof, and that crushed stone screenings be placed thereon, to a' depth of three (3) inches, upon said broken stone, and that said road be constructed as a single track. 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 French 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 said property of said township, in accordance with the acts of the legislature of the state of Indiana, passed in the year beginning on page 550, and as amended in the acts of the General Assembly of the state of Indiana for the year 1907, in the acts of 1907, and any and all amendments thereto. We further ask the board that the proposed improvement be constructed without submitting the question of building the same to the voters of said French township, and that the board take the different steps as required by law, to have said improvement constructed, 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. John Tanner, Jacob Tanner, Paul Geisel, Joel J. Klpfer, Daniel Levy, Daniel O. Reinhard, Tobias Steffen, Daniel Schwartz, Andrew Mertz, Wm. Yager, Edward Bentz, Wm. Stefler, Albert Mutter, C. H. Walter, I. J. Bowman, Fred J. Jack, Ernest Jack, Wm. Smith, W. H. Bollinger, Simon Smith, John Smith, Andrew Bertsch, Ulrich Reinhart, Noah Moser, J. Erhart, Ephrlam Kipfer, John Rich, John J. Rich, Jacob P. Klopfenstein, Jacob Isch, F. A. Kohler, Sam F. Baumgartner, Alfred Isch, John Stepler, Samuel Lochner, John M. Kaehr, Gideon Gerber, John Ihmiger, Peter Steffen, Jeff Gerber, Jehu W. Gerber, Daniel Klpfer, Christian Meshberger, F. Reinhart, Jonas Neuenschwander, Daniel Mashberger, Christ Gerber, E. Egly, Christen Luglnblll, Daniel D. Moser, Jacob Falb, Joel Kipfer, Ferdinand Yake, Washington Wolfe, P. Roth. This petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners on Monday, July 1, 1907, at which time any taxpayer of French township and