Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 22, Decatur, Adams County, 28 May 1908 — Page 8

Laoax. ABTKRTISINO. PETITION FOR STONE ROAD. State of Indiana. County of Adams. ss: Before the Board of Commissioners of the county of Adams, June Term. 1908. We. the undersigned, each and all of whom are resident freeholders and voters of Monroe township, and Washington township, in. Adams county, Indiana.most respectfully petition your honorable body that you construct and eotnplt’v a free macadamized stone road o.i the dividing line between -said Monroe and Washington townships, over and upon the public highway, situated on the following route, to-wit: Commencing at the northwest corner of section 3, township 26, north range 14 east, in Adams county. Indiana. running thence east between section 3 aforesaid and section 34 in township 27, north range 14 east, and between seation 2 in township 26 north range 14 east, and section 35, in township 27 north range 14 east, and terminating at the northeast corner of section 2. township 26 north • range 14 east, being two (2) miles in length and connecting the Decatur and Monroe Macadam road, with the East Washington Macadam road. That the improvement thus prayed for is less than three miles in length, and connects at both ends with a free macadam road, and that a United States rural mail route passes over adid road. Your petitioners further show that the highway herein sought to be improved is a public highway, established and in use and is a public highway on the dividing line between said townships. That the improvement herein prayed for is to be an extension cf the Decatur and Monroe Macadam Road. Your petitioners further ask that said highway be drained ar.d graded, and that broken stone be placed upon the grade and that upon such broken stone, there be placed stone screenings.

Your petitioners further ask that said highway as above described be graded to a width of 24 feet, and that broken stone be placed thereon, to a width of 10 feet, and to a depth of 8 inches, at the sides thereof, and to a depth of 10 inches in the center thereof, and that crushed stone screenings be placed thereon to a depth of 3 inches, upon said broken stone, that said road be constructed, as a double track, that the name of said road shall be Decatur and Monroe 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 installments or series, and for the payment of which, we ask that a tax be levied upon the taxable property of said Monroe township, including the Towns of Monroe and Berne situated therein, and upon the taxable property of Washington township, and the City of Decatur, situated therein, 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, and that said bonds be issued, and said tax be levied, upon said property, of said townships, 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 1907, now in force, prov iding for the extension of free gravel or macadam roads. We further ask that the board take all of the necessary steps as is required by law to construct said improvement as petitioned for herein, that the same be constructed without submitting the question of building the same, to an election of the voters of said Washington and Monroe townships. and that the same be constructed under the laws of the State of Indiana. now in force providing for the etension of free gravel or macadam roads. Ernst W. Busche. Elmore J. Cook. G. E. McKean, John Baker, J. R. Coffee, W. L. Brittson. John T. Myers, N. A. Loch, C. A. Dugan. E. Ehinger, Fred Schafer. J. B. Meibers. T. W. Watts, C C. Schafer. J. T. Merryman. B. W. Sholty, Jas. N. Fristoe, W. H. Ward. H. Hite, Azie E. Tucker, A. L. Burdg. C. W.Boknecht, John Steele, F. V. Mills. Elmer Johnson. Daniel <?routner, A. J. Johnson, T. W. Bess, A. Shoaf, Wm. H. Coppock. William Gerkel, Joseph Shilling. K. B. Daugherty, John Elzey. P. W. Kessler, Jacob Doleh, R. E. Smith, Samuel Johnston, G. C. Mills, J. W Everhart, F. Kessler. Jacob Huser. B, S. Brown. Thos. S. Perkins. John Durbin. A. S. Durbin, Johnus Gilbert. C. H Lammiman, F. M. Gilpen, T. A. Hendricks. B. T. Brown. Jacob Musser, J. E. Lewton, L. ,W. Strebe, Pete Holthouse, C. O. Carroll. D. D. Clark, J. J. Lonjßeaberger. Mathias Thomas. O. T. tYendricks A. B, Bailey, J. J. Kafer. H. C. Andrews. J. Hahnert, T. H. Tablet, C B. Andrews. G. A. Hahnert. W. H. Graham. Wm. Reppert, Joseph Helm. L. A. Graham. Noah Mangold. J. H. Voglewede. E. A. Faust. J. T. Johnson, Chas. Mills. S. B. Nelson. Michael Miller, Jno. Niblick. Dan M. Niblick. C. 3. Niblick. Azie F. Tucker. Jno. D. Stults. Albert Spuller. T. L. Coffee. Elias Christ, Joshua R. Parrish, J. B Holthouse, Daniel Landis, J. D. Hendricks, J. W. McKean. Jr. J P. Johnson. Wm. L. Keller, J. F. Crist A. N. Keller, Peter Bailey, L. O. Babccck. J. F. Hocker. D. C. Brandyberrv. J. A. Hendricks. Chas. E. Banner. W. S. Smith. N. T. Martz. Sylvestel Johnson. Z. O. Lewellen. Joseph Wisler. Jonathan Burkhead..!. L. Gross. M. F. Parrish. C. E. Bollinger. William Gilbert. Albert Dehoff. R. L. Shirk. L. L. Rupert, Andrew Bailey, Geo. H. Martz. Dan Vhrick, John A. Yeoman. Thomas F. Ray, Jacob Skene. John Hendricks. James W. Andrews, Joseph Hocker, H. Osterman. N. Wagoner, Amos Brandyberry, M. H. Badders. Geo. W. Hahn, George W. Keller, William Brandyberry. This petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners on

Monday, June 1, 1908, at which time the taxpayers of

Monroe and Washington townships may appear and make such objections as the law mav provide for. 20-31 C. D. LEWTON. Auditor. o PETITION FOR STONE ROAD, State of Indiana. County of Adams, ss: Before the Board of Commissioners of the county of Adams. June Term, 1908. We. the undersigned, each and all of whom are resident freeholders and voters of Washington township and Monroe township, in Adams county. Indiana, petition your honorable body that you construct and complete a fremacadamized stone road on the township line, dividing said Monroe township and Washington township in said county and state, on the following route to-wit: Commencing at the northwest corner of section 1, nonh range 14 east, in Adams county. Indiana, running thence east over and along the highway between section 1 in Monroe township and section 36 in Washington township for a distance of one mile and terminating at the northeast corner of the northeast quarter of section 1, township 26, north range 14 east at the intersection of the township line road between Monroe township and Blue Creek township, in said-county and state. That the improvement prayed for is less than one (1) mile in length, and connects at both ends with a free macadam road, and that a United States rural mail route passes over said highway. Your petitioners further ask your honorable body that said highway be graded and drained and that broken stone be placed upon the grade, and that upon sueh broken stone there be placed stone screenings. Your petitioners further show that the highway thus sought to be im-pro’-'d is a public highway, already established, and in use, and is one of the public highways on the line dividing said Washington and Monroe townships, that the improvement herein prayed for is to be an extension of the east Washington Macadam Road, and the name of said road shall be the Elmer J. Cook Macadam road. Your petitioners further ask that said road 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 eight (8) inches, at the sides there: f. and to a depth of ten (10) inches in the eenter thereof, and that crushed stone screenings be placed thereon, to a depth of three (3) inches upon such 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 semi-annual installments or seftes. and for the payment of whioh we ask that a tax be levied upon the taxable property of said Monroe township, and the Town of Monroe. situated therein, and the Town of Berne situated therein, and said Washington township and the City of Decatur, situated therein, 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, and that 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 1905. beginning on page 550, and as amended in the acts of 1907, now In force, providing for the extension of free gravel or macadamized roads. We further ask that the board take the necessary steps as required by law to have said improvement constructed and made, as petitioned herein, that the same be constructed without submitting the question of building the same to an election of the voters of said Washington township and said Monroe township, and that they construct same under the laws of the State of Indiana, now in force, providing for the extension of free gravel or macadam roads. Elmore J. Cook. Ernest W. Busche. G. E. McKean. Pete Holthouse, C. V. Carroll, D. D. Clark. J. J. Longenberger. Mathias Thomas. J. H. Hahnert. F. H. Tablet, C. B. Andrews. Geo. C. Hahnert, Wm. H. Graham. Wm. Reppert. Joseph Helm. L. A. Graham. Noah Mangold. J. H. Voglewede. E. H. Faust L. T. Johnson. Clark Miller. S. B. Nelson, Michael Miller, W ,H. Niblick. Jno. Niblick, French Quinn. Dan M. Niblick, C. S. Niblick, Azle E. Tucker. Jno. D. Stults, Albert Spuller. T. S. Coffee, Elias Crist, Joshua R. Barrish. J. B. Holthouse. Shelby Ray, O. T. Hendricks. J. J. Hafer, A. B. Bailey, H. C. Andrews. J. F. Johnson, Wm. L. Keller, A. N. Keller, J. F. Crist, Peter Bailey. S. O. Babcock. J. F. Hocker, J. A. Hendricks. Chas. E. Bohner. W. S. Smith, N. F, Martz, Sylvester Johnson, Z. O. Lewellen, Joseph Wisldt. Jonathan Burkhead. J. L. Gross. M. F. Parrish. C. E. Bollinger, William McCarty, Albert Dehoft. R. L. Shirk. L. L. Rupert, Andrew Bailey, Geo. H. Martz. Dan Ulhrick, John, A. Yeoman, Jacob Scherrer. This petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners on Monday, June 1, 1908, at which time the taxpayers of Monroe and Washington townships may appear and make such objections as the law mav provide for. 20-3 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, June Term. 1908. We, the undersigned, •‘petitioners, each and all of whom are resident freeholders and voters of Monroe township, in Adams county, Indiana, most respectfully petition your honoroable body to construct and complete a free macadamized stone road in said township, over and upon the public highways situated on the following route, to-wit: Commencing at the southwest corner of section 10, township 26 north range 14 east, running thence east 1 mile over the highway on the line dividing section 10 and 15, to the south-

east corner of said section 10, township and range aforesaid; thence north 1 mile on the highway dividing sec- , lion 10 and 11, to the northeast corner of said section 10, and there to terminate. The improvement prayed far herein is about two (2) miles in lecgUi and connects at both ends with a free macadam road, and a United States rural mail route, parses over said highway. Your petitnoiers farther ask that said highway above described be drained and graded, anl that broken stone be placed upon the grade, and j that upon such broken stone there be placed stone screenings. Your petitioners further show that the highway thus sought to be improved is a public highway, already established, and in use and is one of the public highways of Monroe township. that the improvement herein prat ed for is to be an extension cf the Monroe Central macadam road, and connects at the commencement with the Pleasant Valley and Oak Grove Macadam Road, in said township. Your petitioners ask that said road I above described be graded to a width of 24 feet, and that crushed stone be placed thereon to a width of 10 feet, and to a depth of 8 inches, at the sides thereof, and to a depth of 10 inches in the center thereof, and that crushed stone screenings be placed thereon to a depth of 3 inches, upon such crushed stone, that said road be made a double track, and the name of said road hall be the George H. Martz Macadam Road. 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 atax be levied upon the taxable property of saM Monroe township, including the towns of Monroe and Berne situated therein, 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 roaa oe uuilt. and 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 1905, beginning on page 550 and as amended in the acts of 1907. now in force providing for the extension of free gravel, or macadam roads We further ask that the board take all the necessary steps as required by law. to have said improvement constructed and made as petitioned herein, that the same be constructed without submitting the question of building the same to an election of the voters of said Monroe township, 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 Geo. H. Martz. J. K. Martz. T. J. Rayl. R. L. Shirk. B. F. Brown, Gotti. Christener, Christ Chrlstener. B. S. Brown. Peter Rich. Frederick Wasser, John A. Yeoman. Thomas F. Bay. Joseph WTiitehead. Joseph Wisler. J. N. Johpson. C. H. Lammiman, Daniel Urich, Peter Bailey. L. E. Laisure, Jonas Gilbert, George Bailey. Andrew Bixby, F. M Gilpen. G. N. Gilbert, Thos. S. Perkins. Jonas Hendricks. W. L. Keller, W’i’liam Shearer,' Robt. L. L. Sheline. A. Q. Durbin. William E. Doty, A. C. Elzey. R E. Smith. Gilbert, C. E. Bollinger. M. F Parrish, Daniel Caeb, A. R. Daugherty. Jonathan Burkhead. Shelby Ray. J. L. hart. Gross, H. C. Andrews. J. W. Everhart. J. F. Hocker, J. A. Hendricks. Samuel Steiner. D. C. Brandyberry, Harmon Osterman. John Hendricks, Z. O. Lewellen. W. S. Smith. A. B. Bailey. Jacob Henecn. Jacob Scherrer, J. F. Crist, P. P. Klopfenstine, Sylvester Johnson. This petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners on

Monday. June 1, 1908, at which time the taxpayers of Monroe and Washington townships may appear and make such objections as the law may provide for. 20-3 t C. D. LEWTON. Auditor. PETITION FOR ROAD. State of Indiana. County of Adams, ss: Before the Board of Commissioners of the county of Adams. June Term, 1908. We, the undersigned, all of whom are resident freholders and voters ( of Monroe township and Washington townships, in Adams county, Indiana, petition your honorable body that you construct and complete a free macadamized stone road, on the township line, dividing said Monroe township, and Washington township, over and upon the public highway, situated on the following route, to-wit: Commencing at the northeast corner of the northeast quarter of section 6, township 26, north range 14 east, £n Adams county, Indiana, running thence west on the line dividing said township hetween -section 6 in township 26, north range 14 east, and section 31 in township 27 north range 14 east, for a distance of one (1) mile, and ending at the northwest corner of said section 6, township 26, north range 14 east, on the township line dividing Monroe township, and French township in said county and state. That the improvement prayed for is one (1) mile in length and connects at both ends with a free macadam road, that a United States rural mail route passes over said road. Your petitioners further ask that said highway above described be graded and drained, and that broken stone be placed upon the grade, and that upon the broken stone there be placed stone screenings. Your petitioners further show that the highway thus sought to be improved is a public highway, already established and in use and is one of the public highways on the iine dividing Monroe and Washington township. and that the improvement prayed for herein is to be an extension of the West Washington Macadam Road. Your petitioners further ask that said road as above described be graded to a width of 10 feet, and to a depth of 8 inches at the sides thereof, and to a depth of 10 inches in the center

thereof, and that crushed stone screenbe placed thereon to a depth of 3 inches, upon said broken stone, that said road be constructed as a double track and the name of said road sha; be the M F. Parrish Macadam Road. 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 meets. 01 series, and for the payment of which we ask that a tax be levied, upon the taxable property of satd Monroe township including the Towns of Monroe and Berne, situated therein, and said Washington township, in eluding the City of Decatur, situated therein, al! 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

toe levied, upon said property of said townships, 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 1907 now in force providing for the extension of free gravel or macadam roads. We further ask that the board take all of the necessary steps as required by law. to have said improvement con structed aid made, as petitioned for herein, that the same he constructed without submitting the question of building the same to an election of the voters of said townships, 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. M. F. Parrish. Daniel Landis, R. L. Shirk, John Hendricks. Shelby Ray. J. A. Hendricks, A. B. Bailey, Jonathon Burkhead. J. L. Gross. G. W. Keller, A. N. Keller, J. F. Crist. Wm. L. Keller. Sylvan O. Babcock. Chas. E. Bahner. Z. O. Lewellen, Moses Badders. G. W Hahn. Joseph Wisler, D. C. Brandyberry. William Brandyberry. A, R Brandyberry. J. J. Jaberg. W. S. Smith. N. Wagoner, John Badders, J. F. Hocker, H. C. Andrews. Michael Miller. W. W. Graham. J. H. Hahnert. J. S. Johnson, J. B. Corson, J. N. Burkhead. Samuel Yost. Jerry Santders. Lois A. Sanders. L. C. Pease. C. W. Merryman. L. Bean, Jonathan Merryman. Z. Merryman. Wm. Reppert. Noah H. Johnson. C. T. Lee, Jos. Heimann. Joe A. Andrews. F. Hahnert, T. H. Baltzell. Jonas Hoffman. Perry Andrews. S. B. Nelson, G. W. Andrews. L. E. Marker. T. H. Tabler, James Kirkendall, J. M. Andrews, O. T. Hendricks. J. E. Lachot, Jacob Bohn. Oscar Ehrsam. Fred H. Meyer, F. M. Price. Jacob Miller. Philip Zaugg, John Lobsiger. W. R. Bollinger, P. P. Klopfenstine. Jonathan Andrews, Jacob Klopfenstine. J. J. Roth. Paul Girod. Samuel Baker, David Biberstine. Ira Wagoner. Peter Rich, Jacob Daleh, John Baumann. William Gilbert. Elias Carpenter. C. E. Bollinger, V. C. Lalsure. Henry Hirschy, John T. Martz. Ernest W. Busche. G. E. McKean. E. Ehinger, C. S. Niblick. W. H. Niblick. W. A. Cline, J. C. Sutton, W. B. Coffee, John Baker, John Hessler, John Wagoner, Noah Mangold Eli Engle, Frank Corson. E. F. Gass, J. H. Yager, H. A. Fristoe, H. Hite, Henry Barkley. B P. Rice. John Everett, J. R. Parrish, Clem Heideman. Julius Heideman. W. H. Ward, N. A. Loch. J. F. Keifer, J. W. McKean. L. L. Rupert. L. N. Stahl, H. Osterman, J. W. Klopfenstein. A. Q. Durbin. L. L. Sheline, Geo. H. Martz. R. E. Smith, J. D. Hendricks. Elmer J. Cook, H. Osterman. F, O Martin, L. A. Graham. This petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners on

Monday, June 1, 1908, at which time the taxpayers of Monroe and Washington townships may appear and make such objections as the law mav provide for. 20-31 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. June Term, 1908. We, the undersigned, each and all of whom are resident freholders and voters of Hartford township in Adams county, Indiana, most respectfully petition your honorable body that you proceed to have a free macadamized • stone road, constructed and completed I in said Hartford township, over and ( upon the public highway, situated on the following route, to-wit: Commencing in the center of section thirty-four (54) township twenty-five (25) north, range thirteen (13) east, on the public highway, running north and south through the center of said section, running thence west along and upon the public highway east and west through said section, to the center at section thirty-three, said township and range aforesaid. That the improvement thus prayed for Is less than three miles in length and connects at both ends with a free macadam road. 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 said broken stone there be placed stone screenings. 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 Hartford township, that the improvement herein prayed for is to be an extension of a free macadam road, running north and south, through the center of said section thirty-four (34). and which connects at the west end in the center of section thirty-three (33) aforesaid, with a free macadam road already established. 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 eight (8- inches, at the sides thereof, and to a depth of ten (10) inches in the center thereof, and that crashed stone cceenings be placed thereon to a depth of three (3) inches, upon said broken stone, that said road be constructed, as a double track, and that the name of said road shall be the Sherman Glen-

Jdening Macadam Road Extension No. 1- We ask that said improvement be nai.l for bv bonds issued by the counAdams, in the State of Indiana, pavable in twenty jnstallments. or series, and for the pa ment of which we ask that a tax be levied upon the taxable property of said Hartford township, in a sufficient amount to pay the interest and principal of said bonds, as they may said road be built, and that said bonds be issued and said tax be levied upon said property of s2ld township in accordance with tae acts of the legislature of the State of Indiana. passed in the year 1905. beginning on page 550 and as amended L the acts of 1907. now in force, providing for the extension of free gravel or macadam roads. We further ask that the board taxe the nece«sarv steps as required by law to have said road and constructed, and made as Petitioned herein, that the same be constructed without submitting the question of building the same to an election of die voters of said Hartford township, and that they construct the same under the laws of the State of Indiana, now in force providing for the erten sion of free gravel or Rudolph Lafavour, J. T. W. Watson. A. Ensley, Chas. T. Watson. Wm. Quigg, John Boir r Glendening. Henry Stahl. ler Albert Pontius. John Pontius, Yl m. Anderson, S. Pontius. T. G. Bears. B. W. Bears. Ezra Glendening, Sherman Glendening, L. M. Goan. W. S. 1A .son. Eugene Lindsey. Elmer Stout. James Glendening. Peter Hoffmann. Peter J. Liechty. Peter Roth. Daniel Liechtj. John R. ’ehr, Abraham fEgly, Sol “Stuckey Christ Eicher. Emanuel Warner John Yoder. Arnold Achleman, David Spickiger, David Mackbergin, CDcar Burry, Samuel Opliger. Fred Dubash. W. A. Hunt. John W. Covrens. John Pearson. Elmer C. Hunt. John Huffman. Noah Biberstine. Badgley Anderson. Wm. Hall. Noah Messer, L. O Bears. James O. Price, John R. ciendenen. Rufus W. Glendening, YA m. Glendening. This petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners on Monday, June 1, 1908, at which time the taxpayers of Hartford township may appear and make such objections as the law may provide for. 20-3 t C. D. LEWTON. Auditor. — o NOTICE OF RECEIVING BIDS FOR SUPPLIES. Notice is hereby given that on Monday. the Ist day of Jhne, 19Q8, and up until ten o'clock, a. m„ of said day, the Board of Commissioners of Adams county, in the state of Indiana, constituting the Board of Turnpike direc tors, as such board will receive sealed bids for the furnishing of crushed stone, and other materials for turnpike repairs in said Adams county for the ensuing year, bids will be received and entertained as follows, in earload lots to vary with the needs of the county, and subject to the order of said Board or its superintends, prices per yard f. o. b. at the following railroad stations in said county, to-wlt: Bingen, Decatur. Monroe, Berne, Geneva. Cralgville, Peterson, Pleasant Mills. Rivarre, 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, O. 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 for common drain tile in sizes from three to eighteen inch, bidder to give price at factory named by him, bids will also be received for hard burned brick, suitable for wells, bidder to state prices at kiln. Bids will also be received for salt glazed tile, sizes from six to twenty-four inches also for common gravel and lime for bridges. Each bid shall be accompanied by a good and sufficient bond in the sum of >2,000 with either freehold or surety, and with the necessary affidavit as required by law, the board (reserves the right to reject any and all bids. MARTIN LAUGHLIN, DAVID WERLING, WILLIAM MILLER. Board off Turnpike Directors of Adams county, Indiana. Attest: —C. D. Lewton, Auditor. 20-St - ■ 9 —— SHERIFF’S SALE.

State of Indiana. Adams county, ss: In the Adams Circuit Court of Adams county, Indiana. No. 7563. John W. Brown vs. Noah Mangold et al. By virtue of an order of sale to me directed by the Clerk of the Adams Circuit Court of said County and State I have levied upon the real estate hereinafter mentioned and will expose for sale at public auction at the east door of the Court House in the City of Decatur. Adams County, Indiana. between the hours of 10 o’clock a. m. and 4 o’clock p. m., on Friday, June 5, 1908, The rents and profits for a term not exceeding seven years, of the following described real estate, situated in Adams county’, Indiana, to-wit* Inlot number 37 and ten feet off cf the north side of inlot number 38 commencing at the northeast corner ; of said inlot number 38, thence running south ten feet, thence west 132 iQ9 e TA° rth ten feet - then ce ■ nlnl 132 s t et t 0 the p!aCe ° f bef?in,h"^as \ he , Same is donated on I of DecaS fndia O na the (D ° W ' Clty) failure t 0 realize therefrom ; the full amount of judgment, interest hereon and costs, I will at the same ■ time and in the same manner afore ■ thl\h ffer S° r sale the fe * simple of the above described premises. i com k ot“^ S » the propert y of Noah Man- ' fhk nth a sat ’ sfyßaid order of sale this Uth day of May, 1908. JO-3L ELj meyer gheriff

NOTICE OF JOINT » THE BOARDS OF ERS OF ADAMS COUNTIES TO hfaH' TIONS OF ANY TO PROVE OF A HIGhLMi COUNTY LINE AND WELLS COUnd'W State of Indiana, ( WS and Wells, ss: “The undersigned 0 K County Auditor of \v..n - i v D Hawton, County Adams < o-inty, b,. r ,. !>v . M the taxpayers of Ha-'riA' Wells County. India.: Township. Adam, < “ I there v is pending a the- Board of <’oi u!l . ‘ County. Indiana, and Commissioners of diana. which petition County Auditors offir, ■ County, and said pen-j.B the improvement o f a which is on the coun’v Adams and Wells viding the township O s Wells county and the French in Adams cmimv being particularly dev'eji lows, to-wit: gH Commencing at the n or| M ner of section 17, range 13 east, in Wei’s ana, thence south on the dividing Adams and Wefi a point in section 20, and range where the crosses from Adam, <• to Wells county. southeast diiarter of : ‘ And it is proposed by to improve said highway h ing manner: By gradins'thM a common level as nearly ture of the land over ? |B highway passes will y. properly draining the grade of said hitrhwav »■ be covered with crush- , .Ml top dressing of 50,;,,a width of ten feet and depth that 1.763 yard-- of be required for each improvement and to build by a system of raxa -ny ■ able property of said said taxpayers of said Harrison and French are tied that said petition ha, fore heard by the .her- - missioners of Adam.- and ties -and has been h- ■ ■ • to an engineer and vi.-;v.-r< tH report on the impro-.. : for. and said engine. - - - have filed a report with :> of Wells County. Indiana. ;» of said report is filed in the i H ditor's office of Adar: - taxpayers of said Fro- .-fl townships are hereby notfl there will be a joint Boards of Commission-■< nH and Wells counties, in oin: fl the auditor’s office in Wellfl Indiana, on the 11th day fl 1908, at the hour of ten o'clfl which joint session said fl Commissioners will hea’ anfl objections or remonstraree-fl proposed improvement and tions that any taxpayer mafl the approval of said report ■ establishment of said imprefl Witness our hands this 20fl May. 1908. $ O D. GAB 21- C. D LE o — NOTICE OF FINAL SETTI OF ESTATE. | Notice is hereby given to Itors, heirs and legatees of Kirchner, deceased, to appei Adams Circuit Court, held tur. Indiana, on the 12th day 1908, and show cause, if any, final settlement accounts 1 estate of said decedem shoul approved; and said heirs ar< to then and there make proo ship, and receive their dis shares. J. C. GRANDS 22- ' Admil Decatur, Ind., May 21. 1908 APPOINTMENT OF EXEC Notice is hereby given, tha dersigned has been appoint© tor of the estate of Christi merloh, late of Adams cot ceased. The estate is prob vent. WILLIAM SC HAME HENRY SCHAMERI May 9, 1908. E 20-3 t o Insist upon DeWitt’s Witc Salve. There are substitu there is only original It is sothlag and cooling and. is « good for piles. Sold by B. ■ - — DeWitt's Little Early RH email, tiafe, sure pjad seat pills. Sold by B. Doolittle Almost every seat is sokl commencement exercises of lor class of the D. H. S.. wb occur tonight. An excellent has been prepared for the oc<

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