Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 33, Decatur, Adams County, 13 August 1908 — Page 8

LaQAL ADVERTISING. NOTICE. Sale of Unclaimed Freight and Bag gage. Notice is hereby given that the; Grand Rapids and Indiana Railway i Company has in its possession divers articles, packages and cases of freight and baggage which have been and remained in its possession for upwards * of one year, unclaimed and refused at the places to which the same were I consigned, and checked, and upon which the owners have failed, and refused for one year, and more, to pay j the carrier’s charges thereon, and to claim and take said freight and baggage. and that all the said articles, packages and cases of unclaimed freight and baggage will be sold, each article, package and case separately, at public auction, to the highest bid der for cash, at the warehouse of the j Union Fireproof Storage Company, on Pearl street, in the City of Grand > Rapids, in the County of Kent, and State of Michigan, on the line of the railroad of said railway company. | commencing on Tuesday, the Ist of September. 1908. at 10 o’clock a. m., and continuing until all said articles shall be sold. Terms —Immediate payment by purchaser In cash, and delivery of the property to him, to b? taken away Immediately THE GRAND RAPIDS & INDIANA RAILWAY COMPANY. By E. C. Leavenworth. General Freight Agent. .C. L. Lockwood, General Passenger. Agent. Dated at Grand Rapids, Mich.. June 12, 1908. 25 ‘ 8t — -o —— 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 Washington township in said county, known as the Decatur and Monroe No. 5 Macadam Road, up and until 10 o’clock a. m., on Monday, September 7, 1908. 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 th e Viewers and Engineer, which are now on file in the Auditor’s office of said county, said road to be built of crushed stone alone. A bond must accompany each bid, in twice the amount of the bid filed, conditioned for faithful performance of said work, and that the bidder if awarded t*>e 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 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 b e required to file affidavit as required by law. Th.e Board <of Commissioners reserve the right to reject any and all bids. C. D. LEWTON. Auditor. 31-3 t Adams County. Indiana. 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 Wabash and Hartford townships in said county, known as the L. O. Bears Extension No. 1 Macadam Read, up and until 10 o'clock a. m.. on Monday, September 7, 1908, 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 I office of said county, said road to be built of crushed stone alone. A bond must accompany each bid, in 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 a nd in accordance with the bid 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 ’he funds to be hereinafter raised by the I sale of bonds as required by law. Each bidder will b e required to file affidavi’ as required by law. The Board fcf Commissioners reserve the right to reject any and all bids. 0. D. LEWTON, Auditor, 31-3 t Adams County. Indiana. NOTICE OF PUBLIC LETTING. Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of Adams county, Indiana, will receive bids f or the construction of a macadamized road in St. Marys township in said I county, known as the Irwin Carter Macadam Road, up and until 10 o'clock a. m., on Monday, September 7, 1908, 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 th e Viewers and Engineer, which are now on file in the Auditor’s office of said county, said road to be builk of crushed j j»-'. alone. AI bond must accompany each bid. in 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 com- : plete the same according to such contract and in accordance with the bid tiled. All bids shall be made so as to give i the amount for which said read will Ibe constructed for cash, payable on estimates to be made by the Engineer in cEarge. 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 I Each bidder will b e required to file affidavit as required by law. ; The Board of Commissioners reserve the right to reject any and all bids. C. D. LEWTON. Auditor. I 31-3 t Adams County. Indiana. — o SHERIFF SALE. State of Indiana, Adams county, ss: In the Adams Circuit Court, of Adams county. Indiana- No. 2704 and 12703. Benjamin W. Sholty vs. Mary ■E. McGath. • By virtue or an execution to me directed by the Clerk of the Adams j Circuit Court of said County and | State. Ihave 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, 28th day of August, 1908, the rents and profits for a term not exceeding seven years, of the following described realestate, situated in Adams county, Indiana, to-wit: The northwest quarter H 4) of southwest (%) of section eighteen (18) township twenty-seven (27), north range fifteen (15) east, ccntaining forty (40) acres of land more or less. Commencing at the southeast corner of the southwest quarter of section eighteen (18) in township twentyseven (27) north range fifteen (15) east, thence running west nine (9) rods and thirteen (13) feet to the right of way of the Toledo. Kansas City railroad, thence along said right of way in a northwest direction eighty-'six (86) rods, thence north thirty-two rods and four feet, thence east eighty (80) rods, thence south eighty rods to the place of beginning, containing thirty (30) acres more or lass. And pn failure to realize therefore! the full amount of judgment, interest thereon and costs, I will at the same time and in the same manner aforesaid. offer for sale the fee simple of the above described premises. Taken as the property of Mary E. McGath to satisfy taid execution this 29th dav of July, 1908. ELI MEYER. Sheriff. MACADAM ROAD PETITION. State of Indiana. Adams county, ss: Commissioner's court, .September term. 1908. In the matter of draining. grading and paving the cemetery road, in Washington township. To the Board of Commissioners of Adams County, State of Indiana. Gentlemen—The undersigned petitioners represent to your honorable body that they are ’each resident householders and qualified legal voters of Washington townshlu. Adams county. Indiana; that they are each interested in the draining, grading and paving of certain highways in said township, including the one hereinafter described; that they desire that the following streets, parts of streets and parts of highways, designated herein as The Cemetery Road and beginning at the west end of Nuttman street, where it connects with the Preble Macadam Road (a Tree gravel road) thence east along said Nuttman street to where it intersects with Eighth street; thence south along said Eighth street to where it intersects with Monroe street, thence west along I said Monroe street to the corporate limits of the City of Decatur. Adams county, Indiana; thence continuing west along and over the Decatur and Bluffton Macadam Road (a free gravel road) which is a continuation of said Monroe street from the corpcrate limits of said City of Decatur, to the entrance gate of the Decatur Cemetery Ass'n and there to terminate; all in Washington township, Adams county, Indiana, be drained, graded and paved with brick, at the cost and expense of said Washington township. That said Washington township includes an incorporated city which has a population of less than 30,000 inhabitants and no incorporated city or town whic hhas a population of more than 30,000 inhabitants. That the said road above described lays wholly within said Washington township, and that the distance so sought to be drained, graded and paved is less than three miles. That the said road is now and has been for a long time, a public road and highway, and during said time has been opened to the public and established as a highway. That there is now and for a long time has been, a United States rural mail route passing over the said highway the entire length of the same as above described, and that there is now (and for some time has been) mail being carried and distributed to the patrons residing along said route That the highway herein asked to be paved connects at the commencement thereof as above described with a free macadam read known as the Decatur and Preble Macadam Rosd and at its terminus said highway ccn- : nects with the - Decatur and Bluffton Macadam Road, a free macadam road, and said highway, between the points named has several laterals running north and south and east and west therefrom, which are also public highways and are extensively traveled by the public. We would respectively recommend to your honorable body that the said highway be drained, graded and paved to the width of 34 feet, and that the said improvement follow the general direction as at this time laid out and established. . We would further recommend that said road be drained, graded and paved with brick with such sub-grade to the depth as the board may deem necessary. That the improving of

said road will be of public utility, if improved as prayed for. We further represent that we have been compelled to and have employed an attorney to prepare and present this petition and have employed him to do such things as may be necessaryin securing the necessary consideration of this petition, and we ask that he be allowed a reasonable fee for and on that behalf. Wherefore we pray that the petition may be granted, and that the said highway between the points named tbove be paved with brick, 'and that such paved part be established on a uniform width of 34 feet, that attorney's fees be allowed in a reasonable amount, and for ail other proper relief. C. L. Walters, Attorney for Petitioners. C C. Cloud, F. M. Schirmeyer. John F. Lachot. E. Woods, James Hurst, Emerson Beavers. John Elzey, John W. Malott, L. W. Frank, Julius Haugk. Peter Sether. David Stoler, Wm. Weiland, Samuel Doak. John Steele, Martin Beery, Fred H. Heuer, John Niblick. C. S. Niblick. U. S. Drummond. James K. Niblick. Dan M. Niblick. J. H. Bremerkamp, C. C. Schafer, J. B. Meibers, Wm. Hobrock, Roy Archbold, A. D. Artman, T. W. Watts. H. N. Schroll, Eli Springer. W. A. Bowman, F. V. Mills. C. A. Dugan. T. R. Durkin, J. D. Dailey, N. C. Anderson. Harry Helm. W. P. Schrock, T. MReid, W. A. Kuebler, Jno. S. Falk. B. J. Smith, M. A. Frisinger. T. C. Corbett. John S. Peterson. John Lose, To mHaefling, W. W. P. McMillen, L. G. Ellingham, W. C. Kauffman. Dan Haley, David Gerber, N. A. Loch. Chas. D Murray. T. H. Ernst. E Burt Lenhart. James P. Haefling. Henry Lankenau, C. D. Lewton, E. Elnnger, C. B Andrews, Fred Hoffman Paul G. Hooper, John D. Bolinger, P. J. Hyland. E. J. Ahr. T. R. Moore. Samuel Butler. C. M. Hower, Geo. E. Weinhoff. Fred Beineke, Charles F. Nelson, D. F. Quinn, J. J. Magley, 1 L. Babcock, L. C. Annen, Geo. Appleman. Ben Schrank, Charles C. Lose. Reuben Breiner. S. E. Shamp Geo. G. Flanders, A. S. Gillig. H. L. Conter, V L. McGonagle, D. F. Teeple. Jno. T Myers. D. D. Clark. Dan Beery, J. W. Meibers. L. L. Baumgartner, Eli Meyer, John Spuller, Dan Erwin, J. G Niblick, Jacob Rawley. J. W. Watkins. Albert Bracht. That the auditor of said Adams county. State cf Indiana, fixes Monday, September 7, 1908, at the commissioner's court room in the court house in the City of Decatur. in said Adams county, and State of Indiana, at the hour cf nine o'clock a. m. of said day, as the time and place when and where said petition will be presented to the board of commissioners of Adams county. Indiana. and as the day upon which proof of notice and publication of notice of said petition will be heard and made to the said Board of Commissioners. 33-3 t C. D. LEWTON Auditor. —o PETITION FOR STONE ROAD. State of Indiana, County of Adams, ss: Before the Board of Commissioners of the ccunty of Adams. September Term, 1908. We. the undersigned, each and all of whom are resident freeholders and voters of and in Washington township and in the City of Decatur, situated in said 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 established. constructed and completed, in said Washington township over and along the public highway, situated on the following route, to-wit: Commencing at the northwest corner cf the southeast quarter of section six (6) township twenty-seven (27) north, range fourteen (14) east, at the Decatur and Bluffton Macadam Road, running thence west over the public highway there situated through the center of section six 16) township and range aforesaid, and ending on the boundary line between Washington township and Kirkland township, at the northwest corner of the southwest quarter of said section six (6) township and range aforesaid, all in Adams county, Indiana. Your petitioners further show that said improvement is less than three miles in length and connects at the commencement thereof with a free macadam road in said Washington township, and that the same terminates and ends on the boundary dividing ashington township and Kirkland township aforesaid. Your petitioners further show that the improvement herein prayed for is to be a continuation of. and an extension of the Decatur and BMiffton Macadam Road, and this improvement is to be called the W. A. Bowman Macadam Road Extension. Your petitioners further ask your honorable body that said highway, above described, be graded, drained, and that broken stone be placed upon the grade, and that upon such broken stone there be placed stone screenings, and that there be built made and constructed upon said highway what is known as a macadamized road. And your petitioners further show that the public highway thus sought to be improved, is a public highway, already established and is one of the public highways of said Washington 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 the 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 double track. We ask that said improvement be paid ft t bv bonds issued by the county of Adams, in the State of Indiana, payable in twenty semi-annual insta’ments or series, and for the payment of which wje ask that a tax be levied upon the taxable property of said Washington township, and the City of Decatur, situated in said township in the county of Adams, and State of

Indiana, in a sufficient amount to pay the interest find principal of said bonds, as they may become due. That said road be built and constructed. and that said bonds be issued and said tai: 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 m the acts of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, for the year 190<, in the acts of 1907, and any and all amendments thereto. We further ask the board; that the proposed improvement herein be constructed without submitting the question of buildine the same to the voters of said Washington ttwnship, and that the board take the different steps as required by law, to have said ini' provement 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. W. A- Bowman. Wm. Reppert. Jonas Hoffman. Christ Beery. Edward Wesel, Michael Miller, Elmer Johnson N. H. Wagner, James Wagner. E A. Booth. J. D. Stountenberry, Gottlieb F. Gerber, James Kirkendall. Peter Wetsel, Louis Weiser. W. E. Kintz. John Appelman. Joe Wetsel, J E. Weber, T. H. BaltzeH, R E. Doty, L. F Miller, Geo A. Kintz, Frank Gillig. Ed Parent. C. D. Murray, J. E. Meibers, David Gerber. Eli Engle, E. A. Beavers, George W. Zimmerman, Henry Peters, John Hessler, D. D. -Clark E L. Gase, Alfred Elzey, R. B. Johnson, Jake Gillig. Henry Siting, Henry Barkley, Martin Miller. Schafer Hanerne. John R. Porter, Dan Beery, E J- Ahr, F. M. Burger, J. M. Rice, A M. Fisher, Wm. Weber, Seth D. Beavers, Julius Haugk, Charlie Voglewede. E. Ehlnfeer, John Baker. C. S Niblick. D. D. Clark, Henry Knapp, P. H Smith. A. H. Sellemeyer, C. C. Cloud. W. Kitson. Wm. D. Rinehart, George Geels. C. M. Andrews, H. R. Mcltz, Wm. Butler, Fred H Heuer, John Amspaugh. Wm. F. Wietfeldt. This petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners on Monday, September 7, 1908, at which time the taxpayers of Washington township may appear and make such objections as the law may provide for. 33-3 t C. D. LEWTON, Auditor. - EXPENDITURES AND TAX LEVIES FOR THE YEAR 1909. The trustee of Washington township. Adams county, Ind., pre poses for the yearly expenditures and tax levies by the Advisory Board at its annual meeting, to be held at the school house of School District No. — the following estimates and amounts for said year: 1. Township expenditures $977.22 and township tax 7 cents on the hundred dollars. 2. Local tuition expenditures sl,814.85 and tax 13 cents on the hundred dollars. 3. Special school tax expenditures $1,534.64 and tax 11 cents on the hundred dcllars. 4. Road tax expenditures $698.00 and tax 5 cents on the hundred dollars. 5. Poor expenditures for preceding year. $418.81 and tax 3 cents on the hundred dollars. Total expenditures $5,344.52 and total tax 39 cents on the hundred dollars. $1,535.64 and tax 11 cents on the hunlars. H. HITE. Trustee. o EXPENDITURES AND TAX LEVIES FOR THE YEAR 1909. The trustee of Preble township. Adams county, proposes for the yearlyexpenditures and tax levies by the Advisory Board at its annual meeting, to be held at the school house of Schocl District No. 1 on the 9th day of September, 1908, commencing at 2 o'clock p. m., the following estimates and amounts for said year: 1. Township tax 20 cents on the hundred dollars. 2. Lccal Tuition tax 10 cents on the hundred dollars. 3. Special school tax 20 cents on the hundred dollars. 4. Road tax 15 cents on the hundred dollars. 5. Additional road tax 10 cents on the hundred dollars. Total tax 75 cents cn the hundred dollars.

Number of polls 192. LOUIS KLEIN, Trustee. Dated Aug. 4, 1908. It o EXPENDITURES AND TAX LEVIES FOR THE YEAR 1909. The trustee of Monroe township, Adams county, proposes for the yearly expenditures and tax levies by the Advisory Board at its annual meeting to be held at the Trustee’s office on th 2nd day of September, 1908, commencing at 2 o’clock p. m., the following estimates and amounts for said year: 1. Township expenditures $1,171.12 and township tax 10 cents on the hundred dollars. 2. Local tuition expenditures $623.76 and tax 5 cents on the hundred dcllars. 3. Special schol tax expenditures, $1,871.28 and tax 15 cents on the hundred 'dollars. 4. Road tax expenditures $585.56 and tax 5 cents on the hundred dollars. 5. Additional road tax expenditures $468.44 and tax 4 cents on the hundred dollars. 6. Poor expenditures Jor preceding year $204.75 and tax 1 cent on the hundred dollars. Total expenditures $4,924.93 and total tax 40 cents on the hundred dollars. The taxables of the above named township are as follows: Total valuation of lands and improvements $1271,120 Total valuation of personal property Monroe Corp.. 76,4C|0 Net taxable property of Tp51,247,520 Number of polls 390. JACOB HUSER, Trustee Dated August 4, 1908.

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WOMEN ATTHE FAIR State Exposition Will Be Overt Rowing With Features For Them. WHAT THE DEPARTMENTS OFFEj Maay General Shows Will Interest th, Women — Displays of Kitchen Pre ducts—Butter-Making WIN g. Taught by Nurdue Experts—The B, Art Departments. With th® Indiana State Fair ovei flowing with features for them, th women -41 the state, who by tens o thousa.*,'- zee the exposition ever; year. wW ilad the coming fair of m commoL interest to thsm, and the will also find in it a rich source of i s formation. The races, the horse a a cattle shows, the band concerts, th big night shows which will be held i the livestock pavilion, th e poultry an tower shows—all of these attraction at the Fair are of as much interest t the women as to the men. But in some of the buildings ther are exhibits which appeal especially t women. The show of fruit in Hort cultural hall is promising for the Stat Fair, which opens at Indianapolis o September 7. In this department th premiums amount to about S7OO. Th prizes for flowers and plants, with sp cial exhibits on different days, amoui to SB3O. For bees and honey the prize offered amount to $250. Over will be divided among the exhfbitoi of the best table luxuries, and mat women of Indiana will compete for tl ribbons with displays of breads, cake jellies and jams. The list of coutes In which amateurs may compete Is long one, and there is another clai for the professional cooks In the art department the big bull Ing will, as it is every year, be ove flowing with displays of knitted at crochet work, handmade lace and ei broidery, sewing, fancy work, phot graphs, decorative art work by boi professionals and amateurs, and i elaborate display of decorated chli will be made. The Fair’s poultry show grows lar er year by year, and for the comil exposition the prizes amount to J’,s( Hundreds of chickens from the be flocks of Indiana will be shown, ai there will be competitors from oth states. In the dairy and creamery depa went the expert butter makers fro Purdue University will again make i extensive exhibit and give lecturei, butter making that year after ye prove of inestimable value to the woi en from the Indiana farms. The dairy cattle shown at the Fl are always of particular interest the women of the farms, who, throu their visits to the exposition and the rich fund of information gather there, have done much to improve t quality of the herds and dairy pi ducts of this State. The prizes offer for dairy cattle at the coming Fl amount to $3,400, and some faao herds will be represented in the a tests for ribbons. State Fair Judges. For the first time in the history the Indiana State Fair the State Boa of Agriculture has announced its 1 of judges before the exposition begs E. S. Morse of Chicago will tie on t ribbons in the draft horse classes; A. McDonald of West Lebanon ’ make the awards on coach horses, a the prizes in the light harness, sadi and pony classes will be made by W. Bell of Chicago. The judge mules Is John E. Vestal of Plainfield There will be four judges in the c tie shows: Shorthorns, N. H. Gent Sedalia, Mo.; Herefords and Polß Durhams, Thomas Clark. Beecher. !■ Aberdeen Angus, Red Polls and tfl loways, L. McWhorter, Aledo, !■ dairy cattle, Prof. M. A. Scoviil, ington, Ky. I The sheep judges will be: Sh!« shires. Oxfords and Hampshires. R® Stone. Stonington, III.; long wools, fl Woodford, Paris, Ky.; all fine wofl Uriah Privitt, Greensburg. ■ Four men will name the winnertfl the swine pens: Lloyd Mugg. K<fl mo, Berkshires and Poland Chines :■ W. Brown, Union City, Chester and Duroc Jerseys; Hughes Mt. Sterling, Ky., Hampshires; Tlfl Vinnedge. Hope, Mule foots. ■ The poultry judges, who will hfl more competition to pass on than fl haps any other makers of awardfl the Fair, will be: C. V. Keeler. Vfl mac; James A. Tucker. Concfl Mich.; O. L. McCord, Danville; W.fl Zlke, Morristown. ■ Purdue at State Fair. I Purdue University will make S year the most extensive exhibit it ■ ever sent to the State Fair, and i ■ be In charge of Prof. G. I. The results of many experiments nfl at Purdue will be shown, and will be demonstrations in n> a W spraying mixtures, judging the selection of seed will be -fl each day at the Fair. In the dairy ■ islon practical butter-making ” ‘ ■ carried on. The University ■ hold a reunion of all its studen« Thursday. Sept, 10. when Stone and Dean Skinner will V •at _ -*"■ '.-ZCN* '

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