Decatur Democrat, Volume 52, Number 43, Decatur, Adams County, 28 October 1909 — Page 8

State of Indiana, County of Adam, bb: In the Adams Circuit Court, Sept. Humericknouse, George HumericKhouse her husband vs. William Mourer, llam Mourer, Catharine Mourer his wife, all the unknown heirs of WilHam Mourer If he be deceased, whose names are unknown to plaintiffs; all the unknown heirs of Catharine Mourer, wife of William Mourer, jf she ke deceased, whose names are unknown, Alexander Smith, deceased. Simeon Cast, Jennie E. Smith,. widow of John G. Smith, deceased, William Smith, son of John G. Smith, des. ceased, all the unknown heirs Os John G. Smith, whose names are unknown, of the above named defendants are non-residents of the State of Indiana. Notice is therefore hereby given the said William Mourer, Catharine Mourer his wife, all the unknown heirs of William Mourer If he be deceased, whose names are unknown to plain-1 tiffs, all the unknown heirs of Cath-I arlne Mourer, wife of William Mourer, if she be deceased, whose names are unknown, Alexander Smith, deceased, Simeon' Cast, Jennie E. Smith, Widow of John G. Smith, deceased, William Smith, son of John G. Smith,, deceased, all the unknown heirs of John G. Smith, whose names are unknown, that they be and appear before the Hon. Judge of the Adams Circuit Court on the Ist day of December, 1909, the -same being the 15th Juridicial Day of the next regular term—thereof, to be holden at the court house in the City of Decatur/ commencing on Monday, (the 15th day of November, A. D, 1909,. and plead by answer or demur to said complaint, or the same win be heard and determined in their absence. Witness, my name, and Seal, of said Court hereto affixed this sth day of October, 1909. i; JAMES P. HAEFLING, Clerk. Schurger & Smith, Attorneys for. Plaintiff. . ... ——— o ■ NOTICE OF COMMISSIONER'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE. The undersigned Commissioner, by 1 virtue of an order of the Adams Cir- ■ cult Court, made and entered tn a ■ cause therein pending entitled Evaline Archer et al vs. Mary Dyson et al, ' and numbered 7796 upon the dockets thereof, hereby gives notice that at 1 the east door of the Court House in 1 the City of Decatur, said county and state, on the 6th day of November, 1909, at 2 o’clock p. m. of said day, he 1 will offer for sale at public auction and at not less than two-thirds the full appraised value thereof, the fo’lowing described real estate, to-wit: 1 Commencing at the northeast cor- 1 net of inlot number twenty-eight (28) in the original plat of the town, now city, of Decatur, Adams County, State of Indiana, as the same is designated on the recorded plat of said town, and running thence south on the east line of said inlot, sixty-six (66) feet to the south line thereof thence west on said south line ninetytwo (92) feet and six (6) inches; thence north parallel with the east line of said inlot sixty-six (66) feet to a point on the north line' thereof erty-nine (39) feet and six (6) lies east of the northwest corner of said Inlot; thence east on the north line 6f said inlot ninety-two (92) feet and sEx (6) inches to the ■ place of beginning. Said described premises being the premises commonely known asr the “Indiana House” & said city; ' Terms of Sale —One-third cash on day of sale; one-third in one year and one-third in two years from date of safe. The purchaser to give his notes for deferred payments, waiving valuation and appraisement laws,with * per cent interest from date until M 3, to be secured by mortgage on I •he premises sold and by freehold security. I Said sale will be subject .to the approval of the court. s < I HENRY B. HELLER, Commissioner. I U D. Heller A Son, Attys. 40-4 t 0 r—— 1 NOTICE OF COMMISSIONER’S 1% |ALE OF REAL ESTATE. 1 Notice is hereby given, that the] undersigned commissioner appointed] by the Adams Circuit Court in a certain cause for partition therein pend-| ing in which Adda M. Hahnert and William J. H. Hahnert are plaintiffs] and Martha Dentner, Joseph E. Dent-] her, Ines Miller, John B. Miller, Hat-1 tie Mills, Louis C. Mills, James W. Andrews, Hattie Andrews, Orpha Wheeler, Howard Wheeler and Hazel Van Camp are defendants, by virtue •f an order made by said court for the sale of the real estate in said proceedings described, will offer for sale at public sale on Saturday, October 30th, 1909, I at the east doortof the Court House In the City of Decatur, Indiana, the fee simple of the following described real estate situated in Adams county, State of Indiana, to-wit: Inlot number seventeen (17) In the, town of Monroe, Adams County, Indiana, as the same is designated on the recorded plat of Monroe, Adams County, Indiana, at Decatur, Indiana. Said sale to be made on the following terms: One-third cash on day of sale; one-third in one year, and one-third in two years. Deferred ■. payments to bear interest at six per cent and to be secured by mortgage on/fhe real estate sold and also by sureties who are freeholders. Or the purchaser may pay all cash on day of . sale. No bid will be received for less than two-thirds of the appraised value of said real estate. i Said sale, to be in all things-sublet to the approval of said AaaiSs Ulf-j cult Court HaUi gale to commence at one n m, on maid day. - , JESSE C:. button, !

a free macadamised atone road in said Township over and upon the public highway situated on the following route, to-wit: Commencing at the northeast corner of the southeast Quarter of section eight (8), township twenty-six (26) north range fourteen (H) east in Adams County, Indiana, thence north on the public highway dividing the north half of said section eight (8) aforesaid and the north half of section nine (9) township and range « tarp a aid and the south half of seeof tne nortneast corner oi tue ouumj east quarter of said section five (5) aforesaid. Your petitioners aver and say that the Improvement prayed for is less than three miles in length connects at both ends with a free macadam road In said township and that a United States rural mall route passes over a part of the highway sought herein to be improved. Your petitioners further aver ttd say that the highway herein sought to be improved is a public highway already established and In use and is owtf the public highways of said Washington township and that this improvement is to be a continuation of, and an extension to the Decatur body that said highway above de-; scribed be drained and graded, and that broken stone be Ipaced upon the j grade and that upon such broken stone there be placed stone screenings, and that this improvement be made exclusive of crushed stone ana screenings. t Your petitioners further ask that said highway above described be improved to the width to which It is now established and that said highway 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 crushed stone screenings be ] placed thereon to a depth of four (4) ] filches upon such broken stone, that | said Improvement be made a double ] track and that the name of the same I be the Job® Hessler Macadam Road. { That to pay tor said improvement] we ask that bonds be issued by the] County of Adams, in the State of In- ] diana. 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] bf said Washington Township wad j the City of Decatur, situated therein,] in a sufficient amount to pay the interest and prineipal of said bonds as they become due. _ - | That said improvement be made ] and constructed, and that said bonds ] be issued and said tax be levied upon | the taxable property of said Townsihp ] and said City situated therein, in accordance with the acts of. the legisla- ] tore of the State of Indiana, passed in the year 1905, beginning on page 550, an das amended in the acts of 1907, and as amended in the acts 'of 1909, now in force, providing for the extension of tree gravel or macadam roads and all other and any and all amendments thereto. ] We further ask the Board to fake all of the necessary steps as Is te-l quired by law to have said Improve-1 ment constructed and made as petitioned herein, that the same be constructed without submitthj# the ques. Hnn nf bilildin? the to SH O1OC“ I iMovnr CharlfrA Nvffeler Peter WetHer, William E. Kintz, C. J. Heide-J tings, W. A. Bowman, C. B. Poling, J. J. Longenberger, Christ Beery, VIOUQ, AipilUllß IYLfULIC, uvxuc* u Kohne, Julius Heideman, Leo Meyers, J. H. Elick, Daniel J. Cool, Julius Kohne, R. B. Johnson, Emile Wilder, Gerhard Kohne, John 8. Meyer, John Lengerich, Bernard Lengerich. This petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners on Monday, November 1, 1909, at which time the taxpayers of Washington township may appear and make such objection as the law may provide for. * • 41-3 t H. S. MICHAUD, Auditor.': 1 ; -o—..— — / PETITION FOB STONE ROAD State of Indiana,County of Adame, ss: Before the Bpard of CommiS3 ! n".er3 of the county of Adams, November Term, 1909. We, the undersigned, each and ail

■ 1 vH ' range aforesaid, to the northwest | | corner of section sixteen (16) town- . ship and range aforesaid 1 , thence east ’ northeast corner of said section six-1 ’ toen (1..), being about three miles r ™ length.’ ’7. , Said proposed Improvement Is ; three miles In length and connects Jut each end with an Improved free . macadamized road in said Monroe ! township, and that a United States J Vural mail route passes over said ’] Your petitioners further ask your I honorable body that said highway . above described be graded and that : broken stone be placed. upon the ] grade, and that upon such broken | stone that there be placed stone screenings, and that there be built, made and constructed upon said ’lhighway what is known as a macad- , {“our petitioners further show that . I the public highway thus sought to be I J established and is one of the public I said road as above described be graded to a width o ftwentyfour (24) toTTepth of ten (10) lnchS?ln th J | center thereof, and to a depth or croshld at ßtone S and Sellings be placed thereon to-a depth] {of three inches upon said broken] {stone and that said road be con-] | structed as a double track and the | name of this improvement is to be | the acob Kauffman Macadam Road. | We ask that Said improvement be { paid for by bonds fssued .by the ] {county of Adams and State x of Indi-1 | ana, payable in twenty semi-annual ] installmets or series and for the] j payment of which we ask that a tax I {be levied upon the taxable, property of said Monroe Township in Adams] ] County. Indiana, in a sufficient | amount to pay the iterest and principal of said bonds as they may be-{ come due. That said road be built,; and that) said bonds be issued and said tax be levied upon said property ypf said township in accordance with the acts lof the legislature of the State of In- ] diana, in a sufficient amount to pay I bonds as they may become.-djue. ISq U ’pi rprhpr A T Moset I I John’oerVer, Paul Felber, Wm. Mil- ' John Steiner, C. L* ’ I Jtohn Eteher, B Ery Nlitoaud, I ™^j ' Amos Schindler Amos’ KlrchhaferJ I Eli Baumgartner, A. ’ H.. DrQ,..lX>ul« j

I H* b I Flev Ben Tlabeitfror David C NussI b&um T. J Rol Dr. C. C. lat which the taxpß.yers of l " voters ot ; ‘| 1 ttBK mai you construct ana comp eu? |

. D. Wlnieregg, J. J. Hirschy, Henry . Winteregg, Urich Lehman, Old Rle- . een, Amon BUenberger, E. A. Lugin- . bill, Wm. Peter J. • Baumgartner, Jacob Brown, Joel Ltddy, L. A. Sprunger, Jacob J. Yoder, • Noah LuginbiH, John C. Rohrer, J. F. Sprunger, David Augsburger, Fred ; Rohrer, Abe Sprunger, Wm. Narr, Hr- ► neat Dro; Ferdinand Ryf, J. W. Craig, Christ Stengel, Henry Schindler, Benj. Sprunger, J. H. Hllty, W. L. Ray, • Joseph D. Moser, John Winteregg, David Soldner, J. M. Neuenschwander, I A. M. Neuenschwander, John P. Nuss. ' baum, John Steiner, Charles Lehman, Samuel Lehman, Christ Bauman, Joshua Sprunger,* Daniel Zurcher, Wm. H, Frauhlger, Ulrich Sprunger, Jerry Luginbill, I. Q. Kerr, D. N, Stauffer, Sam Simiaon,. George Heller, Christ Hllty, Wm. Reusser, Peter Llechty, David Lehman, Fred Augsburger, Peter Lehman, Abe A. Habegger, F. C. Foreman, Jerry Llechty, Paul Gerber, Otto Franz, S. F. Lehman, Geo. W. Martz, 0. E. Stuckey, Amos Burkhalter, Wm. B. Tucker, John Wanner, Joshua Yoder, Louis A. Brunner, Mathias Llechty, Jacob Welchly. George Nieolet, Paul Girod, Jacob Graber, Peter steury, Christ Lehman, David F. Mazelln, C. C. Sinniger. Daniel Mazelin, David F. Neuenschwander,Peter Soldner, Ellas Horn. H. H Stucky, M. Burkhalter, Abe Hocker, U Broughton, A. J. Moser, Henry EUenßerger, E. M. ftoty, Andrew Gottschalk, Emanuel Neuenschwander* John Rohrer, Geo. Baumgartner, C.S. Stauffer, Noah Bauih&nrimer^Feterßlherstine, C. C. Beer, Julius Reichert, H» S JC Reusser, Ell Barimgartaer. Jacob Reusser, C. •L. Simkins, Rufus Flory. Jonas Sprunger,lEdwfn Lehman, David Sprunger, ChaS. E. Leisure, John J, Schwarts, Daniel Wlelty, . Sam S, Egly, Jaceb Ji' Schwarts, ‘ David Neuenschwander. John J. Habegger, J. E. Loudon, Mathias Miller, Fred Wechter, P. Klopfenstine, Jacob A; Mosdr, Dr. C. H, Schenk, Anton Michaud, Anton fcurchW, .J. P. Habegger Oswin Lehman, A. Lehman, A. H. Dro, Jacob Nusnaunn N. S. Stucky, Peter D. Steiner, Emanuel J. Llechty, Calvin R. Liechty, J. N. Kerr, John F. Mazejin, Peter F. Mazelln, Philip Sprunger, D. J. Sprunger, Noah D. Schwartz, Chr. Reusser, H. H. Baumgartner, Michael Zehr, Wm. F. Reichert, Jacob Schindler, N. G. Dan Winteregg, AN. Sprunger, William T. Waggoner, Dennis Striker, M. Striker, Phil Bauder, Dr. E,. Franz, A. J. Myers, H. P. Ray, Jacob Steiner,' &id Habgeger, Amos Schindler, V. E. Haebker, Abe Beer. This petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners on Monday, November 1, 1909, at which time the taxpayers of Monroe township may appear and make such objection as the law may provide for. ?. • 41-at H. S. MICHAUD, Auditor. -— 1 ' PETITION FOR STONE ROAD. State of Indiana, County of Adams, ss: Before the Board of Commissioners of the county of Adams, November Term, We, the undersigned, each and all of whom are resident freholders and. voters of Washington Township, and the City of Decatur, situated therein in Adams county, Indiana, respectfully petition your honorable body and ask that you construct and complete a fre macadamized stone road in said Township over and upon the public, highway situated on the following route to-wlt: Commencing about twenty (20) rods north of the northeast cornet of the southeast Quarter of section five (5), Township twenty-seven (M) north range fourteen (J. 4 east, In AAawia County, Indiana, running thence in a northeasterly direction on the highway dividing the north half of sections four (4) and five (5) Township and range aforesaid, where said highway angles from said section line, thence following the highway, and terminating about twenty-five (25) trods Jeast of the northeast corner of the northeast quarter o fsalA section five. Township and Range aforesaid. • Your petitioners aver and say that the improvement prayed for is less than three miles in length, connects at both ends with a free macadam ‘ road in said Township; and that a United States rural man route passes overw part of the sought herein to be Improved. “ Your petitioners further aver and say that the highway herein sought to be improved is a public highway already established and in use and is one of the publip highways of said Washington Township and that this improvement is to be a continuance of, and an extension to the Decatur and Bluffton Macadam Road. Your petitioners 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 be placed stone screenings, and - that this ftnprovemeht be made ex- . elusive of crushed stone and screenings. Your petitioners further ask that said highway ablove described be improved to the width to which it is now established and that', said highway above described be graded tb 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 (10) inches in the center thereof, and that crushed stone screenings be placed thereon io a depth of four (4) inches upon Such broken stone, that said improvement be made a double .track and that the name of the same be “the Andrew Appleman Macadam Road. That to pay for said improvement we ask'"that bonds be lashed 'by the County of Adams, in the State of Indiana, payable in twdhty semiannual linstallments. or and, for the payment of which we ask that atax be levied upon the taxable property ot said Washington Township, and the City of Decatur situated therein in a sufficient

; tex% c i p e al sahJ bond " M *** “I j, • ■ 1 x u<ti oiJiu Ulipi UVVuH’Iil 06 HiRnH -land constructed and that aafd h h loAia — A lOA*7 v 11l Lllc .’ gravel 'or macadam al? ’ ?h«rLn and a “ T aQd aU &mendmelktß i , We further auk the Board to take ’ qulred by law to’ hive skid TmproJer stioned On Sin^th a a n t d theorem! • constructed without submitting* fh** * election Os tha vrtto»»o ’ r ~ VOLerfl Gr said waah~ • Ing ton I ownship, and that the Roard , construct the same under the 1 ? f 4! e sta 3 e Indiana, providing - r . i for the extension of free gravel or > macadam roads. , Andrew Appleman, John Hessler, t : Peter X Heimann, Marion Andrews. T. H. BaJtzell, Geo Martin, John P. Braun, Frank Heimann, Geo. A. • «?*W?Kltson, HenS »STq% ueeiß, josepn wetsoi, j&cod Rawley, Peter W©ts©l H Hit© John Aina*?™* paugt, Anthony Kohne,’W A. ' C,lchtn > Geo A J ' Miller, William E Kintz, C. J. Heide. ; g wX . Elias Crist, B. F. Booker, Henry St'chmitt IT T ttA 4* Barkley, Joseph Helmarm, Peter I Braun, Wm. Hartings, C. B. Poling, I Wm.’R^? e po^ e Tho B S < ' gerlch, Toney VogelweSe, H. W. t 3ellemeyer, Joseph Meyer, Clinton , Koh C1 °“Jultus h Heldfi K<A ’ le ’ ■ ers J. H . Eli ck, Daniel j. Cool i Julius Kohne, R. B. Johnson, Emile’ . Wilder, Gerhard Kohne, John S. Meyer, ohn Lengerich, Bernard Lehgerlch. ' This petition will be presented to I the Board of Commissioners on ! Monday, November 1, 1909, at which time the taxpayers of Washington township may appear I and make such objection as the law may provide for. 1 4V3t H. 8. MICHAUD, Auditor. 'o' . J NOTICE OF FINAL OF ESTATE. Notice Is hereby given to the cred- I Itors, heirs and legatees of Joseph Shroll, deceased, to appear in the Ad Rm R Circuit Court held at Decatur. I Indiana, on the 6th day of_November, I approved’ and said heirs are notified I ship, and receive thetr ouaTcS, xjrjiiVrxvw-aJ* OX*xVv-iux>, I NOTICE TO NONRESIDENTS. Jl I State of Indlana»County of Adams, ss: I I In the Adams Circuit Court, Sept. I Term, 1909. John Clem re. Frederick I I LUI lek et al. No. 7836. Complaint to I cancel mortgage. I' It- onnharina frnrn nffldavit fllAd in I , erick^illlck? t aO d th?'?SknOTn heirs lof Frederick Lillick deceased, admin- 9 [lick If he is deceased, all the execu- I I tors, administrators of the unknown 9 [heirs of Frederick Ulllek deceased, I the above named defendants are non- I residents of the State of Indiana. I Notice Is therefore hereby given I : I . SSssssSj lick daepased that- they be and before the Hon. Judge of the Adams I ■ Court House in the City of I by answer or demur to' said com- I t plaint, or the same will be heard and I - determined In their absence. • I 'my nam© and Seal of said I 1 Court hereto affixed this 20th day of I ! October, 1909. i JAMES P. HAEFLING, Clerk. I > Richard K. Erwin, Attorney for | • Plaintiff. ■ U - . 1 The undersigned Commissioner, by Ji [ virtue of an order of the Adams | . Circuit Court, of Adams County, In- I dlana, made and entered in a cause | “ Sdian T’GraS”’E’ten ’J F?eang re. Christena Niblick andjM i Jesse G. Niblick, and numbered 7780 I ? . ss II i B. Erwin, Decatur, Indiana, on Fri- Tfl day the sth day of November, 1909, KI i between the hours of 10 a. m. and 1 H p. m. on said date he will offer for I sale at private sale at not less than ■ I the full, appraised value thereof, the 11 i following described real estate, to- II 1 wit:. ' Inlots number two hundred eighty- « six (286) and two hundred eighty- | seven (287) as thtr Maine W designated TI on the original plat of the town (now W city) of Decatur, Adams county, In- 11 ■ diana. > Terms of Sale—One-third cash on || day of sale; one-third in one jebrO from day of sale; one-third ifi tWo l| , yedrs from day of sale. Deferred I payments to be secured by mortgage fl on said real estate and freehold 40 I