Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1911 — JUDGE DISMISSES SAGE STONE ROAD PETITION. [ARTICLE]

JUDGE DISMISSES SAGE STONE ROAD PETITION.

Demonstrators Sustained in Material Objections to Petition for Improvement in Jordan Tp. I The Jordan stone road petitioned for by Chas. E. Sage, et al., has been defeated by a decision rendered hy Judge-Hanley, who held that the petition was not signed by 50 resident freeholders of the township, nor by 50 per cent of the resident freeholders, thus not giving jurisdiction to the board of county commissioners and consequently not giving jurisdiction to the circuit court on an appeal. The cause is therefore dismissed and judgment given against the petitioners for costs. "The Newtek township gravel roads .petitioned for by Reuben C. Yeoman and Everett ’ Halstead and against which Almira M. Stockton and others have remonstrated, will be tried before Virgil S. Reiter as special judge on Nov. 6th. He was here last week and opened the case for the purpose of continuance until the above dhte.