Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1915 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

NOTICE or FILING PETITION FOB HIGHWAY HKPBOVEMENT. Petition for in Wheatfield Township, Jasper County, Indiana. There was this day filed In my office a petition duly signed by more than fifty freeholders and voters, which petition reads as follows: “State of Indiana, County of Jasper, ss: In the Commissioners’ Court, to April Term, 1915. “Petition of W. R. Custard, et al., for highway improvement in Wheatfield Township, Jasper County, Indiana. “We, the undersigned, freeholders and voters of Wheatfield Township, Jasper County, Indiana, respectfully petition your honorable board and ask that a certain highway in said Wheatfield Township may be graded, drained and paved, said highway being more particularly described as follows, to-wit: Commencing in the center of an improved highway heretofore constructed on petition of H. W. Marble, et al, cause No. 1842 of the Commissioners’ Court of Jasper County, at a point 1253 feet west and 909 feet north z of the southeast corner of section 35, township 32 north, range 6 west, in Jasper County, Indiana, and running thence in a -general northwesterly direction following the line of a highway heretofore established and traveled, to a point about 60 rods north of the center of said section 35; and from thence north, following the line of said old highway, a distance of about 100 rods, to the south bank of the Kankakee river at the south end of Baums Bridge, and at a point near the northeast corner of the northwest quarter of said section 35. Said line of highway proposed to be Improved being about 320 rods long. “And these petitioners further represent to your honorable board that said highway should be improved by grading, draining and paving the same with stone, gravel, or other suitable road paving material. “That said highway should be improved to the width of 50 feet, and the grade thereof should be of the width of 25 feet at the top, and the same should be paved with crushed stone or gravel to the width of ten (10) feet and a depth of not less than ten (10) inches. Your petitioners further show that the improvement of the above described line of highway in the manner petitioned for herein will, as they believe, be of great public benefit and utility, and that the benefits which will be derived therefrom will greatly exceed the costs and expenses of locating and constructing the proposed improvement. Youi petitioners further aver that the line of highway herein petitioned to be improved is less than three miles in length; that it commences in the line of a public highway already established and improved, known as the Henry W. Marble, et al., Stone Road, Cause No. 1842 of the Commissioners’ Court of Jasper County, Indiana, and terminates on the south bank of the Kankakee River at the north line of Wheatfield Township, on the boundary line between the counties of Jasper and Porter, where it connects with an improved highway heretofore established and constructed in Pleasant Township of Porter County. "Wherefore your petitioners pray that this, their petition, be heard, and that an engineer and viewers be appointed and directed to the line of the proposed improvement and make and file their report therein, and that such other and further proceedings be had as the law provides. W. R. CUSTARD" et al, Petitioners. The hearing of said petition is set for April 6, 1915; at which time said petition will be -presented to the Board of Commissioned of Jasper County, Indiana, for their action thereon, and all objections will be considered and decided which may be on file touching the validity of said petition, Witness my hand and, the seal of the Berard of Commissioners, this Ist day of March, 1915. (Seal) JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, Auditor Jasper County, Indiana.

SHEBXPF’S SAIaE. , By virtue of a certified copy of a decree to me directed from the Clerk of the Jasper Circuit Court, in a cause wherein Aetna Life Insurance Company plaintiff, and Joseph A. Akers, Julia A. Akers, his wife; Elizabeth C. Angus (formerly Akers) and James L. AngusCatherine Pinter, Frank M. Reed are defendants, requiring me to make the sum of six thousand one hundred and seventy-six dollars and 78 cents, with interest on said decree and costs, I will expose at public sale, to the highest bidder, on Saturday, the 3rd day of April A D. 1915, between the hours of 10 o’clock a. m. and 4 o’clock p. m. of said day, at the door of the court house In Jasper County, Indiana, the rents and profits for a term not exceeding seven years, of the real estate, to-wit: The southeast quartet and the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section twelve (12), township thirty-, one (311 north, range six (6), west, containing 200 acrjes, more or less, subject to tax liens in favor of the defendant Re cd If such rents and profits will not sei for a sufficient sum to satisfy said decree, interest -,and costs, I will at the same time and ‘plaice expose to public sale the fee simple of said real estate, or so much thereof as may be Sufficient to discharge said decree, interest and costs. Said sale will be made without any relief whatever from valuation or appraisement laws. " . BEN B. M’COLLY, Sheriff Jasper County. Schuvler C. Irwin and C. W. Weesner. Attorneys for Plaintiff. March 11, A. D», 1916. Subscribe for The Republican.