Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 221, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1916 — NEW SYSTEM. OF STONE ROADS IN NEWTON [ARTICLE]

NEW SYSTEM. OF STONE ROADS IN NEWTON

Petition Calls For Four Roads With Total Length of Ten and a Half Miles.

Four petitions have been filed with the auditor asking for the establishment of four stone roads in Newton township. As they are signed by about two-thirds of the freeholders of the township, they are sure to. be built. The petitioners call for their construction under the three mile law. One road is a continuation of the east and west road \past the Catholic cemetery. It runs west to Philip Paulus’ corner, thence south past Chas. Weiss’ to the township line, a distance of two and three-souths miles.

Another road commences at the old Ben Harris place and runs north to the Kelley corner, thence west to the county line past Robert J. Yeoman’s, two and one-fourth miles. Another road commences at the stone road a half mile south of D. S. Makeever’s home place, then runs a mile north to John Bomtrager’s, thence east to the township line to John Nowels’, three miles north. The other road commences at the Curtis Creek bridge on the Mt. Ayr road, runs two miles north and onehalf mile west to the county line, making in all ten and one-half miles of road.