Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 224, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1919 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

NOTICE or BOAD PETITION. Notice is hereby given that Edgar S. Thornton et al have filed in the office of the auditor of Jasper county, Indiana, a petition for the improvement of a certain public highway and for the vacation of a part of a highway and the establishment of a new portion of a highway, which petition is as follows, to-wit: State of Indiana, County of Jasper, ss: In commissioners’ court, October term, 1919. Petition for improvement of highway. The undersigned petitioners represent and snow to the board of commissioners of Jasper county, Indiana, that they are fr< aholders and legal voters of Newton township, in said county and state, ’nd that there are less than one hundred freehold voters In said township and that this petition, is signed by a majority of the freeholders and legal voters of said township. That there is no incorporated town or city within the boundaries of said That there now exists iq said township a certain established and well used public highway of the width of at .east forty feet upon the line hereinafter described and that the grading, draining and paving of said public highway would be of great public utility and that the benefits arising from the grading, draining and paving or said public highway would be greater than the cost thereof, and that said highway as described hereinafter is less than three miles in length. And your petitioners pray that said public highway described as follows, to-wit: Commencing on the township line between Newton township and Marlon township in Jasper county, Indiana, at the southeast corner of the west half of section two in township twenty-nine north, range seven west, and running thence west one mile, thence north one mile, and thence east one mile to the township line between Marion township and New tor township in Jasper county, Indiana, be improved by grading the present road bed to a width of twentyfour (24) feet, and to a common level as near as the nature of the land over which the road passes will permit, and that on said road bed there be placed crushed stone or gravel of good and approved quality to a width of nine feet and to a depth of twelve inches thereon, the entire length thereof, and that said public highway be drained in such a manner as to fully protect the improvement herein prayed for and tiiat the paving material placed upon add grade be sufficiently rolled during the construction of said Improvement as to render the same solid and compact and to present a smooth and hard surface upon the completion of said improvement. That the paving material be placed upon said grade so as to provide for a dirt or side track which may be used by the public. And your petitioners represent and say that the above described highway connects at both ehds thereof with the township line between Newton township and Marlon township, in Jasper county, Indiana, and also with an improved stone highway on the township line between said townships. And your petitioners pray that vlewerswbe appointed and a competent civil engineer be appointed to view, and make profile and specifications for the proposed improvement and that such other necessary and legal steps be taken herein as provided by law looking to the establishment and construction of tald Improvement as provided by' law, and your petitioners will ever Pray EDGAB &r THORNTON, ET AL, Notice is further given that I have by endorsement Upon -said petition fixed on Monday, October «, 1919. as the time when said petition shall be presented to the board of commissioners of Jasper county, Indiana. Witness my hand,and seal of office at Rensselaer, Indiana,'this Bth day of Swtemb.,. p Auditor Jasper County, Indiana.