Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1917 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

R. Phillips et al for a macadam road. Cause No The undersigned petitioners would respectfully represent to the Board of Commissioners of said county that there are less than one hundred freehold voters of Hanging Grove Township, In said county and state, and that they constitute a majority thereof, and as such they respectfully petition that the following described highway in said township, to-wit: Beginning at th& north end of the public highway' running north and south through the center of sectiin six (6), township twentyeight (28) north, range five (5) west, and running thence south to th£ south line of said section; also beginning in the line of the above described highway ats the southeast corner of the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of said section and running west on the public highway to the west line of said section, a total distance of about two (.2) miles, may be improved by grading and draining the same and that saia grade be covered with broken stone and gravel to a width of ten (10) feet. These petitioners would further represent that the improvement herein asked for is less than three miles in length and connects at the beginning with a free macadam road and terminates at the west and soutl) boundary lines of Hanging Grove township in said county and state, and that the same when completed will be a public utility and that the costs, damages and expenses of the same will be less than.the benefits to be derived therefrom. Wherefore, these petitioners ask that your Honorable Body appoint two qualified viewers and a competent engineer to examine and view said proposed improvement.” Notice is hereby further given that the hearing of said petition is set for September 4, 1917, when said petition will be to the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana, for their action thereon, and all objections will be considered and decided ■which may be presented touching the validity of said petition. Witness my hand and the seal of the Board of Commissioners of said county this 14th day of August. 1917. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, (Seal) Auditor Jasper County, Indiana.