Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1907 — STEWART & SON HAVE FAILED [ARTICLE]

STEWART & SON HAVE FAILED

H. H. Stewart &Son, contractors for the Hanging Grove stoDe road which is almost completed, have made an assignment at their home in Kokomo. A dispatch from that city to Indianapolis papers assigns the Hanging Grove township contract a*» responsible for the failure. The contract for this road was let in Angnßt, 1905, and for some time the elder Stewart was in charge of the work, but this year his son, Fred Stewart, was overseer. The road is now almost completed, and, according to a resident of Hanging Grove tp., it would not take more than S2OO to S3OO to finish the work there The making of the load has progressed very slowly bnt it was impossible to procure teams and laborers mnch of the time, altho the contractors frequently advertised for teams and paid good wages. The road is said to be a good one and to fulfil^.the specifications. , Geo. H. Stewart, brother of the senior member of the firm, has been named as receiver. The work iu Hanging Grove tp. is at a stand still, and will probably be resumed under the direction of the receiver.