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Notice of Gravel1 Road Petition. they are asking that this improvement length, being only two miles ing fifty or more free holders and to i Jacob Gross, C. Cotton, I. J. Wann, Steel Web Picket Feisca Cheaper Than Wood De made under and by virtue 6f an act of the general assembly of the tftt of Indiana, annroved March 8th.

1905, and found in the acts of said general assembly of 1905 at page 521, and entitled "An Act Concerning Highways," and the amendments thereto by the general assembly of the state of Indiana, approved 'Febru- ary 5th, 1907, and found in the acts of said general assembly of 1907 at pages 68 and 137 thereof. Wherefore your petitioners pray same being Rural Route No. lnirty-that this petition be granted and that three (33) out of the city of Elwood, said highway be improved In all In said Pipe Creek township; and things as set out In this petition and that Rural Route No. Thirty-two, (32) in comformity to law. out of the city of Elwood passes over Earnest Nuding, A.

L. Kimmerling, and Is established over the west mile David Wright, Thomas B. Wright, Ol- of said highway. tver M. Reeder, William A.

DeHority, Your petitioners further show that Chas. C. DeHority, H. Callaway, Pipe Creek township includes A. Noble, B.

H. Jarrett, James M. Well and contains the incorporated town E. Taylor, DeHority, Charles Harvey, William A. Noland, James M.

Well, J. W. Carlton, W. B. Willitts, Charles Osborn, B.

H. Jarrett, L. W. Mellette, Eli Myers, F. M.

Harblt, Z. T. Dean, J.W. Leavell, Frank V. Legg, H.

F. Willkie, O. H. Stoker and M. Ploughe.

MELLETTE MYERS, Attorneys for Petitioners. 29t2 Said petition will be presented to the board of county commissioners on Monday, the 16th day of November 1908, the same being a day of the November regular session of said commissioners' court. Witness my hand and seal of the board of commissioners this 2Cth day of October, 1908. WILLIAM T. RICHARDS, Auditor Madison County.

Notice of Gravel Road Petition. Notice is hereby given: That on the 16th day of November, 1908, at a regular session of the board of county commissioners at the court house, at Anderson, Madison county, state of In- diana, the following petition for the construction of a free gravel road In Pipecreek township, Madison county, state of Indiana, will be presented, to-wit: State of Indiana, Madison County, ss: In the Matter of Petition for Free Improved Highway, by "Taxation. To the Honorable Eoard of Commissioners of Madison County, in the State of Indiana: We, the undersigned freeholders and legal voters, more than fifty In v. i iimu LJ ill uumuer, oi ana in fipecreeK townsnip, MadIscn count, 8tate of Indian. a Wnshin ntalnin iM I than Sft Oflft that said public highway connects at the east end thereof with an improv- ed.

free gravel road, and that the same connects at the west end there- of with a boundary of said Pipe Creek township; and that said public high- way Is not now an improved, free gravel road. Your petitioners further show that a United States rural mail "route passes over and Is established over the entire length of said highway the of Frankton, and the incorporated city of Elwood, each having a population of less than thirty thousand (30,000) Inhabitants; and that said Pipe Creek township contains no city nor town having a population as great as thirty thousand Inhabitants. Your petitioners further show that said free gravel road when completed 'as such will be of public utility, and. that it will 'be of public utility to grade drain and pave the same as herein set out In the widths and in the manner set out, and that the 'costs thereof will be less than tne benefits thereto. And your petitioners further that the issue of bonds to be issued and sold to raise the money to pay for said improvement of said public high- way be issued in series payable in tpn vpars.

In ilpnomlnat'ons as vour board may direct. iour petitioners further show that they are asking that this improvement be maBe under and by virtue of act of the general assembly of TnHi onnrnr M9.h 8 i iwo, uu iwuuu aaiu 1 1QAK Z01 i ters or Pipe Creek township, In Madi- son county and state of Indiana, re- spectfully show to your honorable board that there is an existing, al- ready established public highway ly- Ing wholly within said township of Pipe Creek, being described as fol- lows, to-wit: Beginning, at the northwest corner of section three (3), township twenty (20) north, range six (6) east, in Mad- ison county, and state of Indiana, and running thence south two (2) miles, more "or less, on the section line between sections three (3) and ten (10) on the east and sections four (4) and nine (9) on the west; to the southwest coiner of said section ten (10), all of which said sections are in township twenty (20) north, range six (6) east, in Madison county, and state of Indiana, and which last named point 1s the termination of the highway, the improvepient of which is prayer for herein. Your petitioners respectfully peti- tion and ask that said highway be im- proved by grading, draining and pav- ing the same with gravel as follows, to-wit: That said road be left at its present width, namely thirty (30) faet wide; that the grade thereon ba con- structed at a width of twenty-two (22) feet; that there be placed thereon five and one-half (5V-) yards of good, clean, sharp gxavel to each lineal rod thereof; that said gravel be laid be tween boards twelve (12) feet apart, and the gravel to be placed so as to form a uniform curve from the top edge of said boards to the center of said road; that there be constructed the necessarv drains, side drains spw- era, bndges and culverts and sewer tile tnerem to make said gravel road a complete road SPrihprt fa lpB than tVir Ku, .6 umj iu miles long; that cnU rt-V I said public highway is not now an im- proved, free gravel road. Your petitioners further show that a United States rural mail route passes over and is istablished over I the entire length of said highway, the and contains the Incorporated town of Frankton, and the Incorporated city of Elwood, each having a population of less than thirty thousand (30,000) inhabitants; and -that said Pipe Creek township contains no city Or town naving a population as great as thirty thousand (30,000) inhabitants. our petitioners rurtber show that said free gravel road when completed A as above de- yUr nonorable to im time by a man who will close the Drove and drai atl(1 Rtrfllhtot, 1 Notice Is hereby given that a pett- tioa has been filed by Earnest Nuding, et constituting fifty or more freeholders and voters of Pipe Creek township, in Madison county, state of Indiana, praying for the Improvement by grading, draining and graveling cf an already established public highway in said township.

Said petition being In the words and figures following, to-wit: State of Indiana, Madison County, as: In the Commissioners' Court, October Term, 1908. In the Matter of the Petition of Earnest Nuding, Et for Grr.ol Road. To the Board of Commissioners of Said County of Madison, State of Indiana: We, the undersigned petitioners, ba-Ing fifty or more freeholders and vo ters of Pipe Creek township, in MaJ-Ison county, in the state of Indiana, re spectfully show to your honorable board that there is an existing, al ready established, public highway ly Ing wholly within said township of Pipe Creek, and being located and de scribed as follows, to-wit: Beginning at the northeast corner of the west half of section No. two (2), township twenty (20) north. range six (6) east, in Madison county, I state of Indiana, and running thence south two miles more or less to the southeast corner of the west half of section No.

eleven (11). township twenty (20) north, range six (6) east, in Madison county, state of Indiana; said public highway being on the line dividing the said west half of said section No. two (2), township and range aforesaid, from the east half thereof, and on the line dividing the said west half of said section No. eleven (11), township and range afore said from the east half thereof, said line being the center of said highway; said southeast corner of the said west half of said section No. eleven (11), township, range and county and state aforesaid, being the termination of the highway the improvement of which is prayed for herein.

Your petitioners respectfully peti tion and ask that said highway be im proved by grading, draining and pav ing the same with gravel as follows, to-wit: That said road be left at its present width, namely thirty (30) feet I -wide; that the grade thereon be con-1 structed to a width of twenty-two (22) I faet; that there be placed thereon on the north mile thereof six (6) yards and on the south mile thereof five (5) yards of good, clean, sharp gravel to the lineal rod thereof; that said gravel be Said between boards twelve (12) feet apart, said boards to be six (6) inches high and the gravel so placed as to form a uniform curve from the top edges of said boards to the center' of said road; that there be constructed the necessary drains, side drains, sewers, bridges and cul verts, with sewer tile therein, all as to make said highway a complete gravel road. And your petitioners further show that said public highway' as above described is less than three miles in, length, being about two (2) miles long; that the same connects at the north end and beginning thereof with an Improved, free gravel road known as and called the Frankton and Duck Creek Pike, and that said public high way connects at the south end and ter mination thereof with a boundary of said Pipe Creek township; and that said public highway is not now an im-1 proved, free gravel road. And your Detitionprs further sent that a United State rural mail I route is established over and passes 1 over the south mile of said toe same being Rural Route No. Thir- ty-fl ve (35), out of the town of Frank-1 ton, in said Pipe Creek township. Your petitioners further show that I said Pipe Creek township includes I and contains the incorporated town of I Frankton, and the incorporated city of I Elwood, each having a population of I less than thirty thousand (30,000) I and entitled, "An Act Concerning the north end thereof with an Improv-Highways," and the amendments ed, free gravel road, being the Frank-thereto by the general assembly of ton and Duck Creek free gravel road, the state of Indiana, approved Febru- and that the same connects at the ary 5th 1907, and found in the acts of south end thereof with a boundary of said general assembly of 1907 at said Pipe Creek township; and that pages 68 and Wherefore your petitioners pray that this petition be granted and that said highway be improved in all things as set out in this petition and in conformity to law.

Joel M. Cox, C. M. Hobbs, J. W.

same being Rural Route No. Thlrty-Carlton, M. W. Webb, L. W.

Taylor, Two (32) out of the city of Elwood, in S. P. Webb, M. L. Wise, William A.

said Pipe Creek township. Noland, Nicholas Wise, E. O. Canaday, Your petitioners further show that Josiah Canaday, Henry Dickinson, said Pipe Creek township includes The lowest 'priced good substantial lawn and garden fence built. Write for catalog of lawn, field, hog and poultry fencing.

DEKALB FENCE DeKalb, 111. Kansas City, Mo. AGENT WAS HERE, Major Fred Brackett Examined Sites For Federal Building. Major Fred Brackett, government site agent was in the city today and left for Wabash late this afternoon. Mr.

Brackett's mission in the city is to examine the various sites offered to the government in the bids sent in some months ago. Following his visit here he will report the result of his examination to the government hie anA rprommpnd the. rhoipft of a Rite 1 1 7 7 jy sianas, ana accoraing to custom, ne wm likeiy be followed witnin a short W11H IHe OWUCT OI WB WIS CaOS- en. Naturally. Mr.

Brackett made no statement concerninir which of the properties offered, were the most fa- 1 vnrahle. Hut now that hfi has cono.hi- ded his visit, it will not likely be long before it Is made public Just where the new post office will stand when-erected. ROAD PETITIONS. Two Were Filed With County Board Yesterday. Two more petitions for improvement of roads under the three-mile road law were filed yesterday with the county board.

One is headed by Ernest Nuding for the Nuding road in Pipe Creek township. A petition from Jackson township was headed by Llewellyn Shell and more than fifty others. JUDGE RYAN Was Successfully Operated Upon at Hospital Yesterday. Judge H. C.

Ryan was operated on yesterday morning at Rochester, for goitre and word received later In the day stated that he was recuperating nicely. It is expected that he will soon be well on the way to recovery. Practically Raised. The subscription list which has been circulated among the merchants during the past few days, in the effort to raise a sum of five thousand dollars for the purpose of securing anextra addition of two thousand dollars to the" weekly pay roll of the MacBeth-Evans plant, will likely be finished this evening. Practically the entire sum has been raised, and the success of the movement is now assured.

Real Estate Transfers. Warranty deeds filed with the county recorder yesterday were: James E. Price and wife to Andrew J. Hoppes, farm tract In Van Buren township, 300. William McGrannahan and wife to Daniel Rhodes, lots Hazelwood addi tion, Anderson, 500.

Archibald Beall and wife to Cur-ran Beall, farm tract Lafayette township, $3,800. YOUNG COUPLE Finally Got Married After a Second Effort Yesterday. Lewis A. nigsby, aged 18, and Helen Swift, rged 16, were married In the office of Squire Lane at Anderson yesterday afternoon. The bride had the consent of her father, John Swift.

Miss Neal who has been visiting friends in this city returned to Mun-cle this morning. E. R. Williams, John Jack, Joel M. Cox, William H.

Reeder, Wayne Lee son, Jas. Alien, F. Harblt, S. Ozro Charles Davis, T. D.

Cox, Wm. A. Swart, J. D. Davis, H.

1. Hicks, E. H. Phillips, Wm. Morris, J.

A. Beck, Wm. Webb, Elonzo No- land, E. O. Canaday, C.

H. Liggett, E. A. Feight, J. E.

Sigier, C. R. Wright, J. W. Coverston, George W.

Call, J. Farlow E. Steffi- J. L. Vestal, J.

W. Foland, M. L. Wise, George C. No- land, John Sharp, G.

W. Shipley, John W. Smith, James O. Lee, Elmer Smith, N. J.

French, C. R. Swart, Web Peck, nvti Kniiine. fipnrire E. Havnes.

Eli P. vers. "Frank Seward. W. Z.

V. A. Faust Fred W. Green, V. M.

Maines, R. F. Etchison, E. R. Leeson and L.

W. Mellette. MELLETTE MYERS, oof) iui Cwt.v,ur. Said petition will be presented to the board of county commissioners on the 16th day of November, 1908, the same being a day of the November regular session of said commissioners' court Witness my hand and seal of the board of commissioners this 28th day October, 1908, WILLIAM T. RICHARDS, Auditor Madison County.

Notice of Gravel Road Petition. Notice is hereby given that a peti tion has been filed by Joel M. Cox, et constituting fifty or more free holders and voters of Pipe Creek township, in Madison county, state of Indiana, praying for the improvement by grading, draining and graveling of an already established pubHc highway in said township. Said petition being in the words and "figures following, to-wit: State of Indiana, Madison County, ss In the Commissioners Court, Octc- ber Term, 1908 In the Matter of the Petition of Joel M. Cox, et for Gravel Road.

To the Board of Commissioners of Said County of Madison and State I of Indiana: We, the undersigned petitioners, be- ing fifty or more freeholders and vo- ters of Pipe Creek township, in Madi- son county and state of Indiana, re- spectfully show to your honorable board that there is an existing, al- ready established, public highway ly- ing wholly within said township of Pipe Creek, being described as fol lows, to-wit: Beginning at the north east corner of section No. ten (10) in township twenty (20) north, range six (6) east in Madison county, state of Indiana, and running thence west two (2) miles, more or less, on the section line between sections No. ten (10) and nine (9) on the south and sections No. three (3) and four (4) on the north, to the northwest corner of said section nine (9), all of which said sec- Hons aforesaid are in township twen-1 ty (20) north, range six (6) east in I Madison county, and state of Indiana, I land which last named point Is the ter-1 minatlon of the highway, the improve- ment of which Is prayed for herein. Your petitioners respectfully peti- tion and ask that said highway be improved by grading, draining and the same with gravel, as fol- That said road be left I Its present width, namely, thirty I 3) feet wide; that the grade there-1 be constructed to a width of twen-1 two (22) feet: that there be Dlac-1 thereon five and one-half (5) I the lineal rod thereof; that said 1 feet apart, said boards to be six I inches high, and the gravel be placed as to form a uniform curve from top edges of said boards to the of said road; that there be ss constructed the necessary drains, side drain, sewers, bridges and culverts, sewer tile therein to make said I gravel road a complete road.

To And your petitioners further show! that said public highway as above de-I 1 I T. H. Jular tion by way ing, ber Road. as such, will be of public utility, and it will be of public utility to grade, drain and pave the same as herein set out in the widths and in the manner set out, and that the costs thereof will be less than the benefits taxation, without submitting to the following Unimproved public high "16" way in said Pipecreek township and county, and state to-wit: Tl, kliA ix yuum; mguwajr suuaie in me city of Elwood and in South Elwood, in said township and known as Eighteenth and Sheridan streets and loca ted and beginning and ending as follows, to-wit: Commencing at a point on the section line forming the boundary line between sections 21 and 22, township 21 north, range 6 east, said county and state where Sheridan street intersects said section Ifne, running thence east to the Intersection of said highway to the public highway, known as Eighteenth street in said South Elwood; thence north on said public highway known as Eighteenth street to Its In tersection in the city of Elwood with South said public highway is less than three miles long, is an unimproved public highway, fifty feet wide, forming a continuous public highway from its beginning point td its terminus, connecting two public improved highways. We recommend that the same be improved with paving brick or macadam, gravel, or other suitable material, making a road bed not less than twenty feet wide, and that the same be drained by.

gutters on each side thereof and that walks for foot passengers be constructed of brick on and along each side thereof. All pursuant to the laws of the state providing for the improvement of highways, less than three miles long Dy taxation, without submitting the petition to a vote. T. O. Armfield, Wayne DuHadway, Chas.

M. Schuyler, Wm. P. Wood, Addison Dwiggins, E. L.

Wiggins, Thomas Conner, Charles Sweney, Otto O. Lon Schuck, Leo J. Kramer, B. J. Fettig, P.

S. Bradley, Geo. Hirshin-ger, A. H. Wiggins.

T. E. Daly, R. H. Mount, H.

E. Curtis, Fred Aldendorf, Otis German, John R. Maholm, J. R. Alderman, J.

F. Ginn, Charles Prosser, O. A. Armfield, Sidney Ferguson, F. M.

Harblt, A. E. Griffiths, T. S. Rebuck, Herman F.

Willkie, Joe G. Field, Fred B. Forn-shell, Walter Coggswell, Ira A. Kid-well, 8. E.

Fesler, W. H. Daugherty. R. S.

Plummer, W. F. Easley, Harry E. Mosey, J. H.

Snyder, Herman Bar ber, C. L. Fisher, M. E. Bicknell, Jas.

Rollins, Allen Mason, Arthur Wylie, (Elwood Lumber Charles Cox, jumer vox, Charles McConley, E. R. Leeson, C. S. Dale, J.

S. Cotton, John Schutkovske, William Dellinger, John NIcodemus, H. C. Austin, Melvin Rea-vls, W. H.

Knotts, Fred W. Green, J. S. Hughes. WILLIAM T.

RICHARDS, Auditor Madison County. WILLKIE WILLKIE, Attorneys for Petitioners, 29t2 Mrs. 0. A. Armfield and daughter.

Helen, have returned home after" a few days' visit with relatives at Sid ney, Ohio. I Noah Richwine, E. H. Phillips, J. E.

Sigier, H. I. Hicks, W. J. French, J.

M. Farlow, Alonzo Noland, L. J. Cox, H. H.

Vines, Charles H. Cooper, Geo. W. Hester, H. W.

Smith, Marshal Or- baugh, J. M. Leever, C. A. Vestal, ieorge May, vv uiiam A.

swart, Klmer Moore, David WTright, A. L. Kimmer-, ling, Henry W. Kimmerling, Robert Lineberry, John Tf. Morris, Charles A.

Whitehead, John H. Hester, John W. Rich, Oliver M. Reeder, Earnest S. Charles Harvey, D.

Sigier, John Jack, E. R. Williams, James M. Well, w- B- WTilIitts, Charles Osborn, John Hosier, Joe A. DeHority, W.

A. Faust, C. Heath, Edward Osborn, John Beckner, Ell P. Myers, I W. Mellette, I Robert E.

Tritrl, G. W. Shipley, J. A. Beck, B.

F. Davis, T. D. Cox, William Reeder, George Odom, S. Ozro CoX, George C.

Richwine. MELLETTE MYERS, Attorneys for Petitioners. Said petition will be presented to the board of county commissioners on Monday, the 16th day of November, 198, the same being a day of the reg- November session of said com- missioners' court. witness my nana seal or the hoard of commissioners this 26th day October 1908. WILLIAM T.

RICHARDS, Auditor Madison County. Notice of Gravel Road Petition. Notice Is hereby given that a petl- has been filed by William H. Ree-. constituting fifty or more! freeholders and voters of Pipe Creek township, in Madison county, state of Indiana, praying for the improvement grading, draining and graveling an already established public high- in said township.

Said petition being inthe words and figures follow- to-wit: I State of Indiana, Madison County, In the Commissioners' Court, Octo Term, 1908. In the Matter of the Petition of William H. Reeder, et aL for Gravel the Board of County Commission era of Said County of Madison and jc. State of Indiana: We, the undersigned petitioners, be- 1 A. I C.

M. thereto. And your petitioners further ask 'and pray that the Issue of, bonds to be issued and sold to raise the mon- ey to pay for said improvement of said public highway be issued in series payable In ten years, in denomina tions as your board may direct. Your petitioners further show that are asking that this Improvement be made under and by virtue of an 'act of the general assembly of the state of Indiana, approved March, 1905, and found in said acts of said general assemDiy or iui at page 621, and entitled, "An Act Concerning Highways," and the amendments thereto by the general assembly of the state of Indiana, approved February 5th, 1907, and found in the acti of said general assembly of 1907 at pages 68 and 137. Wherefore your petitioners pray that this petition be granted and that said highway be improved In all things aa set out in this petition and in conformity to law.

William H. Reeder, Fernando W. smitn, u. J. Cox, John Beckner, W.

A. J. D. Davis, J. E.

Sigier, Geo, w. call, Tnomas Rodgere, Jonas Brat- ton, E. J. Miller, F. E.

DeHority, W. Faust, Harrison Etchison, Elmer Moore, Reuben Byxbe, John H. Hes- ter, William Fox, J. O. Lee, William Webb Nuding, George W.

Hester, Joel M. Cox, George Odom, James Allen, 0. M. Hobbs, J. E.

Hester, Marshal Orbaugh, S. Ozro Cox, T. Heath, Morgan Schell( George May, Nicholas Wise, J. Frank Etchison, J. Leever.

C. A. Whitehead. M. Rosn C.

Ha worth, Will na worth, Oliver Beeder, Wayne Leeson, Homer Hale, abitanU; and that said Pine Creek Mows, to-wit: Jownship contains no citv or town at having a population as great as thir-1 thousand (30,000) Inhabitants. Ion Your petitioners further show thatlty said free gravel road when comDleted ed as such will be of public utility, andyards of good, clean, sharp gravel toof that it will be of public utility to I grade, drain and pave the same be laid between boards twelve I herein set out. in the widths and in I the manner set out; that the costs I thereof will be less than the benefits I thereto. And your petitioners further ask I that the Issue of bonds to be issued I and Bold to raise the money to pay! for said Improvement of said public and (12) so the center bighway be issued in series payable I In ten years, in denominations as I jour board mar direct' 1 Your petitioners further show that scribed is less than three miles in.