The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-03-12
SPECIAL NOTICES
State Of West Virginia,
County of Marion, IS:


AT a regular session of the County
Court held in and for the County OF
Marion at the Court House thereof
on Wednesday, the 21st day of Feb
ruary, n. D. 1917, the following or
der was entered:
This day came Lee y. Satterfield
and rendered petition in writing
signed by himself and sixty-seyen
other legal voters and freeholders in
the Magisterial District of Grant,
County of Marion and State of West
Virginia, which said petition was
filed in the Clerks Office of this
Court on the 18th day of February,
1917, praying for the permanent i'm
provement OF certain public roads in
said Grant District, and asking leave
to file the same, and said petition
having been inspected by the Court
and found to be legal and proper, 1t
is ordered that the said petition be
and the same is hereby filed. The
said petition being in the words ana
figures following:
TO the Honorable, the County Court
of Mariol County, West Virginia:
We, the undersigned, who are
legal voters and freeholders within
the Magisterial District OF Grant, In
the Comfy OF Marion and State of
West Virginia, believing that the
public interest demands the perma-
nent improvement of the main public
roads of said district hereinafter emu
merated, hereby request and petition
your Honorable Body to cause to be
submitted to the legal voters OF said
district the proposition of bopding
said district for the sum of One Hun
bred and Ninety-ive Thousand and
no-lOO Dollars, at a special election
to be held for that purpose. and that
the proceeds arising from the sale OF
said bonds, be, by said Court, used
for the permanent improvement of
such roads, by the use of asphaltum,
brick, concrete, macadam, stone
block or other process OF equal merit,
as provided by law. and in such man
ner as prescribed by law, the roads
to be go improved by said proceeds of
bonds being as follows, to-wit:
1. The Watson-Boothsville Road:
Beginning at the Fairmont District
line at the Hunsaker Bridge, thence
by the Fairmont and Beverly Pike to
the forks of the road near the resi-
dence of John Nixon, thence by the
Palatine and Bridgeport Pike to the
covered bridge over Booths Creek In
Boothsville, at the Taylor County
line, n distance OF 7.20 miles, said
road to be fourteen (14) feet wide.
2. Tho FeiTmont and Beverly
Pike: Beginning at tho forks of the
road near the residence of John Nix
on, thence by tho Fairmont and Bey-
srly Pike to the forks of the road
near the residence of Amos ]. Little,
distance OF 1.e0 miles, soid road to
be twelve C12) feet wide.
8. The Monongah Road: Begin
ring at the steel bridge over Booths
Greek In Monongah, thence through
the Corporation of Monongah, thence
to the steel bridge across Booths
Creek near the residence of the late
B. F. Shaver, distance of about one
half mile, said road to be fourteen
(l4) feet wide; thence continuing up
Booths Creek to the residence of Mrs,
Walls at the forks of the road, a dis
lance Of about two (2) miles, said
road to be eight (sl feet wide.
4. The Coon's Run Road: Be.
ginning at the B. & o. r. R. tracks
at Everson Station, thence by the
present road up Coon's Run to a
point at or near the residence Of II.
F. McIntire, distance OF 2.20 miles,
said road to be twelve (12) feet wide.
8. The Worthington Road: Be-
ginning at the Lincoln District line
at the steel bridge over the West
Fork River in Worthington, thence
by the present road to the Hutchin-
son School, a distance OF 1.07 miles,
said road is to be twelve (12) feet
wide. +sa- -.a-'-
We further petition aud request