South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-01-16
LOANS AND PLAIN NOTES
LEGAL NOTICE.
NOTICE OF GRAVEL ROAD
PETITION

Notice is hereby given that the foi
lowing is q copy ~ a petition for
s1ygl road improvement hled n ts'
County. state Of Indiana tO-wit:
STATE OF INDIANA
ST JOSEPH COUNTY
PETITION To PAVE ROAD WIrH
GRAVEL.
To the Honorable Board OF Commission
erS ~ the Court Of St Joseph County
Indiana
The undersigned petitioners show your
Honorable Body that this petition is
signed 10y at least atty tJ0i freeholders
and voters ~ Penn Township and Mad
i>ou Township. ST. Joseph County. Indi-
ana; that 23 Of said signers reside o.
Penn Township. and - said signerS. 81
Madison Township thar there Is an eX
listing highway In said townships de-
. scrlbed as follows.
Beginning az the Intersection of Tho
Bremen Road with the east-and-wesi
highway running along the north side
of Sections fourteen 1H and nfteef
TO. Township Thlrty-Six I36l. North OF
Rsnge Three 90 East. thence running
east two miles. thence north one mile
90 the south end ~ the improved high
way known as the Beehler Road Im-
provement. filed in the court 81 the Com
WiSsioners ot 81 Joseph County Feb
ruary 10 1916
Your petitioners respectfully petition
tlat said highway Doe improved hv grad
screened gravel. as follows to-yvit.
That the grade thereof be constructed
to the width Of fourteen Ia feet with
good. clear. sharp gravel. That sale
teen IA feet apart except where The
natural soil affords ample and secure
shoulders for said gravel. and the said
boards and shoulders 60 hp nine faI
Inches high, and the gravel to boz four
teen t14l inches deep i'm rhe center and
90 bee placed thereon So as % form
uniform curve from the top edges Of said
boards and shoulders 10 the center az
the road
or that said highway De improved
draining and paving same with screen
ed gravel. as follows.
mat the grade thereof be- constructed
% the width of fourteen i14l feet and
thoroughly rolled on which shall hs
placed tWo-cOdrse road the bottom
course constructed Of crushed aud
screened furnace Stag. the top course %
gravel passing oue-inch screen aud con-
tanning approximately twenty -nve i2JC(
per cent Of sand That the materials of
said road shall Dee placed between
boards fourteen Ift feet apart. except
where the natural soil a0ords ample and
secure shoulders for sues material. The
bottom course. ~ Stag 20 Doe six t6l
inches deep. az the side and eleven az
inches deep DO the center OF the road
and thoroughly rolled and the screened
gravel 10 Dee placed thereon 10 "a Uniform
depth after thoroughly rolling Of three
said road OF nine '9i Inches at the side
and fourteen 14l inches az tbe center.
and So constructed as 90 form % uniform
curve from the top edge ~ said boards
ana shoulders 20 the center of the road
That 1u necessary drains and side
drains bridges culverfs and sewer tile
thereon shall he So constructed as 20
maze said road complete and finished n
Said petitioners further show that
Penn township has an Incorporated city
within DO which is Of less tnHu thirty
thousand 10000 population. that there
is no other town or city of greater pOpu-
lation than 10000 inhabitants therein
said petitioners further show chat 10 viii
be public utility 20 drain. gravel and
pave said road as herein set out iu tbe
width and manner herein set out and
that the cost thereof viii be- less than
the benefits thereof that said road win
not pass into or through am incorpo-
rated city cor town.
said petitioners show that said road
Is three miles or less iu length aud con
meets with free and improved gravel
road at each end thereof and upon and
over said highway runs United states
Mail Delivery Route
And your petitioners pray for the i'm
prOyement Of said highway iu all things
I'm accordance with Sections 81 % - u
the General Acts OF 1915. entitled "Au
Act Concerning Highways. and All Acts
Amendatory Thereof and Supplemental
Thereto"
Frank Wiley. PAU Egly Jacob g.
Beehler. George Fore. Joseph Fore ID.
w Marker. !. + kessler. Harry Moser.
Jacob R0eder. Eugene Myers g.
Mochel. Henry LaFree. Geo. M0ser ). J.
Marker Val. Deltchley. John Biltz. John
Deitchley Adam Beehler otto =
eber. Charles j. Conrad. Fred A Jor-
dan. John NJ Jordan. j. = Marker. %.
j. Pecher A. J.. Leslie, Martin J. Mo-
chel y 3D. Kelley. Isiah Walter o. r.
Marker John WeigeI. Clas Schlarb.
Jacob Scheiddeger Geo A. FELTON,
Joseph Beehier. Alois Hilbert, Emil
Berger Louis swarm, VIM. Potts. Alex
Scheiddeger, irwin Crosse. Chas. Williams.
Albert koeder. Chas. a. Limmerle. WI
liam Schlarh John MocheL Christian
Stuber Fred Suber. WIN Eth. julius
LANCER. REM Hilbert Fred Swarm.
tna~. Van DE Verne. Fred j. Cook
August Bokhart Ed Seitz Geo D Riggs
Ed. a. Klein Henry Beehler Ben Raer
J. Talne. John a. Schlarb Chas tfren-
ert, j. Fred Klein. j j. Gctz. N. II
Huston Fred Hartstein. Clarence Kelley.
a L. Denslow. r. W Klzer. J.. B sea
man. ~. j.. thas. DO9litte 81 ] LANG
- = Lang. Henry g. Eggleston. Dan
Ward, j.. j. lenu. J.. B. Bvrket. s.
McTutozch
J. ARTHUR T. WOLF. Auditor ~ ST
Joseph County. state 81 Indiana. hereby
designate Monday. the 18th day OF Jan
uary, 1917, being the 9th Day ~ the reg
ular January Session ~ said court. a.
rle daE which the foregoing petit