The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-14
NOTICE OF PETITION FOR I'M
PROVEMENT OF HIGHWAY

State OF Indiana, Wayne County. SIS:
Before the Board of Commissioners
of Wayne County, Indiana, April Term,
1918.
In the matter Of the petition Of John
Niewoehner etal, for the improvement
Of part of the Richmond and Boston
turnpike extending from South L
street in the City oil Richmond to the
Straight Line Pike. all Of said high
way being in Wayne township, Wayne
county, Indiana under the provisions
of the three mile road law
Notice is hereby given that on the
18th day of March, 1918. there was
filed in the office Of the Auditor of
Wayne County, State of Indiana, a
certain petition signed by John Me
woehner and more than fifty other
residents and freehold voters Of
Wayne Township, Wayne County,
State of Indiana. asking for the i'm
provement and reconstruction of a
certain highway in said Township I'M
der what is popularity known as the
Three-Mile Road Law. and which Pc
tition is in words and figures, as fol-
lows, towit:
State of Indiana. Wayne County. SIS:
Before the Board of Commissioners
of Wayne County, Indiana, March
Term. 1918.
Petition of John Newcomer, ct al
for the improvement of a part of the
Richmond and Boston Turnpike, ex-
tending from South E street in the
City of Richmond to the Straight Line
al Of ,icyI, haip IN,
Wayne Township, Wayne County, Ind
lana, under the provisions Of the
Three Mile Road law
Gentlemen:
The undersigned, being fifty and
more freeholders Of and bona fida
residents and voters Of Wayne Town
ship, Wayne County, State Of Indiana,
heareby and herewith petition and
pray your honorable body for the i'm
provement of a certain public high
way within said township of Wayne,
and generally known and designated
as the Richmond and Boston Turn
pike, and which highway desired to be
improved is particularly described, as
follows, towit:
Beginning at its north terminus at
point where said Richmond and
Boston Turnpike intersects with an
improved free gravel road extending
east and west along the half section
line dividing the north and south
halves of Sections Four (4) and Five,
go Township Thirteen G3), Range One
% west, which said road is now COM
monty designated as South f Street:
thence from said point of beginning
south along and throughout said Rich
mond and Boston Turnpike to a point
where said Richmond and Boston
Turnpike intersects with the Straight
Line Pike. an improved free gravel
road in Wayne Township, Wayne
County, Indiana, and said point of in
tersection being the south terminus Of
said highway. Said highway being
partly in the City of Richmond and
partly outside of the City of Richmond
in said Wayne Township, and the part
situate within the City of Richmond
being commonly known as South
Ninth Street therein. All of said high
way herein described being in length
between the point of beginning and
termination thereof less than three
miles, to-wit, of the approximate
length of one and three-tenths 1.3)
miles.
All your undersigned petitioners
pray that the within described high
way shall be laid out, established, wild
ened and improved as hereinafter set
out: BY grading draining, widening
and paving said highway with vitri-
fled brick or concrete, all as herein
after set out.
1t is respectfully shown to your hon.
orable board that said highway herein
before described connects at the north
and one end thereof with an improved
free gravel road Of said County OF
Wayne. and at the south and other !
end thereof with an improved free
gravel road Of said County of Wayne,
and that said highway to be improved
begins and ends in said Richmond and
Boston Turnpike, an improved free
gravel road of said County of Wayne, |
and the undersigned petitioners here
with recommend that said highway
sought to be laid out and established,
widened. drained and paved through