Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1933-02-09
COMMISSIONERS MEET

COMMISSIONERS MEET
! At the regular monthly meetin
| of the county commissioners hel
this week, business was transacte
a follows:
The probate judges bond In tn
sum of $4,000, Is approved.
Petition is presented by Cente
township trustees asking for road t
be put on the secondary system, a
follows: Beginning at Center town
ship town house, on state highwa.
No. 76, and extending in a westerl.
and southwesterly direction, pas
Jacob Motz', and others, to state
highway No. 81, being about three
miles. Said road having been grad
ed and surfaced by abutting land
owners and trustees, and to be q
continuation of county route No
33. Same is ordered filed.
Upon motion, the following de.
scribed road is ordered placed or
the secondary system, beginning al
state route No. rs near the Union
Homer township line, continuing In
a westerly direction and terminating
at its intersection with county road
No. Is, near the Elmer GLADDEN. res
ldence. Said road has been ap-
proved by the trustees. Petition is
ordered filed.
Marion township trustees file Pc
tlticn, asking for improvement of
road beginning at Thomas Loves
farm, in Marion, on No. 80, and ex-
tending to Marion-Homer township
line; also beginning at the Thos.
Love farm and extending south to
Marion No. Z, a distance of four
miles. Trustees agree to pay to the
county the sum of $4,000 at begin
ming of Improvement. Petition is
accepted and approved Marion
township trustees also ask for i'm
provement of road beginning at
Plantsville and extending east to
Bethel church, distance of one
mile. Trustees agree to pay to
county $1,000 at beginning of i'm
provement. Petition is accepted
and approved.
The sum of $50 is appropriated
from the general county fund to be
used by county recorder as a rotary
fund with which to buy stamps to
be placed on deeds.
The road in Marion township, be-
ginning at secondary road No. Z,
near the P. P. Smith farm, follow
ing the present route through farms
of w. A. Huffman ct al, joining
secondary road leading from Penns-
vile to Westland school house, at
residence of F. A. Dawson, a dis
tance of two miles, is asked to be
placed on the secondary system
Same is ordered filed.
Petition is presented and ordered
filed, asking that the road be placed
on the secondary system, which be-
gins at Plantsville, near the R. M.
White farm, and following the pres
ent road in an easterly direction
through the farms of F. M. White
and others, to Athens county line,
distance of approximately one and
two-thirds miles. This road leads a
short distance through Athens
county, then on in Washington
county, to Bartlett. Petition is
signed by land owners, and Marion
township trustees.
Petition signed by land owners of
Deerfield township is ordered filed.
Petition calls for improvement of
county road No. 3, at Red Clay
school house, terminating with
county road No. "a, south of the
Herbert Bankes residence.
Land owners and trustees file Pc
tition asking for improvement of
road beginning at county road No.
20, near residence of III. D. Law
renee, continuing in southerly di-
rection, and terminating at its in
tersection with county road No. 20,
between residences Of T. J. Osborn
and E. T. Lawrence, distance of
2 V miles.
Petition is presented from Union
township, asking that the road be
placed on the secondary system, be-
ginning at the residence of Arthur
Wooley on state route No .78, east,
past residence of Lincoln Arm
strong and others, and ending at
Newsom's cross roads, and there
joining county road running south
from Ringgold. in all about Ia
miles in length.
Blind Pensions
VIM. Conger, Reinersville, and
Geo. w. Norris, McConnelsviIle, are
allowed blind pensions, in the sum
of $40 per quarter, beginning with
first quarter in the year 1898.