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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1915
Page
8
Indianapolis markets show 16 000 hogs plus 850 cattle 200 calves and 130 sheep. Compared to last week 15 068 hogs 857 cattle 276 calves 304 sheep and year ago 7 888 hogs 45 cattle 170 calves 13 sheep. Fifth time this month 16 000 hogs in one day with strong trading as buyers and sellers negotiated a 18420 cent price drop and all hogs in pens sold.
A dense market listing for Indianapolis wholesale prices shows apples, cranberries, grapes, peaches, pears, plums, beans, beets, garlic, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, cucumbers, lettuce, onions, peppers, potatoes, pumpkins, radishes, spinach, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, turnips, hickory nuts, and poultry with assorted unit prices. bổ Eggs and butter prices listed. regional markets including Chicago St Louis Cincinnati and Kansas City cited with multiple grain and hay figures.
Petition filed with the Lawrence County Auditor requests laying out and improving two roads in Shanswick Township Bedford area. It seeks a new thirty foot wide highway from N street in North Bedford north to Bedford and Peerless Free Pike Road about 1800 feet, and a second section from the macadamized N street to the same Pike Road about 2000 feet. Petitioners include James J. Boruff and Spencer Kern. Hearing set for December 7, 1915. Local bond funding proposed for ten year bonds.
A group of over fifty freeholders in Shawswick Township petition the Indiana Board to lay out a 30 foot wide public highway of about 160 rods in length linking the Bedford and Tunnelton Pike Road with the Poor Farm Pike Road. They request grading, draining, and gravel paving with a twelve foot roadway, to be built on a grade of eighteen inches, under the state highway act approved March 8 1905 and its amendments. Chas Litaler and other signatories, auditor Ezra W Edwards, Lawrence County.
A group of over fifty freeholders and voters of Shanswick Township Lawrence County Indiana petition the County Board to establish and improve a public highway by grading and drainage. The route begins 15 feet east of the northwest corner of the southwest quarter of section 36 township 5 north range 1 west runs 2655 feet south to 15 feet south of the section line then 1373.9 feet west and 1637.2 feet south to the bluff foot.
A formal petition requests laying out a 30 foot wide road connecting Scoggan Pike to a boundary line between Shawswick and Marion Townships. The plan calls for a 18 foot grade with a crushed stone or gravel macadamized portion, 12 feet wide and 12 inches center depth. It seeks authorization under Indiana's 1905 highway act and the issuance of 10 year bonds, with signatories Ezra W. Edwards the county auditor and others.
A large group in Lawrence County Indiana petitions the county board to lay out establish and improve by grading draining and paving a proposed highway segment from the West Bilyeu Pike Road to the Bedford & Heltonville Pike Road. The request covers the section crossing F street in Bedford and adjacent lands of the petitioners seeking continued improvement of the existing gravel and macadam portions.
The petition seeks laying out and improving a 700 foot section of Garvey Lane in Bedford connecting to 11th and 13th streets. It calls for 30 foot road width, 12 foot grade, and a 12 inch deep crushed stone macadam roadway with 6 inch side depths. Authorized under the 1903 Highway Act sections. Arthur H. Bailey and John B. Malott et al sign as petitioners.
The Lawrence County Board of Commissioners invites sealed bids by 1 pm on December 7, 1915 for Port William and Huron Road in Spice Valley Township total 12823 feet. Bid requires bond twice the bid amount. inquiries to Engineer and Viewers Report. Bids addressed to Ezra W Edwards Auditor Lawrence County Indiana by order of the board.
Mrs. Bart Short of this city and Mrs. Homer Short of Louisville visited Mrs. Sam Short at Williams today. Mrs. R. B. Leonard and Mrs. Chas Francis spent Tuesday in Louisville. Mrs. Emery Newkirk and children have returned from Worthington where she visited her parents. Mrs. J. O. Shoulty returned home after visiting her son Frank Shoulty and wife at St. Bernice. Mrs. Albert Patton near Oolitic, with gastric trouble, is reported improving.
Lawrence County Indiana free holders petition the county board to lay out establish and improve a new public highway from the Scoggan Road to the Bedford and Palestine road across several landowners. The plan calls for an 18 foot grade with 12 foot gravel or crushed stone roadway, 30 feet wide, about three miles total, under 1905 highway acts. Samuel E. Mitchell and David McFall sign as supporters.
Lawrence Circuit Court November Term 1915 sets final settlement for Thomas W. Hollenbaugh estate. George W. Dodds as administrator filed final account and vouchers. hearing December 13 1915 at Bedford Indiana. Heirs creditors and legatees must appear to show cause why the account should not be approved. Clerk Fred E. Jackson issued the notice.
Peter Graf expresses gratitude to friends and relatives for sympathy during his wife's fatal illness. Special thanks to neighbors Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Taylor and to Ben Hur Eagles Planer Mill Union and associates at the McClaren stone mill for the floral designs.
Mrs. N. H. Cooley of Troy Indiana came to the city on Wednesday after being summoned to Odon by the death of her grandfather Thomas Boyd a veteran pioneer of the area.
Minerva Kern deceased November Term 1915. William H. Smith as administrator filed final account with vouchers. Circuit Court Bedford Indiana will review on December 4 1915 and all heirs creditors or legatees must show cause if any. Fred E. Jackson Clerk.
Notice to non-residents of Indiana. Lawrence Circuit Court November term 1914 requires Leticia Dillon and others to appear by November 22, 1915 to answer a complaint to quiet title to 80 acres in Lawrence County. If no appearance, the court will proceed in their absence. Filed by W E Clark attorney. Fred E. Jackson clerk.
A certified decree requires Sheriff William H. Sigler to sell at public auction on December 11 1915 the rents and profits for up to seven years of Lot 3 Kelso Place Bedford Lawrence County Indiana to satisfy a $516 52 decree plus interest and costs. If insufficient, the fee simple of the property may be sold at the same time and place without relief from valuation laws.
Mrs. Fred Stipp of Erie suffered a painful shoulder sprain after a fall while improving.
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