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Newspaper
Washington Gazette
Location
Washington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1905
Page
3
A garbled OCR line lists several names including Mr and Mrs Owen Allison James McCalecty and others. The fragment provides no clear event or context beyond personal identifiers.
A 1905 legal advertisement announces John T. Healy applying to the Daviess County Board of Commissioners for a license to sell and barter intoxicating liquors in a Montgomery town location. The notice details the premises, including a front room in a two frame building along the Washington Little Orleans road, with specific property boundaries and entrances, and sets the hearing to begin on the first Monday in September 1905 at the Washington courthouse.
Washington Township in Daviess County Indiana selects teachers for the new term. Several names appear with assignments from Maysville to Boxtown, noting some lack certified licenses and that further appointments await teachers examinations. Schools start September 11 under Trustee William L. Brown.
The auditor Thomas Nugent certifies a detailed expense estimate for Daviess County Indiana for 1905. The document lists numerous departmental costs including roads ditch maintenance burial of soldiers charity schools and county offices with totals and line items for salaries repairs and services. The statement is dated August 9 1905 and signed by Nugent as auditor.
The trustee of Salt J Township Indiana lists chosen teachers for the upcoming term across Alfordsville Grannon Corning Porter Williams Baker Clements Parks Bunker Hill Camp and more. Names include James I sy Clara Miles McCord Annie Ginder Una Arvin Phoebe Porter E E Meade John C Lemmons Monroe McCord W H Meyers Jesse Arvin Harry E Jackson Ret A Roberts and signer Jesse Godwin.
Notice to taxpayers that the county estimates for the year ending December 31 1906 have been filed and will be presented to the county council on September 5 1905 for action. The itemized amounts include New Court House building 15000 repairs 4000 janitor 600 supplies 1400 and other entries totaling several thousand dollars across the Poor Farm Prisoners Orphans Home.
Report of viewers and engineer details street divisions in Washington Indiana Daviess County. Division 29 covers West Van Trees Street to West Fifteenth Street center line distance 1593 feet. Division 30 tracks West Fifteenth Street to Evansville and Indianapolis railroad south rail 1707 feet. Division 31 notes West Third Street from Walnut Street to Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern railroad 1132 feet.
The document details road and drainage construction for Washington Indiana in Daviess County. It specifies right of way widths, subgrade and drainage standards, grading, ballast materials, cross drains, side ditches, gutters, and extension of sewers. It enumerates division by division requirements, acceptance procedures, and contractor duties with safety lighting and inspections.
The document records engineering specifications for concrete bridges and culverts in Davie ss county Indiana including dimensions materials and construction methods. It also reports the assessment of damages by viewers Nathan E. Killion and William H. McCarter to Lydia Rogers Elisha Hyatt and Samuel Lucas with sworn affidavits dated July 8 1905 and outlines the appointment of George A Faith as engineer.
Notice to legal voters of Washington Township Daviess County Indiana that polls will be open in all voting precincts and a special election will be held per the August term order of the Daviess County Board of Commissioners.
On Tuesday September 1905 voters in Washington township and parts of streets in the city of Washington Daviess County Indiana will decide by ballot on the proposed improvement of public highways as described in the engineer and viewers report in the petition by C Exbridge and others. The report is on file with the county auditor and the board of commissioners have affixed their names and seal this day.
In Daviess County townships Veale Van Buyen Elmore and Recy the trustees announce yearly expenditures for 1905. Items include township and local tuition, special school costs, road and additional road taxes, poor expenditures, and poll taxes with totals ranging from 2,287 to 3,536.80 dollars and taxes from 25 to 79 cents per hundred dollars.
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