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Newspaper
Washington Gazette
Location
Washington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1909
Page
6
Reports from Washville Tennessee to New York share a mosaic of events. A high profile murder trial draws crowds as Judge Hart delays the charge. Catalog mailings near Chicago set postal records while others face crime and personal milestones.
Washington reports on Hemenways work for the appropriations committee and subcommittee plans to audit government expenditures. The Clark Fitzgerald debate on rules features Speaker Cannon and conservative Democrats clashing with Bryan forces over changes.
J W Chandler and others filed March 6 1909 a petition to improve a public highway in Steele township Daviess County Indiana by draining grading and gravelling or paving with stone gravel or other material. Auditor Thomas Nugent endorsed the petition for hearing before the county board on April 6 1909 at 2 o clock p m in Washington Indiana. Petitioners request laying out establishing and improving the highway beginning at the northwest corner.
Petitions from Steele township voters seek state approved road widening and paving along a public highway in Daviess county. The plan calls for grading draining and surfacing with screened gravel, extending from the northwest corner of section 29 to the southeast of section 28, about two miles, with a minimum width of 30 feet. Notarized by O M Albright and others, March 5 1909.
Petitioners request the board of commissioners to improve a public highway in Washington township by grading draining and paving with stone gravel or other material. The proposal covers a section starting at Warrington city center crossing George street and continues south along East First Street. The hearing is set for April 5 1908 at 2 PM in the county courthouse in Washington Indiana.
A group of more than fifty freeholders and legal voters of Washington township Daviess County Indiana sign a petition under an 1905 state act seeking grading draining and paving of a three mile highway. The request covers widening to curb lines and connects with existing gravel and macadam roads. E E Forsythe notarizes the document December 9 1908.
D M Williams and others petition the Daviess county board of commissioners for laying out establishing and improving a public highway in Steele township by grading draining and paving with gravel or stone to connect an existing gravel road and a macadamized road. The hearing is set for April 5 1909 at 2 p m in Washington Indiana.
Petition states request to prove a proposed highway as laid out with width specified. Names of numerous petitioners and witnesses listed, including M. Albright and J. W. Chandler. Notarized by Grant Faith, with date and witness attestations in Daviess County Indiana, March 1909.
A Washington Indiana public notice states a male resident over 21 will apply to the Davie ss county board of commissioners at the April 1909 session for a license to sell and allow drunk on premises spirituous and malt intoxicating liquors in a room on Main Street. The room measures 15 by 20 feet in Read and Thompson's addition at the northwest corner of slot 2 and is lockable with full view along Main Street.
Non resident defendant Thomas Uttinger is warned to appear in the Daviess County Circuit Court on May 11 1909 to answer the amended complaint in the case Merritt Grissmore vs Adam Breidenbaugh Walter Breidenbaugh Rober V Cox William McCord and Amas Attinger as administrator de bonis non with will annexed of George D Grissmore deceased The action concerns a contract related to real estate in Indiana and the defendant must plead or demur otherwise the case will be heard in his absence. The notice is dated March 15 1909 and signed by Clerk WM A Wallace Hastings Allen Hastings attorneys.
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