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ROAD EXTENSION WILL BE ASKED Circulate Petitions in Wells and Adams Counties. Bluffton, Ind., April 4.—Petitions are in circulation at several points between Bluffton and the Ohio state line at a point east of New Corydon, which will be presented to the state highway commission, asking that the department take over for maintenance a road that follows the general course of the historic trail from Fort Recovery, O., to Huntington, Ind. The trail already is covered by state roads from Bluffton to Huntington, and the petitioners propose that the new stretch from Bluffton to the Ohio line be a continuation of road 116, now extending from Bluffton to Markle. The proposed new road would follow the Wabash River for many miles, and would touch Vera Cruz, Linn Grove, Geneva and New Corydon, to hit the Ohio line one mile west of Steel, O. One mile of improved road in Ohio would connect it with Ohio state road 49. Superintendent O. D. Baker, of the Bluffton sub-district of the state highway department, announced today that a truckload of shrubbery consigned here from an Angola nursery, would be used in the work of landscaping and beautifying a plot of ground along the north bank of the Wabash River here, east of the new Crosbie bridge, on state road 1. Bank Receiver Files Report. J. F. Meyers, receiver for the Wells County Bank, filed a current report today covering the period from October 1, 1934, to April 1, 1935. The report shows that the receiver was chargeable at the beginning of the period with assets of a face value of $365,827.58, and receipts brought the total chargeable to $369,728.18. Disbursements during the period are placed at $71,194.52, which included a distribution to creditors of $24,710.88 and $35,223.82, charged off by order of the court in worthless and uncollectible notes. Assets chargeable April 1 were given as $298,553.61, including cash of $16,308.77. A marriage license was issued here to Miss Dorothy Florence Gray, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy