Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1912 — Plaintiff Lost in Action Brought Against Farm Tenant. [ARTICLE]

Plaintiff Lost in Action Brought Against Farm Tenant.

An action brought in Squire Fay's court at Parr against Martin Reed, in which the plaintiff, T, W. Grant, alleged that he did not get a settlement out of Reed while the latter lived on bis farm and was owing him something like $l5O, was heard in the circuit court Tuesday and this Wednesday forenoon and the jury brought in a jeerdict for the defendant, sustaining the decision of Justice Fay. Mr. Grant waar represented by Attorneys Williams and Halleck and Reed was represented by Attorney Diinlap. Reed now lives near Parr. Mr. and Mrs. Oren Parker, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Hopkins, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Hunt and Miss Mary Yates entertained the card club at euchre at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Parker Tuesday * evening. Two young men who were fishing in the Wabash,river below Lafayette Tuesday found the body of Christopher L. Gates caught on a traut line. Gates fell from a boat and was drowned on April 6th and the rm was dragged to recover the body but it was not found until Tuesday. The lads who found It will receive a reward of SSO. The body will be taken to Toledo, Ohio, for bqrial. president Taft was successful in getting the New Hampshire delegates Tuesday and will probably have control of the state convention and get the delegates to the national convention. The Massachusetts delegates will be chosen this week, as well as those from lowa and Missouri and by the end of the week a tolerably fair estimate of the situation can be arrived at. Mr. and Mrs. C.JU Parks returned from their trip to_.Tenneaspe last week. He was quite favtorably Impressed with the conditions there and will probably locate there if he can sell his farm near Surrey at the .figure he asks. He conditionally contracted for the purchase of a farm of 290 acres near a town named Bon Aqua (good water). W. E. Noland formerly of near Liee, lives near the place Mr. Parks contracted for. Sweet potatoes, peanuts, corn, alfalfa and oats are successfully grown there. The winters are mild and rainy.