Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1915 — Burris-Gifford Case is Venued to Benton County. [ARTICLE]

Burris-Gifford Case is Venued to Benton County.

The contested will case of Regina Burris vs. the estate of B. J. Gifford, Which was to have been tried in Neiwton county this week has been venued to Benton county and will not be tried at this time. The forty odd witnesses who had been summoned to appear at Kentland Uris week, will not be compelled to take the trip there this week. The alleged chicken stealing cases have ‘been vended to Jasper county and will not be tried until the next term of the Jasper circuit court.

John O'Connor is circulating and all the adjacent residents are signing a petition to the commissioners asking that they raise the smoke stack at the court house and* burn in the heating plant coal that does-not produce such volumes of smoke and soot. The smoke nuisance is considerable in the vicinity of the jail.