Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 300, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1916 — Marriage Licenses. [ARTICLE]

Marriage Licenses.

Ray Melvin Burch, bom Remington, Lnd., Oct. 7, 1895, residence Rensselaer, occupation blacksmith, and Nellie Kathryne Timmons, born Rensselaer, June 15, 1895, residence Rensselaer; first marriage for each. J. R. Noland, bom Danville, 111., May 8, 1882, residence Fair Oaks, occupation parpertter, to Grace Anderson •Reeves, bom Kankakee, 111., May 22, 1894, residence .Fair Oaks. Second marriage for male, first having been dissolved by divorce September; 1916. First marriage for female. John Samuel Col'lins, bora White county, lnd., April 1, 1894, residence Monticello, occupation farmer, and Greta Ann Shell, bom Buffalo, lnd., Nov. 13, 1895, residence Wheatfiefd. First marriage for each. . William Francis Arnjstrong, bom LaSalle county, IIL. Jtept. 7, 1860, residence Illinois, occupation laborer, to Addie Lillian Hoover, bom Rejnington, June 14, 1865, residence Missouri. First marriage for male; second marriage for female, first having been dissolved bv death, 1909, „

Thomas Maloney, one of the commissioners on the Barnard ditch, went to his home at Tefft Saturday. The Barnard ditch is a large improvement. The north end will have a new drain which will be a very large and a very expensive one. The main ditch is about twenty-one miles in length and there are six laterals. It is estimated that the cost will be over $90,000 and the area drained will exceed 46,000 acres. This ditch is in the northern part of the county.