Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1902 — GOODLAND CAN VOTE. [ARTICLE]

GOODLAND CAN VOTE.

County Seat Election Case So Decided By the Supreme Court. The judgment of the lower court declaring that an election for the purpose of deciding whether the county seat of Newton county shall be removed must be held, notwithstanding arrangements have been made for building a new court house at Kentland, the present county seat, was affirmed by the supreme court last Friday. The question of relocating the county seat of Newton county has been agitated for. years and has been before the legislature repeatedly. In 1899 an act passed providing for an election to determine whether the county seat should be removed, and requiring a new court house to be built at Kentland, unless within one year after the act took effect the county seat should be legally removed to some other place. Unsuccessful attempts were made by the rival, towns of Morocco and Brook to secure the county seat under this act and at the end of one year the county commissioners ordered the erection of a new court house at Kentland. Pending this proceeding a third petition was filed for an election at Goodland, which was ordered to be held Jan. 30, 1901. From this order'an appeal was taken with the above result.