Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1902 — ABOUT THE COURT HOUSE. [ARTICLE]

ABOUT THE COURT HOUSE.

Items of Interest Gathered in the Office* and Corridor* of the County Capitol. “Honest Abe’s” bankrupt court will convene Monday. —o — The February term of court will convene one week from Monday. —o — marriage licenses were issued during January, against 20 the proceeding month and 11 in November. —o—- [ Marriage licenses: Jan. 24, Joseph P. Hammond to Marie Jenson. \ ✓Jan. 27, John E. Marion to Viola Archer. —o — New suits filed: No 6272. John Makeever vs. Joseph V. Parkison and Newton A. Hendrix; action on note. Chilcote & Parkieon, attys. —o — Residents in the vicinity of the court house heating plant complain that the smoke and soot is a nuisance, and a petition will be presented to “Honest Abe” and his cohorts next week asking to have a smoke consumer put in. In the event the petition is favorable received will it necessitate another junketing trip to Milwaukee? —o— The county officers to be elected the coming fall are Auditor, Treasurer, Sheriff, Surveyor, Coroner, three Commissioners, a full board of county councilmen. No clerk will be elected by reason of the extention of terms of county officers extending Mr. Major’s term to Jan. 1, 1905, or until after the election in 1904. Of the present offcers only the treasurer is ineligible for re-election, he now serving his second term. We understand that the reason given for an election of three commissioners is that Dowell will resign, and Way mire cannot hold past an election by reason of his having moved from the district from which he was elected. Both these men were re-elected in 1900. —o — Below we publish the service accounts of the various township trustees of the county for 1901, so far as shown from the late reports filed in the auditor’s office. In the townships not given no warrant for service account entered into the late- settlement with the advisory board, and the service account for the year just closed will go into the settlement made in January, 1902. With the exception of Keener tp., the period covered is from Nov. 17, 1900, to Jan. 1, 1902. Keener dates from Sept. 1900, to Jan. 1. Hatiffiug Grove, Joseph Stewart,s22o 00 Gillam, John P. Ryan, 1(0 50 Walker, L. P. Shirer(not irlven) Keener, S L. Luce.(Sept. 1901 to Jan. 1, 1902) *88: Sijjler, MBB. 276 00 Wheatfield, 8. D. Clark, 250 00 Marion, Charles M. Blue(not given) Jordan, John Bill, 222 00 Carpenter, A. J. Bellow* (not given) Union, B. D. Comer, 430 00 Newton, George M. Wilcox(not given) Kankakee, '1 homu« F. Maloney,23B 00 Barkley, Elias Arnold'not given) Milroy, W. T. Smith, 172 00

The annual delinquent tax sale will be held Monday, Feb. 9. By the way, in paying for the publication of the delinquent tax list this year, we want to see n'o more paid than it amounts to. The statute fixes a special rate of 29 cents for each description for this publication, and it is a well known fact that where a special rate is made by statute, that rate is always less than the regular legal per square rates. In other counties (and this is clearly the intent of the law) if John Smith has two or ' more lots or parcels of land delinquent for taxes, each of such lots ;z »r parcels are set out separately. • Tere it has been the custom for the Apologist to bunch a whole block of lots into one description and charge 20 cents for each lot, •or 12.40 for a block of 12 lots when if charged for under the regular legal per square rates it would not amount to more than 40 to 60 cents. In this manner the apparent size of Jasper county's delinquent list has looked much smaller than it really was and the padded legal gentleman has been paid from sls to S4O each year

more than he should have had for publishing it. As an example we refer the reader to 11 lots in block 24, Weston’s add. belonging to John.W Paxton, advertised in the delinquent list this year. At the regular per square rates this publication would amount to but 60 cents, but the Apologist man always figures each lot of this bunched description as a separate description, and has been in the habit of collecting 20 cents for each one, or $2 20 for the 11 lots.