Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1902 — ABOUT THE COURT HOUSE. [ARTICLE]

ABOUT THE COURT HOUSE.

Items of Interest Gathered in the Offices and Corridors of the County Capitol. •ZFred Waymire has announced nirhself for renomination for county commissioner, this time from the second district. —o — This is the busy season in the recorder’s office, a large number of transfers of land now being presented for record. Dr. Washburn, owing to poor health, has resigned from the county council. His successor has not been appointed. We notice that our old friend, Fred L. Griffin, has given another chattel mortgage of $250 on the Remington Press to Robt. Parker. —o — Marriage licenses: Meh. 4, George W. Payne to Nancy Davisson. Meh. 5, Orla Abbott to Melvina Mae Thornton. D. Babcock, ex-township trustee of Marion tp., has announced himself as a candidate for the republican nomination for county treasurer. Lamborn and Blue may now just as well go back and sit down. —o — The president of the Halleck Telephone Co., has recently given a chattel mortgage for $1,500 on all the lines owned by the company. The mortgage also covers any extentions that are being built or may be built. , —o—jsThe county council at its special session Tuesday appropriated $6,300 for the street improvement about the public square; $3,000 to the tax-ferrets; $175 to pay for that vault furniture for the recorder’s office which has lain in the basement corridors for the past three years; $575 for judgements against the county; $3,900 for bridges; and numerous smaller appropriations. —o —

An appeal was filed in the supreme court yesterday by the treasurer, auditor and county assessor of Jasper county from a judgement enjoining the collection of any additional taxes from the Jasper County Telephone company, operating in that county, for the years the company has paid the taxes assessed against it by the state board of tax commissioners. The officers claim that the instruments, switch boards in the different franchises of the company were not included in the assessments of the state board, but that these were subject to local assessment. They also claim that the capital stock was placed $4,455 in excess of the true value of the company’s tangible property.—lndianapolis Sentinel. It’s too bad that “Sim, the Cattle Dealer,” cannot be “vindicated” from the charge made by the McCoy’s, by re-election againt his|fall. Remember, it’s not The Democrat this time that makes the charges of crookedness, but two of the leading republicans of the county, whose “Sheepskin Band” discoursed inspiring music in Sim’s behalf at nearly every school house in Jasper county in the last two campaigns. But probably McCoy with his band, while trying to foist the “cattle dealer” on a confiding public in 1898 and 1900, did not forsee that retributive justice was at hand. Quite a number of just such candidates are now seeking nomination for county office at the hands of McCoy’s party. Let us await developments, and meantime let us pray. —o— Owing to lack of time to secure a full report of the commissioners' proceedings, we will leave the minor transactions until our next issue, giving only the more important business done: Liquor license granted August Rosenbaum; license refused Wm. Frey in 3rd ward Rensselaer on account of sufficient remonstrance. Fred Way mire resigned as commissioner from Ist district and was reappointed from 2nd. No appointment made from Ist district tor political reasons, it is said. Appointment will be made at next

meeting, after the county convention, when the nominee of said, convention will probably be appointed. The delegates to the judicial convention will also have been seleced at this time. —o— New suits filed: No. 6293. Benjamin J. Gifford vs. John Kupke; action on account. Ferguson & Wilson, attys. No. 6294. Bert O. Gardner vs. Johnathan Lee et al; action to quiet title. Hollingsworth & Hopkins, attys. No. 6295. Alfred McCoy et al vs. Simeon A. Dowell and the Rensselaer bank; action in garnishment, demand $llOO. Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie and Jesse E. Wilson, attys. Plaintiff’s allege in complaint that Dowell was indebted to them for some S7OO and that the Rensselaer bank has in its possession a draft made payable to Dowell for some S9OO which they seek to garinshee. We learn from Mr. McCoy that Sim had about this sum of money from the proceeds of property sold, and he bought a draft at McCoy’s bank with it and the draft was left in a safety deposit box at said bank, it being understood that out of the amount the notes he was owing McCoy’s should be paid. Just about the time the cattle dealer was about to leave for lowa he sneaked into the bank, it seems, when both Tom and Mr. McCoy were out and, of Cashier White, who knew nothing about the matter, got the envelope containing the draft and took it with him. The McCoy’s at once ordered the bank in Sim’s town in lowa to refuse to pay the same. Dowell went to another town and, on both himself and his wife endorsing the draft, got the money on it there and it came around to the bank for payment. The Chicago bank protested it and it is now alleged to be in the hands of the Rensselaer bank. This is another bit of the slick work of one of our “honest, careful and painstaking” county commissioners, which the Apologist has been telling you about sprouting wings. Sim left thousands of dollars in debts and judgements behind him when he left here and his name will be a fragrant memory for years. No. 6296. Rensselaer Building, Loan and Savings Association vs. Mary E. Ball et al; foreclosure, Geo. K. Hollingsworth, atty. No. 6297. William B. Austin vs. Gamaliel G. Garrison and Elma Garrison; foreclosure. E. P. Honan, atty.

Subscribers writing to have the address of their Democrat changed should always give the old address as well as the new one. In our list we have many subscribers of the same name, and if John Smith simply writes, “Please send my Democrat to McCoysburg hereafter,” we are at a loss to know which John Smith is meant. Please bear this in mind, as it is most important. Thomas J. High, a well-to-do farmer residing near Chalmers, came home one night last week under the influence of liquor, got into a quarrel with bis family and finally burned his house and its contents to the ground, it is alleged. He was arrested and bound over to court on SSOO bonds. His wife has now applied for divorce and asks for $6,000 alimony. Much is heard these days about athletic training for girls. A morning paper recently gave the Comtesse DeParis family a great write up. They (three or four of them) were such sdperb rifle shots, such expert swimmers, and as equestrians had few equals and no superiors. This may do for dudesses and bloods, but for the ordinary girl there is a training, or at least should be, that is much more essential than athletics. Thousands of mothers who have raised boys and girls, who as men and women have directed the destinies of great nations, would not have known what athletics looked like. The training that girls need more than any other is that training which will enable them to make homes. Subscribe for The Democrat.