Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1902 — ABOUT THE COURT HOUSE. [ARTICLE]

ABOUT THE COURT HOUSE.

Item* ol Interest Gathered In the Offices and Corridors of the County Capitol. The County Board of Review will meet Monday. —o — Marriage licenses: May 7, Fred Parcels to May Paxton. —o — Amount of unloaned school funds on band June I, $2,635. —o — The only amounts placed on the “omitted tax duplicate’’ since our last report are: Corn E. Forsythe, Rensselaer S9O 54 —O After several weeks absence Tax-Ferret Workman returned Wednesday for a few days twist at some cases here. —o— New suits filed: No 6336. Joseph A. Engle vs. Elizabeth C. Johnson etal; action on contract. Foltz, Spitler & Iv urrie, attys. No. 6337. Horace Marble vs. Samuel A. Lattimore et al; action to quiet title. Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie, attys. —O —“ We note that the omitted tax assessed against “Honest Abe” has not been paid. We would suggest that if Abe hasn’t already been paid the $56.25 county warrant for services as county commissioner for the last quarter, that the county treasurer deduct the amount of Abe’s unpaid tax, from the same. We believe this is the law. anyway, and it should be enforced against Abe the same as against the more humble taxpayer. —o —

The Democrat would call the attention of its readers to the report of receipts and expenditures of the Jasper county poor farm for the past three months. It will be noted that the receipts exceed the expenses by almost S3OO. This is very gratifying to the taxpayers of the county, ami The Democrat congratulates Mr. Clark on the excellent showing made during the time he has been in charge of the farm. Under the old regime the taxpayers were compelled to go down in their pockets and dig up $3,500 to 84.500 per year to keep up the expenses. The administration of the present superintendent but proves the contention of The Democrat several years ago that the farm should be nearly selfsupporting. The farm is in better condition to-day and the asylum cleaner aud better furnished than ever before, but notwithstanding all this it is not an unusual thing now to see the balj ance on the right side of the led- ! ger in the quarterly reports made, j something unheard" of a few years I ago.

Apropos the attempt of ’’Honest Abe” and his cohorts to beat The Democrat man out of $3 on the latter’s claim for publishing the auditor’s annual estimate of county expenditures last year, which is familiar to the readers of this paper: The costs in that case which /Tasper county must pay, of attorney’s fees, are ♦ Of this amount the cowpuncher—who didn’t get the notice and was therefore one of the chief backers of Abe and Sim in their action in cutting the billwill receive $4.05 witness fees. He Will, no doubt, feel partially compensated for his failure to receive the publication of the notice, as his time is worth nothing and he has been able to hoodwink the Monon people into believing that he was publishing a newspaper and thus get editorial mileage, therefore his trip to Monticello cost him not one penny. The fact that Abe’s action in cutting the bill was entirely without justification and that the county has to pay—including its attorney—sloo or more cuts no icewith this dilapidted old fraud —he gets $4.05 out of the case, and it’s like findiugit.