Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1902 — NEWTON’S NEW COURT HOUSE. [ARTICLE]

NEWTON’S NEW COURT HOUSE.

Regarding the new court house situation in Newton county, the Kentland Enterprise says: Rnmors are persistently flying around that injunction proceedings will be commenced, enjoining the Commissioners from building a court house at Goodland. It is said that Mr. J. R. Davis of Lake township will be the plaintiff in the case. We have been unable to verify the report, but we learn from Auditor Jones that a transcript of the record has een ordered, and the order for the transcript was placed by a prominent attorney from Illinois. So far as enjoining the Commissioneis from building a court house at Goodland is concerned, we think that an impossibility. If the law under which the election was held is good, no power this side of heaven can keep the Commissioners from building. We think therefore instead of enjoining, the parties will doubtless, if they do anything, appeal from the order of the Commissioners locating the county seat at Goodland. The governor has declared his intention of appointing commissioners to appraise the property within the next day or two. Lump Coal for Thrashing 53.25 per ton at Donnellys.*