Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1903 — ABOUT THE COURT HOUSE. [ARTICLE]

ABOUT THE COURT HOUSE.

Items of Interest (lathered In the Offices and Corridors of the County Capitol. j The county institute will meet here next week. —o — Judge Darroch was over from Kentland on business Tuesday. * —o — Commissioners’ court convenes one week from Monday—Sept. 7. —o — . The letting of the construction of the Kent ditch in Jasper and Newton counties is advertised for next Monday. New suits filed: No 6534 French Hollinshead vs. Morgan Hollinshead; action to declare lien and foreclosure. —o — The contract for depressing the boilers at the court house heating plant has been let to Rush & Warren and E. J. Murray at $697.50. The various township advisory boards meet next Tuesday to pass on the estimates of expenditures fo§* 1904 made by the township trustees of their respective townships. —o — county council will meet Tuesday, Sept. 15, to make appropriations for county purposes. The estimates for the various expenditures appear elsewhere in this paper. —o — The jasper circuit court will convene for the September term on Monday, Sept. 14. A grand jury must be called for this term. The docket will be quite large, but aside from the Spencer will case from White county none of the cases promise to consume a great deal ot time. —o — Marriage licenses issued: August 22, Washington A. Burns to Ura E. Hannaway. August 22, John N. Price to Pearl Garriott. August 22, John Wells to Jennie Myers. August 25, Willis Jennings Wright to Mary C. Bates. August 26, C. W. Manley to Catharine E. Broderick.

J —°— \The state tax board has increasea the assessments of lands in this county 10 per cent, and improvements 50per cent: Newton was per cent on lands and 20 per cent increased on improvements: Benton 2 per cent increase on lands, . 10 per cent on improvements ;S4parroll, 5 per cent decrease on land; Lake, 20 per cent increase on lands; Starke county, 15 per cent increase on lands, 50 per cent on improvements Pulaski, 5 per cent decrease on improvements. White, 5 per cent increase on lands, 15 per cent on improvements. Ontsiae Marion county, Benton has the highest realty assessement, $42.22 per acre. Jasper county’s average is $14.22 and Newton’s $22.50. The lowest assessement is in Perry county, $4.09 per acre. But 24 counties have a lower assessment than Jasper.