Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1903 — ABOUT THE COURT HOUSE. [ARTICLE]

ABOUT THE COURT HOUSE.

Item* of Interest Gathered In the Offices and Corridors oI the County Capitol. County Surveyor Price is taking a vacation for a couple of weeks, during which he will visit relatives at Ohicago and St. Louis. -°- Marriage licenses issued: Sept. 21, Ephriam Hickman to Dora L. Moore. Sept. 21, Jacob Younglas to Carrie Shupe. Sept. 22, Clarence Hamilton to Goldie Sanders. Sept. 22, Roscoe L. Hawkins to Addie May Clark. —o — New suits filed: No. 6545. The Jasper countv Lumber Co., vs. Henry W. Miller; action on note. No. 6546. Lena Ritter, by Edward Ritter, her next friend, vs. Bertha Schultz and Chris Schultz, her husband; action for damages for defamation of character, demand $2,000. The language of the complaint is more expressive than elegant, yet probably oouched in as refined terms as a case of this character could well be. It seems that the plaintiff is not of age; that her parents reside in Union tp.; that plaintiff had been keeping company with one Julias Shultz, a nephew of defendant, and they were expecting to be married, but, it is rumored, that defendants parents did not approve of their son’s choice, and, the plaintiff thinks, that a conspiracy was hatched up to rnin her reputation by circulating these stories about her character by the defendant, so that her suitor would have nothing further to do with her. She alleges that the stories are false and that she has always borne a good reputation. Plaintiff is employed as a domestic in a Rensselaer family. No. 6547. Phoebe Andrns vs, J. J. Jones, guardian of the estate of C. V. Jones, insane; action account. __ Fred Waymire has leased for next year to Wm. Scott and George Babcock, 212 acres of his farm in Barkley tp. The price paid is SBSO cash and 150 in improvements or labor.

D. H. Yeoman, J. C. Porter and H. E. Kurrie were on the northbound train last Friday which was wrecked at Crawfordsville by a freight train on another cross road backing into it and knocking some of the passenger coaches from the track. Fortunately no one was killed although several were quite badly bruised. The Monon train did not get in here until late at night The Rensselaer parties were in the coach next to the one that was wrecked. M. c-W. Burke, who has been working for Warner Bros., for the past year, has stored his household goods and will seek a new location, on account of his wife’s health, which has been very poor since residing here. She has stomach trouble and her old physician at Crawfordsville thinks it is caused from the water here. Mr. Bnrke will go to South Bend, where he has a daughter, to-mor-row, to see about getting a situation there, in which event he will move to that city. Mr. and Mrs. O. K. Ritchey and Mrs. Laura Michaels and daughter Miss Mary, returned Saturday from attending the state fair and visiting relatives at Indianapolis and Franklin. They visited Leon Ritchey at Franklin, a former well known resident of this county, bat found him in very poor health, with what the doctors think is consumption, and it ia not likely that he will ever get oat again. He is now 72 years of age. Os. brought home a few paw-paws for the children to see. 8. R. Nichols, county treasurerelect, has bought the Culp property north of the railroad, and will occupy same when he moves to town this fall. The price paid was $2,600, which, considering the location, is generally conceded to be all it is worth v The property consists of one block of ground and quite a fine residence. After settling the claims against the property theCulp girls will only have about $250 each, we understand. A few yean ago when they came to town, they had some SIO,OOO in cash, most of which they have been beaten out of through ill? ndvisw lo&n$ *