Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1904 — ABOUT THE COURT HOUSE. [ARTICLE]

ABOUT THE COURT HOUSE.

Items of Interest Gathered In the Offices end Corridors of the County Capitol. Commissioners’ court will convene next Monday. —o— Marriage licenses issued: Jan. 25, J. Emery White to Ada Merritt. Jan. 26, Frank L. Borntrager to Nettie M. Reed. —o — The annual sale of lands for delinquent taxes will~4ake place at 10 o’clock a. m., Monday, Feb. 8. The list is not large. —o — The prohibitionists reorganized their county central committee Thursday by selecting James Yeoman of Newton tp, for chairman and Rev. Elam of Rensselaer for secretary and treasurer. The contract for the Burns ditch in Barkley tp., was let last Friday to W. L. Lewis of Union tp., the only bidder, at $4,931.27. The ditch is about three miles in length, and will be of tile. —o — In the publication of the report of the trustee of Wheatfield township in The Democrat two weeks ago, a typographical error made his service account read “$2.50,” when the amount should have read “$250.00.” —o — New suits filed: No. 6605. Mary E. Thompson vs. Alton Grant; action on note, demand $175. No. 6606. Joseph J. Schuh vs. John Karr; action on note. Demand SIOO. Aw. T. Smith, who expects to move to Missouri in a few days, has resigned as trustee of Milroy tp., and Auditor Leatherman has appointed George L. Parks to fill out Mr. Smith’s unexpired term, to Jan. 1,1905. selection of Mr. Parks is a very good one indeed. Mr. Smith has made a good trustee and the people of Milroy are sorry to have him and his family leave them. —o —

Christian F. Arnold of Barkley tp., this week filed a cross-com-plaint in the action for divorce proceedings recently instituted by his wife, Mary M. Arnold. He alleges that they have not lived together peaceably for several years; that his wife was cross and irritable toward plaintiff, ete.; that her actions were such that he believed her guilty of unfaithfulness toward him, and names one William Hendrix, a hired man of plaintiff, as having been qpite familiar with his said wife; that on one occasion when plaintiff had a picture of his house taken, a man’s face was shown peering out at one of the windows who had no business to be there; that defendant destroyed all of said pictures 1 when her attention was called to the “man at the window,’’ except one, which plaintiff retained, He alleges that they cannot live together as husband and wife should and asks that he be granted a divorce. The last will and testament of Ann E. Pettit, late of Remington, deceased, was filed for probate last Friday. The instrument was executed Oct. 26, 1898, and was witnessed by E. B. Sellers and Mary E. Casad. It bequeathed the 180 acres of land belonging to deceased in White county to three children of decedent—6o, acres to David J. Pettit of Wolcott, 60 acres to Ella M. Stoudt of Remington, and 60 acres to Catharine I. Legg of Logansport. The homestead in Remington is bequeathed to the children of a deceased daughter, Mary J. Leatherman. The north half of the block on which said homestead is located is bequeathed to decedent’s son David J. Pettit, he to pay his sisters, Mrs. Stoudt and Mrs. Legg, each sls as their extra share of same. The remainder of the homestead, the west half of block 7, is given to the two daughters before mentioned in fee simple. To decedent’s remaining daughter, Mrs. Anna V. McColly, the sum of SIOO is bequeathed out of decedent’s personal estate, if so much remains after the debts and expenses of administration are paid; if not, then she is to ' only have such remainder of SIOO as may be left. The three former children are bequeathed such re-

mainder of real estate of decedent as is not disposed of previously in the will, to share equally. Dr. Hanibal Landon and David J. Pettit, decedent’s son, are appointed executor of the will. —o—- • Following are the service accounts allowed to the various township trustees of Jasper county for the year 1903, (or it is so supposed, except where otherwise noted. < Some of the reports do not state the year) as shown by the reports of such trustees: "Hanging: Groves2o4.oo Keener (1902)..5350.00 "Gillam 190.00 "Kankakee 166.00 Walker (1902)... 227.00 "Wheataeld.— 250X0 Barkley (1902) 105.00 Carpenter 320.00 Marion 400.00 "Milroy 144.00 "Jordan 210.00 Union 360.00 Newton 206.00 "Democratic Trustees. There is much food for thought for the tax-payer in the ‘ above figures. It will be noticed that Keener township, which is very sparsely settled and whose trustee is a brother-in-law of “Honest Abe”, who got the appointment for him, the service account was $350.00, an amount exceeded by only three other townships in the county—Barkley, Marion and Union —and in addition to this we find that Mr. Luce was allowed $32.37 for “merchandise,” that L. A. Luce —the trustee’s wife, it is inferred—was allowed $15.00 for “enumeration,” and “Honest Abe” $20.90 for “telephone service and notice printing,” while the “Halleck Telephone Co.” came in again for $12.00 for “telephone service.” Here is a total of $430.17 that “went into the family,” where it would do the most good, no doubt. Still we may expect that benighted Keener will increase its republican majorities at the election next fall. , The people of Keener like to be humbugged the best of any people on earth, and it is refreshing to note that there is no signs of dimunation of that sort of business in the township.