Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1904 — COURT HOUSE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

COURT HOUSE NEWS.

Items of Interest Qathered In the Offices of the County Capitol. Marriage licenses issued: July 11, James H. Randall to Minnie Florence Evanfe. —o—- • Trustee Stewart of Hanging Grove township, is advertising for bids for the construction of a new school building to replace the old building at Fair View, in said township. See notice elsewhere in this paper. —o — Presbyterian church of Remington is preparing a brief to the supreme court asking that the Dyke case be reinstated. They claim that the judgment was erroneously entered against the “First” Presbyterian church of Remington, instead of the Presbyterian church of Remington, when they are in fact one and the same corporation. Their point is said to be a very material one, and the church hopes to have the case reinstated and yet win out on the question involved. —o — petition has been presented to the County Superintendent for the removel of the school site of District No. 5, Barkley township, to a place one-half mile south of the present location. The petition is signed by nearly all of the patrons of the district and the township trustee. The decision will be rendered by Superintendent Hamilton on August 1, 1904. There seems to be no doubt but that the prayer of the petition will be granted, and Trustee Arnold is therefore asking for bids for a new house, as the old one cannot be moved. —o — 6uits filed: No. 6689. L. T. Hammond vs, Fitz W. Bedford; action on contract, demand S6OO damages. This case grows out of the sale of a lease held by defendant to plaintiff of the property occupied by Geo. Tanner’s restaurant, on South Van Rensselaer street. Plaintiff claims to have entered into a contract for the purchase of said property on June 11, 1904, for $3,750. and to have paid SSO down and to have since tendered plaintiff $950 in gold Hnd the notes agreed upon in contract, which defendant refused to accept. The property in question and that occupied by Strickfaden’s saloon, the buildings occupied by Ferguson & Ferguson, Ray Wood’s barber 6hop. Ed Rhoades’ grocery, also a 6trip of ground on the south end of the lots occupied by several other stores along the south of side Washington street is owned by the Monnett’s, and Mr. Bedford holds a forty year lease on same which has, we understand, some twelve years yet to run. In leasing the saloon to Strickfaden, it is 6aid, the latter had a clause inserted that the adjoining property should not be sold or leased, rather, for a saloon, and when entering into the contract with Hammond it was understood that the latter wanted the building and ground for a “wire fence factory,” but it was later found that Cooney Kellner was really the man back of the deal, and he wanted it for a saloon. For the above reasons it is said, the deal could not be gone ahead with by Mr. Bedford. The contract with Hammond is alleged to have made no reservation whatever.