Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1905 — COURT HOUSE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

COURT HOUSE NEWS.

Items of Interest (lathered In the Offices of the County Capitol. Marriage licenses issued: March 11, Robert Russell to Mary Paxton. —o— Get your mortgage exemptions filed with the auditor before May 1. Blanks can be obtained at the auditor’s office. —o — The March term of the superior court opened at Hammond Monday. It is expected that something will be done with the McCoy criminal cases, venued there, at this term. —o — Miss Nettie Price, who has been assisting her brother M. B. Price in the surveyor’s office for several months, is now teaching in Carpenter township, succeeding Miss Mary Paxton of Remington, who was married this week to Robert Russell, a sou of W. S. Russell of Carpenter tp. —o — The county commissioners held a special session Wednesdey and let the contract for constructing the 6J miles of gravel or stone roads in Hanging Grove tp., to H. H. Stewart and son of Kokomo, for $14,641, or $251 below the estimate. This was the only bid filed and it provides for the road complete, including grading. We understand that the contractor can use either gravel or stone, but he intimates that he intends to use the latter, putting in a crusher at the old John E. Randle farm, which is about mid-way of the road. He has put up a good bond and the road will be built. New suits filed: No. 6839, Charles G. Spitler vs. Jerry Shannon et al; action to foreclose mortgage. No. 6839. Clara May Randle vs. James A. Randle; action for divorce. This is another case of “marry in haste, repent at leisure ” The parties were married Nov. 12, 1901, at Monticello, and the complaint avers that defendant abandoned plaintiff on March 8, 1903, and that defendant at the time of said abandonment stated that he never intended to return. One child, a girl, born Jan. 21, 1902, is the fruits of their union, and the care and custody of said child is asked for by plaintiff. The parties to the suit were raised in Rensselaer, and this was the second marriage for defendant, his first wife having died. No. 6840. Iroquois Building, Loan and Saving Association vs. Hugh L. Gamble and Fred N. Chapman; action to foreclose mortgage.