Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1905 — COURT HOUSE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

COURT HOUSE NEWS.

Items of Interest Qathered In the Offices of the County Capitol. Commissioners’ court, also the board of review, will convene Monday. . —o — Recorder Tilton and family spent Sunday with relatives in Wheatfield —o — Ex-Township Trustee S. D. Clark, of Wheatfield. was in the city on business Thursday. —o —' There were 6 marriage licenses issued last month, against J 3 for the previous month and 7 for May, 1904. There was only $l5O in unloaned school funds on hand June I, and there are applications on file for several thousand. —o — Charles E. Sworts has been appointed administrator of the estate of his father, the late John Sworts, deceased, of Union tp. —o — Clerk Warner was in Indianapolis Wednesday and Thursday, and Miss Alice Bates ’tended office during his absence. . —o —

The special gravel road elections in California and North Bend townships, Starke county, this week, the improvement carried by large majorities. —o — Marriage licenses issued: May 29, Dr. Franklin Petry, of Thayer, Newton County, aged 31, to Elva Amy East of Wheatfield, aged 19. First marriage for each; ceremony by Judge Hanley at clerk’s office. —o — Gov. Hanley has appointed Chas. R. Milford as judge of the newly created sixty-first judicial circuit, composed of Fountain county, and Grant Hall of Fowler as prosecutor of the old circuit of Benton and Warren counties. —o — Thurman J. Smith who was arrested several months ago for passing counterfeit money at points along the Three-1 railroad in this county, was found guilty in the federal court at Indianapolis last week and was fined $lO and costs and sentenced to two years imprisonment in the federal prison at Ft. Leavenworth. Smith resided near Wheatfield.