Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1905 — COURT HOUSE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

COURT HOUSE NEWS.

Items of Interest Gathered In the Of* flees of the County Capitol. Recorder Tilton and family spent the 4th of with relatives at Wheatfield. —o — June does not seem to be a very popular month for marriages in Jasper county, notwithstanding the old saying that June is the month of brides, etc. Last month but 5 marriage licenses were issued here, against 6 for the month previous and 7 for June, 1904, —o— A petition is being circulated in Union township for a system of gravel roads. One of the roads runs east from Fair Oaks on the sonth line of section 6 for five miles and east from Pembroke five miles and connected from the Fair Oaks to the Pembroke* road three miles. —o — Over in Pulaski county, in letting the contract for the construction of a ditch recently, one of the bids read “one tenth of a per cent per yard below the lowest bidder.” This bid caused a great deal of discussion over its legality, and finally it was held not to be good in law, by the commissioner, and a date for a new letting has been advertised. New suits filed: No. 6885. James H. Chapman, trustee, vs. John W. Paxton; action on note. The complaint alleges that on Jan. 7, 1895, defendant executed his promissory note to A. McCoy & Co’s bank for 188.40; due 6 months after date; that said note has never been paid and that with interest and attorney fees there in $225 now due on same. We understand that Mr. Paxton claims to have paid this note, but for some reason it appears never to have been canceled or taken up. No. 6886. James T. Randle et al vs. George W. Allen et al; action to quiet title. —o The Hanging Grove and Gillam gravel road bonds were sold Thursday. Only three bids were submitted as follews: HANGING GHOVg HOAD, 115,000. Weil, Roth 4 Co., Cincinnatills,o7B J. H. Chapman, Rensselaer 15.085 E. L. Hollingsworth, Rensselaer 15.000 GILLAN HOAD, 119,500. Weil, Roth 4 C 0519,611 J. H. Chapman 19,625 E. L. Hollingsworth 19.6%)

Both sets of bonds were sold to Mr. Hollingsworth. Chapman is understood to have been bidding for the State bank here. The bids all include accrued interest to the time the money is paid in, in addition to the small premium. —o — Marriage licenses issued: July 3, William May, of Warren county, aged 72 years, to Malinda Jane Timmons, of Jasper county, aged 52. The groom has been twice married before, one wife have died in 1888 and the other in 1903. The bride lost her first husband in 1996, by death. July 5, Richard Han of Jasper county, aged 23, to Twinkle Esther Kellogg, also of Jasper county, aged 19. First marriage for each. July 5, Leonard R. Leake, of Eau Claire, Wis., aged 34, to Jennie Bernard of Rensselaer, aged 21. First marriage for each. —o — The case of W. J. Reed, administrator of the estate of John Reed, Sr., deceased, vs. the Pan Handle railroad, was reversed in the appellate court last week, on error by the court in giving certain instructions, and will come back for a new trial. This case grew out of the killing of decedent by said railroad at Remington in January, 1903, while crossing its track there. Suit for damages in the Jasper circuit court, on behalf of decedent’s three orphan grandchildren t who lived with him — the three Casey girls now living in Rensselaer—and a jury awarded them $1,500. The railroad appealed to the appellate court,