Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1905 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About The County Capitol. Auditor Leatherman was a Chicago visitor Wednesday. The commissioners meet to-day in Bpecial session to let the annual stationery contracts. —o— New suits filed: No. 6978. Margaret Wall vs. Hiram Blanchett et al; suit on note. Demand SSOO. —o — Another wedding took place in the clerk’s office Thursday at about the noon hour, the contracting parties being Mr. Walter S. McConnell and Miss Effie Goff, both of Fair Oaks. Judge Hanley tied the knot. —o — Parties who have money due them from the county, on claims that have been allowed, should call and take up the warrants for same before Jan. 1, as all funds previously appropriated for this year revert back to the county the first of the year and these claims cannot be paid until the county council is called together and reappropriates funds for the purpose. The will of the late Henry Welsh of Remington was filed for probate Monday. It bequeaths to the widow all the personal property and the rents and profits from all the real estate of decedent, after first paying the taxes thereon, during her life time, and then to equally divide between the surviving children or their heirs. The will was made Nov. 6, 1905, and is witnessed by J. D. Allman and Robert Parker.

—o— The will of Anna McGee was filed for probate last Thursday. Deceased leaves life insurance of about $750, and directs that after paying her just debts, funeral and burial expenses etc., and providing for a headstone to cost not over SIOO, that the remainder shall be equally divided between her mother, Mary J. Richison, her sister Alice Ada Shigley, brother Ward B. Peterson, half sisters lola Haag and Lona Pearl Tows* ley. Ralph W. Marshall is appointed executor of the will. —o— Goodland Herald: Last May Albert Brook, of near Wheatfield, and brother of our townsman, Peter Brook, went back to Russia where be was born and raised to manhood, with the intention of ending his days there. But thirty years absence and residence in a country like this had evidently not only changed his ideas about government, but time had also made changes there, and he was no longer satisfied to live that life, and has come back to the “home of the free” with the avowed intention ofremaining here. —o- - Marriage licenses issued: Dec. 15, John E. Williams of Aix, aged 23, to Maud Liston of Rensselaer, aged 20. First marriage for each. Dec. 16, Charles Lucterhand of Remington, aged 30, to Matilda Geibof Remington, aged 20. First marriage for each. Dec. 16, Frank Peregrine of McCoysburg, aged 23, to Maggie DuCharme of McCoysburg, aged 23. First marriage for each. Dec. 16, Alvin Orville Harriott of Seattle, Wash., aged 29, to Dorothy Mae Leech of Rensselaer, aged 20. First marriage for bride, second marriage for groom, first wife having died in 1897. Dec. 21, Henry Parker of Gillam tp., aged 21, to Stella Record of the same township, aged 19. First marriage for each. Dec. 21, Walter S. McConnell, of Fair Oaks, aged 24, to Effie Goff of the same place, aged 17. First marriage for each. —o — The township trustees were all in town Monday reporting the results of the road supervisors’ election Saturday. Following are the names of the new supervisors so far as elections were held, no elections being held in several districts: Hanging Oroya—No. 8, K. B. Porter. Barkley—No. 1, Jamea Newoome; No. 2, P.

M, Cooper; No. 3, James Sprier*: No. 4, Charles Walker. Gillam—No. 1, Hamilton Record; No. 2, Louis Dunker; No. 3, James Rodgers; No. 4, C. F. Tillett. Jordan—No. 1, Maurice Gorman; No, 2, Benjamin Barger; No, 8, J, A. Keister. Kankakeo—No. 1, John' Stalbaum; No. 1. Hans Nelson; No. 3, James Cooper. Keener—No. 1, W. Pinter; No. 2, Ed Stankey ; No. 3, Tunis Snip. Marion—No. 1, Charles Battleday; No. 2, T. A. Crockett; No. 3, Joseph Putts. Milroy—No. 1, George Wood; No. 2, Chas. W. Beaver. Newton—No. 1, Maauel Harshberger; No. 2, Joe Shindelar; No. 3, Benton Kelley; No. 4, 5. B. Holmes. Union—No. 1, Joseph Theis; No. 2, F. M. Goff; No. 3, W. H. Meyers: No. 4, J. W. Humes. Walker—No. 1, John Bnlkema; No. 2, Zack Kerns; No. 3. Asa Brown; No. 4, August Woolbrant. Wheatfield—No. 1, John Clark; No. 2, Jacob Heil. Carpenter—No. 1, A. H. Dickinson; No. 2. Burr Porter; No. 3, F J. Babcock; No. 4, George Gilman; No. 5, G.F. Schnster; No. 6, Herman Walter; No. 7, (no election); No. 8, W. H. Hicks.