Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1905 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About The County Capitol. Commissioners’ court convenes Monday. o— - ■ New suits filed: No. 6979. Tillie S. Schrader vs. John Finn; appeal from Squire Van Doozer’s court at Wheatfield. No. 6980. Kennedy-King & Co., vs. John Coen et al; action to set aside deed. The republican district meeting to select a district chairman, will be held at Rensselaer at 11 a. m., on Tuesday, Jan. 16. It is reported that Jasper county will have a candidate for the place in the person of George Williams, present county chairman. Saturday was another recordbreaker for the marriage license business in Jasper county, no less than seven licenses being issued. Some of the candidates for matrimony were quite young, one bride being but 15 and two grooms aged but 20. It was the first experience for all the parties and none of them were aged over 24 years.

Judge Hanley officiated in another marriage at the court house Saturday, the contracting parties being Mr. John Snider and Miss Lettie Woolever, a young couple from Gifford. Rev. Kindig also officiated at two marriages in the clerk’s office Saturday, the contracting parties in this case being Mr. George Coberly and Miss Arminta McGinnis of Demotte, and Mr. Frank Wallace and Miss Lillian Murray of Kersey. Clerk Warner was at Hammond that day, attending the meeting of McCoy bank creditors, and his deputy, Miss Jean McFarland, was kept pretty busy issuing marriage liscenses, no less than seven being issued for the day, The county commissioners met in special session Saturday to let the annual stationery contract and close up the business for the year. Only one bid was filed for all the classes of stationery supplies, that being the Aetna Printing Co., of Indianapolis. Leslie Clark and F. E. Babcock bid on Class 4, and A. F. Long bid on janitor’s supplies. No contracts were let, the board continuing the matter until the regular January. The bids were all very low, the Aetna company’s bid aggregating only about S9OO, where the county heretofore has boen paying from $1,600 to $3,000, the latter price being under the old plan of letting contracts, before the county reform act was passed. The Burt-Terry-Wilson Co., of Lafajfette, who have had the contract for several years for classes 1, 2 and 3, did not bid at all this year, saying that the appropriation was too low. Quite a number of claims were allowed, which appear in another column.

Marriage licenses issued: Dec. 22, Walter A. Forbes of East Chicago,aged 23, to Margaret Frances Merritt of Remington, aged 22. First marriage for each. Dec. 23, Jake Johnson of Jasper county, aged 20, to Bessie Brooke of Jasper county, aged 21. First marriage for each. Dec. 23, George Coberty of Demotte, aged 20, to Arminta McGinnis, also of Demotte, aged 19. First marriageafor each. Dec. 23, Frank Wallace of Kersey, aged 24, to Lillian Murray of Kersey, aged 20. First marriage* for each. Dec. 23, Wessley Walker of Gifford, aged 21, to Lizzie Hibbs of Gifford, aged 15. First marriage for each. Dec. 23, John Snider of Gifford, aged 22, to Lettie Woolever of Gifford, aged 18. First marriage for each. Dec. 23, John Hunter of Rensselaer, aged 24, to Theresa Lorenz of Rensselaer, aged 20. First marriage for each. VDec. 23, George Pullins of Barkley tp., aged 24, to Fairszina See of Rensselaer, aged 19. 4 First marriage for each. Dec. 26, William Shirer of Tefft,

aged 26, to Irene Frazier, also of Tefft, aged 21. First marriage for each.