Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1906 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About The County Capitol. v/A. Halleck was elected republican county chairman Monday, there being no other applicants for the place. Mose Leopold was ke-elected secretary. The county convention was set for Monday, March 12; primaries to select delegates to same to be held the Saturday previous. —o — Marriage licenses issued: Jan. 18, Herbert M. Schuster of Remington, aged 36, to Mary Shide, alto of Remington, aged 20. First marriage for each. Jan. 17, Harry J. Ploegsma. of Demotte, aged 25, to Ida Roadhouse, also of Demotte, aged 24. First marriage for each. —o — Quite an improvement has been made this week by trimming up the shade trees about the jail and sheriff’s residence. By the way, Bheriff O’Connor has put this property in the best condition, both inside and out, that it has been for many years. The interior of the bnildings have been thoroughly cleaned and painted and are in complete sanitary condition, something that they had lacked a great deal of being for some time.

Geo. E. Hershman was up at Wheatfield Wednesday defending Frank Stanton, a Kersey saloonkeeper who was charged by Ed Edgerly—although one Granger, his opponent in the liquor business, is believed to have been behind the prosecution—with having kept his place of businees open after hours. George succeeded in acquitting his client, who proved that he was at home, sleeping the sleep of the just when the alleged offense was committed.

The Sternberg dredge near Parr met with its first serious break down Tuesday. It was working in a fifteen foot cut, the deepest cut on the entire ditch, just north of the Wishard farm when the “A” frame broke and let the boom fall with a crash. This frame is a piece of timber 36 feet long and 14 inches square, and it will delay work about a week in getting a new one. Young Sternberg went to Chicago Wednesday to hurry up and personally see to the shipping of the new piece of timber.

Sheriff O’Connor, got word Thursday night from the sheriff of Newton, county to be on the lookout for Milo Miller of about Mt. Ayr, who was supposed to be headed toward Rensselaer to catch a train and make his escape from the officers. A close watch was kept but Miller failed to show up here. He was caught at Mt. Ayr, about 2 a. m., yesterday morning by the Newton county sheriff. He had been here during the day, it seems, but had returned to Mt. Ayr and kept out of the way of the officers. He is understood to be charged with embezzlement, but no particulars have been received here at this writing. —o — The Democrat this week conains the reports of four more township trustees, including that of our own township of Marion. We wish to call especial attention to this report, which includes the service account of the present democratic trustee for the past year. It will be seeu that his service account is but $314, which is the lowest we have ever seen for this township, and is a saving to the taxpayers of about S2OO alone. Another item is the great saving made in the poor expenditures. When Mr. Staokhouse took charge of the office he found a large number of regular pensioners on the poor list who had been there so long that they thought the township owed them a living, and had become arrogant in their demands for aid. Most of these never ought to have been given aid at all, or but temporary at least. He has gradually weeded out this list until he has cut down the expenditures about one-half for the past year, and no deserving person who really needed aid and was unable to work has been

turned away. JFbe entire saving to the taxpayers of Marion tp, during the first year of Mr. Stackhoues’s term has been a great many hundred dollars, and shows that it pays to pat a man in this office who has something else to do—attend to bis personal affairs a part of the time —other than see how much he can bleed the township for. —oThere are now seven regular boarders enrolled on Sheriff O’Connor’s “hotel register.” Of this number one, Ben Baker of Roselawn, one of the Baker brothers brought here from Newton county for disturbing a Christmas entertainment, will have served his time to-morrow and will be turned loose. His brother Bert will have to remain until Feb. 15. Wm. Marlin, Dewey Dewitt and Roy Brohard, the Fair Oaks trio laying out fines and costs for a like offense at Fair Oaks, will be turned out Feb. 1, just in time to watch the Ground Hog when he comes out to look for his shadow. Peter DeYoung, the Goodland boy who swiped a cow hide from Peter Buck, a Goodland butcher, will have completed his term Feb. 10. John Moritz, of Wheatfield, in jail for having jumped a bail bond here about a year ago and who was arrested at Kersey last Friday, will have to remain until the circuit court takes action on his case.