Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1906 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About The County Capitol. Commissioners’ court, will convene Monday. —o— Thomas Price was returned to the asylum at Longcliff last Friday. —o — The February term of the Jasper circuit court will convene one week from Monday. Over in Newton county the delinquent tax list is so small that it has been decided not to have any tax sale this year at all. Judge Ulric Z. Wiley has announced that he will not be a candidate for renomination to the appellate bench. Judge Rabb, of Warren county, is a candidate for Wiley’s place. r -OA There were no unloaned school rends on hand Feb. Ist except what had already been spoken for. In fact there are applications on file ahead all the time in this county and there has never been any surplus to speak of accumulated. —o — Newton County Enterprise: Contractor Lund expects to have the •brick work completed on the new court house by the end of this week. The north, south and east walls are now completed with the 1 exception of the cornice, and there is but little more work to do on the west or front wall.

—o — Judge Tuthill of the Lake circuit court handed down a decision last Friday in the matter of city councilmen-at-large, holding that councilmen-at-large having no predecessors, it being a newly created office, they would fill their full term of four years and hence take their seats on January 1, 1906. Marriage licenses issued: Jan. 29, Louis Ramp, of Rensselaer, aged 23, to Rosa Scheutich, also of Rensselaer, aged 26. First marriage for each. Feb. 1, Frank Otis Gray, of Streator, 111., aged 42, to Dora Ann Robey, of Remington, aged 42. Second marriage for each, the groom having been divorced in 1901 and the bride being a widow, her husband having died in 1904. \

—° — This is the last week of the Newton circuit court. Among the cases from this county were: Thos. Besse vs. C. I. & L. Ry. Co., and Austin vs. Kight, dismissed; Norman Warner et al, were given judgment for 164 60 against Ralph W. Marshall, by agreement. The following cases were venued to this circuit: Herman Schultz vs. John Brady; Steele-Weddles Co. vs. Henry H. Hyatt; Chas. G. Spitler vs. Arch Elijah.

—o — New suits filed: No, 6993. Shelby Comer vs. Emerson, Henry and Reuben Snow; action in replevin. Returnable Feb. 12. No. 6994. Lyons, Turner & Esson vs. Nelson Hough; suit on note and chattel mortgage. Demand SBOO. Returnable Feb. 12. No. 6995. Harriet Elizabeth Rose Kerr vs. John Coen, Harriet W. Ferguson and Brazilla F. Ferguson, her husband, Manila J. Sayler and John T. Sayler, her husband, Tirzah P. Vannatta and John R. Vannatta, her husband; action for partition and an accounting. Returnable Feb. 12. No. 6996 Lawrence A. Wiles, trustee of the estate of Fred D. Gilman, bankrupt, vs. Sith B. Moffitt; suit on notes. Demand SBOO. Returnable Feb. 12. No. 6997. William B. Austin vs. Joseph Kallison et al; suit on notes and foreclosure. No. 6998. The Rensselaer Bank of Rensselaer, Indiana, ys. Seth B. Moffitt and S. B. Thornton; suit on note. Demand S6OO.

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