Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1906 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. Don’t forget to file your mortgage exemptions with the auditor again this year. There no court in Newton this week and Judge Hanly has been putting in she time trying to keep his sidewalks dear of snow. —o — In the court proceedings in last week’s Democrat, the land partitioned off to the Phegley heirs should have read 84£ acres to Mrs. Randle and 142 acres to the heirs. —o — Marriage licenses issued: March 22, Blanchard Elmore of Goodland, aged 26, to Ora Belle Morin of Remington, aged 22. Second marriage for groom, first wife having died March 20, 1904; first marriage for bride.

The regular appeal bond in the case of Ella Kight vs. Wm. T. Kight was filed by the latter Saturday, with Samuel T. Kight and John Brady as sureties, in the sum of SI,OOO. The report published in other papers that the case was settled, was erroneous, and it is the understanding that it will go up. o— 1 New suits filed: No. 7024. Martha M. Dorsten vs. Dietrich Dorsten; action for divorce. The parties to this suit were married April 21, 1903, and lived together until Dec. 23, 1905, when be deserted her. The complaint charges desertion, cruel and inhuman treatment, failure to provide, etc. The defendant is supposed to be in Ohio at this time. Plaintiff resides in the west part of Carpenter tp. They have no children. The set-off or personal exemption of 1600 of Tom McCoy’s has finally been settled by his taking the following property: Wearing apparel, $100; watches, $100; gasoline launch, $400; total S6OO. Tom selected the following articles and valued them at: Watches, sls; wearing apparel, $10; gasoline launch, SSO; Jerry’s Island —his hunting and fishing and booze-visiting resort in the Kankakee river—at $425, the matter was finally agreed upon as set forth above.

The matter of that portion of the “Doc” Nichols shortage, by reason of county funds lost in the McCoy bank, not heretofore saddled onto the unfortunate depositors of that institution, has evidently been arranged by Nichols with the bondsmen, as will be noticed by a deed filed for record this week, transferring said Nichols’ farm lands and town property to J. M. Wasson and Henry O. Harris, trustees. By the terms of the deed if Mr. Wasson dies E. L. Hollingsworth succeeds him in the trusteeship, and in the event of Mr. Harris’ death his son Elbert Harris takes bis place as trustee.

W e understand that a blanket remonstrance is being circulated in Union tp., against the traffic in intoxicating liquors in said township. The application of Chas. A. Gundy for a saloon license at Fair Oaks will come up at the April term of commissioners’ court, and if a sufficient number of signers can be secured to the remonstrance —which is said to be being generally Bigned—Union will go “dry.” Considering the number of fracases at Fair Oaks durihg the past few years and the expense many of the people of that burg have been put to in coming down here to attend State cases, nearly every one of which have been caused from “booze,” it would seem that there should be but little division of the better clhss of people thereabouts over this matter. And, by the way, the taxpayers of the whole oounty have been put to considerable expense in taking care of “star boarders” and in the trials or these numerous “booze fighting” cases. An arm-load of old papers for a niokel at The Demoorat office.