Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1906 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. There were 7 marriage licenses issued during June, against 5 for the previous month and 5 for the same period last year. Jackson tp., Newton county, will vote July 28 on the proposition of building a system of gravel roads in that township. —o Marriage licenses issued: July 3, Oliver R. Brouhard, of Fair Oaks, aged 21, to Silvia Winslow, also of Fair Oaks, aged 16. First marriage for each. —o — Another mortgage of SI,OOO by Mattie M. Rinehart (A. McCoy’s daughter) to A. T. Bowen & Co., the Delphi bankers, for SI,OOO on the mortgagor'sMcCoysburg lands, was placed on record last Thursday. Sheriff O’Connor, accompanied by City Marshal Parks, went to Fair Oaks yesterday morning and brought down an insane man of the name of Michael Kolb, an iron moulder aged about 35 years. How or when the man came there is not known, but Thursday he was seen wandering about two miles west of Fair Oaks, and bis strange actions caused alarm. The man is evidently “off” and an effort will be made to locate his relatives in Chicago, if he has any there, otherwise the Chicago authorities. He was lodged in jail here for safekeeping and an examination by the doctors was in progress as The Democrat went to press. —o-

The democrats of White county held their county convention last Saturday and nominated the following ticket: Clerk, Wallace Atkins; sheriff, H. E. McCully; treasurer, Louis Hinchman; recorder, C. H. Kleist; surveyor. D. L. Coonrod; assessor, P. M. Kent; coroner, Dr. Jas. L. Carr; commissioners, J. V. Younger, R. R. Breckenridge; county council, Stephen J. Burbridge, Rob’t Jewett, Philip Holladay, Peter Hepp, J. E. Timmons, J. 8. VanVoorst, Eli Cowger. The republicans have placed the following ticket in the field: Clerk, Guy Williams; sheriff, Robert H. Little; treasurer, M. B. Spencer; recorder, W. S. Ryan; surveyor, W. D. Wirt; assessor, John Hartman; coroner, Dr. A. B. Cray; commissioners, Chas. A. Gay, A. R. Renwick; councilmen, J. E. Carson, John N. Bonnell, H. E. Wedge, Wm. Fisher, Alex. Telfer, Moses G. Dobbins, Geo. Inskeep.