Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1906 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. The Jasper County Teachers’ Institute will be held at Rensselaer, Aug. 27-31. —o — Misses Lessie and Alice Bates, who are taking a delightful lake and river trip to Mackinac Island and Lake Superior, are expected home next week. —O— The contract for Wheatfield’s new school building has been let to Warren, Burns & Marsden for $9,104.08. E. G. Warren of this city is a member of the firm. —o — Trustee J. H. Chapman, Judge Thompson and Frank Foltz were at Hammond Monday at the hearing of the Rinehart cases before Referee Bowers. A compromise was reached by which practically all the cases on both sides were dismissed. . —o — Deputy Sheriff Joe O’Connor went up to Fair Oaks Wednesday morning and arrested one Benjamin Williams, who was wanted in Carroll county for petit larceny. The young man is but 19 years old. He was found at the home of his sister. In conversing with Alfred Armstrong—one of the penitentiary foremen who formerly worked for the McCoys on their McCoysburg farm—while at Hammond the other day, he informed us that “Our Tom” was working at sewing up twine sacks in the binder twine department of the prison, one of the best jobs there, and the room is located on the top floor where it is good and airy and the view is good. Tom, he said, was taking his imprisonment philosophically and was in good health. The big Sternberg dredge threw its first bucketfull of dirt at the Pullins bridge Wednesday evening, scooping out enough to make a dam to float the big boat. It is now working right along and has already cut some 200 feet. The lighting system has not yet been installed, but soon will be. As soon as this is done two shifts of men will be employed and the 'dredge will run night and day. No difficulty whatever was experienced in starting it and it lifts out its 2| yards in less time —owing to improved machinery— than the smaller dredge lifts one yard. It is expected that the big machine will cut from to 1| miles a month on the upper end of its work.