Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1906 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. New suits filed: No. 7064. Emmett Li Hollingsworth, administrator of estate of Mary Norris, deceased, vs. Ira Norris et al; petition to sell real estate. Q L. Marriage licenses issued: August 8, Fred N. Chapman of Rensselaer, aged 27, to Freda Elizabeth Kohler, also of Rensselaer, aged 25. First marriage for each. —o — In the list of new suits filed, as published in this column last week, an error appeared in the amount demanded in No. 7063, Medaryville Bank vs. Jerrie Miller, et al. It should have read SIOO instead of $39; the latter sum was the credit on the note. Trustee Sage of Jordan township let the contract for a new school building in tbe Mark Reed district to David Way mire of Jordan for $765.43, this price including foundation and painting. The building is to be 24x34 with 12 foot ceiling, and is to be completed by Sept. 15. | _ —o — The commissioners at their meeting this week made no appointment of a superintendent or engineer for the Marion-Renssel-aer stone roads, and it is scarcely likely anything will be done on the improvement until such appointments are made. It was expected this matter would be disposed of-Tuesday, but for some reason it was not. —o— The State tax board has heard appeals from county boards of review and fixed the assessment on bank stocks in Rensselaer as follows: First National, per share, $108; State Bank, $lO4. The total assesment of tbe Goodland Bank was fixed at SIO,OOO. This is a reduction of tbe banks here as raised by the board of review of $2 940 for the First National and $3,800 for the State Bank. —o — At the meeting of the county board of education Monday it was agreed to open all the district schools on the second Monday in September, Sept. 10, and each trustee thought be would be able to bold seven months’ school. Instead of holding preliminary institutes this year it was decided to hold an all day joint preliminary institute at Rensselaer, Saturday, Sept. 1, following the county institute which will be held Aug. 2731, inclusive. The township trustees all made their statistical reports at this meeting. —o — Tbe annual estimates of the trustees of Gillam, Jordan and Keener townships appear in this issue of the Democrat, making, with those published last week, 12 of the 13 township trustees’ estimates published in thispaper, the lone exception being Wbeatfield. The law directs that these estimates and also the annual reports be published in the “two leading papers representing the two political parties casting the greatestnumber of votes at the last preceding general election,” and in the eight years The Democrat has been published every democratic official in the county has made all legal publications {required to be made in a democratic paper in The Democrat. As we have remarked before, the republican officer who has any desire to obey tbe letter atd spirit of tbe law has no exouse for going astray in the matter of legal publications required to be made in a democratic paper, for The Democrat is tbe only paper recognized in Jasper county as a democratic paper. Besides it has a circulation 500 copies greater than any paper published in tbe county, and the intent of all legal publications is to give the matters therein publicity. '