Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1906 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. The country schools open Monday. o Nine marriage licenses were issued last month, against 3 for the month previous, and 4 for August 1905. —o■ Work of grading on the Parker

road, northeast of town, on the Marion-Rensselaer stone road system, was begun this week. Rock hauling will begin next week. The report of the retiring-city treasurer was filed with fneWlerk Tuesday. It shows a total of $11,207.52 on hand- Sept. 1, and turned over to his successor, Mose Leopold, who has given bond in the sum of $20,000, with A. Leopold, B. F. Fendig and Judge Hanley as sureties. 1 —° — The special school house election at Wheatfield Saturday resulted in a vote of 50 for building a joint town and township school house to 9 against. The bonds to be -issued by the town, $5,000 4| per cent, SI,OOO payable each year fyr gve years, were sold Monday to Mrs. E. T. Biggs $54.50 premium. —o — Considerable complaint has been made regarding the construction of the Nessius ditch, in this and White counties. It is said that the dredge has lain in the ditch some three winters and dammed the water up in the rear, causing the ditch already dug to fill up with sand, dirt and sediment and after the contractors had received their 80 per cent estimate, Now one of the tile laterals is being put in of tile that are said to have lain on the ground through a couple of winters at least and been damaged greatly, while the ditch where the tile empty is filled with sand and other sediment some three feet higher than the tile outlet. As a consequence of all this the property owners along the improvement are "kicking.” —o — Marriage licenses"issued: Sept I, Milbron Griffin of Rensselaer aged 80, occupation cook, to Maggie Lowman, also of Rensselaer, aged 32, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. Sept. 3, John H. Mahle of Washington, 111,, aged 27, occupation railroader, to Christenia G. Gangloff of Rensselaer, aged 27, occupation dressmaker. First marriage for each. Sept. 4, Charlie Harmon of Rensselaer, aged 28, occupation clerk, to Cecile McKenzie, also of Rensselaer, aged 27, occupation, housekeeper. First marriage lor groom, second marriage for bride, first husband having died March 11, Sept. 5, Fred E. Arnott, of Rensselaer, aged 28, occupation clerk, tolrepeM. Lutz,also of Rensselaer, aged 25, occupation seamstress. First Carriage for each; Sept, 5, Clyde C. Hess, of Lake Village, Ihd., aged 24, occupation

farmer, to Elsie May Htmgin also of Lake Village, aged 22, occupation school teacher. First marriage for each. Sept. 6, Austin White of Demote, aged 40, occupation laborer, to Susan Jane Otis, also of Detootte, aged 39, occupation housekeeper. Second marriage for groom, having been divorced in 1901; third marriage for bride, •first husband having died and having been divorced from second husband in May, 1906. —o. — The September term of the Jasper circuit court will convene Monday. Following are the names

and places of residen.ee of the grand and petit jurors. (S. W. Hamilton whose place of residence is given as Wheatfield, is now a resident of Illinois,) GRAND JUBOBB. Geo. Marion T. W. Wants Rensselaer Wm. Daniels Rensselaer A.C. Pancoast Newton J. R. Mallatt .Union Thos. A. Spencer Milroy PETET JURORS. Yeppi Hanson Gillam Benj. Barger Jordan Schatzley Wheatfield ‘ChetDexter Carpenter J. W. Marion Gillam Chas. Stalbaum Kankakee Chas. W. Reed Barkley Wm. O. Williams Union Mark Reed Jordan Marion Freeland Newton Wm. Gasper Gillam John I. Gwin Union John Poole .Rensselaer L. D. Mauck Union S. W. Hamilton Wheatfield Randolph Wright Newton The grand jury will not be called, it is understood, but the petit jury is called for the third Monday of the term.

Birdseye view of central part of Rensselaer, looking north from Court House tower. (From J. A. Sharp's "Souvenir of Rensselaer.")