Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1906 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. Commissioners’ court convenes Monday. Next Monday is the last day for paying the fall installment of taxes. —o— A vote for Joe Nagel and Moses Sigo is a vote for an investigation of the county treasurer’s office. It needs it, too. —o— The various election inspector s must come in to-day and get the ballots and election supplies for their respective precincts. —o — The November term of the Jasper circuit court will convene one week from Monday. Indications are that the docket will be light. —o — The famous Claspel-Slahl gasoline engine case, appealed by the latter to the circuit court here, and taken to Newton county on change of venue, has now been sent to White county. —o — Marriage licenses issued: Oct. 27, Guy Olmstead of Sand Creek, North Dakota, aged 24, occupation rancher, to Maribel Crosscup of Rensselaer, aged 19, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each.

VThe McCoy interest in the McCby and Tuteur half section of land in Gillam tp., has been sold to G. A. Yerion of Illinois at S4O per acre. This closes out all the real estate owned by the McCoys except a couple of lots of little value in Rensselaer. The case of the trustee of the McCoy bank vs. W. B. Austin for conversion of some notes that passed around between the McCoys, Mr. Fry, the failed Roselawn banker, et al, was tried in the Newton circuit court this week and decided in favor of Mr. Austin. —o — The Prohibition party has out a county ticket again this year, making three tickets on the county ballot. The names of the candidates are: Clerk, King Davis. Treasurer, A. G. W. Farmer. Coroner, Claude Reeves. Surveyor, Geo. W. Faris. Assessor, John W. Norman. Commissioners, James Yeoman,> Howard Burr. They have no candidates for county councilmen. New suits filed ?~No. 7087. Jf>hn W. Ward vs. James A. May and Joseph Nissius, suit on contract

for putting in tile drain on the Nissius outlet of the Nissins ditch. Demand S2OO. No. 7088. Sarah L. Standish •vs. Charles Standish; action for divorce, alleging abandonment and failure to provide. The parties were married June 13, 1904, and separated Oct. 25,1904. The plaintiff’s former name was Sullivan, and resides in Rensselaer, and defendant is alleged to reside at Brook. —o — Christie Vick went over to Illinois Thursday on a “man hunt.” He returned yesterday on the 10:55 a. m. train with his man, one of the notorious Brohards of Fair Oaks —Alva Brohard—who is wanted on complaint of Geo. W. Parish, a farmer living west of Mt. Ayr, on charges of being responsible for the delicate condition of his 13-year-old daughter, Cecil Parish. Brohard was husking corn near Reddick, Hl., when arrested, we understand. He was lodged in jail here, and if the charge is proven he stands a good chance of going to prison for a term of years, the age of “consent” in Indiana being 14 years.

— o — Doty, wife and six children, of Mt. Ayr, arrived in Rensselaer last Saturday from Virginia, where they have been living on a farm near where ex-county clerk J. F. Major resides, and which Mr. Doty recently sold. The house on this farm was recently destroyed by fire, they losing all their household goods, and they decided to come back to Indiana>/They stated that the old mansion on Mr. Major’s 500 acre plantation also burned a few dayspriorto their departure for Indiana and that the Major’s lost most of their household goods. Rankin Halstead of Newton township, owns several hundred acres of land near Mr. Major, and he informs us that he has received a letter from the latter since the fire in which Mr. Major is undecided as to whether he will rebuild at present or not. He had no insurance and his loss is considerable, but he has no intention of returning to Indiana, as has been reported. Mrs. Major wants him to sell the big farm and buy a smaller one, but he is not very favorably inclined to do so at present.