Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1907 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. Judge Hanley will deliver the Decoration day address at Kentland. The Jasper County Board of Review will meet Monday, June 3, to hear oomplaints on assessments. The session will last about 30 days. —o — It was anticipated that the sale of the Howe ditch would be made June 5, but owing to the tardiness of land owners in returning cards asking for bonds the sale will probably be delayed a couple of weeks. —o Rev. B. F. Ferguson tied the nuptial knot ior a Chicago couple Saturday forenoon, in the county clerk’s office. Julius Lindauer and Florence A. Roger were the names of the contracting parties, and it was the second matrimonial experience for eaoh.

The supreme court has advanced one of the Judge Artman decisions involving the question of the standing of the saloon, whether a public nuisance or not, Judge Artman' having so held in a case sent to him from Noblesville, and fining a saloonist $lO and costs. Marriage licenses issued: May 11, Julius H. Lindner of Chicago aged 41, occupation traveling salesman, to Florence A. Ruger, also of Chicago, aged 39, occupation not given. Second marriage for each, first wife of male having died in 1904, and female divorced Sept. 3, 1906.

—o — A final dividend of 71 per cent has been declared in the defunct Citizens Bankof St.Paul.lnd., making that was forced to the wall with the Milroy Bank when Fred Gilman’s Home Bank at Goodland went under, Fred having “borrowed” SIO,OOO of the St. Paul concern.

Tim Amore of Reynolds was denied a saloon lioense last week because of alleged unfitness, and the anti-saloon element of the township in which Reynolds is located will now try to finish up the work with a blanket remonstrance. If successful, after next October there will not be a saloon on the entire Effner division of Ibe Panhandle road, which is 51 miles in length. It has been generally published over the state that a law passed by the last legislature required township trustees to purchase United States flags to float over each school building in their respective townships. This is a mistake, as they are only required to purchase such flags “when the money there* for shall be donated from any source or by any person or persons.” This also applies to town or city schools. Editor G. W. Riddick of the Winamao Republican, who was arrested a couple of times recently on the charge of making a false affidavit to secure moltgage exemption and on the charge of perjury, was tried in the Pulaski cirouit court this week and acquitted. If, as Riddiok states, the prosecution was without merit and was simply brought by political enemies for revenge, he should never have been arrested. /

Joe O’Connor writes home from Forsyth, Mont., that he likes his work with the railroad construction party, has a good boarding camp and everything is 0. K. They are some 20 miles from Forsyth, in the mountains, and there is lots of game abounding thereabouts. "Bill” Childers is hunting wolves when not at work and will probably make a record hs one of the greatest wolf hunters in that section of the county. Joe didn’t state whether Bill had killed any wolves or not—just said he was hunting them. Nbw suits filed: No. 7166. Charles 8. Nicholas vs. William S. Parks; suit for alienation of affections of plaintiff’s wife, Etta Nicholas. Demand SIO,OOO. This oase grows out of Jhe sen-

sational disappearance, of Mr. Parks and Mrs. Nicholas from Rensselaer some three years ago, for a few months, and is the second suit for the same amount filed against Parks jn the like grounds, the first one, instituted some two years ago, having been withdrawn by plaintiff before trial, it was generally supposed for a cash consideration, bat this Mr. Parks says is not so, as he never puid him a penny, Nicholas and his wife moved to Hammond Shortly after her return here the sos 1904 bat left him it seems in the fall of 1905 and ik said to have since procured a divorce and remarried again, and with her present husband reside, in Hammond. A firm of Hammond attorneys represent the plaintiff in the action.