Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1907 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol.

J une weddings are conspionons only by their absence in Jasper county this year. Only one marriage license nas been issued .this month, and the month is half gonb. ' —o T. F. Maloney and C. J. Hobbs, together with a gang of assistants, are viewing the proposed extension of the Iroquois ditch this week. They are making about two miles per day, and it will probably take nntil the middle of next week to finish ~4he twelve miles. —o — The will of Isabelle K. Brady, deceased, was filed for probate Monday. The instrument was executed May 20,1907, and all property, both real and personal, is bequeathed to her husband, Jesse L. Brady, nnconditionally. Jesse L. Brady is also designated and appointed executor of the estate, to act without bond. —o — Bonds to the amount of $5,555.42 were sold Monday in the Ran-kakee-Wheatfield gravel road, and brought a premiun of $64. The Jasper Savings and Trust Co., were the purchasers. The bonds are to be of the denomination -of 1100 each, bear date of April 1, 1907, and draw 6 per cent, interest. until all are paid.

Ex-Coqnty Supt. Hamilton announces that he will take up the praotioe of law. He has not decided on au office location as yet but will do so soon. Mr. Hamilton was admitted to the bar here some time ago, and has been fitting himself for a long time to enter this profession when the time came for hhn to leave the county superintendent's office. With his extensive acquantance over the county and the large number of personal friends he has made during the time he has been county superintendent, he should build up a good practice. The Democrat extends best wishes,

At the request of parties interested a meeting will be held at the court house in the court room, on Saturday, June 22, to devise ways and means to remove the upper ledge of rock discovered in dredging the Iroquois ditch. The ledge is about 900 feet in length, commencing north of the Gangloff bridge, and » from one to five feet above the bottom of the ditch as laid out. The highest point is some 600 feet east of the Padgett bridge, where a sort of backbone is formed which most be out down five feet. This rook was not mentioned iu the specifications and therefore the contractor is not obliged to remove it, we understand.

Ex-county assessor Sherman White of Newton connty, now sewing on the board of review there, was here a few days this week in consultation with the Jasper board of review and comparing assessments of real, estate in the two oonnties, and especially along the line between the two oounties. It was found that the valuation made in Newton was from one-fourth to almost double the valuation made along the boundry line in this county, and it is understood that he will call the attention of the state board to this inequality. It is likely that the valuation will be raised considerably here to bring it more of an equality with Newton, which has always been too high considering the quality of her lands and in comparison with other counties. Newton’s valuation should be lowered, rather than Jasper’s be raised to any great extent. Taxes are already burdensome enough here.

The broad-mindedness of Abe Halleck, the present republican county chairman and diotatpr of his party in this county, is again shown from his reported action in the county scbosl superin tendency election. “Bob” Mannan, trustee of Wheatfield tp., the republican who bolted Hamilton and voted for Lamson, urns oalled down here the Sunday before the election, we

are told, and taken to Halleck and office—Leopold being the oounty secretary—Where a half dozen of the sports who drive the Republican elephant in Jasper oounty were in waiting. Bob didn’t want to vote for Hamilton, it is said, because of some personal matter, and had pledged himself ter vote for Sayers Halleok, we are told, stormed abopt at this and wouldn’t hear to Mannan’s voting for Sayers at all, because he thought the latter “might give Babcock the oounty printing.” He, also, wanted to down Hamilton, and it was finally fixed up by the crowd that Mannttn must vote for Lamson, and as a reward they, Halleck et al, would give him » (Mannan) anything he wanted in a political way, The oounty superintendent controls but little public printing, and The Democrat has managed to get along for nine years and make a few dollars without that trifle of patronage, despite the rocks thrown by this man Halleck, whose venomous hatred of The Democrat man has evidently affected his scraped potato cavity until he’s apparently insane on that point at least. The creator of mankind also has a few things to answer for, don’t von think?