Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1907 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. Commissioners’ Court and the county board of education meet Monday. Fifty applicants for teachers’ license were examined by Supt. Lamson Saturday. —oi— The Kniman saloon cases, set for trial last Saturday before Squire Thornton were sent to M. P. Comer’s Court in Barkley tp., on change of venue asked for by defendant Ballinger, and are set for trial to-day. —o — New suits filed: No. 7185. The First National Bank of Rensselaer vs. Diedrik Dekker et al; suit to foreclose mortgage on lands in Keeher tp. No. 90 (Ditch Cause). Petition of Nickoli Rassmussen et al, for ditch. —o— * , These are not very strenuous ous times about the clerk’s office. Only four marriage licenses were issued last month and none of since July 16, and only one new suit has been filed for several weeks. Last month there were five marriage licenses issued, while for July, 1906, there were but three. -U. ; ; 7 The annual teachers’ institute will be held the last week in August, beginning August 26. Mrs. Mcßae will be back again this year; Supt. Wheeler of Wolcott will have charge of the music and Stanley L. Krebs of Chicago will lecture on psychology. To listen to Mrs. Mcßae and Prof. Krebs will be a treat to the town people as well as the teachers.

According to the enumeration of voters as compiled by the township trustees, there are 3,552 voters in Jasper county, as follows; Barkley .... 301 Carpenter. ... 523 Gi11am........... 172 Hanging Grove 110 Jordan .’ 163 Kankakee 125 Keener 211 Marion 968 Milroy ■ 80 Newton 144 Union. 341 Walker.... 201 Wheatfield 213 On rpplication of the surviving partner of Kight & Co., general merchants of Fair Oaks—lsaac Kight—Judge Hanley on Monday appointed the Jasper Savings & Trust Co., receiver to wind up the firm’s business affairs. Rodney Dodge, one of the firm, died last February and Mr. Kight has since been conducting the business. He wants to get the business settled and ask for a receiver. The store is closed pending an invoice, after which it will be re-opened by the receivers who will probably put Mr. Kight in charge.

The annual estimates of several of the township trustees of Jasper county, of proposed expenditures and tax levies for the calendar year 1908 appear elsewhere in this paper. These estimates are published for the imformation of the taxpayers, and any taxpayer who objects to any items of the estimates in his township has a right to appear and be heard at the meeting of the advisory board September 3, when the estimates are approved or rejected and cut down by the said board. If you want to “holler,” then is the time to do it. Fred Ellis of tirook was brought here Tuesday and confined in jail by Newton county officers until he can be received at the insane asylum at Longcliff, he having been declared mildly insane last October but had not been confined. Lately he became worse and it was thought best to send him to the asylum. Ellis and McCoy, the would-be rapist, are the only occupants of the jail at present and are the first for some time. The latter is having quite a strenuous time in getting over his protracted drunk and mild attack of tremens. He has not eaten more than half a slice of bread all told since his confinement in jail, on Wednesday of last week, and except for a little boiled milk has taken no nourish-

ment at all. It is thought be will come back to bis feed when the booze gets thoroughly out of his system,