Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1908 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. Commissioners’ court meets Monday. marriage licenses were issued last month against 8 for the previous month and 13 for December, 1906. —o — Sheriff O’Connor will sell the hay and corn on the Rinehart lands, on the attachment recently issued, at McCoysbnrg, Tuesday, Jan, 14, at 11 a. m. —o— Lot Sloudt of Remington was brought over Thursday by nightwatch Wm. E. Holland to lay nine days in jail in settlement of a fine and cost for intoxication, —o — New suits filed: No. 7248, Frank Foltz et al vs. Alfred Ponton and wife; suit on note and mortgage, Demand $l6O. No. 7249. State of Indiana ex rel John C. Billheimer, auditor of state, vs. the Bank of Remington; action to appoint receiver. Returnable Jan. 10. Vjohn L. Osborne, republican assessor of Hanging Grove tp., has resigned his office and moved upon a farm north of Rensselaer, in Marion tp. On petition of 65 voters of Hanging Grove township Auditor Leatherman has appointed Chas. Lofler, democrat, to succeed Mr. Osborne. The choice is a good one, Mr. Lefler being well qualified for the place.

—o — Marriage licenses issued: Dec 28, Joseph V. R. Porter of Rensselaer, aged 23, occupation farmer, to Leola E. Fountaine of Goodland, aged 22, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. Dec. 30, Herman William Walter of Jasper county, aged 42, occupation farmer, to Kathrin Miller of Rensselaer, aged 45, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for male, second for female, her first husband having died in October 1903. Dec. 31, Nelson DuCharme, Jr., of Rensselaer, aged 24, occupation farmer, to Goldie Mae Reed of Rensselaer, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. — o — Most of the township trustees were in Monday to get their “December draw” and fix up their funds for depositing under the new depository law. There is probably little change in the amounts of public funds held by the various banks of the county. The law is that they shall be deposited in proportion to the capital stock held by the banks making application for the fnnds Public officers whose funds are deposited under this law are relieved from all responsibility from any loss that might occur, and this will no doubt be a great relief to many who have worried about the money in their hands which they have heretofore been personally responsible for. It is likely that the interest which will now be received on these funds will amount to no inconsiderable sum to the people also. —o— At the special session of the commissioners last Friday to let the stationery contracts and close up the business of the year, only the Burt-Terry-Wilson Co., of Lafayette bid on books, etc., and The Democrat and Journal on class 4 of the stationery supplies. The whole matter was continued to the next regular term, and the auditor directed to figure out which bid was lowest on class 4. Bids on bridge in Wheatfield tp., were in excess of appropriation, and were rejected. The bond of Jessie D. Allman as county treasurer in the snm of $50,000, signed by Hanibal Landon, O. P. Tabor, Levi, Hawkins, A.' Hicks, J. A. Washburn, 8. 8. Galbraith, H, R. Hartman,} C. H. Peck and O. T. Dye as sureties, was approved. Bond of James N. Leatherman as auditor in the sum of SIO,OOO with Charles W. Coen, David H. Yeoman, J. L. Babcock, Walter V. Porter, Granville Moody, James T. Randle and Nathan Eldredge as sureties was also approved.

Who is the “protective” tariff protecting in these days of unexampled, unparalleled and undone Republican prosperity?

By making Senator DuPont of Deleware, chairman of the committee on "expenditures of the war department,” the Republican United States senate gives the powder trust a big boost. Du Pont is the bead and front of the powder trust, and now the head of the trust is put into a position where he can have a great deal to say about how much powder the government shall buy and what it shall pay for it.

We have not the slightest disposition to gloat over Mr. D. P. Baldwin of Logausport, but the public interest demands that the proper moral should be drawn from the insolvency of three private banks which are partly owned by him. —Indianapolis News (Rep.) The "moral” that the News theu proceeds to draw is that the Btate private banking law is not what it should be. But there is another "moral,” a political one, that the News studiously refuses to mention, and that is as to the failures in business, after eleven years of Republican rule, of prominent ■Jjg> persons who worked so hard in 1896 to “save” the country from the Democratic party.

The Republicans of the state are divided into two camps over the proposition as to whether Governor Hanly should be permitted to go to the uational convention as a delegate-at-large—one of the alleged big four. The governor’s declaration at Columbus, Ohio, that he was not bound to support his party when it acted contrary to his own views and that he reserved the right to support a candidate of another party, is the cause of the present trouble. His opponents say that be is no longer a “regular” Republican and should not be sent to Chicago as a representative of the party. But just keep your eyes on the Hon. J. Frank. If he wants to be a delegate he will be one or else there will be the ding-bustedest row the Republicans have had in many years.