Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1908 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. New suits filed: No. 7316. The City National Bank of Logansport, Indiana, vs. John D. Miller; action to foreclose chattel mortgage No. 7317. Ray D. Thompson vs. Milton D. Noble et al; action to quiet title. Marriage licenses issued: April 18, Alfred Fairchild of South Bend, aged 24, occupation C. I. & g. brakeman, to Edna Pearl Hart, of Demotte, aged 20, occupation deputy postmistress. First marriage for each. April 18, George Delos Zea of Rensselaer, aged 20, occupation deliveryman? to Etta Viola Smith, also of Rensselaer, aged 21, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. April 22, Leonard Cecil Rhoades of Rensselaer, aged 25, occupation merchant, to Ruth Minerva Harris, also of Rensselaer, aged 25. occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. Nightwatch W. E. Holland of Remington brought Jimmie O’Connor, a tile ditcher, over Wednesday morning to lay out a fine of $lO and costs, sls in all, for plain drunk. He will have to stay 15 days at the O’Connor hotel. Ira Cheek, another Remingtonian, was brought over Tuesday by Constable W. L. Rich, on a like charge, or two charges of drunkenness and one charge of drawing a knife on the town marshal. He was given $lO and costs on the first charge, $25 and costs on the second drunk charge, and $lO and costs on the charge of pulling a knife, making S6O in all, or a total,of 60 days in jail if he lays it out. This is another case of where whiskey has ruined a young man who might have been one of the best business men in Remington. He has been sent to the Keeley cure by friends and relatives but the “cure” lasted only about a year, and now when under the influence of liquor he is said to be mean and ugly..