Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1908 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Itms Pickd Up Ab out the County Capitol.

Only two marriage licenses have been issued this month, and the month more than two-thirds gone, too.

Bert Vandercar, the popular democratic assessor of Kankakee tp., was down last Friday filing his report with the county auditor.

Sheriff O’Connor’s “boarding house” is again without any star boarders, and John will not object if this condition continues until his term ends.

Judge Hanley has appointed F. M. Welsh of Jordan and Austin J. Rathfon of Gillam as the appointee members of the county board of review, who will meet the first Monday in June and continue in session twenty days.

Referring to the Dr. Hartsell omitted taxes, the hysterical editor of the Republican—after The Democrat had made the matter public—gleefully shouts: “A Republican Assessor Did It.” To be sure. And a democrat editor put him “next” to the proposition, and as a result S6OO in good old hard dollars go into the treasury of Jasper county, though a small part no doubt of what ought to have gone there long ago had the doctor been the sort of man he was generally believed to have been. -——

One of the most hotly contested cases of the last term of court was that relating to the remonstrance against the Grover Smith ditch, which is located east of Wheatfield. Several parties objected to the assessments levied for this improvement and to have them reduced caused the fight. It is charged by some of these resident land owners that the Northern ''lndiana Land Co., a corporation that absorbed and now own the old Nelson Morris tract, is trying to get out of paying its share of the cost of this improvement. The following parties, residents of Wheatfield and vicinity, were down Monday and Tuesday at the hearing: L. C. Asher, —— Shepherd, C D Shook, Supt, N. I. L._Co.: C. J. Hobbs, engineer C. & W. V. Ry.; Frazier Antrim, J. A. Hixon, Ed Mutchler, E. W. Allen, Everett Finney, J. V. Myers, J. E. Meyers, W. D. Meyers, S. D. Clark, Wm. Dittman, Geo. Morr, Jas. L. Smith, Fred Karsh, trustee Walker tp.; Geo. O. Stembel, Frank W. Fisher, R. A. Mannon, John Biggs, Wm. B. McNeil, John H. Tilton, Grover Smith, Henry Misch, Thos. F. Maloney, Martin Knapp, Everett Huber, Wm. McNeil of Lacrosse, S. A. Austin, F. W. Austin. The cause was heard Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and May 23 set for hearing argument.