Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1908 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

ItemiT Picked Up About the County Capitol. New suits filed: No. 7324. Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co., vs. Curtis J. Hand et al; suit to foreclose mortgage and have receiver appointed. Well, Jasper county can beat Newton four to one on the matrimonial business for the month of May, anyhow. While only four licenses were, issued here last month, Newton issued but one. — o — Jpj Marriage licenses issued: June 6, Gilbert David Albin of Rensselaer, aged 22, occupation laborer, to Lucy May Wiltshire, also of Rensselaer, aged 19, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Warner left yesterday to attend DePauw commencement, at which there is to be a reunion of the Sigma Chi’s. A banquet will be given at the fraternity house Tuesday night. Wednesday night Mr. Warner will attend a banquet given at the Lafayette Club in Lafayette for H. W. Wiley, the government pure food expert, who was a former instructor at Purdue. The banquet is given* by his former pupils of Purdue. The Democrat wishes to apologise its readers for devoting so much space to the Republican in this issue, but the fact is that paper has twice in the past month made personal attacks on the editor of The Democrat, and in such attacks has made libelous statements—for it is libel to charge a man with a crime unless the charge is true, and it is a crime to dodge taxes or to fail to give in all one’s property for taxation. We wanted to show up these false statements and to prove that they were false by the official records of the county, and we think we have done so very conclusively. It is an old saying that “figures won't lie. but liars will figure,” and the liars in this case are so plainly shown up that there can be no question whatever as to who has done the lying.