Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1908 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County CapitoL June brides are not much in evidence in Jasper county this year. Only two marriage licenses have been issued here this month. The joint commencement of the Wheatfleld, Kankakee, Walker and Keener tp., schools and Wheatfield town schools took place at Wheatfield Thursday. It was largely attended and a very pleasant time is reported. The Democrat is waiting patiently for the Rensselaer Republican to publish a fair, full and complete retraction of its libelous statements recently made of and concerning the editor of this paper, and to give such retraction as prominent a position and display In its columns, both daily and semiweekly, as was given the libels.

In The Democrat’s mention last week of the county officers who drew their salary last March the name of the county superintendent, who drew $243, was overlooked through mistake. It was not the intention to show any favoritism whatever, but to give the true facts in the fnatter. The county assessor's name was also omitted from the list, as he did not draw his salary until April and in running oyer the April allowances we missed his name. He had $165 due him March 1, $l5O salary and sls expenses to Indianapolis. County Clerk C. C. Warner Is putting in full time at the republican national convention at Chicago this week, and no doubt his robust figure and smooth manner compared very favorably with the army of assistant sergeant-at-arms at the big convention. But while Charlie likes to break away once in awhile and mingle with the political sports, he is getting too old to stand aa much of it as he could fifteen or twenty years ago, and it is not improbable that his deputy will have to look after the clerk’s office most of the coming week while her superior is getting the kinks out of his hair and resting up from his week of the strenuous life.