Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1908 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. No marriage licenses issued since June 6, and only two issued thia month. —o— The democrats of Carpenter tp. will hold their nominating convention, for a township ticket, at Remington to-day. See official call on second page of The Democrat. The adjourned April term of court convened yesterday. No jury will probably be used. Any court business can be taken up, we understand, but the only case set for trial is the Hodge ditch cleaning case, which is to be heard by William Isham of Fowler as special judge. —<o— Jordan tp. commencement will be held at Mt. Hope church to-night. There are 11 graduates—Blanche Kessinger, Ethel Iliff, Roy Gish, Mollie Branson, Verona Bill, Minnie Kessinger, Edna Iliff, Nora Branson, Iva Bill, Leota Williams and Albert Sage. The exercises will begin at 8 o’clock. —o — The Newton County Enterprise says that County Supt. W. O. Schanlaub was chosen at the superintendent’s meeting as a member of the committee to prepare the questions for the state bi-monthly examinations for the ensuing school year. The appointment is an important one, and is the first time Newton county has received recognition from the State association.

J. C. Sternberg came over Tuesday to look over the dredge and get ready to go to work on July 6. He thinks they can get the remaining part of the river done in about two months, after the dredge is started. No arrangement has been made to take out the ledge of rock on the Gangloff farm and will not be in all probability until the job is finished to the outlet. As a matter of fact this should have been finished before leaving it last year, as it will cost twice as much to finish that part of the work now as It would have cost had the work been done when the dredge was on the ground. It appears that somebody has been very dlrellct in his duty in this matter from the beginning, but of course this additional burden can come off the taxpayers, and they never grumble. —o — Perry Goodner was arrested and fined $lO and costs, amounting to $18.85 in all, Wednesday evening for an assault on Stephen Marlin, who lives at the tile factory west of town. There seems to have been a feud between these men, growing out of some alleged remarks made by Marlin about Goodner and his step-daughter, who had boarded with the Marlins last spring. Marlin was at work on the Monnett land Wednesday afternoon, he states, when Goodner approached him with a monkey wrench in his hand. As he neared Marlin he asked him what he had been saying

about him, almost at the same instant striking him on the head with the -wrench. In the fight that followed Marlin was badly bruised about the face, and his clothes badly torn, and he was a frightful looking object when he came to town. Mr. Marlin was himself recently fined and costed sls for killing a baulky horse in trying to make it "go.”

AGATHA FIFTH.