Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1908 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. New suits filed: No. 7349. Alice W. Payne vs. Joseph F. Grouns et al; action to foreclose mortgage on lands in Milroy tp. Demand |SOO. No. 7350. State of Indiana ex rel., Adeline Long vs. Richard Grevenstuck; action in bastardy. —o — Marriage licenses issued: August 12, Emil Sommers of Brook, Aged 25, occupation farmer, son of Joseph Sommers, to Lydia May Augspurger, also of Brook, aged 19, occupation music teacher, daughtefi of David Augspurger. First marriage for each. o County Clerk Warner and Dr. Washburn made a trip to Logansport Tuesday via auto, but on the return journey blew out a tire near Delphi and had to remain /here all night, coming home via Wednesday morning. An auto from here was sent after the disabled machine and hauled it home. —®>— Another paragraph was filed in the case of Lucinda Rowe of Remington against Wm. Townsend, a druggist of this place, yesterday. In the second paragraph Mr. Townsend’s son Claude is charged with having made the sale of carbolic acid which plaintiff’s son, Harry Rowe, used to commit suicide about a year ago. The amount of damages asked is also raised from $5,000 to |IO,OOO.

Richard Grevenstuck of Keener tp., was arrested Thursday on complaint of Adaline Long, a 22-year-old maid of the same township, on bastardy charges. A hearing was had before Squire Irwin and the defendant bound over to the circuit court under SSOO bond, signed by the young man’s father, G. grevenstuck. The accident is alleged to have happened last April, while the parties were out riding in a buggy, in the township aforesaid. —o— The question of whether the county or the city of Rensselaer shall pay the expense of removing the two bridges in Rensselaer for the passage of the dredge has not been decided by Judge Hanley, to whom the matter was referred, but the county will settle with the contractors and the matter will be adjusted between the city and county later if the decision is that the city must pay. The Washington street bridge at least must be all re-tim*’ bered, and the cost of putting in the new joists and flooring will be more than the cost of removing and replacing the bridge, probably aggregating something like S4OO to S6OO. The creamery bridge also will have to be re-floored and perhaps require new joists.