Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1908 — RESOLUTIONS BY THE CASS COUNTY BAR. [ARTICLE]

RESOLUTIONS BY THE CASS COUNTY BAR.

The following resolutions on the death of Col. W. H. Jacks, a former old-time resident of Rensselaer. were passed by the Cass County Bar Association: Whereas. William H. Jacks, who was for many years a deputy clerk of the Cass circuit court, and as such was the court room clerk of the court, and who was also an honorable and honored member of the Logansport bar, has gone from earth to his eternal reward, he having departed this life at his home in Logansport. in the afternoon of Sunday, September 1908. Resolved. That we, the officers or the court, and members of the bar thereof, (having assembled in the court room out of respect to his memory to express our appreciation of him and to have placed upon the records of the court a fitting tribute to his high and honorable qualities as an officer of the i court, a member of the bar, a : neighbor and a citizen, do hereby testify and record:

1. That in the death of William H. Jacks, the Cass circuit court has lost a most efficient, careful and devoted officer, (than whom there was none better) and the members of the bar have lost a reliable, trustworthy and competent assistant in the discharge of their duties to the court and their clients 2. That in "Billy Jacks” we ever found a, true gentleman, a f^° d neighbor, a kind and trusted triend, and a conscientious and cltizen - and public a faithful representative, , *• That in contemplating the life of William H. Jacks, among * or almost half a century, we find nothing to censure, but very much praise and emulate. He was modest, kind, true and faithful in all of his walks of life. 4. That we tender to his bereaved comD&nion. Mrs. Anna M. Jacks, our sympathy, in her great affliction. Resolved, That we tender the foregoing to the court and ask that with hls P° rtr *it be spread upon the current order book or the court and that a copy of the same be furnished to his widow.