Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1909 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

items Picked Up. About the Comity Capitol. The Jasper and Porter county commissioners were in Joint session yesterday afternoon to let the con* tract fp«r ; a new steel bridge over the Kankakee river on the DemotteHebron grade. Marriage licenses issued; January 9, John Keihpff of Rensselaer, aged 24, occupation farmer, to Cordelia Sigo, of Carpenter township, dapghter of Moses Sigo, aged 25, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. At the meeting of the County Board of Education Monday the election of a truant officer to succeed C. M. Sands was the principal business transacted. The names of C. B. Steward, Dr. A. G. Catt and J. C. Porter were presented, and on the first ballot the vote stood Steward, 6; Catt, 6; Porter, 3. On the second ballot Mr. Stewart was elected, receiving 8 votes; Catt 4; Porter 3. Mr. Steward is a democrat, but this office ought not be a political office He will make a capable officer and there will be no politicos in his administration of the truancy laws. The board also decided to continue the corn and an(l bread contests another year.