Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1909 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. Commissioners’ court will convene next Monday. Vlarriage licenses issued: Jan. 2f, Frank Middlecamp of Kniman, aged 39, occupation farmer, to Anna Weiss of Virgie, aged 32, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. —o— H. E. Parkison, the new trustee of Marion tp., has moved his office this week from George Williams’ office into the office of his son, W. H. Parkison, In the Chicago Bargain Store block. —o — Thomas Cain has been appointed administrator of the estate of his uncle ( the late James Rodgers. The estate consists of a 156 acre farm four miles south of Rensselaer, and about SI,OOO worth of stock and personal property. Mrs. Edward Cain, a sister, and three children of a deceased sister are the only heirs. Squire Irwin, assisted by a couple of Rensselaer doctors, held an insanity inquest at the poor farm Wednesday, Benjamin Biggs, a bachelor brother of Mrs. Wm. Bierly, ager 50 years, being the subject He has been at the poor farm only about a week, having been taken there from his sister’s home. The decision of the board was deferred pending their inquiry into his family history. The trustee’s report of receipts and expenditures of Keener tp., for the calendar year 1908, which appears in this issue of The Democrat, is a double report. That is, one report contains the statement of Mr. Feldmann, the old-trustee, who died shortly before the end of his term,- and the other is that of Mr. Snip, 1 the newly elected trustee, who was appointed to fill out the unexpired term of Mr. Feldmann, and is for the period from the date of his appointment up to Jan. 1, when he took the office under the term of four years to which he was elected last fall.

—o— A ditch bill has been passed that is important to Jasper, Newton and White counties because it relates to bond issues for ditches constructed in those counties. Under the old law taxpayers had the right to issue ten-year bonds in payment for the construction. An act of the 1907 Legislature repealed this and provided that all costs of Construction be paid by assessment. This law worked hardships with the property owners, who stood in danger of losing their property, but the passage of this bill will remove the assessment hazard, and the land owners of Jasper, Newton and White counties will have ten years to meet the cost of construction of the ditches now being built.