Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1909 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. The 80 acre farm of the late James Wiseman of Union tp., near Virgie, has been sold by Administrator R. D. Thompson to James Wiseman, Jr., and the estate will be closed up in a few months now. Marriage licenses issued: Feb. 8, Geo. B. Scott of Roselawn, aged 25, occupation farmer, to Nellie May Hickman, daughter of James Hickman, deceased, also of Roselawn, aged 25, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. The report of interest on county funds for the month of January was as follows: Jasper S. & T. Co $51.18 State Bank, Rensselaer 55.48 Bank of Wheatfleld 8.70 State Bank, Remington. ..... 15.65 The county commissioners have leased the old clerk’s office on the east side of the public square to Dr. Loy for an office, for a period of five years at a monthly rental of ten dollars, and as soon as the work of remodeling it is completed, for which purpose the county council appropriated $l5O, he will occupy same.

The sanity of Benjamin Biggs, an inmate of the county poor asylum, w r as inquired into recently by Justice S. C. Irwin and a board of local physicians, but they withheld their opinion a few days until they could obtain a more complete account of his family history, and later he was adjudged, insane and Monday morning sheriff L. P. Shirer and Joe Grooms took him to the asylum at Longcliff. He is in a very weakened condition and Is not expected to live long.

In the report of new suits filed in the last issue of The Democrat the mention was not as complete as usually made by this paper, therefore we re-publish same;. No. 7402. William H. Cheadle, trustee of the.' estate of Robert Parker, bankrupt, vs. Joseph Nisius and James A. May; suit on note. Demand S6OO. No. 7403. Same, vs. First Christian Church of Remington, W. C. Smalley, H. Landon and S. Bowman, trustees; suit on note. Demand $1,600. No. 7404. Medaryville State Bank vs. John R. Ward and Ed Oliver; suit on note. Demand $350. The state senate last Friday passed the bill introduced by Senator Cox, which would require a merchant to give five days’ notice to creditors when his stock of merchandise is to be sold. That the bill would be a great benefit to all honest men in retail lousiness and a protection to wholesalers, and jobbers against fraud was the contention of Senator Wood. He held tlie bill a protection t<f wholesalers against thieves who purchase stocks of merchandise and sell them before paying for them. Only four votes, those of Grube. Halleck, Kistler and Parks, were cast against the bill when a vote was taken. Forty votes were cast for the bill’s passage. New suits filed: 7405. Seth B. Moffit, vs. Board of Commissioners of Jasper county; appeal from Commissioners’ court.— Plaintiff alleges that in June, 1904, the county owed him $23 for part construction of the Moffit ditch, and the county treasurer, S. R. Nichols and auditor, James N. Leatherman, refused to pay him this money w’hich he could have used to pay the taxes on the ditch, the penalty and interest on which now amounts to $89.02, and that the auditor caused his original assessment to be placed on the tax duplicate, and collected, and that now $257.53 is due'him. No. 7404. Dr. Achilles Davis of Chicago, vs. Seth B. Moffit; appeal from Justice’s court.