Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1909 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. County Commissioner A. D. Washburn of Kentland was in the city on business yesterday. Emma M. York has been appointed administratrix of the estate of her husband, the late Noble J. York, v —o— Be Bure to have your mortgage exemption blanks made out and filed with the county auditor before May 1, to be entitled to the exemption from taxes as provide by statute. Gov. Marshall has appointed Courtland C. Matson of Greencastle as member of the State Tax Board, to succeed Parks ..x, Martin, who has been a member of the board since 1901.

Remember that the first installment of the 1908 taxes must be paid on or before the first Monday in May to avoid the entire tax going delinquent and having penalty added. The allotment of copies of the Acts of the late General Assembly for Jasper county were received by the Clerk yesterday and are now being given out to those entitled by law to copies of same. licenses issued: March f!9, William Henry Gray of Rensselaer, aged 36, occupation laborer, to Olive Jane Beezy, also of Rensselaer, aged 18, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. —--Q John Sullivan, the court stenographer has about completed the task of making a transcript of the proceedings in the Hawkins will case. There are over 1,500 pages of type written manuscript recording nearly five hundred thousand words and the work will bring him about SSOO. —Fowler Republican.

The qounty council at their meeting here last Saturday set aside a fund of SIO,OOO to be used for the purchase of thirteen voting machines for use In Pulaski county. The machines will be built to order and must be delivered on or before October 15, 1910, while no payment is to be made on them until December 1, 1910. The machines will probably be of 50-key type, and cost about S7OO each.—Winamac Journal. New suits filed: No. 7432. Matt Bos winkle vs. William Adams; change of venue from Newton county. No. 7433. John Sommers vs. B. C. Ward et al; suit on note. Demand $l5O. / No. 7434. David D. Lehman vs. Seth B. Moffitt; suit on contact. No. 7435. B. J. Gifford William Marion; action in ejectmefrt.'" No. 7436. Same, vs. George Beedy; same kind of action.