Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1909 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. ■ Commissioners’ court and the county board of education will both meet Monday. J. F. Osborne returned Wednesday from a surveying trip in the north part of the county. —o— County- Assessor Lewis went to Lafayette yesterday to attend the district meeting of County Assessors. —o — Only six marriage licenses were issued last month, against 12 for the month previous and 13 for March 1908. —o— This, is the last week of court of the present term in Newton county, and April term will begin here one week" from Monday. This will be our last term until September, but Newton will have one more term—in May—before the summer vacation. —o— The case of Thomas J. McCoy, the former Rensselaer banker, who is endeavoring to secure his release from the state penitentiary on the grounds that his sentence Is entitled to dimunitlon for good behavior, is set for oral argument in the supreme court April 9, one hour and a quarter on each side. —o — The commisoners of Jasper and Benfapn counties met at Fowler Thursday and established six miles of road on the county line, runnnig east and west, south of Remington. Three miled of the road is east and three miles west of the Gilboa gravel ’road. The road is established under what Is called the county line law and the expense of construction will be equally divided between Carpenter and Gilboa townships.