Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1909 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. Attorneys and Williams went to Kentland on legal business Saturday. ' The county council of Porter has made an appropriation for a county option election, and June 3 has been set as the date fcr holding the same.

Marriage licenses Issued: May 15, Joseph Ellis of Rensselaer, aged 51, occupation laborer, to Hester Grayson, also of , Rensselaer, aged 50, occupation housekeeper. Third marriage for male, second for female, first wife of male having died in January 1887, and second wife in February, 1907; first husband of female died in 1889. Squire Irwin tied the nuptial knot.

West Hammond, which .is a part of the city of Hammond but across the state line in Illinois, has a population of 5,000 and has forty saloons. Should the miraculous occur and Lake county be made dry by the anti-saloonatics, all the Hammond, Indiana, citizen would have tp do to wet his whistle would be to step over to Hammond, Illinois, (West Hammond) and fill up to his heart’s content.

Judge Hanley has appointed John T. Biggs of Kankakee tp., and F. E. Reeve of Rensselaer, the blacksmith, as members of the County Board of Review, which meets the first Monday in June. Both are republicans, Mr. Reeve being a brother-in-law of Judge Hanley and formerly was employed in the Hemphill blacksmith shop. A change in partnership there recently let him out of a job.

New suits filed; No. 7453 s John Pinter vs. August Woolbrandt and Francis Woolbrandt; suit to foreclose mortgage. Demand $428.19. No. 7454. J. C. Gwin & Co., vs. Philip Blue, administrator of the estate of Wm. W. Hartsell, deceased; claim of $5.61. No. 7455. Howard C. Parks vs. Everett Halstead; transcript of change of venue from Newton county.

Pulaski County Democrat: J. C. Nye, whose slight improvement from a very severe case of impaction of the bowels was noted last week, suffered a collapse early Friday morning that came as near to ending his life as anything could and not finish it. He was thought to be dying, and relatives were summoned from the Star City field meet and elsewhere. But he rallied slightly that evening and has been coming along since then, though very slowly. He will recover if no unfavorable conditions interfere, but his margin is so narrow that he could not stand much of a relapse.

Sternberg & Son expect to bringa light dredge over from near Monon, where it is now at work, within the next month or six weeks and clean out the upper end of the Iroquois ditch, which has caved in badly through the muck. There is probably 2H to 4 miles of this work to do, starting near the Grooms bridge and extending on north and west. The Pullins and Burke bridges, both of which are wood and easily and inexpensively removed, will have to be taken out to allow the dredge to go through. This part has never been accepted and the Sternberg’s do this cleaning out without any additional expense to the Improvement, and do it willingly.