Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1909 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. New suits filed: No. 7456, Ella Kight vs. William Kight; change of venue from Newton county. Eight marriage licenses have been Issued thus far this month, and two more are in prospect. Warner, Sam Sparling and Firman Thompson attended a stock breeders meeting at Purdue Saturday. Judge Hanley went to Hammond Saturday to make up the issues in a case in which he is sitting as special judge. yMarriage licenses issued: May 24, Walter R. Hicks of Remington, aged 36, occupation merchant, to Julia V. Meehan, also of Remington, aged 20, occupation housekeeper. Second marriage for male, first wife having died in 1891; first marraige for female. A dam has been built across the river out by the Harstell farm west of town to raise the water sufficiently to allow the floating of the drill boat, which has been lying v all winter in a nook south of Weston cemetery. The drilling will soon begin again in the several hundred feet of rock yet to be taken out west of town to complete that part of the Iroquois ditch. There was originally some' 1200 feet of the rock, out near the Stott Grant farm, but about half of the drilling was done last fall. It will probably take several months to do this drilling, blasting and excavating.