Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1909 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. I New suits filed: No. 7460. J. N. Leathermen vs. Rachel Call, et al; suit to quiet title. —o — Sheriff Shlrer and Trustee Karch took August Woolbrandt, the Walker tp., insane man, tff” Longcliff Monday. —o— VfMarriage licenses issued: June George Clark of Rensselaer, aged 32, occupation show business, to Dora Mae Thornton, also of Rensselaer, aged 41, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. —o— The MaYlon, Newton and Union tp., commencement exercises will be held at the Library Auditorium in Rensselaer next, Saturday afternoon. Marion has three graduates—Lee Adams, Laura Hurley and Opal E. Waymire; Newton five—Anna Marion, John iZmmer, Ross Reed, Lucy L. Lane and Nell Parker; Union sou Switzer, Flossie Smith, Nettie Davisson and Stanllas Brusnahan. - /

The commissioners have advertised for bids for making an examination of the county records, for which purpose the county council several months ago appropriated $2,000. The examination is only to go back six years, according to the advertisement for bids, and it Is not likely more than the auditor’s and treasurer's office will be investigated, to determine the alleged shortage of ex-treasurer Nichols at the time he went out of office. —o— Mrs. Jennie Guss was examined by a sanity commission before Squire S. C. Irwin yesterday and adjudged insane. Mrs. Guss is a sister of Frank Murray of Gillam tp., but has spent the greater part of her life traveling as a sleeping beauty In a side show, and snake charmer with a carnival. She has also served in numerous other capacities with traveling shows, and cam 6 here only about a week ago. She has been mentally deranged since childhood, but of late has shown voilent tendencies.

S/ Co. Supt. Lamson and wife had harrowing experience while returning from the Wheatfield commencement Saturday night in Mr. Lamson’s auto. The machine got stuck in the mud up in the Gifford region, near Zadoc, about midnight far from human habitation, and after working about two hours at prying and jacking it up, during which Mrs. Lamson added her 125 pounds to the prying process, they succeeded in extricating the machine and reached home at 3 a. m., Sunday morning. o - The contract so rthe construction of the Kirkpatrick ditch, which has caused many farmers just across the line in Jasper and Benton counties a gocd deal of, worry on account of the assessments on their farms, was sold Monday afternoon at the home of Henry Millner, to the Chicago Construction Company. The ditch was sold in four sections as follows; The main ditch to be tiled for 14,065, with Geo. Hart, lateral, for 11,900; W. B. Waterman, lateral $480; and the open ditch 12,800. The ditch commences a( the line fence between the Wickersham and Hart farms in Jasper county and runs in a southeasterly direction and ends in Benton county just a few rods north of James E. Watt’s farm. The bid made by the Chicago Construction Company was the lowest by $2,900. It will take sixty-three car loads of tile and the dltcfi will be made with a steam ditcher. The work will begin soon.—Goodland Herald.