Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1909 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. Judge Hanley was in Monticello on legal business yesterday. —o — Trustees Clark of Wheatfield and Kight of Union were in the city on business Thursday. —o— New suits filed: No. 7461. L. L. White vs. William M. Parr, et al; suit to quiet title. —o — But two marriage licenses have been issued this month, and the month two-thirds gone, too. The Nave ranch in Wheatfield tp., was visited by the Board of Review Wednesday, to look at the cattle there which the board thought were assessed too low. The painters who have the contract for painting the windows and doors.to the court house are now busy at work. Landy Magee of Rensselaer is assisting in the work. John Tigler, aged about 70 years, of Gillam tp., was declared insane Wednesday afternoon by a board of inquest composed of Squire Bussel of Hanging Grovee and Drs. Kelsey of Francesville, Loy and Washburn of Rensselaer, and was brought here and lodged in jail to await his reception at Longcliff. Mrs. Guss, who was declared insane Tuesday, mention of which was made in Wednesday’s Democrat, is also in jail yet, the papers not having been received from Longcliff for her. It is either a mighty easy thing to have people declared insane in Jasper county or there is something radically wrong with her residents. The number that are being found insane and are rushed off to the asylum is something alarming, and at this rate there is no telling where “lightning will strike” next