Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1909 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. Commissioners’ court will convene in regular session Monday. Trustee Karch of Walker township was in the city on business Wednesday. June is not a favorite month for marriages in Jasper county, it seems, and only 5 licenses were granted last month, the same number precisely as were granted in June, 1908. Ten licenses were granted during the j month of May. Grandmother Hughes who has been an inmate of the poor asylum since the failure of the McCoy bank, in which her small savings were lost, left Wednesday with her son, E. X. Hughes for Frankfort, So. Dak., to make her home. Notices are being sent out by referee Bowers to the effect that the trustee of the estate of A. McCoy & Co., the bankrupt Rensselaer bankers, has filled his report stating that the remaining assets have been converted into money in the sum of $17,690.4-3, and that final dividends will be declared July 17. John Mohler spent Wednesday with his wife, who is an Inmate of the asylum at Longcliff. He reports that her condition shows a marked Improvement but the asylum physicians declare that it Will be at the least estimate, a year before she will be in condition to leave the institution. XMarrlage licenses issued: June 2B> Harry Warren Gilbert, son of James H. Gilbert of Remington, aged 20, occupation farmer, to Honbn Mara Fell .daughter cf Wesley J. Fell of Goodland,, aged 20, tion housekeeper. First marriage for each. ——©- County Superintendents Lamson and Schanlaub returned Wednesday evening from Indianapolis where they had been attending the state meeting of county superintendents. Thej made the trip In Supt. Lamson’s auto, and had no mishaps whatever, making the run to Zionsville Tuesday evening and putting up for the night and going into the city neat morning. On their re-

turn trip they came by way of Crawfordsvilie, and found the roads very bad between there and Indianapolis, two bridges washed out and great gulleys washed out in the roadways from the recent heavy rains. They made the run home from Lafayette after nightfall, but it was such a delightful moolight night that this was one of the pleasantest parts of their trip.