Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1909 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. Magee begun the work yestlrday of touching up the faces of the court house clock. Swinging from a scaffold that height is much enjoyed by Landy. ''(.Trustee Folgar of Barkley tp., let tpw contract Saturday for a cement veneered school house 24x32 in district No. 4, to Firman Rutherford of Rensselaer, at $995. Other bidders were Snyder & Son, $1,145; Muster & Beckman, $1,275; Anson Cox, $1,285. The contract provides that the building shall be completed by September 10. Marriage licenses granted: July 17, John William Lanone of Hammond, aged 29, occupation teamster, to Leedema M. Whetsler, also of Hammond, aged 21, occupation housekeeper, daughter of Lee Masterson of Rensselaer. First marriage for male, second for female, she having been divorced in 1902, when but 1,5 years of age.

New gpits filed: Mollie Goodner vs. Perry Goodner; suit for divorce. The plaintiff resides in Rensselaer, and alleges that they were married Feb. 8, 1892, and separated in the fall of 1908, when defendant left in company with Mrs. Mary Payne, with whom he is charged with living in adultry outside this state. Cruel and inhuman treatment is charged also. There are five children, aged respectively. 16, 11, 9, 4 and 2 years, which plaintiff asks the custody of the four youngest, the eldest, a daughter, being married. —o — The Atlas publishers who have been getting up an atlas of Jasper county, are now delivering same at sls per. The binding on the.book is all right, but the paper on which the maps of the townships and towns are made is of too cheap a quality for a work of this kind, and will not bear any great amount of handling. Fifteen dollars is, in our opinion, too much for a work of this kind, and it is not likely any great number will be sold except to those who subscribed before the work was gotten out, and over in Benton county most of the subscribers are refusing to pay, claiming the book is not what the solicitors represented it would be, and they will resist payment in the courts. We understand the same company got up the work in both counties and in several other Indiana counties also.