Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1909 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. John Walker of Tombstone, Ari** came Monday to spend a few days with friends. John was court reporter of this circuit for several years. Wm. M. Becker, the Milroy tp., insane man, was taken to the asylum at Longcliff yesterday. Sheriff Shirer, Squire Bussel, and T. E. Becker, a brother accompanied him. Miss Hazel Warner returned Sunday evening from a tw'o weeks visit with friends in Indianapolis and Muncie, and is again at her desk as deputy in the clerk’s office. At Muncie she visited Mrs. Emory Mills. ' —<>- Kentland Democrat: A visitor to Kentfaod remarked yesterday, “your Newton county court house is not much for show and fancy flub-dubs on the outside but I find it more roomy and convenient than many houses costing five as much as this one, and I travel all over the state.” Mrriage licenses issued: August 17,‘ John A. Kissenger, aged 42, occupation laborer, residence Wheatfield, to Lora A. Steager, aged 45, occupation housekeeper, also of Wheatfleld, second marriage for each, first for male dissolved by death in 1902, and first for female dissolved by divorce in 1900. —'O' ■ WIN PRIZES IN LAND DRAWING. Dick Crowell of Rensselaer drew No. 2414 in the Flatheajj Indian Reservation land drawing at Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, last Friday. It is reported that the claim is worth from $2,500 to $3,000. In Monday’s drawing at Spokane, on the Spokane Reservation, W. S. Rowe of Goodland drew No. 80. Mr. Rowe is a well-to-do farmer and resides south of Goodland a few miles, in Benton county.