Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1910 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. , Messrs. Davis and Salmon, field examiners under the new accounting law, are still at work at the oburt house, checking up the accounts of township trustees. John F. Pettet of Walker tp., announces himself as a candidate for re-nomination for county commissioner from the first'district. The republican county convention will be held Saturday, March 5. Harry A. * Collins and John C. Roelofs, both o( Rensselaer, have filed with the clerk a certificate of partnership under the firm name of the '‘National Mercantile Association,” a collecting company. Kentland Enterprise: Deputy Sheriff Howard My res of came in last night with Glen Bumgarden, of near Lake Village, and confined him in the county Jail to await the action of the court on the charge of assault and petit larceny. Last October two masked men entered a home up near Enos and seriously beat dp an old man, and attempted to rob him. Bumgarden Is charged with the crime.

If the facts are as reported In the north end of the county, the widow of Alonzo Gross—for If not already a widow by the time this Item is read, she will soon be one according to the statement of the attending physician—has an excellent case for damages against the party who sold her husband liquor and is therefore responqibile for his fatal injuries. The'accident is'reported in our “Pour Corners” items. New suits filed: No. 7673. George H. Healey and Leslie Clark vs. Frank E. Baboock; action for libel. Demand $5,000. No. 7574. Same vs. same; same kind of action. Demand $2,000. No. 7575. Leslie‘Clark vs. same; same kind of action. Demand $2,000. No. 7576. Geo. H. Healey and Leslie Clark vs. same; same kind of action. Demand SIO,OOO. .No. 7577. Arthur Herriman, et al. vs. Isaac J. Parker; suit on account. Demand $l5O. The County Council at its special session Monday made the following appropriations: . , Re-Appropriated, 1900. Clerks office, supplies $17.00 Auditor’s office, supplies.... 9.20 Treasurer’s office, supplies. . 43.49 Recorder’s of, sup and fees. 167.26 County Surveyor, supplies, etc 76.40 County Assessor, same, postg 6.00 Circuit court jurors 2.70 Courthouse supplies 624.10 Poor Farm, repairs........ 45.0^ Bridges .12,775.60 Repairs Burke’s bridge 738.25 Commissioners’ Court .»... 66.00 Sec. Board of Health.. 67.09 Gravel road repairs 281.18 Election r expense, 1908 2.00 Miscellaneous ' 107.93 Total 15,009.12 Additional Appropriations, 1910. New ‘bridges 1,630.00 Bridge repairs . 650.00 Gravel road repairs, Gillum tp 30.00 Co Assm. Washington st imp 1.31 Refund to Soidierß Mon fund 67.30 Farmers .institute .. . .’. 60.00 Mllroy Monument 200.00 New Register tax sales; etc.-. 75.00 Supplies county officers' 333.40 Total v ...." 2,967.04

Following is a report Of the doings' of the County Commissioners at the February term: Notice ordered for letting contract for new bridge in Marion tp., on first day March term. Contract let to Winamac Bridge Co., "for new bridge in Marian tp., at $1,737. Contractors on Carpenter-Rem-ington ' stone roads allowed sl,#70.56. Final report made and apprpved in the Emil Besser ditch, and superintendent allowed $20.75 for his services. Bond of Paris T. Ro*binson as Supt. Mathias Zimfmer ditch, in sum of SSOO, approved. , Report of drainage commissioners in the Lewis Dunker ditch filed, and cause continued for objections. Tilden J. Prouty-ditch; cause docketed and continued for objections. Notice ordered given for letting contract for supplies for poor farm for next quarter on first day next term. Auditor directed to procure a record b6ok of tAx sales at a cost not to exceed sls and Alice M. Bates is authorised' to copy said record for a sum not to exceed S6O. The various county depositories reported interest on county funds

for the month of January, as follows: s T ft S Bank, Rensselaer.. . .140.55 Bank of Wheatflehl........ 5.70 State Bank, Rensselaer.'.... 47.97 State Bank, Remington 22.90 First Nat. Bank, Rensselaer. 102.10 Tunis Snip, trustee of Keener tp., and 51 others petitioned for a system of stone roads in Keener tp., No. 1 to begin at the S-W corner of Sec. 23, and thence north 3% miles to the Kankakee river. No. 2 to begin at the N-W corner of Sec. 13 and run south xrae mite. No. 3 to begin at the N-E comer of Sec. 31 and ran west one mile. No. 4 to begin at the S-W corner of Sec. 31 and run east 3% miles. No. 5 to begin at N-W corner of Sec. 36 and run east one mile. Petition was continued Cor notice.