Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1910 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol.

County Commissioner Pettet was billed to cry Amiel Shrader’s sale in Walker tp., Wednesday, but was summoned as a witness in the State vs. Bader case, in his official capacity as commissioner. And still "John wants another term of it. —o—Marriage licenses issued: Feb. 23, James Virgil Hamilton of Indianapolis, sop of J. W. Hamilton of Monticello, aged 25, occupation clerk, to Hazel Warner of Rensselaer, daughter of Norman Hale Warner, aged 24, occupation housekeeper. First mrriage for each. Feb. 23, Ralph Lowman, son of Alfred Lowman of near Rensselaer, aged 18, occupation farmer, to Leslie Harrington, daughter of Walter Harrington of Union tp., aged 18, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. _— o — view of the disclosures •anade ip the trial of the general manager of the Winamac Bridge Co., it would seem that tax-pay-ers of Jasper county should arouse from their lethargy long enough to take steps to have a competent engineer examine every bridge built in Jasper county in the past half-dozen years, and find out- if they have been swindled on every one like they were on this Milroy tp., bridge. Scores of new brjdges have been built here during the past few years, and this matter should not stop with the conviction-of poor onearmed Clarence Bader. Will the taxpayers arouse themselves to see how far the steal has gone and who has reaped the thousands of dollars that they have possibly been defrauding of?