Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1910 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. -J f- ) Jasper Guy was over from Remington on business yesterday. ' Judge Darroch was over from Kentland “on legal business yesterday. —oh— The marriage license business is not starting off very brisk this month. The republican state convention will be held at Indianapolis April 5, one day only. —o—(New suits filed: No. 7586. Simon J. Straus vs. Mary E. Spitler, et al.; .action to quiet title. The board of county commissioners and the county board of education will each meet Monday. Judge Vinton of Lafayette will be here Tuesday to make up the issues in the cases of b. E. Babcock vs. Ira Washburn, et al. Judge Wason of the CarrollWhite circuit has been agreed upon to hear the cases of Healey et al. vs. Babcock. —o — Trustee Karch of Walker tp., was down Thursday on business. Mr. Karch has paid in the amount of the shortage fpund by the accountants in his boolts, and will have accountants go over the books himself, as he thinks the accountants are wrong. —o—- - The county council at its recent special meeting appropriated S2OO toward the fund to build a monument in Rensselaer 'to General been discovered that the council had no power to spend the public money in that manner, and the appropriation is null and void and will not be paid. The fire loss of Kohen & Kahn general merchants at Remington, has been adjusted by the insurance companies paying them $8,006 in full and former keeping stock, some of which is practically undamaged. The insurance policies are all surrendered to the companies. They carried SIB,OOO in all on the stock. Messrs. Kohen & Kahn are preparing to open up for business again and are getting in a lot of new goods. —o—The long-winded Waterman ditch case from Carpenter tp., has put the court up against it and delayed several other cases. The Demoss vs. Clark ditch case from Milroy tp., was talcen up yesterday and the Jungles ditch case and the State, .ex rel. Alter vs. Comer are waiting to follow this. The former case ,is likely to last a day or two and it is probable that some cases set for next week will have to go over lo the April term. Later — The Demoss vs. Clark case was settled before going to trial, each side agreeing to stand half the cost of fixing the tile drain in question.