Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1910 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. Geo. O. Stembel of Wheatfield was down Saturday to attend the meeting of the democratic executive committee. Trustee S. D. Clark came down from Wheatfield Monday to act as commissioner on the Borntrager ditch, and with Hugh Gamble, engineer, begun his duties yesterday. Thorpe Beagley of Brook, the other commissioner, will be unable to report for duty for a few days on account of his wife being seriously sick. —o—• Hon. Richard M. Milburn, of Jasper, Dubois county, candidate for the democratic nomination for attorney-general, was in town Saturday looking after some support in the state convention from this quarter. Mr. Milburn was a candidate for nomination to the same office two years ago, but was defeated by a few votes. He thinks the chances for democratic success are much better in the state now than they were at that time, and will try once more for*the nomination. “Tom” Honan, speaker of the house in the last general assembly, is also a candidate for the nomination, and there is one other candidate whose name we have not learned as yet. New suits filed: No. 7593. Union Trust Co., vs. Marion I. Adams; suit on note. Demand $315.

This case grows out of a note for $250 alleged to have been given to the Hamilton Life Insurance Co., by defendant for some SSOO worth of stock in said company, purchased through W. R. Scudder, president, who operated here about a year ago. This note is but one of a score or more that were given Scudder by people in Rensselaer and vicinity for stock in his concern, which recently went broke. A test case will be made of this note, we understand, and on the finding of the court will depend the collection of several other notes of a like character. Before maturity, it is alleged, the notes wwere sold by Scudder to the plaintiff, the Union Trust Co., a corporation doing business at So. Bend, we are told.