Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1910 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol.' White county republicans will hold their county , convention June 23. 4 It is repeated that an effort has been made to subsidize the newspapers of neighboring counties -on the bridge graft matter in this county, asking the editors to at least remain neutral if they did not feel like defending the alleged grafters'. New suits filed: No. 7608. E. C. Kresler vs. Seth B. Moffitt and Clayton Moffitt; action to foreclose mechanic’s lein. Demand sl4l. No. 7609. Matilda Algreen, adm. of estate of Algreen, deceased, vs. Edward W. Lakin; action to foreclose chattel mortgage. Demand SIOO. No. 7610. Joseph H. Martin vs. W. H. Pullin and George McElfresh; suit on note. Demand $420. N The late Judge Thompson left no will and an inventory of the estate has not yet been filed. The value of his personal estate is about $30,000. While he Jiad deeded to his children quite a good deal of land he still owned several thousand acres/located in .Union, Newton, Milroy and Walker townships. —o — Deputy Game Warden Martin had Andrew DeHaan and Les Kline of Keener tp., up before Squire Irwin Wednesday for selling quail to old man Yeagley, who was recently arrested and heavily fined t for buying and shipping quail at Demotte. Yeagley stated that he had bought quail oi DeHaan and Kline, and the latten entered a plea .of guilty to selling one quail each and were given the minimum fine and costs, $36.50 each, which they ■phid. — o — Strickler, the young man from Newton county, who ■has been in jail here charged z with having forged a small check in that county, entered a plea of guilty Tuesday' and the court Witheld sentence during good behavior. The case against Walter Doty, also from Newton, who has likewise been in jail here charged with having been implicated with Baumgartner in beating up and attempting to rob an old man near Lake Village last fall, was taken up at Kentland Thursday. • The editor of the Thirty Cent Rensselaer Republican must be in a hard row of stumps in his defense of bridge grafters when he addresses letters to neighboring newspapers to help him out in his fight, or at least remain neutral. Dear, dear, how Thirty Cents does take, this little thing to heart. He must be afraid he will lose his county printing job, or the commissioners' “friendship.” It is the duty of every newspaper to fight graft, no matter where it is found, and this defense of graft by newspapers because there is some little work held out as sop is responsible for much of it. It is the duty of the paper to hit graft in every shape, but this is not the way with Thirty Cents. —Brook Reporter.