Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1910 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. I Monday is the regular time for the county commissioners to meet in monthly session, but it is not likely they will meet unjtil Tuesday* on account of the 14th. . I The county board of education I met in monthly session yesterday. Monday’ was the regular day for ! meeting, but on account of the 1 4th they decided last month to • hold the Julv meeting ©n Friday, Juiyi. pMarriage licenses issued : June 39, Henry Hermon Glissman of iKoutz, Ind., aged 23, occupation farming, to Barbara Marie Misch, daughter of John Misch of Wheatfield, aged 22, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for teach. - , ? —o- - | Sixteen marriage licenses were I issued last month, against five for the month previous and five for the same month 1908. This does not include the half license issued to 16-year-old Harry Frame, of Demotte, which application for the female has not been returned as yet, the girl being ill and unable to come to the hub.

The picnic of the Indiana Society of Chicago at George Ade’s country home near Brook last Saturday, seems to have been a sort of republican love feast. Fair banks, Watson, Beveridge, Shank, Durbin, Foulke, et al. were there, according to newspaper accounts, but if any democrat was invjted to the blowout will he please stand up. s —o—■ One of the closing chapters to the fake oil boom in Jasper county was read Monday when Master in Chancery Daniels of Indianapolis, disposed of the property of the American and Lubric Refining Co., and* the Crescent Oil and Asphalt Co., on judgments in the federal court aggregating $206,202.78. Charles Boudy of Brooklyn, N. Y., representing the creditors, bought the 690 acres of land owned by the two companies in Gillam and Walker townships for $15,000, and .J. C. Vannata, a Brookston banker, bought the personal property, machinery, etc., for 51,600. Thus ends the oil bubble in Jasper, which never had much of any real grease behind it and was boomed simply Ito relieve eastern suckers of their money. The Democrat never had any confidence in this “oil field” and its conscience is dear in the matter. It told the truth about it from the start, and none of he promotors’ money is j sticking to its fingers.

Following is a report of the work of the County Board of Review, which ended its annual session Saturday: Assessment of Simon Cohen on merchandise in town of Remington reduced from 13.000 to $1,200. Assessment of J. J.- Porter on barn in town of H&mington reduced from $l5O to SIOO. Assessment of H. W. Jackson on cattle tn Marion township, reduced from 7365 to $3lO. All banks in county assessed at 70 per cent of capitol stock, surplus ! and undivided profits, as follows: First Nat. Bank, Rens... $51,364.53 Trust & Sav. Bank, Rens. 21,762.71 State Bank, Rensselaer. . 30,197.95 State Bank, Remington. . 19,396.35 Bank of Wheatfield..... 9.100.00 V ■ I Assessment on cattle of CL D. Shook. Keener township, raised from $3,190 to $3,915. Matter of Tile Mill improvements of Samuel' Bowman, Remington; complaint dismissed for want of jur- • isdiction. A. L. Jensen of Wheatfield appears before board and shows that the Oakland auto assessed to H. W. Marble was not purchased until about March 15, and assessment was stricken off. ■' Assessment on White Steamer reduced from SSOO to S2OO, and Cadillac runabout from $75 to SSO. Additional improvements of J. J. Hunt in Gillam township reduced from s9<t to $759. 8. P. Thompson estate allowed a reduction in personal assessments in Rcnsaelarr of $571.97.

«.All. mortgage exemptions allowed except Elizabeth ’Troxell,' Mary C. Mason. Joseph A. Harris, Anna Swartz, Nettie Hoover, Rebecca E. Postel. Jacob R. and Ellen Hazen and John F. Barnard.