Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1910 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

~”"~W "" ; » Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. Only two marriage licenses have been issued so far ‘his month. - New suits filed: No. 7260. W. H. Martin vs. Mary Joerg, et al; action to foreclose mortgage. Demand $2,000. Marriage licenses issued: July 9, Cloyd C. Cliffton of Fair Oaks’, aged 23, occupation farming, to Cordelia M. Umphrees, also of Fair Oaks, aged 19, occupation housekeeper. Second marriage for male, first wife having died in January, 1906; first marriage for female. ■ Cass county seems to be entitled to the bun on having had the crookedest set of township trustees in Indiana. As a result of the examination made there by the field examiners under the new accounting law, nine trustees are accused of ~, shortages aggregating $14,539. The examiners file with their port to the state accounting board letters from business firms denying that they ever sold the trustees the goods alleged to have been purchased or signed the vouchers for the money the trustees allege to have paid for the goods. One trustee paid out large sums for maps and charts, but they are not in evidence. Another paid several hundred dollars for tile for “road purposes,” but the tile were not used on the roads, it is alleged, and the road supervisors know nothing about "them. A farm owned by the trustee, however, has been pretty thoroughly tiled, ■it is alleged. The examiners seem to have uncovered the rottenest sort of conditions there, and it is quite likely someone will go to the penitentiary as a result.