Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1910 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. Ex-township trustee A. A. Fell of Carpenter tp., was a Rensselaer visitor Mtondav. Seven marriage licenses were issued last month, against 16 for the month previous and 6 for Julv 1909. The stone road election in Keener tp., last Saturday carried in favor of the road bv a vote of 103 to 26. Miss Stella Hiel of Wheatfield returned home Monday after a few days visit with Sheriff Shirer and family. C. G. Spitler was up at Kankakee Friday and bit off a 421acre tract of the Gifford land in Barkley tp., paying S3O per acre therefor. Irwin Lewis of Barkley tp., was arraigned before Squire Irwin Monday on complaint of Jits* wife, who charged (him with assault and battery in a quarrel the couple had Sunday, when she left him and has since applied for a divorce. The case was coi.tinued until to-day. i Marriage licenses issued: July \ Frank Marshall of Kersey, aged 21, occupation railroad fireman, to Flossie Stroup, daughter of Wm. W. Stroup, also of Kersey, aged 17, occupation housekeeper, mother giving consent to marriage. First marriage for eacfo. Knot tied by Squire Irwin at Clerk’s office. • The county commissioners did little Monday except allow claims, and were still in session, yesterday. No bids were received for the repair of Burke’s bridge. The Attica Bridge Co., got contract for repairing bridges in Milroy tp.. and the Shirley Hill Coal Co., the coal contract for heating plant. A full report of tjie proceedings will fie given in Saturday’s Democrat. —Q — New suits filed: No. 7625. Grace M. Lewis vs. Irwin Lewis: action for divorce.

The parties to the above cause reside in Barkley tp., and the complaint alleges they were married April 6, 1910, and separated July 31, 1910. The complaint charges cruel and inhuman treatment. calling plaintiff vile and abusive names, accusing her of being intimate with his father, made her cut the w r ood used, refused to buy her shoes, etc., kicked, choked and struck plain tiff at different times, although she is in delicate health. Defendant is asked to be enjoined from disposing of his personal property’ and crops until final 'determination of this cause. PlaintifFs maiden name was Markin.