Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1910 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

items Picked Up About the County Capitol. Commissioners’ court meets in regular session Monday. —o— New suits filedr No. 7666. Albert Duggins vs. Mary Potts, et al;' suit on note. Demand $l5O, Sheriff Shirer, accompanied by Marshal Mustard and Harry Wiltshire, took “Shorty.” Adams to jLongcliff Wednesday. They had him shackled and experienced no particular trouble with him, PMarriage licenses issued: Nov. j, Homer E. Turner, of Wheatfield, aged 19, occupation barber, to (Merle May,Myers, daughter of 1 John V. Myers, also of Wheatfield, aged 21, occupation housekeeper. Father of groom, W. M. Turner, files written con cent to issuance of license.

Owing to the election Tuesday and the fact that most or all the township trustees are inspectors and will be busy Monday getting the polls in readiness, the county board of education will not hold its regular monthly meeting until Wednesday, Nov. 9, instead of oMnday, as heretofore. ■ O*— The county commissioners held a special session and appointed election inspectors in plsfce of the trustees in Barkley, Kankakee, Walker and Newton, who were qualified. Charles Reed was appointed in Barkley, West; Wm. DeArmond in Kankakee; Wm. Middlecamp in Walker and Sidney Holmes in Newton. —o—• R gardlng the allowances ma te to fie count) surveyor on ac- Hint of the recent “imprcven it” to the Burk’s b'idge, in v ich a duplication of charges f- measuring the bridge had apparently been made, as mentioned in Wednesday’s Democrat, Mr. Osborne tells us that one of these $4 charges was for “help and team” and the other $4 —in another bill—-was for his own services. The claims were filed in two separate bills, and the allowances made from different funds, he says, hence their being filed separately. There was no mistake made nor no duplication of the bills. We make the correction cheerfully, as we have no desire whatever to misrepresent facts. The bridge lies four miles north of Rensselaer, and the $4 for help and team, Mr. Osborne says he paid out himself and was re-imbursed by the county. He did not state who it was that he paid this money to or how long it took to measure the bridge.

The various election inspectors for the 20 election precincts in Jasper county will come in today for the ballots and supplies for their respective precincts. In making returns to the election commissioners, who under the present law canvass the vote, it is the duty of the inspectors to start at once for the' county seat as soon as the count of their respective precinct is completed and the returns filled out, with the returns of their precinct. The election commissioners or canvassers, will be in continuous session at the court house from six o’clock Tuesday night until the returns are all in and canvassed, which, will mean an all night’s session. This board in our county is composed of the clerk of the circuit court, C. C. Warner, J. H. S. Ellis ,and F. E. Babcock, the two latter appointed by the republican and democratic county chairmen, respectively. Under the present election law no ballots are destroyed, either the mutilated, disputed, voted or unvoted ones. The inspector should seal up in the proper envelopes furnished for that purpose, all ballots on the closing of the count by his board and bring them in with his returns and turn over to the county clerk. Township ballots and township returns are certified to the township trustee, and should not be brought in with the state and county reurns.