Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1910 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol The various township trustees will make their annual settlement with their advisory boards next .Tuesday.^ The county -commissioners will meet in regular session Monday, but the county board of education will not meet until Monday, Jan. 9. —o—Roselawn and Lincoln tp. r Newton county, will vote to-day on the proposition of a subsidy for Purtelle’s electric railroad scheme. New suits filed: No. 7685, John T. Biggs vs. George W. Fleming, et al.; action to quiet title. . No. 7686. Anna vs. Wm. H. Larabee, et al.; action to quiet title. £—.Marriage licenses issued: Dec. 27, VJohn P. Wals-tra, of Roselawn, aged 22, occupation farmer, to Anna Peterson, of Fair Oaks, aged 18, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. - Dec. 27, Edward Fawley, of Knox, aged 41, occupation laborer, to Mary Louisa Stowers, of Fair Oaks, aged 48, occupation housekeeper. Second marriage for each, first marriage of male having been dissolved bsr divorce Feb. 8, 1898, and that of female by death Nov. 9, 1910. With the beginning of the new year Jasper county will have three democratic officers, sheriff, one commissioner and one county councilman, the first time in many years at least that we have had three democratic county officers at the same time. The democrats have, ip yearS past and gone, occasionally got in one man on their ticket, but the four elected in November last, W. I. Hoover for sheriff and C. F. Stackhouse and Wm. Hershman for commissioners and A. G. Moore for councilman, wdre Jft twelye years.

Mr. Hershman does not take his office until Jan. 1, 1912, after which we will have four democratic county officers.

The democrats have had three democratic auditors, all years ago— Henry Barkley, Ira W. Yeoman and Ezra Nowels. Wm. M. Hoover, father of the sheriff-elect, also served one term as treasurer, being defeated for re-election in 1886 by the late I. D. Washburn. In 1892 J. J. Hunt was elected recorder, and served four years, from Nov. 21, 1892, to Nov. 23, 1896. His name appeared on both the democratic and People’s Party'tickets, and as a result of this endorsement by the People’s Party, the republicans were given a cioseTa'ce~~aTT down the line. In the clerk’s office Charles H. Price, now deceased, brother of former county surveyor M. B. Price, was' elected clerk by the democrats back in. the seventies and served two terms, going out of office in 1882. . John F. Major was elected clerk by the democrats in 1898 and served one term, declining to be a candidate for re-election. A little more effort at that time would have elected almost the entire democratic ticket, there being a large number of stay-at-homes that year. Until the recent election no other democrats were got in, and MrHoover will enjoy the distinction of being the first democratic sheriff Jasper county has ever had.