Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1911 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

items Picked Up About the County Capitol The marriage license business has been quite brisk since the holidays, seven licenses having been issued so far this month. —o — Sheriff Hoover had a couple of ho-, bo lodgers Thursday night, pickedj up by the nightwatch and started on their way to the “Windy City” with full stomachs yesterday morning. > f*AJarriage licensesTssued: Jan. 10, G. Layman of Remington, aged 28, occupation farmer, to Coriene Roy, also of Remington, aged 28, occupation dressmaker. First .marriage for each. S/Jan. 10, Dennis Patrick Healey of Parr, aged 23, occupation farmer, to Minnie Henrietta Makus, daughter of August Makus, of Parr, aged 22, occupation housekeeper; First marriage for each.

vr—While we do not wish to appear impertinent, will the Republican; please inform an anxious public just when those suits are to be instituted to recover from the Winamac Bridge Co., the amounts it has swindled the taxpayers of Jasper county out of on its contracts here? In an eleventh hour confession just before the election the Republican thought such action should be taken, but it has been conspicuously silent on the subject ever since. W. H. Parkinson returned Tuesday night from Valparaiso, where he had been on matters connected with the Lewin attachment case. The parties attempted to compromise; but could not agree and the matter will be threshed out in court. In the meantime the horses held here by Sheriff Hoover are eating their heads off, and when the case is finally adjudicated it will very likely be found as usual that the lawyers are the only winners. —o —■ Attorney W. H. Parkinson received notice yesterday from the appellate court that the case of the C. & E. I. Ry. vs. Coon, appealed by the railroad company from the Newton circuit court, had been affirmed. Mr. Parkinson and Frank Davis of Brook took this personal injury case on a contingent fee and recovered judgment for SI,BOO. The railroad company appealed with the above result. Together with interest the attorneys will get about SSOO apiece out of the judgment. New suits filed: No. 7691. BurtHaywood Co. vs. Board of Commissioners of Jasper county; action to cancel stationery contract recently awarded to Levy Bros, of Indianapolis, alleging that the bid of that firm did not conform with the law relating to the letting of public contracts in various ways, and that the Burt-Haywood bid was the only legal bid on file in this particular class of wprk. No. 7692. Louis Paulsen vs. William M. Turner; action in attachment. Demand $l5O.

No. 7693. Edna I. Powell vs. Eva Greenlee; suit on notes. Complaint in two paragraphs, first on note for S4OO given Sept. 22, 1910, and due Nov. 1, 1910, demand S4OO, and .second paragraph on note given same date for $350, due Jan. 10, 1911, demand $350. These are the notes given by defendant for the purchase of the Nowels House furnishings, and a suit by the present defendant to recover possession of the notes was dismissed by order of the court at bast term, the court holding that such ' suit would not lie; that the claims of Mrs. Greenlee of misrepresentations, etc., must be brought up when collection of the notes was attempted. —O— In the detailed report of the State Accounting Board the cost of examining the township and municipal and school offices in Jasper county was $1,190.43. and as a result of the examinations there was found a total of in direct charges against former officers, of which $1,017.56 has already been recovered back to the respective treasuries. As every officer found deling quent W’as a republican the opposition of the Rensselaer Republican. to the accounting law—and the Republican, it should be ‘remembered, draws its inspiration from Abe Halleck —is hot at all strange. Now The Democrat wants to see a little

more work done in Jasper county under this law, and that is a full and complete examination made of the county offices. The examination made a couple of years ago by J. B. Workman, et al. was unsatisfactory to officers and people alike, and we believe an examination by ’the accounting board’s field examiners would at least result in satisfying everyone, no matter what their anding might be.