Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1911 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol Attorney Jasper Guy was over from Remington yesterday taking record for abstract work. Miss Nellie Reish, for several years night operator and bookkeeper in the local telephone exchange, has succeeded Miss Alice Bates as deputy in the auditor’s office. '

pMarriage licenses issued: Jan. 2D, Carl Remm of Gillam tp., aged 28, occupation farmer, to Eva Finch, also of Gillam, aged 31, occupation housekeeper. Second marriage for male, first wife having died Jan. 14, 1910. First marriage for female. Ceremony performed by Squire Irwin. ■ ; -k,Jan. 21, Rufus B. Knox of Chlpcago, son of Thomas Knox of Rensselaer, aged 28, occupation pharmacist, to Alice M. Bates, daughter of N. S. Bates of Rensselaer, aged 27, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. Jan. 23, Ransom F. Castor of Shelby county, Ind., aged 35, occupation farmer, to Laura Alice Jenkins, daughter of Geo. M. of Barkley tp., aged 29, occupation housekeeper. Second marriage for each, first marriage of male having been dissolved by divorce in May, 1899, and' that of female by death Feb. 1, 1908. Married by Squire Irwin. —o —• The Democrat’s property rights in Rensselaer are about as great as those of the Republican, and it is always anxious to boost anything that will be of real benefit to this city or its people. It will not, however, back any scheme of tinhorn sports to relieve the people of their money without some value given in return. The Democrat did what it could to encourage the proposed Enfield road, which had local men of prominence, integrity, an some means behind it —except to urge Ghat subsidies be voted, and this it never will do for any roasl. The Enfield road was over a logical route and would have meant a good deal for Rensselaer had it been built. But evep with the excellent route proposed—-from Lafayette to Chicago through a section of country, much of which is without railroad facilities at present, and nqrth and south through Jasper county—and’ the business standing of the men behind the project, it was impossible to interest capital in the project.

RUFUS KNOX - ALICE BATES*. Mr. Rufus Knox, now of Chicago, and Miss Alice Bates, for several years deputy in the auditor’s office, were united in marriage at 2 p. m., Monday at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Bates, in Rensselaer, Rev. G. H. Clarke officiating. Only a few immediate friends and relatives of the contracting parties were present at the ceremony, and the young couple left on the afternoon train for Chicago, where the groom is engaged in the drug business, and where they will make their horn.

Mr. and Mrs. Knox are a popular young couple and they were given a good “send off” when they started to Chicago, a large number of their friends gathering ajt the station and showering them with rice and causing several handbills to be passed through the train, bearing' such legends as: “We’ve Just Been Married!” “The ‘Newlyweds’ Are On This Train!”- “Congratulate, the Bride and Groom!” and it is presumed that there was plenty of spice in their journey to Chicago. The best wishes of a host of friends go with Mr. and Mrs. Knox to their Chicago home.