Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1911 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol

The Jasper County Farmers’ Institute will be held this year in Rensselaer on Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 20, 21. E. C. Martindale of Wilkinson, iQd., will be the principal speaker. Complete program later. New suits filed: No. 7698. William P. Baker vs. Frank Osborne, superintendent of the Tilden J. Prouty ditch, et al.; action to enjoin collection of assessment on said ditch or placing same upon the tax duplicate. Ex-Sheriff O’Connor was down from Kniman yesterday, on his way home, rather, from a business trip to Chicago. He informs us that the Springer lands in Walker are all rented and that a new house is to be built on one of the farms. “Sinator” Halleck has introduced another bill in the state senate. This one provides for the keeping of Decoration day sacred, prohibiting sports, etc., on that day. Whether checker and card playing are included in the prohibited sports we are unable to state. Under the county option law Jasper county voted “dry” May 1, 1909, and it will so remain until the expiration of two years from that date. It is likely, however, that there will be elections held in several townships under the new option law at the expiration of the “dry” period, but whether any will cause a change in the dry conditions we are unable to predict Representative~Rrown’s crow and hawk scalp bounty has passed the House with little opposition and promises to become a law. It is probably a very good thing, but we don’t see how the farmers are going to get any corn husked next fall do the work themselves. Every farmer boy will be out with a shotgun hunting crows along about that time, and until the last raven has bit the dust and the bounty on his scalp has been 'collected there will be mighty little attraction in the corn field for the average farmer boy of this vicinity. pMarriage licenses issued: Jan. 2f>, Delbert Raymond Alsou, son of Leland Alson of Wolcott, aged 26, occupation farmer, to Alberta Maria Dickinson, daughter of Albert H. Dickinson of Carpenter tp., occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. Married by Rev. Clarke at the Christian church par4—Jan. 26, William Milo Michaels «Jf Wheatfield, son of Joseph Michaels, deceased, aged 35, occupation farmer, to Helen Alberta Dook, also of Wheatfield, aged 28, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. Married by Squire Irwin in the clerk’s office.