Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1911 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol The drainage commissioners are working on their report on the extension of the Iroquois ditch, and expect to have same ready to file for the coming term of court. Prosecutor Longwell was over from Brook on business Monday. It is understood that a grand jury will be called here week of the February term of court, which convenes one week from Monday. Treasurer-elect A. A. Fell of Remington will file a petition with the legislature, asking to be relieved of the amount he lost in the Parker bank failure, some $1,425, while trustee of Carpenter tp., which the field examiners reported as due the township from him. The original grants of land by congress for public school purposes in the state aggregated 650,317 acres. Of this, all has been sold except 719.6 acres. The residue is distributed as follows: Jasper county, 240 acres; Newton county, 160 acres; Warren county, 11 acres; Vanderburg county, 308.6 acres. Officials of Vigo county have sent to William A. Dehority, chief of the state board of accounts, a memorial indorsing the work of the public accounting law and the board which has charge of its enforcement. All the officials of the county signed the document, which has been turned over to the Governor. o Monticello Journal: Omer Jackson, Deputy Attorney General, has been here yesterday and today, looking after unclaimed fees and other items that revert to the school fund. There were nearly S4OO in the Clerk’s office alone, some of which had been on the docket since 1879. State Tax Commissioner Matson was here Friday and talked to the township assessors. Ho made quite an interestifig talk and among other things said that as this was the year for re-assessing lands that they should be assessed at a higher figure than heretofore, when the average was sl9 per acre while in Jasper county some of our farms would now sell at SIOO to $l5O per acre. Trustee Kareh was down from Walker yesterday. He had been running a school wagon in the Zick and Norway districts, but the at-torney-general notified him that when a school had been abandoned a man moving into an abandoned school district (both of these had fbeen abandoned, the Zick school for seven years, and the other this year) he was not entitled to free transportation for his children. Mr. Karch, on receiving this ruling, stopped the wagon that was transporting the pupils.