Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1911 — BECKER AND KOPELKE [ARTICLE]

BECKER AND KOPELKE

Appointed New Superior Court Judges In Lake County. City Mayor Lawrence Becker of Hammond and Johnnes Kopelke of Crown Point have been appointed Judges for the Superior

court, under > the Van Horne superior court bill which was recently passed by the legislature. Mayor Becker is serving his third term as mayor of Hammond, and his present term would not expire until 1914. He will be succeeded as mayor by John D. Smalley, city comtrollef. Johannes Kopelke is a weH known Crown Point lawyer and served one term, as state senator. He is an able man and will make an excellent judge, as will Becker. Both men are democrats and they will be the first democrat judges Lake county has ever hai. Their appointment will last un§ 1913. , I