Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1911 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol New suits filed: No. 7173. John Finn vs. Winifred Finn, et al.; suit to re-tax costs. Mrs. Rufus Knox of Chicago is here for a week or ten days assisting at her old place in the auditor’s office, making new transfer books. The chicken stealing casea gainst Day and Hubbard of near Lee, venued from this county to Newton, is set for trial in the Newton circuit court for Monday, March 27. The defendants are still in jail here. Owing to the omission by the printer of the specifications in the Jackson tp., proposed stone roads, we are told that the election called for April 1 will not take place on that date. To legalize the proceedings the notice will have to be re-published.

The Fowler Republican and the White County Democrat just won’t become reconciled to the work of the recent legislature, and the editors of both papers are determined to see no good in the city and township option law or the Proctor liquor regulation measure. Jerry Allred of Gfllam tp., was in the city on business Thursday. He informed us that C. F. Tijlett, the juror who went home sick from here recently, and was later in a very critical condition from pneumonia, was reported better and will recover unless something unforseen arises. Under the new congressional apportionment law Lawrence county is taken out of the second district and added to the third district; Morgan county out of the fifth district and add(|l to the second; Decatur [county out of the sixth and added to the fourth; Laporte out of the tenth (our own district) and added to the thirteenth; while Pulaski county is taken out of the thirteenth and added to the eleventh district. licenses issued: Mch. 'ls, Francis Fleat Lakin, son of Francis M. Lakin of Union tp., aged 25, occupation farmer, to Margaret Minnie Kullas, daughter of Ferdinand Kullas, also of Union, aged 25, occupation stenographer. First marriage for each. ■ Miarch 15, James D. Babcock of Bluffton, aged 63, occupation farmer, to Eunice R. Adamson of Rensselaer, aged 49, occupation housekeeper. Second marriage for male, first wife having died Nov. 18, 1892; first marriage for female. Married by Rev. J. C. Parrett, at the Presbyterian manse. 'dl 6317 Hermitage avenue, Chicago, aged 22, ocupation fireman, to Mildred Era Halleck, daughter of Abraham Halleckyof Rensselaer, aged 21, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. Marriage ceremony performed by Rev. Harper at the home of the bride’s parents on Front street, Thursday evening.