Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1911 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol —■— % ■ Attorney John Greve of W heatfield was down attending court yesterday. —o —• J The date for the Jackson tp., Newton county, stone road election has been re-set for Saturday, May 6. -—o — W r . F. Smith A Co., of Rensselaer secured the contract last week for the Jacks stone road in Monon tp., White county, for $5,753. OH—• Remonstrances are being circulated in Union tp., against the sale of intoxicating liquors in that township, and it is thought a majority of the voters names can be secured thereto. —O-w-Grover Ritchey was taken to the Longcliff asylum Sunday by Sheriff Hoover Wid Ritchey, Grover’s brother. The unfortu nate young man’s friends hope that he may recover after a few months treatment. —o —• Chauncey Smith of Goodland, who was the unsucessful one of the three applicants for saloon license at Goodland last week, has apepaled to the circuit court. Goodland was entitled to but two saloons under the limit fixed by the county commissioners, and there were three applicants for license.

O ..... . The Lake county commissioners will have an interesting session next month, when over 200 renewals of licenses will come up from Gary alone. As most of the saloon keepers there are foreigners and will be unable to meet the requirements of the new liquor regulation law it is believed at least one-half of the applications will be turned down. —o—• Court item in Kentland Democrat: The Trust and Savings Bank of Rensselaer, vs. Edward V. Ransford. sui* on note, tried Monday, and judgment rendered for $144, as principal and interest, $25 for attorneys fees, and the costs in the case, to which ruling the. defendant excepted and filed a motion for a new trial; motion was overruled and defendant prayed an appeal to the Appellate court which was granted and defendant’s bond for $300.00 was approved, and a cash tender of $145.00 paid into the Jasper circuit court was refunded to him. —o — The Republican says it will not cost Wheatfield tp.„ to exceed S2O to hold its option election. This is about as near the truth as the graft defender ever comes. It will cost between SSO and SIOO in actual money besides the fact that every voter who goes to the polls to vote must lose the time necessary to go to vote, quite an item in the aggregate, all of which could have been saved and the town remained “dry” by the county attorney and commissioners construing the law to mean what it says—that but one license to each 1,000 population can be granted.