Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1911 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol The Delehanty ditch in Wheatfield tp., was let Friday to H. \\ . Marble at 9.35 cents per cubic yard. New suits filed: No. 7733. The Provident Life and Trust Co., vs. Edward B. Chapman, et al.; action to foreclose mortgage. Demand $1,500. Former court reporter, Harry E. Folk, was down from Hammond Saturday getting notes for use in the transcript of the Pancoast ditch, which he is preparing for the appellants. In view of Judge Hanley’s decision in a similar case in Newton county, Jasper will have one oasis in her borders, and the application for license from Wheatfield will, no doubt, be granted by the Jasper county commissioners at their June session. Marriage licenses issued: May 13, Lewis Nichols of Rensselaer, aged 32, occupation confectioner, to Carrie Della Aldrich, also of Rensselaer, aged 29 years, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. Married at M. E. parsonage Sunday afternoon by Rev. C. L. Harper. Judge Hanley is learning to handle a new Reo touring car this week, purchased at Indianapolis Saturday. A. Leopold and A. F. Long have also each contracted for a touring car, the former for an E-M-F and the latter for an Overland, but it will be a couple of weeks perhaps before they can get them, the factories being again behind in orders. Sheriff Hoover had ‘ another boarder over Sunday, Adolf Roy of near Goodland, who has been pronounced insane and was brought here for safe-keeping while awaiting a reply to the application for his Reception at Longcliff. He has little the appearance of an insane man, and the sheriff allowed the man to accompany him about the streets rather than confine him in a cell. Yesterday morning he was taken to Remington where the Newton county officers took him to Longcliff.

The state case against Chas. G. Mauzy, former big republican chief of Benton county, charged with graft in the working out of railroad road tax in Newton county, is set for trial in the Newton circuit court next Monday. The two boot-legging cases against Hank Granger of Thayer are set for Tuesday, and the cases against Albert E. Kirk of Rensselaer for alleged illegal sales of liquor while conducting a drug store at Parr, are set for Wednesday. * We understand that trustee Cheadle of the Parker estate will contest the judgment rendered in the Fountain Park case in regard to the ownership of the buildings on the Park grounds. The trustee has already ordered a transcript of the evidence in the case and in due time will file a motion to set aside the judgment of the Jasper circuit court. We also understand that the trustee will bring an action against the Park Company to recover an indebtedness against it, and in favor of the Bank of Remington in the sum of about $2,500. This amount is alleged to be due the bank when the bank made its assignment.—Remington Press.