Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1911 — COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs from the Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL The Legal News Epitomized— Together with Other Notes Gathered from the Several County Offices. Reynolds Journal: The temperance people of White county have retained Wm. Darroch of Kentland to represent them in the trial which was recently venued to that place. The report that the remonstrators had forfeited their rights by failing to file bond after the change of venue is without foundation. —o— Trustee Selmer was down from Gillam tp., Tuesday afternon. They have been having it pretty dry there, getting little or none of the rains we hau about Rensselaer. Wheat in Mr. Selmer’s neighborhood is a total failure and where it was not plowed up the farmers have turned their hogs into the fields to feed what little there was left from the ravages of the fly.

Our Wheatfield correspondent states that former township trustee S. D. Clark, who resigned his office last spring and went to Oklahoma with the intention 'of locating in that state, has returned with his family and again taken up his residence near Wheatfield. Mr. Clark has no doubt reached the conclusion that there are lots worse places than Jasper county. —<o Under an act of the last legislature every firm or corporation employing five or more persons, agriculture and domestic services excepted, must pay a license fee of one dollar annually to the State Bureau of Inspection, and failure so to do is punishable with a $25 fine. Persons concerned can obtain blanks and all necessary information from Elliott R. Hooton, Chief Inspector, Indianapolis, Ind.

—o — The three Gary cases remaining on the circuit court docket will never come to trial. This is the consensus of opinions expressed by local attorneys. After the dismal failures recorded in the other trials no judge could be secured to preside over any in which the state should be represented by pettifogging lawyers, and no self-respecting lawyer would permit himself to be inveigled into a prosecution which promises to result in as big a farce as the other attempts to strangle justice. Judge Hanley stood the travesty on justice as long as he could and then quit.—Valparaiso Messinger. _ . Oh— New suits filed: Mary Ellen Seibel vs. Edward Seibel; action for divorce. The complaint states that the parties were married in Rensselaer on March 9, 1901, and separated in April, 1909; that two children were born to them, Florence Edna, aged 9, and Eva Lucinda, aged 7, whom plaintiff demands the care and custody of. Cruel treatment failure to provide,, drunkenness, etc., is charged. Defendant is alleged to be a resident of Chicago Heights, 111., and is employed in the car yards at that city. Plaintiff’s maiden name was Mary Ellen CallNo. 7746. Dickinson Trust Co. vs. William Grossman, et al.; action to foreclose mortgage. Demand $1,700.