Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 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. Marriage licenses issued: Nov. 8, Charles Manford Gallaher of Seafield, aged . 24, occupation farmer, to Elsie Leota Beaver of Jordan tp., aged 19, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for e^ch. William Fitzgerald has filed a i plat of “Fitzgerald’s Oak Grove Park,” a tract- of 7.68 acres, which lies on the Kankakee river in Kankakee tp., near I. D. Dunn’s platted resort. While both are very pleasantly located resorts, we’ll bet a nickle that the Burrows resort, across the river in Porter county, coins more money than both of them. New suits filed: No. 7794. Harvey Lucas vs, Lela G. Lucas; action for divorce. This is the re-filing of a case filed last November, and was later dismissed. The parties were married Sept. 15, 1910, and separated Sept. 29 of the same year, the complaint alleges, defendant leaving plaintiff while he lay sick with typhoid fever; that plaintiff was but 19 years old when he married defendant, who falsely claimed to be in a delicate condition and unless he married her she would have him l arrested; that defendant was 24 years of age, and that she almost immediately after leaving plaintiff frequented wine rooms, associated with immoral men and women, dtc. No. 7795, Rosa Klaus vs. Jacob Klaus; action for divorce. The parties live in Carpenter tp., and were married May 16, 1906, and about a year ago, according to the complaint, defendant abandoned plaintiff; that since their marriage they had lived with plaintiff’s mother, defendant at all tim£4 failing to make any reasonable provision for plaintiff or his family, although frequently importuned by plaintiff to furnish her and their two children with a home and make provision for their support, but he has on each occasion failed and refused to do so. - While a strong man and in good health, well able to earn money for himself and family, he is shiftless and indolent, living off the bounty of his own parents and loafing about . the pool rooms and other places about Remington, the plaintiff alleges. Defendant is also charged with drinking considerably, though not a drunkard, and on divers occasions has threatened to kill plaintiff; that he is extremely jealous of plaintiff and has shadowed her about the towP. A divorce and custody of the two children is asked for.