Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1912 — 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. With the 350 Rensselaer republicans only taking the auditor, clerk, recorder, sheriff, surveyor and coroner, why should the 1,800 republicans in the thirteen townships of the county kick when they get the treasurer, assessor and two commissioner? What do 'hey wan;, pray? 1 Marriage licenses issued: Meh. 18, Morris Roy Walker of Rensselaer, aged 17, son of Edwin occupation laborer, to Ruby Fay Huffman, daughter of Wm. Huffman, also of Rensselaer, aged 18, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. Father of male consents to issuance of license. —o—• It is said that one of the recent “wolf” scalps from up north, the pelt of which was sold to B. 8. Fendig for $3 after the county had paid $lO bounty on the scalp, was sent to a Chicago fur dealer who pronounced it a yellow dog hide, and only offered Ben 25 cento for it. Another Chicago dealer corroborated the first dealer's diagnosis of the pelt. New suits filed: No. 7843. Daniel W. Waymire vs. Bank of Wheatfield; this is a re-filing of a former case (No. .7810, filed Dec. 20, 1911) wherein the t above named bank and A. C. Robinson of Rensselaer were both made defendants, and grows out of a check given by Robinson for Waymire's interest in the hay business conducted by Robinson & Waymire in the north; part of the county, for the alleged;

' sum, as agreed upon in a written contract, of S3OO, but, the, complaint alleges,, while Robinson put the figures S3OO in the check, the written amount read "Three - dollars.” The bank refused to pay the check, because of this omission, it is alleged, and plaintiff has never received any part of same. According to figures made public by the board of state charities, Tippecanoe and Ohio counties, of all the counties of the state, present the extremes in the ratio of inmates of public institutions to the ten thousand population. Tippecanoe is highest and Ohio the lowest. The former has 16.7 in penal and correctional institutions; 19.9 in hospitals for the insane; 5.2 feeble minded and epileptic; .5 in tuberculosis hospital; 29.7 in soldiers and sailors’ orphan asylums; 2.5 In deaf and blind schools; 3.0 In jails and infirmaries; 19.2 in dependent I children; 10.0 in state and county institutions. Ohio has 2.3 per cent In penal and correctional; 9.3 in insane hospitals; none in feeble minded and epileptic, tuberculosis hospital, deaf and blind, jails and infirmaries or state and county institutions; 4.6 in soldiers and sailors’ orphan homes; 6.9 in dependent children. The total fbr Tippecanoe is 105.8, and that of Ohio Is 23.1. __ ' 1 The per eent in hospitals for the insane, in the state, is 17.6, and a comparison of Jasper and neighbor- ' Ing counties is interesting: Our ' per cent in sane hospitals is 19.5; county is 11.0; Newton x ' Porter 21.4; Pulaski, 12.8; S' r.. 18.0; White 16.5. ?