Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1912 — COURTHOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

COURTHOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs from the Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL . r The Legal News Epitomized—Together with Other Notes Gathere<l from the Several County Offices. Sheriff Hoover wau in Wheat field on business Thursday. Attorney Daniel Frazer of Fowler was in the city Wednesday on legal business. .V The grand jury will be in today to finish up its work, and the petit jury will be in Monday. C. C. Warner wau in Indianapolis Tuesday to attend the meeting of the republican county chairmen. Abstract and complaint back? for sale at The Democrat office. Don’t use “any old thinig,” but get a supply of backs that will give tone to your abstracts and pleadings. Mose Sigo and Wm. Broadie, two of the registration inspectors appointed for Carpenter tp., were over yesterday after their registration supplies. Thursday, May 9, ,is the date of the first registratio||§|ay.

William Lewellen of Brook, who had been confined in jail here for several days pending his acceptance at Longcliff, was taken to Remington Wednesday morning where the Newton county officers took him in charge and conducted hrm to the asylum. Lewellen probably needs' to let booze alone more than anything else,and it may be that a few months sojourn in the “dry” atmosphere of Longcliff will have a good effect on his abnormal appetite for strong drink.

New suits filed: No. 7861. Ed Oliver vs. Benjamin H. Knapp; suit on note. Demand $250. No. 7862. Max Weller vs. M. O. Foster and Anna M. Foster; action to foreclose mortgage. Demand SI,OOO, interest and cotts. No. 7863. Charles W. Hickman vs. Roy Donnelly; suit on note. Demand S2OO. No. 7864. State, ex rel Ray Day vs. John Mitch, et al.; transcript from Lake county. No. 7865. McNeil-Higgins Co. vs. L. P. Larson; suit on account. Demand $l5O.

No. 7866. Cora Schultz vs. John G. Schultz; action for • divorce. The complaint alleges that the parties were married Nov. 8, 1903, and separated in October, 1910, when defendant is alleged to have abandoned plaintiff and went to South Dakota, without providing any means for plaintiff's support or that erf her infant child, except that he sent her on one occasion $lO. One child, a son aged 7 years, is the fruits of the union, which plaintiff asks the custody of and an allowance for its support.