Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 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. " Attorneys Honan and Williams were in Monticello yesterday on legal business. —O— Attorneys John A. Dunlap and A. Halleck were in Kouts Monday on legal business. —o—• . Henry Misch, Wm. Grube and Christopher Salrin were among the people from the north end of the county down on business Monday. —-p —• Appellate court note: No. 8283. First National Bank of Rensselaer vs. Margaret Ransford, Jasper C. C. Appellant petitions for time, which is granted to August 1, 1912. —o —■ Charles Odom, Thomas Logan and several others from Gillam were down yesterday looking up their assessments in the Ryan ditch. The time for filing remonstrances will be up tomorrow, Thursday. May 10. Only a very few remonstrances, had been filed up to yesterday noon.

—o—. Marriage licenses issued: May 10, Frank Clark MtColly, son of James C. McColly of Virgie, aged 24, occupation carpenter, to Lizzie May Davis, daughter Of Thomas Dazis of Kniman, aged 17, occupation housekeeper. Mother of bride gives consent to issuance of license. First marriage for each. —o— '■ The Democrat was mistaken about Joe Nagel haying returned from St. Elizabeth’s hospital in Lafayette, where he has been for the past month being treated for pleurisy. He is still in Lafayette and it is not known just when he will be able to return home. Mrs. Nagel returned from there Monday afternoon and says his condition is now improving and the doctors think he will get along all right.

Kentland Enterprise: The Commissioners at their May .meeting Monday passed a resolution concurring in an action to build a new bridge across the Kankakee river north of Lake Village. Ray Seeley was directed to make a survey of the premises and draw plans for the bridge, and will report at a joint meeting of the commissioners of ■Newton and Lake counties to be held at Schneider May 17. John Reisch, a ditcher, slopped up too much suds Saturday and was unable to navigate gracefully under the burden. Yea, he became so hilarious from the imbibed flz water that he was taken under the arm of Marshal Mustard and piloted to Justice Bruner, who assessed him 15 and costs for drunkenness and public disturbance. He was found to be entirely destitute id the financial line and consequently is enjoying the luxury of the county jail as a guest of Sheriff Hoover.

—o— Samuel Boyd an inmate of the poor asylum since October, 1904, died at 2 a. m., yesterday and will be buried today. He used to live years ago with Fred Waymire’s father in Jordan tp., later living with Fred, from whose place he was taken to the poor farm. It is not definitely known what his age was, but he claimed, to be over 100, and the records at the poor farm state that he was past 90 when received there. He had a cancer on his 'face and has been in poor health for a long time. —6— One of the indictments returned by the recent grand jury was against Bruce Hardy of Rensselaer for forging a Check on his employers, Barkley Bros., a fact generally known or, believed rather, as Hardy left town while the investigation was going on and no arrest of course ■ was made. Last Friday he return-

ed and gave himself up and was released on bond. The case will come up at the September term of court It is reported that Hardy also forged some checks on Crouch Bros, of Lafayette, for whom he wirked up to a few months ago, but on- the amounts being made good they did not care to prosecute. It is said that there is a possibility of the prosecution here teing dropped if Hardy will support his wife and children, whom he had practically abandoned and who were taken home by her father, Scott Brenner of Mt. Ayr, a few months ago. The amount of the forgery here is reported to have made good by his bnother-in-ia v. Kenton Parkison of Barkley tp. The check was given to H. W; Kiplinger.