Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 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. Judge Hanley is enjoying a few days vacation from the Newton circuit court. Judge Wason is sitting a few days in cases where the! regular judge is disqualified, and' Judge Hanley will not go over un- ! til Friday. New suits filed: No. 7873. A. S. Keen, adm. of estate of Caroline' Jackson, vs. game; claim of funeral expenses of S6O. No. 7874. George M. Kime vs. John D. Miller, et al.; action on landlord’s lein, or conversion. . Demand $270.50.

Sheriff Hoover and little daughter Irene, Mrs. Wm. M. Hoover and Mrs. F. E. Babcock visited the former’s . wife in the West Side hosi pital, Chicago, Sunday. She is getting along the finest kind from her : recent operation and will probably be brought home in about a week. —o— Mrs. W. H. Kenoyer, formerly of Kentland where her husband served two terms as cf.erk of the Newton circuit court’, committed suicide at ■ her home in Benton Harbor, Mich., last Wednesday according to the Kentland Democrat, and the body i was shipped to Morocco where burial was made Friday. ?so particulars were given. A daughter pf : Mrs. Kenoyer . recently committed I suicide also at her home in Streator Hl. - —o— . A dispatch from Logansport says of the arrest of Henry D. Vance, the real estate trader here last week, mention of which was made in Saturday’s Democrat: Henry u. I I ance, a real estate dealer, has I been arrested on a bench warrant charging perjury and is in the i county jail. , Vance sold a piece jof property to George B. Forgey, another real estate man, and it is charged that he made an affidavit that there was no incumbrance except a certain mortgage. Later it developed that there is a ditch Men against the property.

The Democrat is indeed to County Assessor Lewis for the following figures compiled from the returns of the township assessors, showing loss and gain in personal property assessments for the year 1912: » , ■' : ‘ q Gain Loss Barkley $54,630 Carpenter 47,590 Gillam 31,965 Hanging Grove . . 25,830 Jordan 44,185 Kankakee 5,115 \ i Keener 24,130 Marion 47,195 Milroy 13,485 Newton $9,330 Union . 27,450 Walker 51,820 Wheatfield 9,930 Rensselaer 11,760 Remington 52,714 Wheatfield, Town.. 14,540 Total .$450,585 $21,090

Marriage licenses issued: May 18, David Earl Cox of Parr, son of James C. Cox of Kankakee, 111., aged 21, occupation farmer, to Cora Effie Schultz, also of Parr, aged 23, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for male; second for female, she having been divorced from first husband May 2, 1912. Married by Squire Bruner at his office Another marriage license has been issued but the application has not been placed on record, to accommodate the parties who do not wish the matter made public at this time. As a matter of fact our marriage license laws are intended to make public the issuance of all licenses, by making the applications public records, and if persons do not want the pubWc to know that they are going to be married they should go to some

state where publicity is not compulsory. A clerk has no legal right to withhold from the public any marriage license issued by him, and applicants therefor should' not ask it. —o —. The appellate court Friday decided a case from Hendricks county, regarding a township trustees duties in furr. ishing transportation to school children from an abandoned school district that will be of general interest, and particularly here, where two cases are now pending iri the appellate court from Newton tp., involving some of the points decided in the Hendricks county case. The court held: (11 The statute specifically provides that a township trustee shall see that children are transported from discontinued school districts, pnd a contract for that purpose is binding on the township though no notice was given of the letting of the contract, no bids received and the advisory board was not present or participating. (2) The reason contracts for school supplies, etc., are void without certain formalities is by reason of statute making them void. The statute does not include contracts for hauling children. (3 ) The fact that the school district .was so long since discontinued that the present pupils were then under school ages or since born does not affect the trustee’s power. (4) Cause is reversed with orders to restate conclusions of law and enter judgment for appellant.