Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 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. Prosecutor Fred Longwell was over from Brook Friday to attend the stand-pat republican senatorial convention. He wiil be a candidate for re- nomination for prosecutor ne stated while here. Kentland Democrat: We understand that deputy sheriff Howard Myers, of Brook, while here Monday, whispered to some of his friend that he would like the democratic nomination for the office of sheriff. No known reasons why Howard would not make a good and dutiful officer in that capacity. The Indiana First Mortgage Lean Co. of Rensselaer, C. G. Spitler, John A. Dunlap and M. E. Graves, incorporators, filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state a few d4ys ago. Mr. Graves is the Bull Moose county chairman in Newcounty. The object of the new conlpany, which is capitalized- at STO',OOO, is to loan money on first mortgage security. George Kauffman of near Goodland, was arrested Saturday afternoon after engaging in a fight with G. E. Becker, propriteor of the depot butcher shop, in a quarrel over a pool game, "and was arraigned and fined $lO and costs, $14.40 in all, for assault and battery, and $1 and costs, $6.80 in all, for being drunk by Squire Bruner. Becker and his brcrther were both (done up by Kauffman, who, after breaking up a billiard cue ove- them, used nature’s weapons. New Suits filed: No. 7892. S. Herbert Moore vs. the Willys-Over-land Co. et al.; complaint alleges that a certain auto purchased from said company’s local agent in Sept. 1911, for $845, w’hich was represented to be new, was in fact an old or second-hand auto, that the engine was worn ,and defective, and that plaintiff has spent $l5O in repairing defective parts, wherein plaintiff demands $750 damages. No. 7893. Henry D. Vance vs. Jeremiah Dugan and H. L. Cohen; complaint for specific performance of contract Only one marriage license has been issued since July 20, but the clerk had another application Saturday which he had to turn down because the girl had not yet reached the age of 16 years and would not be of the age of consent until the 19th of November next. The wouldbe groom was Henry Drake of Wheatfield, aged 27, but the girl’s name was not learned. She was accompanied by her mother to give consent to the issuance of the license. The man took the matter very philosophically and got a hunter’s license instead. Ex-Treasurer Jesse D. Allman, has completed the loading of his household goods and .they were shipped Saturday to his hew home, in Ashland, Ore., near which place he has purchased a fruit farm. Mrs. Allman and the children ahd. be will leave here in a week or ten days for Oregon. Kenneth, who was a student at the Bowlder, Colo., college last year, has decided not to enter school this year. Mr. Allman’s enviable record as treasurer of the county and his honesty" in his dealings with his fellow men, secure for himself and family the wishes of unlimited success in his new home.