Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1912 — COURT HUUSE NEWS IN GRIEF [ARTICLE]

COURT HUUSE NEWS IN GRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs tram the Various Departments

OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL The Legal News Epitomized—Together with Other Notes Gathered from (he Several County Offices. New suits filed: No. 7933. John Pinter vs. U. H. Cottingham and Samuel Ritchie; suit on note. Demand sllO. . —o— ■ The divorce case of Clyde Ulrey of Broow. vs. Mrs. Linnie Lewis Ulrey. pending in the Newton circuit court and taken under advisement by Judge Hanley last week, has been decided in plaintiff s favor and the decree granted him. —o— Marriage licenses issued: October 18. Henry Delbert Drake of Wheatfield. aged 26, occupation farmer, to Arminia Ruth Cox, also of Wheatfield. aged 17, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. Mother of female filing written consent to issuance of license.

The former George A. Strickfaden property on South Cullen street, at present occupied by Mr. West, has been purchased of E. L. Hollingsworth by T. M. Callahan; who expects to move from the Robert Michael property, which he now occupies, into same in about six weeks. The consideration is understood to have been $3,000. —o— Miss Lennie Grant, who has been employed for several years as deputy in the Recorder's office has resigned and it is understood she will be married very shortly to Joseph O’Connor of Hammond, a son of exsheriff John O’Connor of Kniman.' Miss Agnes Platt has taken the position made vacant by Miss Grant’s 1 resignation. —O— Rev. W. H. Groendyke, the Starke county Hollander who 'was honestly and fairly defeated for the democratic nomination for state senator recently and was so sore over it that he has since been howling about over the district trying to defeat Chester A. McCormick, to whom the nomination went, has filed his petition—— signed by all Starke county men, so the petition states —to get his name on the ballot as an independent candidate for senator. In conversation with a prominent Starke county gentleman recently, this gent’eman said that he didn’t know of out one vote

he would get in Starke county, and that was Groendyke’s Monday a prominent While county democrat offered to guess us that he wouldn’t get a solitary vote in White. He may perhaps get a few Holland votes in Keener township in Jasper county, and perhaps a few in Newton, but it doesn’t look as though the canvassing boards would be to any considerable extent overworked in counting his ■vote" any place.