Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1914 — 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. Attorney E. P. Honan was in Kentland Thursday looking after cases in court. ♦Samuel E. Goldsberry has registered his 63 acre farm in section 34, Gillam tp., under the naige of ■'Glendale Farm.”

The republican precinct primaries L. select delegates to the county convention, which meets in Rensselaer next Monday, will be held at 2 p. m. Joseph A. Downey, the school teacher at Oak Grove in Walker tp., who was recently taken to a hospital in Chicago, died there Sunday night and the body was taken to Ohio for burial. The improved roads of Jasper county, generally speaking, are in bad condition, very rutty and uneven. A good scraping would fill the ruts and improve the roads wonderfully, and it seems strange that this it not done each spring as soon as they have dried out sufficiently to make such work a benefit. George Cover was in from Union tp., yesterday closing up the deal for an 80 acre tract of land lying about a quarter of a mile from his present farm, and owned by Mrs. L. Patterson, of Marion, Vwho caine up Thursday evening to close up the deal. The price paid was $31.50 per acre. This increases George's real estate holdings in Union tp., to 300 acres. The Michigan supreme court has declared the Michigan motor car tax law, passed by the last legislature, providing a tax of 50 cents per horse power on motor vehicles, as unconstitutional. Approximately $226,000 that has been collected under the new law will be returned to automobile owners, with the exception of ?3. which was the tax under the provision of the old law - _____ John Yanßeek. a Demotic merchant against whom several judgments have been taken and executions issued in the Jasper circuit court, has left Jasper county, and report has it that he has gone to lowa. Gerret Gravenstuck, of Demotte, is said to be on bis paper for about $5,000, which he went on before proceedings were instituted in court here to have Gravenstuck declared of unsound mind and a guardian apoinred. The deal of Co. Supt. Lamson for the purchase of the former W. E. Moore tenant house on North Van Rensselaer street has fallen through with, and Simon Leopold has rented and will move into the property. Mr. Lamson, who has rented the former Michael Kanns property, at the west side of town, will move in with his parents on College road until Mr. Ranne gets his new house in town completed and moves into same.

Samuel Price, of Barkley tp., has been recommitted to the insane asylum, and was taken to Longcliff yesterday by Sheriff Hoover. Mr. Price has been in the asylum once or twice before. The last time in 19Q2 and was discharged in 1904, His present trouble is said to have been caused from brooding over the inability to find a couple of witnesses whom, it is stated, would establish his claim to some big estate. At least this is the report, but Whether any such estate really exists or not, The Democrat is unable to say. Marriage licenses issued: March 24, Albert E. Dunn, of Wheatfield, aged 4 1 Oct. 17 last, occupation farmer, to Carrie Belle Hamilton, also of Wheatfield, aged 42 Dec. 3 last, occupation housekeeper. Second marriage for each, the former

marriage of each having been dissolved by death, that of male Oct. 18, 1912 % and that of female Oct. 10, 1907. March 25, Charles Griffin, of Roselawn, aged 21 Nov. S last, occupation farmer, to Harriet Bruechet, also of Roselawn, aged 24 Aug. 25 last, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. Married by Rev. C. \V. Postill at the latter's residence in Rensselaer. March 25, Frank Lewis Mosier, of Demotte, aged 25 Dec. I*s last, occupation farmer, to Eva Aletha McGinnis, daughter of Samuel McGinnis, also of Demotte, aged 21 Dec. 10 last, occupation clerk. First marriage for each. Married by Squire Jrwin in the clerk’s office. 1 , In the action for libel brought by J. A. McFarland, of Rensselaer, against the editor of The Democrat, which was set for trial in the Newton circuit court next Wednesday, the plaintiff, through his attorney, Abe Halleek, asked for a change of venue frOm Newton county, on Wednesday last, and the case was sent to White county, where the defendant had requested it be sent from this county in the first place, but which plaintiff then objected to. Defendant asked, after plaintiff had filed his affidavit for a change from Newton county, that the case be sent to the Lake Superior court at Hammond, on account of the convenience in reaching there, or that it be sent to Carroll county, but plaintiff did not want to go to either place, and. insisted on going to Crown Point or Monticello. Becaqse of the convenience in reaching the latter place the defendant agreed on Monticello, where it will come up at the May term, it is presumed. At least the defendant is ready to go to trial at any time.