Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1914 — COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs From the Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL U»e Legal News Epitomized—Together With Other Notes Gathered Prom The Several County Offices. t -i The county board of education will meet Monday. The progressives of Jasper county will hold their county convention today, in the east court room, beginning at 1 p. m. 1 There were 14 marriage licenses issued last month, against 19 for the preceeding month, and 8 for the corresponding month of 1913. The township schools are beginning to close. Cosy Palace and Center schools in Barkley close this week, the former yesterday and the latter today. The contractor for the new high school building at Demotte, staked off the ground Tuesday and material will begin to arrive for the new building next week. A transposition of figures in the vote on county assessor in The Democrat s report of the republican county corvention made us say that John O’Connor’s vote was but 13. The actual vote was: Thornton 92, O'Connor 39, Moore f 9 and Lewis 2. Marriage licenses issued: April 2, Claude Griffin, of Roselawn, aged 24 Xov. 8 last, occupation farmer, to Ella Harriet Broehet, also of Roselawn, aged 24 August 25 last, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. Married by Rev. C. W. Postill. The county commissioners will meet in regular monthly session Monday. The county council is'also called to meet in special session Monday to make some additional appropriations for 1914. Two members of the latter are no longer eligible to serve as couneilmen, Sylvester Gray, who has been appointed gravel ''Toad superintendent, and Frank J. Babcock, who vacated his office as councilman from the first district by moving out of the district, from Carpenter tp., to Rensselaer. Dr. Moore, who has been staying at the Makeever House for the past few days, is in a rather helpless condition, physically, and his relatives in this county have been notified to look after him. They have telegraphed his daughter in Los Angeles, of his condition, and it is likely he will be better cared for in the future, as he is hardly able to look after himself any more. The daughter may come here and take the old gentleman home with her, at least that seeips to be the hope of his friends here, Mrs. John Lilly, of near Wheatfield, who is mentally unbalanced and has been working in Rensselaer for a couple of weeks, was taken to jail Tuesday by the officers; but her husband came after her and took her home that afternoon. She returned to Rensselaer Thursday with her husband and went to the jail, where Dr. Hemphill examined her and ordered her re-committed to the asylum at Longcliff; from which she was released several years ago, she having been re-committed once b—fore from this county, in May, 1900. She has six children, the youngest being but 14 months old. She is about ,38 years of age.