Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 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 Hom The Several County Offices. The Kankakee, or Marble ditch, is to be sold Sept. 16. Newton county paid in $3,670.63 auto license tax for the first six months of 1914, and gets back $3,591.71. White county gets back sl,000.92, but the papers there do not state the amount paid in. Edward von Kanel, the steeplejack mentioned in Wednesday s issue of The Democrat, made some easy money her d Wednesday in painting the court house flag pole. He was 45 minutes at the job and got a S2O “yellowback” for the work.

The field examiners finished checking up the county clerk’s office Thursday and went to Wheatfield yesterday to check up the school board there. They complimented Mr. Perkins on the condition of his books — saying that they were kept as good as any in the state and much better than the majority of them. Township Trustee A. S Keen, Alexander Jensen and R. A. Mannon of Wheatfield, were here Wednesday on business connected with the issuing of $6,0 00 in bonds to pay for the addition of two rooms and basemept added to tt e joint hign school building at Wheatfield this year. The old building of five rooms and basement was erected in 1906, but had become inadequate to accomodate the increased number of pupils. William Erwin took the horse stolen by Fay Dilts from Kouts Saturday night, to the owner, Henry O. Pagels of near Kouts, Thursday. Noah Wenrick, a distant relative of Dilts' near whose place, southwest of Wheatfield, Dilts was arrested Monday while riding he stolen animal, was in Rensselaer Wednesday. He stated that Dilts comes honestly by his crir.iinal tendencies, bis father having served a term m the pentitentary. It is also said that Dilts and his sister, the latter d. essed in boy’s clothes, side a team some time ago in Porter county. Dilts and another man are aiso said to have stolen a team at Chicago Heights and served six months imprisonment for same, later being released on parole. Len Griggs of Rensselaer, who is also a distant relative of Dilts, says that the latter stole a team from the rear of Eger’s grocery stole a few years ago, but the team was recovered and he was not prosecuted. Dilts is about 23 years of age, and seems destined to spend the most of his life behind prison walls.

Attorney and Mrs. A. # D. Babcock of Goodland, were over' Wednesday in their automobile, and A. D., in conversation with the editor, paid his respects to Jasper county’s “improved" roads, which he characterized as the worst in Indiana. And he is not far wrong. The north mile of the Range Line road in Carpenter tp., is especially in a horrible condition, and is simply unfit to travel over at all. , What we need in Jasper county is fiwre intelligent repair of roads already constructed and no more roads ordered built unless the specifications are right to insure a properly built road —something apparently we have been very lame on. Better to have one mile of properly constructed road than three miles imperfectly contsructed. Admitting that the Range Line road between Rensselaer and Remington has more travel than any road in the county, yet more money is spent—wasted would perhaps be the better word—on this road than elsewhere in the county, yet our “improved’’ roads that have very little travel over them—possibly because they are so frightfully bad—are a disgrace to Jasper county, and unless we can build roads right it would be better to abandon trying

tc build them at all, for the money Is worse than wasted on most of the lately constructed apologies we ha' New suits filed: No. 8257. Elmer Bush vs. Charles. W. Haskins, action in replevin of a fed male calf. Appeal from Squire VanDoozer's court at Wheatfield, where The case was taken from C. J. Hobbs, rate justice o r the peace at Kersey, who challenged himself to hear said cause because of having expressed an opinion and also having resigned as justice of the peace, to whom it was taken from Squire Greve’s court at Demotte. Defendant asked for a change of venue from the township in Van Doozer’s court, and the court granted same on payment of all costs, including the five witnesses summoned by plaintiff, but defendant refused to pay same and walked out of court. Plaintiff demanded the going ahead with the trial, and evidence was heard, the court finding that plaintiff was entitled to the value of the calf—it had been killed and shipped to Chicago by defendant—and the value of the calf was $lO. The court also found that plaintiff should recover $5 damages, which tctal judgment with costs amounted to $32.23. Defendant appealed to the circuit court. No. 8258. Richard C. Gregg vs. John M. Ellis, et al; action to foreclose mortgage. Demand $2,300.