Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 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.

Trustee Charles V. May of Carpenter tp., was over on business Monday. The cement abutments for the new steel bridge at Work street are completed and ready for the iron work. There will be considerable filling to do at each approach, especially on the west side of the river, where it will take several hundred of loads of material.

The Jasper County Teachers’ Institute convened Monday and 109 teachers were enrolled thati day. The rest of the teachers, in all 140, were expected yesterday. Supt. Driver of Winchester, Ind., will give an illustrated lecture on consolidation tomorrow evening. A more expended report of the meeting will be given in Saturday’s Democrat.

Action in mandate has been started in the circuit court to require the county council to appropriate money for employing a county agricultural agent, the court having held that the council must appropriate where conditions had been complied with by the petitioners. However, our council refused an appropriation after one year’s trial with a county agent, hence this suit.

New suits filed: No. 8284. George A. 'Chappell vs. Chris Christensen; action to review judgment. Cause returnable Oct. 8.

No. 8 285. State of Indiana, ex rel. Percy Hauter, Edward Ranton, Orpheus C. Halstead, Ira Meader, Ernest Lamson, Howard Jones and John Selmer, vs. Stephen T. Comer, Walter V. Porter, Frank J. Babcock, Frank E. Lewis, John F. Payne, Charles Meadel and Jacob A. Heusler, composing the county council of Jasper county; action to mandate said council to appropriate funds for employing a county agent. tause returnable Oct. 7.

Marriage licenses issued: Sept. 26, Edward Stanford of Goodland, aged 60 Nov. 11 last, occupation butcher, to Anna L. Shuster, also of. Goodland, aged 58 Oct. 10 last, occupation housewife. Second marriage for each, first having been dissolved by divorce Oct. 1911. Married by Squire S. C. Irwin. The couple were formerly man and wife, this being a remarriage for them.

Sept. 26, Arthur Lee Waymire of Rensselaer, aged 32 June 17 last, occupation farmer, to Kathryn Ella Arnold, daughter of Elias Arnold of Barkley tp., aged 22 March 21 last, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for female; second for male, first having been dissolved by death August 11, 1811.

Arrangements have been made to dispose of the L. W. Hunt stone road bonds in Carpenter tp., to the Fletcher American bank of Indianapolis, The bonds aggregate $12,600. T. M. Callahan and H. E. Giffoid have the contract for the building of this road, which is one mile west of the Remington-Rensselaer road and extends three miles north from the Remington-Goodland road, and expect to put a big force at work right away and complete the road in six weeks time. No bids have been received for the Eck stone road bonds in the same tp., aggregating $11,600, but it is probable that the contractors will make an arrangement whereby these bonds will be taken on practically the same terms as.those in the Hunt road. Gifford & Callahan are understood to have paid the Fletcher American Bank $175 to take the Hunt road bonds at ‘ Par.

John W. Hackshaw of northwest of Wheatfield, in Kankakee tp., was arrested last week on the charge of assault with intent to kill Ed Mutchler, a neighbor. Mutchler and Hackshaw own adjoining farms and there is said to have been a misunderstanding

of a number of years between them. According to Hackshaw’s story, as we get it from another party, he was out in his yard or field one day shooting at a hawk which had been after his chickens. He had a repeating rifle, and after shooting two or three times at the bird, he happened to notice Mutchler at work building a fence over in the direction he had been shooting. He says that he then walked over to where Mutchler was working, still having the loaded gun in his hands. Mutchler told him that he had been shooting at him and tha| he was going to have him arrested, fined and placed under bomdretc. This is but one side oi the story, however, as we get it. Hackshaw was down here Monday and the case is set for trial on the fourth Friday of the present term of court. Bond was fixed at $5 00 and William Fitzgerald of Kankakee tp., went on the bond together.