Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1915 — 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 tho^Several County Offices. Attorney A. D. Babcock was over from Goodland on business Thursday. # J The county stone crusher is again at work crushing rock for road repairs on the Kurrie place, at the south edge of town. New suits filed: No. 8397. James H. cfilbert vs. J. Luce Bartoo; action in aid to execution.. No. 839 8. James Arthur Powell et al, vs. Emma E. Markin et al; action for partition of real estate..

Mrs. Frank Swartzell was taken to Longcliff by Sheriff McColly Thursday. He was accompanied by Mrs. G. L. Thornton. Mrs. Swartzel has been in the asylum once before, having been .sent there from White county. She is sent there now on recommitment. Her home is here at this time. A petition has been filed from Wheatfield tp., for action by the board of county commissioners at their regular meeting next week, asking that a local option election be called in that township to determine whether or no the sale of intoxicating liquors in that baliwick shall be continued. The township is now “ wet”:'having one saloon. A mistake was certainly made in the specifications for the new Work street bridge. This bridge should have been raised a foot or two higher on the abutments. As it is, it sets considerably lower than River street or even Front street, and the approaches go down to the bridge instead of up to it. It would have cost but little more to have raised it to the proper height.

The contractors on the Hill stone roads in Jordan tp., have over a half mile of road built from the county line east and connecting with the stone road leading into Foesman. A prominent landowner of Jordan tp., tells The Democrat that he thinks a mistake is being made in the spreading of this stone in the center of the grade, instead of building a stone road at one side and leaving room for a dirt track at the other. He says that the specifications call for a 20-foot grade, and that the stone is being spread in the center thereof—or, rather, in the center of the roadway, as theyihave not graded any where they are now spreading the stone, he states.

Marriage licenses issued: March 30, John Henry Johnson, son of William R. Johnson of Medaryville, aged 26, Sept. 3 last, occupation farmer, to Versa Priscilla Watson, daughter of John Watson of Medaryville, aged 18 March 15 last, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. Married by Rev. G. W. Titus. March 30, Samuel Wentworth Bellamy of Hammond, aged 21 Sept. 1 last, occupation clerk, to Lorna DeField Smith, also of Hammond, aged 20 March 25 last, occupation stenographer. First marriage for each. « ApeH 1, Walter DeYoung of Demotte, aged 24 Jan. 2-0 last, occupation farmer, to Susie Kamstra, of Rensselaer, aged 24 August 15 last, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each.