Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1915 — COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs From the Various Departments ■■ ■ ■ ■ i OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL The Legal News Epitomized—Together With Other Notes Gathered From the Several County Offices. The White circuit court will convene Monday. Co. Supt. Lamson and wife, accompanied by Dr. Kresler, went to Chicago Tuesday where Mrs. Lamson entered a hospital for treatment and a possible operation. The will of Mary E. Clark, deceased, late of Remington, was filed for probate Thursday. The instrument was executed Sept. 2, 1910, and bequeaths everything to the son of decedent, John A. Clark, who is named as executor. While the date for holding the subsidy election in Xewton tp., was originally set for Friday, May 7, and was so published in the newspapers, the date was later changed it seems to Wednesday, May 26, so that it will be a month yet before the election is held. Charlie Remmek was placed in jail Saturday night and kept there until Sunday night, when he was turned loose, no charges having been filed against him. But later Deputy Prosecutor Sands filed an affidavit charging him with carrying concealed weapons, and he was arraigned in the circuit court on this and fined SIOO, but sentence was suspended during good behavior. Young Remmek is alleged to have drawn a revolver Saturday evening-, when Dr. Hemphill and John Critser were having an argument, and pressed the revolver against Critser's side. He was arrested by Nightwatch Critser and placed in jail. The revolver is said to have contained four loaded shells, and an “unloaled” pint whiskey bottle was also found in his pocket.

The Democrat was somewhat in error in its statement in Wednesday's issue that the line of the proposed Lafayette & Northwestern Railroad, according to the blueprints filed, would enter Rensselaer over College avenue. This error occurred by reason of the inaccuracy of the blue-print in showing the river in Rensselaer, which it apparently Crosses at the south side of town and some distance west of College road, when as a matter of fact the line is surveyed to cross the river a few rods west of Weston cemetery. It seems that the route branches off west a trifle some place north of St. Joseph college and crosses McCoy avenue near the old McCoy place, instead of following up College avenue to the railroad, as we at first inferred. As staked off, it crosses the river and follows the west bank of the open ditch between the old Washburn place and the W. S. Day pasture, and runs thence north on Elza street and near the church of God to the south side of the Monon. The route as described on west was easier to follow and is pre-: cisely as stated in Wednesday’s Democrat.

New suits filed: No. 8428: Mary A. Norris vs. estate of F. W. Bedford, deceased; claim for services as housekeeper for decedent Under a verbal agreement by which when she became housekeeper she was to receive a home and board and lodging for her daughter, it is alleged, and $3 per. week. The complaint alleges that she begun services in September, 1902, and continued in said service until September, 1905, when plaintiff’s daughter married and went to a home of her own; that plaintiff then told decedent that she was dissatisfied with the many additional duties required of her, and requested that he find another housekeeper; that decedent requested and urged that plaintiff remain with him during his lifetime and said that he would not only pay her the $3 per week, but would make ample provision for her on his death; that

relying on such statement she continued as *uch housekeeper and cared for him until his death on Feb. 24, 1915. Plaintiff alleges that decedent did not make any additional provision for her as agreed, and only paid her $3 per week; that the services she performed were worth $7 per week from September, .1905, until November 3, 1914, when decedent was injured by a fall and was thereafter helpless, and S2O per week from then to February 24, 1915. Wherefore plaintiff asks for $3,652 from said estate in addition to the sum received from decedent and $63 received from a lodge of which decedent was a member.