Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 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 the Several County Offices. Commissioners’ court will convene Monday for the regular June session. There were only four marriage licenses issued for the month of May, with six for the corresponding month of 1914, and twelve for the preceding month. County Treasurer Fell spent Monday in Remington and visited hik 8 farm at that place. He reports a very large croW’d out to the memorial exercises there.

O. G. Barrett, former county agent in Jasper county, has been employed in a like capacity since Feb. 1 in Steuben county, and his work is spoken of very highly there. John O’Connor is circulating a petition among the residents of his part of the city asking the county commissioners to raise the smoke stack at the heating plant and also to use a smokeless coal to overcome the smoke nuisance in that neighborhood. The annual commencement of the Jordan township public schools will be held at Mt. Hope church in that township on Friday evening, June 4, at 8 o’clock. There are four graduates: Jennie Sage, Edith Fenwick, Evelyn Michael and Mabel Ethel Blake. Prof. Lee L. Driver will deliver the address.

C. M. Sands lias been appointed administrator of the estate of the late Charles Fish, who died recently of heart disease at the home of Emmet Pullins in Barkley tp., where he was employed. In looking over his effects Mr. Sands found an old bank book showing a balance of $53 to Fish’s credit in the First National Bank of Lisbon, N. D. Mr. Fish left enough property to pay his funeral expenses. Mr. Sands is seeking to locate a sister of decedent, Mary Fish, who left Jasper county some thirtyone years ago.

Promotor O. L. Brown of the socalled proposed Lafayette & Northwestern Railroad, has succeeded in his action brought in the White circuit court, in having the charter of the old Indiana Northwestern Trac tion Co., (Purtelle’s corporation) annulled, and that company has now gone the way of many of its predecessors. It is said that Brown will now endeavor to have a subsidy election called in Marion township and Rensselaer, on the old petition filed here for the April meeting of the county commissioners.

At a special meeting of the Newton county council last week, an appropriation of $3,500 was made , to pay Newton county’s share of a joint bridge over the Iroquois river on the county line between Jasper and Newton, made necessary by the dredging of the river, but $3,500 asked for for five new bridges in north Newton was turned down, as it was shown that it would be necessary to borrow money or to issue bonds if the appropriation was made, the county fund having been practically exhausted for this year by the drain:, made upon it.

The contested will case of Reginia Burris vs. George H. Gifford, executor of the estate of the late B. J. Gifford, which was to come up in the Newton circuit court yesterday, having been taken to that county from Jasper by the defense, was sent to Benton county Monday on a change of venue asked for by the plaintiff, and will probably not come up until the fall term of court there. About two score of witnesses had been summoned from this county to go to Kentland yesterday, but Sheriff McColly notified most of them Monday afternoon of the change and told

them that it would l/e unnecessary Jor them to go over. John P. Ryan of Gillam tp., was one of those not notified, and he came down yesterday expecting to haVe to go on over. He learned of the change of venue after reaching Rensselaer.