Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1915 — COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

interesting Paragraphs From the Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL Th® Legal News Epitomized—Together With Other Notes Gathered From the Several County Offices.

And also, for the first time in our history, the promoters have to pay the expenses of the election. Good. County Assessor Thornton, G. E. Murray, Sheriff McColly and George Healey attended the launching of the Warren McCray boom for governor at Kentland Wednesday. W. T, Elmore and G. I. Thomas were over from Remington on business Wednesday. Roth were formerly connected with O. L. Brown’s railroad proposition, but are now said to be only humble and anxious-to-get-out stockholders. Miss Agnes Platt, deputy recorder, went to Chicago Wednesday to have an operation performed for the removal of her tonsils, after which she expects to visit relatives in Minnesota, if her health permits. She will be gone about a month. Trustee Kolhoff of Jordan tp., has decided to move the Bullis school house to Union district and combine it with the Union building, making a two-room school. The Raymond, Reed and Bullis schools will then be abandoned and the pupils hauled to Union.

John McCurtain, who was taken to the asylum at Logansport last week, made his escape front Longcliff Tuesday and arrived in Parr abount midnight Wednesday night, The Democrat is informed. At this writing no effort is being made apparently to return him to the asylum.

According to the report of the Indiana Board of Charities and Correction, Jasper county extended poor relief during 1914 to 133 people, Gillam and Walker townships bein* the only ones in which no relief was given. The total amount so expended was $1,855.01, of which Marion tp., including Rensselaer, expended sl,040.50. The expense of maintainance of our poor farm for 1914 was $3,969.75, and the farm receipts, $2,743.33, leaving a net deficit of $913.20.

The Newton County Enterprise says that the Williams ditch case has been sent back to the drainage commissioners for correction, the remonstrators contending that the report is faulty in many instances. This ditch is a continuance of the Kankakee river drainage scheme, instead of the Borntrager ditch, as was erroneously stated in a recent issue of The Democrat. The line of the proposed flitch runs about 500 feet south of a point in Lake tp., Newton county, where Newton and Lake counties have just erected a costly new bridge, and if the ditch is made on the line as shown in the report, it will mean that Newton county and the C. I. & S. Railroad will each have to erect another new bridge, costing about $50,000 each; The commissioners are ordered to report again at the October term of court.