Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1916 — 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. The White circuit court will convene Monday. Only one more week in which to pay the spring installment of taxes to avoid delinquency. z Attorneys W. H. Parkinson and Mose Leopold were in Chicago on legal business Tuesday. Former County Commissioner John F. Pettet was down from Walker tp. on business yesterday. Former County Commissioner William Hershman was down from Walker tp. on business Thursday. New suits filed: No. 8609. Charles Peregrine. vs. James McGuire; petition to have defendant declared of unsound mind. E. E. Rockwell and son-in-law, Julius Marion, and Yeppe Hanson were down from Gillqm tp. on taxpaying business Thursday. County Treasurer May sold the $12,400 Fred Baier stone road bonds in Carpenter tp. Thursday to Miller & Co. of Indianapolis at $lB6 premium. Other bidders were: FletcherAmerican National bank, $183.75; J. F. Wild & Co., $137.50; Breed, Elliott & Harrison Co., $155.

Charles Scott, superintendent of construction, sold the T. M. Callahan stone road contract Tuesday to Charles Kain at $15,485. This road runs north from Gifford and except for about one mile on the north will give us, when completed, a continuous stone road to Wheatfield and thus on to other points north and east. Edmond von Kaenal, a steeplejack, who painted the flag staff on the court house here and the water tank at St. Joseph’s college some two years ago, was killed in Chicago Tuesday when a 100-foot smoke--stack upon which he was at work buckled carrying him beneath it to the roof below. He was known over the country as a very daring climber.

A township trustee, under the statutes of Indiana, may change the location of a township high school without consulting the wishes of the patrons Of the school, according to the decision of the appellate court, Wednesday, in affirming a decision by the Shelby circuit court against George W. Parker and taxpayers of Buck Creek township, Hancock county, who brought suit to enjoin the sale of bonds for construction of a high school building at a new location in the township.

Sheriff Hamilton was out in Gilboa Monday summoning witnesses before the Jasper county grand jury, which is in session this week at Rensselaer. The “Good Citizens League” of Remington have got busy! again and we are told another clean! up of “poker joints” and “blind j tigers” will result from the grand jury investigations. Altogether over 100 citizens of the town and vicinity have been summoned and it is said some of the law violators will be handed a package that they will not soon forget. It is rumored that some of the most prominent citizens of the town may have an opportunity of explaining some of the “goings on” in their places of business. Some of the leading citizens are trying to put the “soft pedal” on the “Good Citizens League,” but they are determined to go the limit, regardless of whom''the “shoe fits.”— Bent-on Review.