Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 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. Attorney J. A. Dunlap went to Indianapolis Sunday on a brief business trip. New suits filed: No. 8636. Frederick R. Waymire vs. William Handlin et al; action to quiet title

The Hanging Grove tp. commencement exercises will be held at MeCoysburg on Saturday evening, July Ist. \ - J. H. Chandler and wife of Mishawaka, who had been visiting Mrs. Chandler’s cousin, J. H. Perkins, and family, returned home Friday. The JacKson Highway boosters were to be in Rensselaer last evening, coming here from Hammond and Crown Point, and a mass meeting was to be held at the court house to talk the proposition over. As The Democrat goes to press on Tuesday afternoon we are unable to give a report of the meeting in this issue of the paper. The dry land dredge at work on the JunglesjJjavis ditch in Barkley tp. cut through the deep cut just west of Grant Davisson’s farm house at 7:30 Monday morning, releasing a large amount of water held back there and thus draining a large acreage of ground. The water released reached Rensselaer at about 3 o’clock Monday afternoon. The land owners affected by this ditch anticipate great relief by the work now being done in clearing out same.