Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1916 — COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs From till Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL . ✓ Tha Legal News Epitomized—Together With Other Notes Gathered From the Several County Offices. Six marriage licenses were issued last month against five for the preceding month, eight for August, 1915. Marriage licenses issued: Sept. 2, Grover Brown of Barkley tp., aged 23 November 19 last, occupation farmer, to Marie Barkley, also of Barkley, aged 20 January 29 last, occupation school teacher. First marriage for each. September 5. Harry Bell of Tulsa, Okla., aged 35 February 5 last, occupation bookkeeper, to Edith Adams of Rensselaer, aged 26 June 5 last, occupation teacher. First marriage for each. New suits filed: No. 8659. Elizabeth Johnson, admx. vs. Levi Walters et al; action to require delivery of personal property belonging to estate of Angeline Walters, deceased. No. 8660. James Stevens, adm. vs. Levi Walters et al; action to require the delivery of personal property belonging to the estate of Thomas Walters, deceased. No. 8661. Alfred Clager vs. Frank W. Johnson; foreclosure of lien. Demand S6O. A petition is circulated by Mayor C. G. Spitler of Rensselaer asking Governor Ralston to parole Ernest Speaks and Orson Lewis, confessed car robbers who were sent to the reformatory from this county on April 11. Sympathy is being felt for the wives of the men rather than for the culprits themselves. Mrs. Lewis has been working in a restaurant in Hammond but became ill of malarial fever and is now here a charge upon friends. Mrs. Speaks has been working in a restaurant at Delphi but is now employed in a restaurant in Lafayette. She is a sufferer from asthma, it is said, and it is the intention if a parole or pardon be granted to send both men and their families to the Homestake mine at Lead, S. D., where with the fine climate and the advantages there offered their wives will have better health and it is hoped to make belter and more useful citizens of their husbands. ' i A petition signed by John Hurley and 27 others was filed with the clerk of the circuit court last Saturday asking Judge Hanley to call the grand jury at the September term of court to examine witnesses to inquire into the alleged hauling of corn from the county farm by teams of D. S. Makeever past the farm of J. W. Stockton in Newton tp., in July and August, 1915, which, the petition alleges the report ot the county farm superintedent and the records of Jasper county do not make any mention of this transaction. The petition alleges that James Shelley and a hired man of D. S. Makeever are the ones who hauled said com. It will be remembered that J. W. Stockton and Ernest Morlan were indicted several months ago for having made this charge to public accountants, mention of which was made at the time. Their trials have not been had as yet. Funeral of Mrs. Quinlan Was Held Monday. The body of Mrs. Michael Quinlan, mention of whose deatn was made in The Democrat Saturday, arrived here Sunday and funer&l services were held at St. Augustine’s Catholic church Monday. Burial was made in Mt. Calvary cemetery south of town. Her age was 60 years. Mrs. Quinlan had suffered for some 10 or 12 years with rheumatism, and about a year ago she and her husband went to Pueblo, Colo., in hope of benefiting her health. They recently left Pueblo and went to Wichita, Kansas, where Mrs. Quinlan entered a hospital an 4 where death resulted last Friday. Experiments have shown that excellent paper can be made out of gfape vines.