Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1916 — COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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 A. D. Babcock of Goodland was in the city on business Monday. Application has been made to recommit Mary Fross to Longcliff. She was an inmate of this asylum from September 3, 1915, to July 30, 1916. New Suits filed: No. 8667. The American Can Co. vs. B. F. Spencer; appeal from Squire Dickinson’s court in Carpenter township, where a judgment was rendered for defendant.

Marriage licenses issued: September 19, Ransom Elijah of Newton county; aged SI years February 3 last, occupation farmer, to Ida Lintner of Wheatfield, aged 54 years December 25 last, occupation housekeeper. Second marriage for male, first marriage dissolved by death in 1910. Third marriage for female, both previous marriages dissolved by death.

Registration day this year comes on Monday, October 9. Clerks and inspectors for the various precincts have been appointed, and the task this year should he comparatively easy inasmuch as no person who has been registered and has not changed his residence will be required to register. All voters who have changed their residence and those reaching their majority since the last election will have to register October 9 if they wish to vote in November.

Attorney Roy Blue has sold his residence property on Weston street to J. A. McFarland and it will be occupied by Mrs. Pruitt. Mr. Blue has let the contract for an eight-room modern residence, which is being constructed on his farm onehalf mile south of Wheatfield, and will be occupied by himself and family upon completion. Mr. Blue will retain his residence here until after election, but next week expects to move a part of his household goods to a house in Wheatfield, so they may be there a portion of the time during the progress of the building Mr. Blue expects to maintain an office both w at Rensselaer and Wheatfield, and has given notice elsewhere in this paper of his office days, and while he will reside at Wheatfield hr will spend Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of each week at his office as now located, in the Hollingsworth building on the west side of the public square, Rensselaer, Indiana.

—From Denver PoeO