Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1917 — 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. Sheriff B. D. McCody went to Indianapolis Tuesday to attend a meetifig of the county sheriffs of Indiana. f ~ Elmore Barce of Fowler and John R,. O’Connor of southwest of Remington were business visitors in the city Wednesday. • Former County Treasurer A. A. Fell was over from Remington Tuesday. Mr. Fell has taken the agency for the Chalmers automobile and has a car on exhibition at the Central garage. Attorney W. H. Parkinson, who had been confined to his home with inflammatory rheumatism for the past few weeks, has sufficiently recovered to enable, him to be up town again. The fine new Manion township consolidated school building is completed and school will be opened there one week' from next Monday, or January 29, when “all of the township schools now running on the south side will be discontinued.

Mrs. Lucy. Warne of Fair Oaks Oaks was arrested Tuesday, charged with violating the truancy law, and brought before Squire Woodhull Spitler. It is charged that Mrs. Warne has not sent her 14-year-old daughter Gladys x to school since it opened last fall. The case will come up for hearing before Judge Hanley at 1 o’clock this afternoon. Attorney and Mrs. Jasper Guy were over from Remington yesterday taking record for abstract work. The slander case of Ochs vs. Zimmerman 'from that place, which was set for trial in the Newton circuit-court Thursday, has been continued until Monday, the 29th, and an order made for taking an examination of defendant at Kentland next Monday. Nate J. Reed, who was sheriff of Jasper county from jLB96‘ tp 1900, but who now resides at" Millerton, Michigan, was in the city Thursday shaking hands with his many friends. He was at Lafayette visiting relatives and took advantage of his nearness to come here. Nate is looking quite well and was glad to see his friends here once more. He expects to return here again* before going back to Michigan.

Marriage licenses issued: January. 16, Lawrence Ambrose S.ayler of Jasper county, aged 41 March 14 last, occupation farmer, to Bertha May Smith of Rensselaer, aged 35 February 16 last, occupation nurse'. First marriage for male, second marriage for female. First marriage dissolved by death.-in March, 1915. Married by Rev. Strecker at the home of the bride in the northeast part qf town the same evening. January 17, John D. Pelsy of Francesville, aged 28 May 4 last, occupation farmer, to Lydia L. Knockel of Remington, aged 24 August 6 last, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. Married by Mayor Spitler in his office.

Notwithstanding the poor crop yield in some sections of Jasper county last year there is a surprisingly small number of delinquent taxpayers, as shown by the annual delinquent list. Carpenter, Remington, Manion, Kankakee and Wheatfield have no delinquencies except seven in Wheatfield town. Hanging Grove has but three; Barkley five; Gillam four; Milroy six; Jordan- one; Newton two; Keener eleven; Walker nine; Union twelve; Rensselaer six. The total delinquencies are less than $4,000, perhaps ; the smallest amofflft -in the past forty years. Many of these will be paid before

the annual tax sale, Monday, February 12, at 10 a. m. New suits, filed: No. 8721. Nellie M. Sawin and L. P. Shirer vs. Charles V. May,' county treasurer, the mayor and common council of Rensselaer, and Samuel Stevens; action .to enjoin collection of assessments on the recently constructed Dayton street sewer. Plaintiffs allege that said sewer was not. constructed by the contractor, Stevens, according to the plans and specifications, in that it was not laid as deep as specified by frdm 6 to 12 inches and was so constructed that there is a “bump” in the grad? line, thus destroying its carrying capacity; that for 100 feet or more a 10-inch se’ver was laid wfien the specifications called for 12-inch; that ’first-class pipe was not used and many, of the pipes were chipped and had holes in them ; that ■> poor sand was used and soft and insufficient joints were the result, that would fall out and permit holes or openings for the gases to escape and permit sand to wash in, roots of trees and vegetable growth to fill up the sewer, etc., etc. No. 8722. William R. Clark vs. David L. Halstead: suit on account. Demand $64?29. No. 8723. Lincoln McHale vs. John A. Patten; suit on note. Demand S9OO.