Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 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. .. w ■ Commissioners’ court will convene Monday in regular April session. Sheriff B. D. McColly and W. V. Porter were Chicago visitors Wednesday. Attorney John of Demotte was in the city on business Wednesday. M. V. Sands of Tefft, father of Attorney C. M. Sands, was in the city on business Wednesday. -The Newton county grand jury, after a session at intervals for three weeks, brought in eight indictments before adjourning Wednesday night.

County Auditor' Hammond has received a small supply of the constitutional convention act and anyone wishing one may obtain same at the auditor’s office so long as the supply lasts. Lake County Star: Attorney George E. Hershman was at Momence and Kankakee, Illinois, on Tuesday of this week procuring right-of-way for the extension of the Singleton ditch, which will have an outlet in the Yellow Head drainage district in Kankakee county. Clerk Nichols and wife moved Thursday from the John M. Knapp property on Park avenue to the John Remelv property on Vine street, which they recently purchased. William Burch, who occupied the Remley property, has moved to Fair Oaks. Th% Knapp property is unoccupied at present. Local retiring Deputy Oil Inspector E. P. Honan has the laugh on his successor, at any rate, as the latter only got to hold the job a day or two before the federal court knocked the oil inspection law out. had held the position for six years and disposed of his paraphernalia to his “successor” and got the money for it.

Frank J. Miller’ of Oxford, who was appointed a deputy oil inspector to succeed E. P. Honan, was in Rensselaer Wednesday receiving the supplies and instructions. However, his tenure in office was very short-lived, a federal court decision abolishing the department having been made the day Mr. Miller was here. He was to have the entire territory , covered by Mr. Honan except the cities of Fowler and Rensselaer, which were to be under Charles Mauzy of Fowler. Newton circuit court items of interest to readers of The Democrat as reported by the Kentland Enterprise: N. C. Shafer & Co. vs. the C. I. & L. Railway Co., suit for damages cause continued for term. George A. Williams, administrator of the estate of Noble Peacock, vs the C. I. & L. Railway Co., suit for damages, cause continued for the term. , ' , William L. Wood vs. Edward Shindler and James Prohosky, suit on note, judgment entered for $97.37. , Edward Jessup vs. Interstate Public Service Co., shit for $35,000 for personal injuries, change of venue granted and cause sent Jasper county for trial.