Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1917 — COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs From the Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL ■ ' , ■ 0 - The Legal News Epitomized—Together with Other Notes Gathered from the Several County Offices. p- •--*——7 —77— — -..a-;-- - —-z— —iu...-. Irene, little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. JI- Yeoman of Newton township. who was operated on recently at the county hospital for appendicitis, was able to be taken to her

home yesterday. Marriage licenses issued: May ,14, Frank S. Armanstrout of Fort Wayne, aged 27 January 12 last, occupation machinist, and Theresia M. Pinter of Wheatfield, aged 26 March 26 last, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. Dr. J. Hansson, accompanied by County Treasurer C. V. May and J. C. Gwin of this city and C. D. Lakin of near Parr, went to South Bend Sunday morning aqd returned that night with two new Willys-Knight touring cars. One of the machines was for Mr. Gwin, and the other was driven home by Jfr. May.

It has been figured out that the new draft law will take .0055 per eent of the population of the state [to provide its quota. This per cent lin Jasper county would be about seventy-seven men, but the exemptions will, of course, be larger in agricultural counties, such as this, than in the manufacturing centers. This number will also be materially reduced by those from this county ST& ciready in tha Service. -

’ The following men have been se- • lected as jurors for the May term of the Newton circuit court, which ’convened at Kentland Monday: J. R. Mulder. Lincoln township; William J. Smalley, Jefferson; Orson Peck. Jackson; Ray Hershman, Iroquois; Albert Verrill, Grant: George E. Long, Jefferson: W. A. Harrington, Grant; Charles Martin, McClellan; Al Gravel and John Moran, Grant; James B. Fletcher and Thad B. Littlejohn, Jefferson. The jury is called for the second Monday of the term.

C. M. Sands and D. S. Makeever went to Redwood Falls, Minnesota, yesterday to take the deposition o r ’ Mr. and Mrs. Elizur Sage in the case of the state vs, J. W. Stockton, the county farm corn case. Mr. Stockton’s Indianapolis attorney left Monday for Minnesota to be presenjt at the taking of the deposition. Mr. and Mrs. Sage, it is reported, will , testify that they saw teams of (County Commissioner D. S. Ma[keever hauling corn from towards i the county farm ‘during the year P&ls’ while the state contends that fthey hauled no corn at all from ;that direction in said year. The Sages lived on their farm west of ■town close to where the county farm ire-ad turns north toward Makeever’?. ; The ease will come to trial at Kent-" L..--'1 tomorrow. •