Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 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. The county commissioners meet in regular session Monday. Attorney John A. Dunlap was in Knox on business yesterday. Attorney Roy Blue and James Anderson were down from Wheatfield on business Thursday. Sheriff B. D. McColly and County Commissioner D. S. Makeever were in Hammond on business Wednesday. Burton Winters and Ulysses Jordan, state accountants, were in Rensselaer Thursday and from here went to Kentland to testify at the Stockton trial.

Attorney W. H. Parkison was at Kentland Wednesday where he delivered the Memorial day address. There was a good crowd out and a splendid program had been arranged. Dr. A. P. Rainier of Remington has been appointed as a member of the pension examining board to succeed the late Dr. Landon of that place, who had held this positon for the past quarter of a century or more. The county Board of Review will convene in annual session Monday. The board will be yi session for twenty days. The appointive members this year are John T. Biggs of Wheatfield and George H. McLain of Rensselaer. The suit of P. D. Wells, formerly of this county, against the H. & D. Shock Absorber company of Goodland, in which the former is seeking $75,000 damages for breach of contract, has been set for trial at Fowler next Monday.

The acts of the 1917 legislature became effective Thursday with the issuance of a proclamation by Governor Goodrich. The proclamation had been delayed more than one month, in comparison with two years ago, because the printer was slow in completing the printing, binding and distribution of the acts. The election of the county superintendent will come up before the township trustees at the meeting of the county board of education Monday. It is understood that there will be three or fonr candidates for the place. The term of present County Superintendent Lamson, who has held the position for the past ten years, will expire in August.

Pursuant to the recommendation of Governor Goodrich, Judge Hanley has appointed the following persons as Jasper county members of the State Council of Defense: Mrs. Ora T. Ross, L. H. Hamilton, F. E. Babcock, H. J. Bartoo, John Bowie, Frank Welsh, G. H. . McClain. The first meeting of the board will be held in the jaw library at the court house at 2 o’clock this afternoon.