Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1917 — COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Inloresting Paragraphs From the Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL The Legal News Epitomized—Together with Other Notes Gathered from the Several County Offices. M. E. Graves, A. M'. Robertson and Bruce Stevens of Morocco were in Rensselaer on business Thursday. Sheriff McColly went to Indianapolis yesterday on army draft business and will not return until tonight. Mrs, Fred Stocksick, aged 58 years, residing in tte east part of town, was found to be of unsound mind at an inquest held Wednesday by local physicians and she was taken to Longcliff yesterday. L. E. Morris, representing the state charter board, was in Rensselaer Thursday on business connected with the organization of the new bank here, which has applied for a charter and the matter of granting same will come up before this board within the next two weeks. . -

William Lee of Rensselaer was fined $1 and costs, $9.50 in all, in Squire Dean’s court Tuesday on a plea of guilty to assault and battery upon a Pole tailor employed in Zimmerman’s tailor shop. The trouble occurred the evening before in the Bicknell pool room and grew out of a discussion of the tailor’s nationality. Lee struc,k him an unprovoked blow, it is said. According to White county papers, Charles Scott of Lee, who had been working oyer about Newland, in this county, and was arrested recently for failure to register, was only released from this charge on his explanation that he had arrived in Lee too late to register on the day of registration, to be taken to Plymouth by the ’ sheriff of White county to answer the charge of failure to pay alimony.

The Templetbn. ditch, case, on trial before Judge Hanl/y in the Newton circuit court the first dayS of the week, was settled by compromise Wednesday. he terms of the agreement for such compromise settlement J. J. Lawler will receive 5300 for work performed, J. D. Law $195 for service as superintendent of construction, J. R. Deardurff $8 7 for engineer’s service and •Henry V. Templeton and Edward Hamilton,, the contractors, the withheld 20 per cent of their contract price. The settlement is to be met by way of an extra assessment against the Tolin branch of the ditch, on which but 81 per cent of the original assessment was paid —while the Mud Lake and Gregory branches first assessments were fully paid.—Kentland Democrat.

The will of the late Dr. Hannibal Landon of Remington was filed for probate Thursday. The instrument was executed in December, 1911, and was Witnessed by Charles T. Qenham and William Townsend, the latter since deceased. All of the property of decedent is left to his widow, Florence Landon, during her lifetime or so long as she remains a widow. In the event of her re-marriage or at her death the residence property in Remington and SI,OOO is to go to the two sons of testator, C. C. and O. F: Landon, to share equally, and the balance of property left by testator to go to the daughter by his last marriage, Florence Landon, during her lifetime and at her death to her children, should she have any surviving, and if not to testator’s living children. New suits filed: No. 8 774. John F. Judy vs. Bert De Fries et al; foreclosure of mortageg. Demand No. 8775. Central Petroleum Co. vs. August Geopp; action to recover on account. Demand $44.10. No. 8776. Dora E. Burris vs. Clyde M. Burris, action for divorce. The complaint alleges that the parties were married September 30, 1907, and lived together as husband and wife until April 23, 1917;

that the defendant on said 23rd day of April, by a judgment of the White circuit court, was convicted of the crime of burglary; that for more than two years defendant has failed to make reasonable provision for plaintiff and family although fully able to do so; that to this union were born four children, Frances Josephine, aged 9; Florence Madeline, aged 6; Ruby Pauline, aged 3, and Herbert Orville, aged 1 year. Plaintiff asks for a .divorce and the custody of the said children.

The county exemptions boards under the conscription exemptions have been appointed and are composed of practically the same men as served on the county registration boards. In Jasper county, where a full Republican board was appointed—the only plaice in the state where this occurred, according to Governor Goodrich, who said that he had directed In every case where the third member of the board first appointed was removed, to make way for a physician, that the physician should be of the same politics as the member who stepped aside —the same board is reappointed, notwithstanding the fact that the Democratic organization of this county protested to the governor over the appointment of a partisan board and received assurances which indicated that the exemption board would be non-parti-san. If the governor’s statement is correct, that he had directed that the physician appointed on the registration board should be of the same politics as the member who stepped aside, the directions were not followed in Jasper county where the Republican politicians inject dirty politics into everything they do, and his practical assurance to the Democrats that they would have representation on the exemption board has gone for naught.