Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 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. ...O’ Sheriff McColly made a business trip to Chicagp Saturday. County Auditor and Mrs. J. P. Hammond, Mr. and Mrs. George Scott, Mr. and Mrs. John Eigelsbach and Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Yates enjoyed an auto drive to Lafayette and return Sunday. County Commissioner Welch was over from Carpenter township on business Saturday. He was accompanied by his father, George Welch, Merritt Johnston of Goodland and Dayton Hutchings of Joliet, Illinois. The work of redecorating the interior of the court house has been completed and A. Brand & Co. of Chicago, w T ho done the work, have also been given a contract to redecorate the interior of the primary school building, also all the outside woodwork. The contract price for both labor and material for the latter job is said to be ssll. New suits No. 8787. George A. Williams, ex., vs. Esther A. Newell et al.; action to sell real estate. No. 8 788. Grasmere Land Co. vs. Joseph Hickman; action on check. Demand $l5O. No. 8789. T. M. Kinmore vs. Henry W. Milner; suit oq note. Demand $199.13. No. 1687. State of Indiana vs. Harmon N. Clark; action for assault and battery. Oscar Brenner of Ann Arbor, Michigan, who is said to have been recently married to Mrs. Fayne Nelson Black, and who with the latter came last w r eek to visit her mother, Mrs. James Nelson, was arrested at the Nelson home here last Friday on instruction from the authorities of Washtenaw county, Michigan. Brenner was charged with selling property belonging to his mother and keeping the money. Officers arrived here Saturday and the young man was taken back to Michigan to stand trial. Martin Boedman, aged 26 years, who had been working in the onion fields about Newland, was arrested Monday evening by Sheriff McColly and lodged in jail on the charge of having failed to register for the selective draft. Boedman came to Newland from over about Hopkins Park, in Newton county, and is said to have failed to go to the polls to register when parties at Newland offered to take him to the registering place. He is said to have been preparing to leave Newland and go to Chicago when arrested. Sheriff McColly has conferred with the federal authorities and it is probable the young man will be taken in charge by a federal officer in a very short time. Trustee John Rush- of Newton township, acting tinder the law giving trustees authority over abandoned or unused cemeteries, has caused the old Sayler cemetery in the east edge of Newton township, west of the county farm, to be cleaned up and put in a very presentable condition. Several of th? old and well-known pioneers of Jasper county, among them being Patrick Makeever and Isabel Makeever, his wife, both of whom were over 100 years of age, are buried in this cemetery. They were the parents of John, Milton and Madison Makeever, all now deceased, and Patrick died about 1856, aged 104 years, while his wife lived until about 1871, and was 108 years of age at death. Some of the stones are in bad shape and friends or relatives of those resting there are requested to help in the care of the cemetery by seeing that these stones are put in good shape.