Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 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. New suits filed: No. 8804. Louis Beecher vs. Alice Stocksicji; application for the appointment of a guardian. John Walker, a former court reporter of the Jasper -Newton circuit but now of Tombstone, Arizona, was (here a short time Wednesday shaking hands with old friends. Wednesday’s Lafayette Journal: Attorney W. H. Parkinson and son of Rensselaer, were in the city yesterday. Mr. Parkinson may locate here later in order to give his children opportunity to attend Purdue university. Dr. Charles R. Schwartz, a veterinary of Remington, was in Rensselaer Wednesday on business. Dr. Schwartz was recently commissioned a second lieutenant in the veterinary reserve corps, and expects a call to duty in the very near future. ■ i '* According to advices received by the local draft board Ross Porter, who was registered here but was examined in Cattaraugus county, New York, had successfully passed the physical examination. He will be under the direction of the New York board in the draft. Edward Coover, a former oldtime resident of Remington and a brother of M. C. Coover of that place and of William Coover, a former clerk of the Jasper circuit court, died last week at the home of his daughter, Mrs. W. E. Peck, near Ashville, New York, with whom he had lived the past few years. Burial was made there last Sunday.

The local draft board, composed of Sheriff McColly, Clerk Nichols and. Dr. Loy, has taken no action yet on the claims for exemption filed following the last examination. It is said that no action will be taken until the exemptions made by this board in the first call have been acted upon by the district board, which will be within th-" 1 next few days. County Treasurer May and children drove to Mudlavia Sunday and Mrs. May, who had been taking treatment there for rheumatism with but little benefit thus far, returned home with them for a week’s rest before resuming treatment. While she is not troubled so much with the rheumatic pains, she is not very much improved otherwise, but hopes that further treatment will prove more beneficial.