Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 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. Attorney W. IH. Parkinson went to Indianapolis Monday on business. Former County Treasurer A. AFell was over from Remington yesterday. F. M. Hart and William Tyler of Demotte were in the city on business Friday. Attorney A. Halleck and C. H. Mills were at Crown Point Monday on business. Harry McColly, son of Sheriff B.- D. McColly is preparing to open a movie theater at Medaryville, to run three nights each week. New suits filed: ’ No. 8841. May A. Wilmington vs. Jesse Wilmington; action for divorce. Cruel and inhuman treatment is charged. There were seven marriage licenses issued last month, against eleven for the preceding month and twelve for the corresponding month of 1916.

Sheriff B. D. McColly went to Jeffersonville Friday with Bert Baker, the \ Roselawn chicken thief, where the latter will serve a term of from one to eight years in the state reformatory. Commencing this Wednesday afternoon, contributions of supplies for the Jasper county hospital may be left at the Princess theater where representatives of the Home Economics club will be present to receive such contributions. Clerk Nichols went to Valparaiso Monday, taking same record made in Jasper county in the case of the Manhattan Lumber Co. vs. Peter Crumpacker et al, tried here a couple of years ago. He was accompanied by Mrs. P. W. Clarke and daughter Ethel, who visited Miss May Clarke, who is attending Valparaiso university. Charles Marlin, who is employed on a farm south of town, was arrested by Nightwatch Critser Saturday night on a charge of drunkenness. Marlin is married and the father of four childrep', and when not drinking is a good) worker, and because of the urgent need of farm laborers at this time he was released when he had sobered up.

The receipts and expenditures of the county hospital for the past three months, as shown by the records of the county treasurer, were as follows: July—receipts $944.45, expenditures $1,027.79; deficit for July $82.84. August—receipts $465, expenditures $1,060.83; deficit for August $595.83. September—receipts $651.68, expenditures $870.35; deficit for September $267. The joint meeting of the JasperNewton county commissioners that was to have been held here Tuesday to make appointment of viewers for the .proposed Putt macadam road on Newton-Jaspei- counties' line, failed to be. The reason, we are told, was because Jasper is—and will be for some time —unable to sell bonds for the proposed improvement, wherefore the appointment of viewers would have been useless and such action in the cause is the same as indefinitely postponed.—Kentland Democrat.