Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 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 John Greve of Demotte was here on business yesterday. Sheriff B. D. McColly expects to leave tomorrow for Martinsville, Indiana, to take a course of treatment for the benefit of his health. While not serious, Mr. McColly has not been enjoying good health for some time, and hopes to return in a few weeks as good as ever. Herbert Hammond, who has been assisting his father, J. P. Hammond, in the auditor’s office for the past year or more, has accepted a position with Lee Adams in the latter’s Dodge agency at Ottawa, Illinois, and Miss Agnes Platt, who has done much of the clerical work in the auditor’s office, will take his place here. A. F. Knotts of Hammond, who spent several days here last week in the interests of his historical work, held a meeting Saturday evening at the law office of Attorney A. Halleck for the purpose of organizing a permanent historical society in this county. The meeting was well attended and the organization perfected. Mrs. James H. Chapman was chosen president; F. E. Babcock, first vice president. Charles R. Dean, second vice president; L. H. Hamilton, secretary, and an advisory board, consisting of A. Halleck, Mrs. Ora T. Ross. Mose Leopold, A. H. Hopkins, E. D. Nesbitt, Frank Osborne, John E. Alter, W. IH. Parkinson, Lizzie Faris and Callie Bonner.