Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 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. The county commissioners will meet in special session Monday to close up the business for the calendar year 1917. County Superintendent and Mrs. W. O. Schanlaub of Kentland spent Christmas here his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Schanlaub. Newton county is to have a county agent for the first time, and S. S. Davis, a graduate of the Illinois university in the agricultural course has been selected for the place.

Another shipment of that splendid bond paper for legal and abstract work —Napier Bond —just received Monday in The Democrat’s fancy stationery and office supply department. New suits filed: No. 8867. Matilda Dluzak vs. Laska D. Franscoviak; suit for damages. Demand S3O. Appeal frdm Squire Dickinson’s court. No. 8868. Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio, vs. Conrad Kellner and T. M. Callahan. Complaint on account. Demand $493.60. Guy Alberson and Clifford Kerns, the two lads who were arrested Monday on the charge of breaking into the James Barber home north of town recently and taking a watch, clothing, etc., were arraigned before Judge Hanley in juvenile court Wednesday morning and were sentenced to the Indiana Boys’ school at Plainfield, where they were taken by Sheriff McColly the same afternoon.

On another page The Democrat publishes the county treasurer’s annual notice of tax levy for the year 19.17. As usual, Rensselaer comes up smilingly with the highest levy in the county, $4.56 on each SIOO valuation; Remington copies second ■with $3.86; Union third, $3.71; Wheatfield fourth, $3.68; Keener fifth, $3.33; Kankakee sixth, $3.12, and Walker seventh, $3.10. The other nine townships have a levy running from $2.05 in Carpenter, te $2.97 in Newton. Every taxpayer should read this notice and familiarize himself with the taxpaying requirements. Marriage licenses-issued: December 24, Jesse Fuller Heath of Remington, aged 21, farm hand, and Sarah Elizabeth Martin of Jasper county, aged 17 August 3 .-last, beusekeeper. Female being under age, her father, George Martin, gives consent to issuance of license. First marriage (for each. Married in the clerk’s office by Justice D. D. Dean.

December 24, Bruce Wilson of Benton county, aged 28 January 26 last, farmer, and Marie Roades of Remington, aged 22 November 18 last, housekeeper. First marriage for each. December 27, John Israel Reed of Rensselaer, aged 29 December 21, engineer, and Flossie Blanche Randle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charley Randle of this city, aged 17 November 20 last, housekeeper. First marriage for each. Female being under age her another, Martha M. Randle, gives consent to issuance of license.