Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1918 — 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 regular session next Monday. New suits filed: No. 8869. Harvey Davisson vs. James Porter et al; complaint in attachlment. Sheriff MdColly and E. M. LaRue were in Monticello Thursday conferring with the White county conscription board. The annual reports of township trustees are now due and must be published during the present month in two newspapers representing the two leading political parties of the county. The receipts and expenditures of the county hospital for the month of December, as shown by the official records in the county treasurer’s office, were: Receipts, $1,370.25; expenditures, $1,001.25. This leaves a net surplus of $368.94. The first surplus shown for any month since the hospital was opened.

Anent the erection of the big billboard on the court house grounds, a gentleman who had just returned from a visit with relatives at Columbus, Indiana, stated a few days ago that they had quite a little discussion at Columbus regarding the erection of a billboard on the court house grounds there, and the officers would permit no billboard on the grounds except it be one containing an honor roll —one giving names of all those in the county who were serving in the army and navy, and such a billboard is to be erected there. The regular meeting of the county council of defense was held at the court house Wednesday afternoon with Chairman Frank Welsh and most of the heads of the various committees in attendance. Matters off various importance were discussed and the council ordered that the minutes show that it was opposed to the teaching of German in the public schools of Jasper county. The action of the Remington schools in running six days per week in order that the school might close earlier in the spring and thereby let the boys out to help in the spring work, was highly endorsed and it was recommended all other schools in the county do the same except where It was necessary for the teachers to attend township institute. The next meeting of the council will be on Wednesday, January 16.

“Commodore” O’Connor came down from Kniman Wednesday and demonstrated knot tying at the farm engineering school going on this week at the Gayety airdome. Mr. O’Connor learned the Various knot-tying tricks -while in Uncle Sam’s service on a man-of-war a number of years ago, when he served in the U. S. navy. By the way, our boys who are now training in the engineers’ division of the U. S. army are taught, among various other accomplishments, knot-tying. Temporary bridges, etc., etc., as built by Uncle Sam's engineers, are lashed together with ropes, not a spike being used in their construction, and the knots are tied in such a manner that they will tighten harder with the more strain put on. them but are loosened in a moment’s time when the structure has served its purpose and is to be dismantled, or torn down.