Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 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. County Agent Learning was in Lafayette on business Wednesday. White county, Indiana, has received official recognition from the provost marshal-general as being one of the few units in the United States which filled up its draft quota by'voluntary enlistment, and which did not have to provide a single man under the selective draft process. The official statement is highly complimentary to the few communities where such a condition existed. Marriage licenses ■ issued: January 8, John William Martin of Rensselaer, aged 27 February 16 last, farmer, and Viola Charlotte Kohley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Kohley of south of Rensselaer, aged 25 September 15 last, housekeeper. First marriage for each. January 10, William Orville Brown of Saunemin, Illinois, aged 28 September 21 last, iron worker, and Ethel May Large of Lee, aged 25 May 5 last, housekeeper. First marriage for each.

New suits filed: No. 8869. William Eckert vs. Jeroine Nelson; action for damages, on warranty on sale of horse, guaranteed to be sound. Demand $l5O. No. 8871. Cory O. Price vs. Mary Price, action for divorce. The complaint alleges that the parties, who reside in Carpenter township, were married May 25, 1905, and separated December 1, 1917. Cruel and inhuman treatment is charged in that defendant failed and neglected to prepare plaintiff’s meals; that she would curse and abuse said plaintiff and >for weeks and months at a time would not converse with him. Judge Hanley, sitting in juvenile court, spot to the Claramont Correctional school for girls at Indianapolis Monday, Lulu Sayler, the 14-year-old daughter of Mrs. Belle McCarthy of Rensselaer, who had gotten beyond the control of the latter. The girl had got in the habit of going away and being gone for days at a time without the consent of her mother, and Is said to have recently received a gift of $lO from her father and she then went over to Remington and was there for about a week, when she telephoned here to McKay’s laundry, where she had beeu iworking, and said that she was out of .money and if Mr. McKay would send her money she would return to her work again. Mr. McKay ■communicated with her mother who sent Deputy Sheriff John Robinson over to Remington Saturday and the girl was brought here and as a result was taken to, the correctional school on Monday last.

County Surveyor Nesbitt sold the Nesius ditch in Carpenter and Jordan townships Saturday at a total of $14,140.30. There were four bidders on the main ditch, which is to be dredged—A. Bennema of Chicago, Ed. Sternberg, B. J. Moore and Walter Gilmore. Ben--nema was the lowest when bidding ceased, his last bid being 16.11 cents per cubic yard, making a total of $11,895.30 for the 72,366 cubic yards of dredge work; Tile lateral No. 1 was sold to Anthony Nesius at $1,185, and tile lateral No. 2 to John Zimmer at $1,060. Work must start within thirty days after bonds are sold. The dredge work contractor also has the contract for cleaning out and deepening the Bice ditch, into which the Nesius ditch empties. He was quite dilatory in getting started on the Bice ditch and many land owners assessed on same lost much more in value of crops last - year than their entire assessments amounted to. Work was started, however, last fall on the rock work at the east end but the removal of this has