Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1918 — COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

IntiustlnjParapaphsFromtlu Various Dapartmints OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL The Legal News Epitomized—Together With Other Notes Gathered From the Several County Offices. The county council, county board of education and county commissioners will each meet Monday. Strange N. Cragun of Indianapolis, member of the state board of tax commissioners, was a business visitor in the city Thursday. F. M. Hershman and son Paul and former County Commissioner William Hershman were down from Walker township on business Wednesday. The war mothers are asked to meet at the court house Saturday afternoon, March 30. All mothers having sons in the service are most cordially invited to be present. An error was made in Wednesday’s Democrat in giving the name of Ralph Johnson of Barkley township as having filed for township assessor for the Republican nomination. It should have said trustee. Joe Reeve, who has held? a position as stenographer in the Monon offices in Chicago for the past two years or more, came home Tuesday evening to get ready to leave with the Jasper county contingent for Camp Taylor yesterday. Marriage licenses issued: March .27, Clifford Edward Wells of Rensselaer, aged 26 May 21 last, salesman, and Chloae Torbet of Jasper county, aged 23 April 2 last, housekeeper. First marriage for each. March 29, Henry Van Weinen ot Jasper county, aged 24 August 3D last, farmer, and Jennie DeFries, also of Jasper county, aged 23 February 28 last, housekeeper. First marriage for each. Married in the clerk’s office by Justice Dean.

Newton circuit court notes, from the Kentland Enterprise: State vs. Mark Hoag, charged with illegal sale of liquor, jury returns verdict of acquittal. -State vs. John H. Patterson, grand larceny, dismissed. Affidavit filed against J. M. Miller in six counts for the unlawful possession of liquor. Mary E .Lovell vs. William O. Stoner, suit on note, sent to Jasper county on change of venue. Ben Thomas vs. John B. Herriman, euit on note, sent to Jasper county on change of venue. Kennedy & Murphey vs. Templeton & Hamilton, suit on account, sent to Jasper county on change of venue. The following have filed declarations of their candidacy for the primary election since our last issue, all being Republicans unless otherwise noted: For trustee —C. E. Fairchild and Tunis Snip, Keener. (This makes four Republican candidates for the nomination for trustee in Keener township.) George W. Ferguson and Robert A. Mannan, Wheatfield. Alfred Dugglesby, Kankakee. Assessor —Charles A. Lytle, Milroy. Advisory board —Samuel E. Johnson, Milroy. Delegates to state convention — Jesse D. Allman and J. G. Gwin, Rensselaer. Democrats filing are: Trustee —Roy Culp, Milroy. Deputy Sheriff John Robinson has been away for several days this week for the purpose of arresting one E. H. Alford of Chicago, who is alleged to have secured $5,000 from I. O. McCullough; who owned and resided on the former Elizur Sage farm west of Rensselaer, in 1916, through the sale of stock in the National Home Building company, an alleged blue-sky organization operating in Illinois with principal offices at Peoria. Alford is charged with having procured this money under false pretenses, and the papers had been out for him here for quite a long time but it seems that he could not be located. A requisition was obtained of Governor Goodrich and was honored by the governor of Illinois after a

fight had been made by attorneys for Alford. The latter is now trying to evade being brought to Indiana throiugh habeas conp'us proceedings, it is said, and Mr. Robinson has not yet returned from Chicago, to which place 'he went from Springfield after procuring the approval of the governor to the requisition. McCullough, who only resided a year or two on the Sage farm, sold same about a year ago and moved back to Chicago, from whence he came.