Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1918 — COURTHOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

COURTHOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

The Legal News Epitomised —Together With Other Notes Gathered From the Several County Offices. Don't go without a typewriter when youi can buy a good rebuilt or second-band one so cheaply at The Democrat office. Call in and see the several machines we have on hana and let us demonstrate them to you. Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Thornton went to Knox via auto yesterday for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Abel Ray. They will be gone until the first of the week and will probably visit at other points before returning home. Marriage licenses issued: May 21, Staecey Munde of Chicago, aged 55 July 20 last, accountant, and Adele F. Hiller, also of Chicago, aged 29 June 16 last, clerk. Second marriage for male, first marriage dissolved by divorce; first marriage for female. Married in the clerk’s office by Mayor C. G. Spitler. Don’t forget to file that expense account statement with the clerk of the circuit court if you were a candidate for office before the recent primary, if the office you were seeking pays SIO,O or more per year. Don’t put this matter off until it is too late to file such statement, for if you do you not only forfeit you. right to hold the office—if you received the nomination —but are also subject to a heavy fine. This statement must be filed within thirty days following the .primary. There are three prisoners in the. county-jail at the present and all have been there for the past few weeks at least. They are Charles Marlin of Rensselaer, awaiting trial for shooting at Nightwatch Critser recently and who will probably have to remain in jail until the September term of court, as it is not at all probable he will be able to give bond; '“Billy’’ Lyons of Remington and Rensselaer, who is awaiting acceptance at the State Home for Epileptics, and John Bohouuneh, a Newton county prisoner, whose trial will probably come up in the Newton circuit court in a few days.