Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1918 — COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

lutortstlie Pincrapks Fna tW« Virion Bopalmts OF JASPER UNITY CAPITOL The Legal Sen KpitcMaed—Together With Other Notes Gathered Fran the Several On—ty Offices. There were nine marriage licenses issued last month, against ten for the preceding month and four for the corresponding month of ISI7. The receipts of the county hospital for the month of May, as shown by the books in the county treasurer's office, were $1,000.15, the expenditures $1,080.45, leaving a net deficit of $80.20. Sheriff who is taking the back to nature treatment on the banks off the Kankakee, spent Saturday and Sunday with his family here. He is looking much better and says the oat-door life is agreeing with Mm immensely. Sheriff McColly did not return Monday to Ms camp ®a the Kankakee, as intended, bnt instead, accompanied by John Bickneli and Joe Ellis, took Mrs. Joe Eliis of Rensselaer and Mrs. George Dawisson of " Union township -to Longeliff.

Newton circuit court Items in the Kentland Democrat: Victor E. Michaels vs. William P. Michaels, venued to Benton circuit court. Albert Stakley w. David L. and Everett Halstead, suit for damages, jury returned a verdict for plaintiff and assess amount of Ms damages at |s#, Drs. F. H. Hemphill. M. D. Gwin and/ E. X. Lay of this city and Justice John Ikore of Barkley township held an inquest last Wednesday on the mental condition of Mrs. Joseph Kills off Rensselaer, and found her to he off unsound mind. Application was made to send her to Longcliff. The county board of review is now in session and will continue in session for the next sixty days. The board is composed of the county assessor, treasurer and auditor, and two appointive members, Township Assessor Frank Goff of Union township and Republican County Chairman George H. McLain. Mr. and Mrs. K_ P. Honan did not go to Logan sport last Friday with Mrs. Walter Lynge, as intended, and the latter went alone on the train. She thought her husband would probably be better off at home than at Longcliff, and Monday, accompanied by her brother, Mr. Christensen, and wife, of near Roselawn, drove down and brought him back with them.

The local conscription board has received a call for two men for Purdue Who may volunteer up to Friday, June 7, and six men to be sent to Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, who may also volunteer up to June «. If these quotas are not filled by volunteers, they will be made up of qualified men from class 1. The men to go to Purdue will leave June 2*, and those sent to Indianapolis will leave June 15. A misplaced line of type in the report of the Marion township Third Liberty loan bond sales, in Saturday's Democrat, made it read quite awkwardly. The sentence in which the line was out and appeared later in the article in the wrong place, should have read:- “But two subscribers in Marion township. H. O. Harris. Siet.lM, and Henry Eigelsbach, 814.000, made passible the splendid showing in both this township and the manty." Marriage licenses issued: June 1, Lawrence Albert Blank of Jasper county, aged 24 October IS last, farmer, and Edna Mabel Houston, also of - Jasper county, aged 18 marriage for each. June 1, Charles Anderson fogland of Remington, aged SI April 6 last, fanner, aad Martha ElisaFirst marriage for each Married by Mayor C. G. Spitier.