Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 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 registration in Newton county totaled seventy-nine men. Fred Tresmer and Alfred Duggleby of Kankakee township were visitors in the city Wednesday. New suits filed: No. 9833. Theodore H. Smith vs. Victor Johnson. Action for specific performance of contract. Marriage licenses issued: June 5, Leonard Harmon Dickinson of Rockford, Illinois, aged 33 July 2 last, carpenter, and Mae Frances Bjlite of Remington, aged 25 May 26 last, housekeeper. First marriage for each. One Oliver typewriter No. 3, one each Smith Premier No. 2, No. 4 and No. 10 at bargain prices in The Democrat’s fancy stationery and office supply department. _ Will sell on monthly payments if desired or will take your old typewriter in on for these thoroughly rebuilt ones. ts Victor Hoover, who is attending Rush Medical college .in Chicago, was down Tuesday for a few hours’ visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Hoover, and to register with the Jasper county young men who have become twenty-one since June 5, 1917. Victor has enlisted in the navy and will be called to report about June 28, if he passes the examination O. K. His registration card has been transferred to Chicago and he will be examined there. In the list of new suits filed in Newton county last week, as published in the Kentland Democrat, was “Leon V. Gridley vs. Fern Gridley; action for divorce.’’ The defendant, it is understood, was formerly Miss Ora F. Bruner, formerly of Rensselaer, who was married to Mr. Gridley of near Brook something like one year ago, this being her third marriage, both former marriages having been dissolved by divorce. Mr. Gridley was likewise divorced by his first wife.