Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1918 — COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

hitirisflilf Parairaphs From till Various Bapartnwnts OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL The Legal News Epitomized—Together With Other Notes Gathered From the Several County Offices. Attorney and Mrs. Jasper Guy and little daughter of Remington were visitors in the city Monday, Mr. Guy to look after some court matters here. Newton Circuit court item in Kentland Democrat: “Harry Sellers vs. Vernon EH&gen, suit for damages, change of venue to Jasper circuit court granted Friday.’’ Attorney W. H. Parkison is thinking of moving to Lafayette sometime before the opening of the school year and his daughter, Miss Helen, will enter Purdue university.

The Democrat is informed that Mrs. Joe Ellis, who was taken to Longcliff last week, was released a day or two after having been taken there, the proceedings of commitment having been somewhat irregular or faulty, it is said. Ernest Morlan, county, thresher inspector— : appointed by County Food, Administrator John Eger—went to Indianapolis yesterday to attend a meeting of the county inspectors of the state and to get more information regarding his duties. The Democrat was in error as to the date of the meeting of the stockholders of the Farmers' Grain company in Saturday’s Democrat. It will be he d June 17, instead of June —next Monday. The official iuotvce of the - meeting appears in another column. Mrs. Joe Ellis called up The Democrat from Rensselaer yesterday morning and wished us to correct the statement made in last Wednesday’s issue that she had been taken to Longcliff. She said that she had not been there nor anywhere near there. The Democrat’s information came direct from the lips of Sheriff McColly, who iniformed us that he had taken her there the Monday previous, so it’s her and the sheriff for it as to which is correct. The six men selected to go to Indianapolis from this county on June 15, are as follows: Bernard J. Nagel, Rensselaer Leighton Earl Gifford, Rensselaer Basil Dunlap, Rensselaer Henry Bunning, Demotte Victor Sigo, Remington Ernest Garriott, Parr. The two to go to Purdue university on June 28 are Murray and William Myers of WlbeatfieM. The twenty-nine men to go to Camp Sherman, Chilicothe, Ohio, on June 28, have not beeta selected at this writing.