Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1918 — COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Intiresting Paragraphs From tfie Various Departments J ■ OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL The Legal News Epitomized—Together With Other Notes Gathered From the Several County Offices. I Do you save carbon copies of your business letters? If so—and every good business man should do this — call in and see the saving we can make you on “second sheets.” —The Democrat, Later orders received by the local conscription board is for the entrainment of the twenty-nine men from this county to be sent tv Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio, on next Tuesday, June 25, instead of June 28, as first announced. Marriage liceses issued: June 18, Willis Joseph Wolfe of Pulaski county, aged 19 November 13 last, farmer, and Florence Ethel Watson of Jasper county, aged 18 «March 28 last, housekeeper. First marriage for each. Male being under age his father, C. E. Wolfe, gave consent to issuance of license.

New suits filed: No. 8936. Harry Watson vs. Mary E. Rush; suit on account. Demand $125. No. '8937. Mary I. Dolezal, guardian of Vera Karp, a minor, vs. Walter Hershman; suit for damages. Demand $5,000. The complaint alleges that plaintiff’s ward, who is a school teacher, was run over by an automobile driven by plaintiff at San Pierre on April 22, and was permanently injured, in addition to receiving a broken limb and other bruises. One thing that the public cannot understand is, how did that Republican. township trustee of Wheatfield township, who was found short in his township deposits by the field examiners of the State Board' of Accounts, ever get this money in his own private hands. He -could not deposit the county warrants in his own name nor could he check out township funds for his own pri vate use in his road contracts without the bank being aware of the fact, it would seem. Only a few years ago a case almost identical with this was brought to light by the field examiners in Walker township, where the Republican trustee had used township funds for his own private purposes. It would be

interesting to know how this thing is managed, so that the forthcoming legislature can remedy any defect in the depository law that enables an officer to “get fey”—for a time, at least. in csmr Lands belonging to his censtit’ueoey for his own P ri " rate needs.