Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 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. Attorney and Mrs. G. A. Williams left Friday for Carthage, Illiiiois, for a Visit with the latter's people, and where Mrs. Williams will remain for some time. Chazles W. Pharis, a class 4 man, came in a few days ago and volunteered to go with the seventy men who are to leave here next Tuesday for Camp Taylor, Kentucky, and was accepted by the local board.

Marriage licenses issued: July 13, Murray M. Myers of Wheatfield, aged 26 October 3 last, soldier*, and Hulda C. Jensen, also of Wheatfield, aged 23 October 24 last, housekeeper. First marriage for each. —:—:— A child welfare meeting will be held in Demotte on Thursday afternoon, July IS, at 2:30 p. im. Every one is invited, but the fathers and mothers are especially urged to be present. . After this meeting a committee will be stationed in the school house prepared to weigh and measure all children under school age. The school house will be open on Friday also from 1 o’clock until 5 for the same purpose. The committee has recorded 115 children; The Jasper County Council of Defense will meet at the court house at 2 o’clock this afternoon, anti matters of imiportance,- including further arrangements for the speaking here August 5 by Hon. Michael E. Foley, head of the State Council of Defense, will come up. Th?» time for holding meetings of the Jasper County Council was Changed back to Wednesday at the last regular meeting and the hour from 2:30 to 2:00. A full attendance is urged at the meeting today.

The local conscription board has received the following communication : By recent act of congress citizens or subjects of countries neutral in the present war who have declared their intentions to becoimie citizens of the United States are relieved from liability to military service on certain conditions in accordance with the regulations prescribed by the President. Pending receipt of these regulations. instruct all local boards that they shall mot involuntarily induct any registrant who is a subject of a country neutral in the present war and who has declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States hut who has not completed his final naturalization. Declarant registrants of the fdllowing countries do not come within the terms of this telegram: Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Costarica, Cuba, France, Great Britain, Greece, Guatamala, Italy, Japan, Liberia, Monaco, Montenegro, Nicaragua, Panama, Portugal, Roumania, Russia, Sanmarino, Servia, Siam, Subjects ot Austria Hungary and Germany should be still classified as alien enefmie^. —Crowder.

the stream of supplies continued and the foe turned back, not by superior numbers, but by the spirit and the soul of France. And today more than 32,000 of those grand old men sleep beneath the sod along this “Sacred Way” in everlasting peace, dying with a smile upon their faces as they knew the'

enemy could not pass. It fs the spirit and the soul of France that for nearly four years has held hack that remorseless foe, and it is the soul of' France that our young men are ever going across the seas to help uphold the prim ciples of humanity. It is the soul of France that is unconquerable and which shall prevail. Following Dean Coulter’s address a resolution pledging our all to the cause of the war was unanimosly adopted, after which the meeting closed with Mrs. Sage’ singing “America,” the audience again jointing in on the chorus. Following is a copy of the resolution adopted at the* meeting: Be it resolved 'by the people in mass meeting here assembled to do homage to the beloved nation of France on this, her one hundred

twenty-ninth anniversary of Liberty and Freedom; that we declare our adherence to President Wilson’s declaration to stand by France until victory. We each hereby -pledge to this sacred cause all that we have and all that we are, to the sacrifice of cur last dollar and our last drop of blood.