Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1918 — COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

taterssting Paragraphs Fromthe Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL The Legal News Epitomized—Together With Other Notes Gathered From the Several County Offices. Commissioners’ court will convene in regular monthly session next Monday. —•—. (Harry McColly, son of Sheriff and Mrs. B. D. McColly, is improving from his recent attack of Spanish influenza. Trustee Joseph Salrin of Walker, Charles' Odom and Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Odom of Gillam township were Rensselaer visitors Monday. Hon. Archibald Hall of Indianapolis will speak at a Liberty Loan meeting to be held at Remington this evening. Auditor and Mrs. J. P. Hammond and Miss LaVerne Guyer • autoed to Huntington Saturday and visited tjhe former’s; sister, Mrs. Clint Brown and husband, returning home Monday. —g i ; . Newton and Lake were among the eleven counties in Indiana having raised their Liberty Loan quota in Saturday and Sunday’s drive. No report of what Jasper county had done was available up to yesterday noon. Marriage licenses issued: September 27, Roscoe William Sprague of McCoysburg, aged 20 December 8 last, farmer, aijd Dicie Ethel ■ Freeman *of Jasper county, aged ■ 22 January last, housekeeper. First ■ marriage for each. Male being F under age his father gave consent ■to issuance of license.

local conscription board renotice Saturday that the draft call for 28 men from Jasper county, who were to leave next week, had been cancelled on account of the prevalence of Spanish influenza in the training camps. This cancellation is general the country over, and a new date for entrainment will be set after the epidemic has been quelled.