Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 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 October term of the Newton circuit court will convene at Kentland next Monday. Marriage licenses issewd: October 3, Arthur Church Hartman of Remington, aged 33 October 28, 1918, painter, and Opal Edwards, also of Remington, aged 23 January 14 last, clerk. First marriage for each. iMiss Fern Ale, daughter of Joseph F. Ale, clerk of the circuit court in Pulaski counfy, has been admitted to practice in the Pulaski county bar. She is the first woman admitted to practice by the Pulaski county bar. Reuben Hess, Republican, former .prosecuting attorney for this judicial circuit, has been appointed jjostmaster at Kentland, to succeed Attorney Hume L. Sammons, Democrat, resigned. Mangus P. Halgren has been appointed postmaster at Oxford, Emma A. Scott j at Bosweir and David B. Purinton | at Whiting. All the above postoffices are in this congressional district. /

Up to Monday night the local registration board had 3,44 7 names on the registration lists, with perhaps 100 more that had been brought in and were added yesterday morning, making the total Registration of voters, in round numbers, 3,550, which is about 150 more than the total vote cast for president in Jasper county in 1916, (3,483) not including 33 Progressive and 10 Socialist votes cast. In the mention in Saturday’s Democrat of the $5,000 subscrip-p tions to the Fourth Liberty loan, The Democrat was misinformed in crediting a subscription in Hanging Grove to George W. Hobson of near Lafayette. Mr. Hobson made a subscription in his home county, where his property interests now are, but the $5,000 subscriptioln in Hanging Grove was made by his son, Virgil Hobson, who owns and occupies a farm there.

Under the new ruling, you need not secure a permit from your County Council of Defense for a new farm building unless the total cost is going to run above, SI,OOO. Also, you will be permitted to repair or extend an old ‘building if the total expenditure is below $2,500. ,The State Council of Defense repeats a former bit of advice to loyal Hoosiers: “Don’t build at all just now if you are going to use men, 'money, or material that could be utilized in winning the war.” The county commissioners finished up the business of the October term Monday and adjourned. Following is a report of the. proceedings:

Contractor W. V. Porter was allowed $749 in full for bridge in Carpenter township and S4OO in full Iter bridge in Jordan township. No bids were received for bridge over Mosquito creek and bridge over the Nesius ditch in Jordan township: for the Barkley-Marion foridge**Sv®r the Iroquois river or for bridge Over Carpenters creek in Carpenter township. Contractor A. E. Herriman was allowed $1,718 on the John J. Borntrager stone road; W. V. Porter $1,974.40 on the James Lane stone road; Johnson & Salrin $2,059 on the'G. B. Parkinson stone road, and Moneyhun & Son $439 on the W. L. Wood roads. Harry E. Reed resigned as superintendent; of the W. H. Gratner stone rqpd, and William Obenchain Was appointed In his stead. The auditor presented partial rejport in the Henry C. DeKock ditch. Allowances made as set out in report. A. Halleck - allowed SSO attorney fee. , Drainage commissioners asked for apd wpre granted an extension of time to report in the A. I. Sar- ’ gent ditch, to first day of November term. Superintendent filed partial report in the Simon Thompson ditch,

I which was approved. ■ In the Johp F. Zimmer ditch, Contractor B. J. Moore filed a peti'tion asking for extra pay to the 'amount of $7,000 for excavating, land board granted him $6,000 in addition to regular contract price. I in the Thomas Dimon ditch the expense account was allowed as i set out in report. i In the matter of W. S. Lowman, former assistant road superintendent, who was alleged to haye collected allowances made for labor, ' etc., by the board before moving to Porter county and failing to pay the amounts over to the parties entitled to them, and who was ordered, with his bondsmen, at the September meeting to appear before the board at the' October term and show cause why these amounts had not been paid, the following entry was made: “Board being duly advised by John L. S. Gray, county highway superintendent, that unpaid claims have been settled, this cause is dropped.” Specifications for supplies for county officers for the calendar year 1919 were examined and approved. The bond of Charles Lowman, assistant road superintend- nt, waj approved. The board leases quarters In Remington and Rensselaer for use of Liberty Guards, as follows: At Remington, room over Claude Townsend’s store, six months at $5 per month; in Rensselaer, Gayety theater building, seven months for tfS. t The board employs W. B. Peterson to paint tool house three coats and inside of barn doors two coats, at county farm, for $75, material to be same as used on the other buildings. ** Interest on cownty funds for the month of September was reported by the -various depositories, as follows: Trust -..and Savings hank, Rensselaer, $138.97; First National bank, Rensselaer, $137.27; State bank, Rensselaer, $120.03; State bank, Remington, $125.76; Bank of Wheatfield, $42.57. Fees collected for the quarter by the eounty officers as follows; [Clerk, $166.10; Recorder, $315.65; Sheriff, $50.43; Auditor, $44.70.