Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 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. T. C. Johnson, state bee inspector, was in Rensselaer Tuesday on business Clerk Nichols will go to Indianapolis today to get the state ballots for the November election. And don’t forget that Monday, November 4, is the last day for paying the fall installment of taxes. Miss Agnes Platt, deputy in the county auditor’s office, has been sick since Tuesday with Influenza which later developed in pneu’monia. She is reported to be holding her own at this writing. The local conscription board, The Democrat is informed, received notice recently that the Rensselaer man—name withheld for various reasons—who took training at the officers training school in Indianapolis last fall, received a commission as first lieutenant and was stationed for a time at San Antonio, Texas, and later at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, where he was promoted to Captain, and whose alleged escapades were mentioned some time ago in The Democrat, has been discharged for the good of the service. Just why any man of the intelligence this man possessed would perform in the way he is alleged to, certainly passes comprhension.