Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 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—Togather With Other Notes Gathered From the Several County Offices. Sheriff B. D. McColly was in South Bend on business Tuesday. Commissioners’ court convenes in regular monthly session Monday. New suits filed: N. 8976. William B. Neeves vs. Harry L. Adams et al; action in replevin. No. 8977. Augusta Sternberg et al vs. Joseph Larsh; action to quiet title. r Harry Mooj'e of Rensselaer, son of B. J. Moore, and Leland Hialleck of Fair Oaks, both volunteers, were sent by the local board Thursday to Camp Polk, Raleigh, North Carolina, to enter the tank corps. The local conscription board received a call yesterday morning for fifteen men to be sent to Camp Wadsworth, Spartanburg, South Carolina, about November 11, the exact date not being fixed at this time. The local conscription board has been, notified to take enlistments in the Motor Transport Corps of Class 1-A and limited service men. These men to be sent to Newport News, Virginia, and leave for overseas In ninety days. *

The 1919 license tags for automobiles and motorcycles will show white letters and figures on a black background. The' tags now show black letters on a background. The new tags will be made at the state prison under a contract awarded some time ago. Deputy Prosecutor Sands was to hold a court of inquiry yesterday to inquire into the death of Earl Hughes of Monon, the brakeman, whose body was found on the Monon' tracks near Pleasant Ridge last Friday morning. The inquiry was to have been held before Squire Irwin, but Mr. Sands informed The Democrat at noon yesterday that it would not be held then as he was unable to secure one of the witnesses "that he wanted. Dali Hartnett, the .switchman, who rode in the caboose of train 45, from which Hughes is supposed to have been knocked off or fell, and who was reported to have said that Hughes had been knocked off in a fight with Conductor Ball, denies having made any such statement, according to the Lafayette Journal.