Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1919 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

telegraphic Reports From Many i Parts at tki Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happrmfugt in the Nearby Cities and Towns Matters e< Minor Mention From Many Plnoeo. 1 -4 ’ * ,a ■ I |I . (O\ril.l(TOßS MUST PAX

Overcharges of g 10,852.87 Found in Building Fleming Road. The state board of accounts has turned over to the governor for (certification to the attorney-gen-eral for collection charges tqtallng 110,552.37 against Evans,. Son A Van Natta, contractors, who are alleged to have fallen that far short of coming up to the- plans and specifications of a road they constructed In Pine tdwnship, Benton county, in 1917-1918. XThe road in question is the William Fleming free gravel' road. The road and the contractors have been in the limelight for some tube and the action Is the first of legal steps for collection of the amount out of which the county is to have been "fllmmed.”

Drt) NOT REFUSE to LIVE IN LAFAYETTE The Democrat recently oopled an article from the Lafayette Journal regarding an action for divorce that defendant refused to live In Lafayette, and that they were married —In Rensselaer—and separated on the same day. August 27. The statements, we are since tojA. axe, not. true. Defendant lived with plaintiff until some two weeks ago, at the home of his daughter, and would have continued to live with him had he rented or procured a house by themselves, which plaintiff refused to do, hence her return, to Rensselaer. His action for divorce on the alleged, false grounds may be contested. .'