Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1919 — COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs From the Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL The Legal News Epitomised—Together With Other Notes Gathered From the Several County Offices. Newton circuit court items from the Kentland Enterprise; State vs. John A. Williams, pleads guilty to assault and .is given a fine of S2O and costs. Daniel W. Markley vs. Otto Rudicil, suit on note; sent to Jasper county for trial. The report that th? teachers in Union township have contracts for eight or nine months teaching is incorrect, The Demobrat is informed by an official of that township. Therefore should it be decided to close the schools at the end of the minimum .term there is no “come-back” on the township. The township will be $5,500 in debt in the school fund even with the closing at the end of the minimum term, it is said, and be put several thousand dollars more in -debt to continue the schools on.

—t— The Newton county highway .superintendent has issued notice to land owners that the law must be complied with in regard to the' trimming of hedges along public highways. This law, as well as the law requiring the cutting of weeds along the highways, is al-' most a. dead letter in many counties, and while the pro- 1 gressive farmer, who always takes pride in the appearance of his farm, keeps his hedge trimmed and the weeds mowed in the highways along his land, the careless and indifferent pay no attention whatever to the law, and the officers whose duty it is to see that this work is done simply “lay down” on the proposition. The thxjfty farmer needs no such law, for has pride enough in his .make-up to want his farm to present a tidy ■ appearance, and it is an imposition j on such farmers to permit the other class to do the opposite.