Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1919 — COURT NEWS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

COURT NEWS

THE TRIAL CALENDAR The following cases have been set down for trial: State vs. Frank M. Walters, third Monday. State vs. Bert Lewellyn, third Monday. Nellie M. Sawin vs. Charles V. May et al, third Tuesday. Bert W. Price vs. Earl E. Adams, third Tuesday. American Agricultural Chemical Co. vs. William F. Hayes, third Tuesday. Plaintiff files amended complaint. Harry H. Watson vs. Mary E. Rush, third Wednesday. Micah A. Gray vs. Thomas M. McAleer, third Wednesday. Isaac Colburn et al vs. Abner P. Huntington, third Wednesday. Henry Haag vs. Joseph I. Adams estate, third Thursday. E. A. Bennett Overland Co. vs. Loren C. Sage, third Thursday. Charles G. Spitler, vs. David L. Halstead et al. Set for third Thursday. William B. Neeves vs. Harry L. Adams et al, thitd Friday. " Charles N. Dickinson vs. Frank Hill, third Friday. Eunice J. Morris vs. George M. Myers, third Friday. Frank Melrose vs. Emil Besser, fourth Monday. State vs. Stanley E. Case, fourth Monday. Eugene L. Garey vs. Mary E. Grimm. and Ed Oliver; same vs. David Popel and Ed Oliver; same vs. Arthur D. Cavendish et al, set for fourth Wednesday. Ezra C. Voris vs. John Herr, fourth Thursday.

There is a hideous reptile, known as the fishing frog,' which angles for its game as expertly and with as great success as the most adroit fly fisher. He is a clumsy, awkward swimmer, but nature has compensated him for his unwieldiness by furnishing him with an equivalent for a rod and line, with bait always ready for use. Two elongated tentacles spring from his nose, which taper away like actual fishing rods. To the end of them is attached, by a slender filament, which serves the purpose of a line, a bait in the form of a shiny bit of membrane. The hooks are set in the mouth of the fisherman below, and in order to induce the fish to venture within reach of them, the angler stirs up the mud at the bottom with his fins and tail. This attracts the fish and conceals him from their observation. He then plies his rod; the glittering bait glows in the water like a living insect. The dazed fish are soon in great numbers, perfectly circumvented by the trick of the crafty angler.

Dr. J. B. Ford, age 28, a graduate of Howard university, Washington, is the first colored doctor to serve on a Bellevue hospital ambulance in New York city. Although almost totally blind”, Katherine and Agnes Burke, sisters, 32 and 23 years old respectively, are taking full courses at the University of Wisconsin. More than 2,000 women took jthe places of men on six steam railways in and about New York city; 2,080 went to work in ten munition factories, while nearly 5,000 were Employed in similar factories in the eastern states, all between the spring of 1917 and that of 1918.