Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1919 — COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

IntarastiniPirasraplisFrontthg Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL rbe Legal News Epitomised —Together With Other Notes Gathered From the Several County Offices. The White circuit court convenes Monday. Attorney Jasper Guy was over from Remington Thursday looking after matters in court. New suits filed: No. 904 7. Lillie McCoHy vs. James C. McColly; petition to sell real estate. rfo. 9048. Joseph L. Hamil vs. Ed Oliver et al; action tor damages. Dtimand $5,000. ■I > / It has been announced from the oflice of W. B. Burford, state printer, that the acts of the 1919 legislature will be ready for distribution next week. As soon as receipts are received from all the county clerks, through whom the acts are distributed, a proclamation will be issued by the governor putting the laws into effect.

Federal court item in Thursday s Indianapolis News: Stewart L. Moore df Hammond (Rensselaer) pleaded not guilty to a charge of violation of the Mann act and his case will be called for trial Tuesday. He is indicted together with John Huber, Charles L. Taylor and Essie McMorris, who are alleged to have induced a young girl to come from Illinois to Hammond for immoral purposes. In petitioning tfor improved highways under the new county unit law, understand, you do not get any state aid; the entire cost is paid by the people of the county as a whole. The state and federal aid roads are trunk line roads, to be laid out by the state highway commission, and paid for 25% by the county, 25% by the state and 50% by the federal government. —I -- Albert Keen and wife were down from Wheatfield Wednesday. Mr. Keen informed The Democrat that he had just closed a deal for the Yeoman rock in the rear of the S. S. Shedd property, and expected to be down here a week from next Monday to start the work of completing the street contracts v hic-h he has in Rensselaer and which pave been lying dormant for the past two years.