Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 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 Office*. Commissioners’ court will convene in regular monthly session next Monday. z Don’t forget that next. Monday, May 5, is the last day for paying the spring installment of taxes or having penalty added for >failure to pay. It is also the last day for filing mortgage exemptions. Burning soot from a chimney set fire to the roof of County Commissioner Charles Welch’s residence in west Carpenter Saturday morning, and burned a hole about eight feet square before the flames were extinguished. Recorder Scott has received the special record book for recording the discharge of Jasper county soldiers in the late world war. Soldiers should bring or mail in their discharges and have them recorded as a protection against lose. No charge whatever is made for recording these discharges.

The dredge at work on the Bice ditch in Jordan township seems to be making mighty slow progress, having dug perhaps a half a mile in the past six or eight months. A grave • mistake was made in permitting the dredge to cut so close to the range line grade, north of the bridge on the stone road running east and west, and some of the grade has already caved in at certain points. Had the channel been out 10 or 15 feet further east here—it is further south —this could have been avoided. It now leaves a very dangerous ditch close to the roadway, and with heavy rains it is likely to destroy some of the grade, entailing much expense to repair and protect. In any event, a strong fence should be erected along the east side of this grade as a protection to travelers.

That the construction of highways in Tippecanoe county will be held up until such time as the state highway commission designates what roads in the county it will take over and construct under the state highway law, is the decision that was reached by the board of county commissioners at the regular meeting Saturday morning. The reason given out for the action is that the county board does not wish to expend the money of the taxpayers of the county when there is a possibility that the state will take ove» some of the numerous roads that have been petitioned for, as the construction of all these roads would cost in the neighborhood of a million and a half dollars. No less than 11 ‘petitions for roads under the county unit plan have already been filed in Tippecanoe county.— Lafayette Journal.

There wgs another fracas up at Newland Friday, when Robert Grimm was again forcibly ejected from the house he occupied by Herman J. Kuppers—the overseer for the Jasper County Farms., Co, which took over a lot of the Ed Oliver lands —and several others, and as a result another state case has been filed against Kuppers et al. charging riot, while still others are to come, it is said. Among those named in the case filed are Kuppers, Paul Lamoreaux, Charles Ludgreen and Jamese Chese, as assaulting Robert H. Grimm, Jud Zook, Ralph Timmons and Asa Stump. Unless a stop is put to the methods of some of these strongarm men up there' murder will be done. Another case was filed last Friday, also, on affidavit of J. F. F hast, against Kuppers, Edgar Cavendish, Ed Qliver and others, Charging them on or about April 19 with maliciously and mischeviously injuring a certain house, property in which affiant had an equitable interest under contract to purchase, by breaking off and oarry-

ing away eeven doorib, eleven windows and doing damage to the .amount df S3OO.