Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1919 — COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

ißtonstlicPinfnHsFmillio VtflNsOoHrtmHls OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL Legal News Epi torn! sed—Together With Other -Notes Gathered by Us From the Various County Offices. Attorney A. D. Babcock was over from Goodland Saturday. ••Commodore” O’Connor down from Kniman Monday, looking well and feeling just as patriotic as ever. New suits filed: No. 9058. Ralph Sprague vs. Premier Stock Farms association and M. D. Avery. Suit on account. Demand 1283.75. There we re” eight marriage licenses issued last month against four for the preceding month and nine for the corresponding month of 1918. Lee E. Glasebrook and F. W. Fisher were down from Kankakee township on business Saturday. Everything is prosperous^and peaceable in Kankakee, they report.

•Former County Surveyor DeVere Yeoman has secured a position in the engineering department of the state highway commission and will begin his duties there today. He will be located in the state house for the present, at least. v The County Board of Review met Monday and will hear grievances of the wealthy taxpayers of Jasper c<p nty for the next 38 days. And it appears very probable thtt there will be many complaints lodged, too, as the ’pew tax law has not met with a very enthusiastic reception in Jasper County. Newton circuit court items from the Kentland Democrat: Amzl S. Laßue vs. Edward G. Sternberg, on contract; reset from Tuesday to next Tuesday for hearing. Cases of Grant and Roper Whitby, by William IH. Whitby, their next ’friend, vs. Michael Duffy, for wages; venued to Jasper circuit court.

Attorney John A. Punlap returned home the last of the*-week from a four weeks’ visit with his wife and daughter at Dallas, Tex., who have been visiting her parents there for some time. Mrs. Dunlap and daughter did not return home with him, as her brother, who had been with the A. E. F. in France, was soon to return home and she decided to stay and visit with him before returning, Joe Fenzel was dowd from Walker township Monday to see the Board of Review. Joe thinks some of the sandhills of Walker are assessed too high. This new tax law, which has about trebled the valuation of lands and personal property, is a Republican law and is causing that party all s6rts of uneasiness as to the result it will have politically. That taxes will De much higher is a foregone conclusion. A petition has been filed with the trustee of Marlon township by taxpayers of the north part thereof, asking for the consolidation of the township schools north of the river—all the schools on the south of the river were consolidated a couple of years ago—and the erection of a centrally located consolidated school building. There are five school districts that would be affected, but two of these schools have been abandoned and but three were taught the last school year. A bond issue of SIB,OOO is to be asked for to provide for the erection of a consolidated school building. The Democrat again calls attenits friends to the publication of legal notices which they can control, and asks that they be sure to Instruct their attorney or the eounty clerk or county surveyor, as the case may be, to have the notices published in The Democrat. Otherwise/ Republican attorneys will chase all such notices to can papers. There axe many notices that the clients themselves control the publication of and we ’frill esteem it a favor if you will plainly

Inform your attorney or the officer through whom the notice ,1s given vo have same published in this paper. The cost will be at least as low and in many cases lower than if published elsewhere. Please bear this in mind the next time you have occasion to have* a legal notice published, and greatly oblige.