Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1919 — COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting: Paragraphs From Hie Various Departments OF J'SPER COUNTY CAPITOL Legal News Epitomized—Together With Other Notes Gathered by Vs From the Various County Office#. George Ketchmark of near Kouts was a business visitor in the city Thursday. New suits filed: No. 9066. Swayne, Robinson & Co. vs. Firman and Simon Thompson. Suit ou note. Demand $2,640. The case of E. G. adm. vs. J. A. Larsh, growing out of the sale of the Sternberg farm south of Rensselaer last fall to Mr. Larsh, and in which the administrator was trying to "renig” on the sale, was up in the Benton circuit court Thursday and yesterday.

' Marriage licenses issued: June 18, Frank Frame of Demotte, aged 53, farmer, and Edna Hockelberg, also of Demotte, aged 39, housekeeper. First marriage for male, second marriage for female, first marriage dissolved by death in 1918. Married in the clerk’s office by Rev. E. W. Strecker. William Pagel of Kankakee township, aged 63, was declared insane last Tuesday at an inquest held before Drs. I. M. Washburn and E. N. Loy and Squire S. C. Irwin. Application was made for his admittance in the hospital at Longcliff, but as there is no room for him at Longcliff at present he is confined in the county Jail awaiting word of acceptance. There are no new developments In regard to the taking over of the Jackson highway by the state highway commission. The local committee is relying on the verbal statements made by the commission both invidiually and collectively, a few weeks ago when they were visited in Indianapolis, and nothing has since developed to indicate that any change in opinion has been made by the commission. We feel that we have the only logical route and confidently believe that it will soon be officially designated for the Indianapolis-Chicago road.

One of the freak laws passed by Governor Goodrich’s “best legislature in 50 years’’ makes it necessary to secure the approval of the state board of tax commissioners, sitting in Indianapolis, before any township in the state can build a little Bxlo school house or a mile of gravel road. And yet every taxpayer in the township and every man, woman and child residing therein might be heartily in favor of the project—and it is the people of the township itself that have the bill to pay—the “OK’‘ of these three men who have no interest whatever in the matter must be secured before a shovelful of dirt can be turned.