Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1919 — COURTHOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

COURTHOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

litirHtlniPinpiphs From tin Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL Legal News Epitomized —Together With Other Notes Gathered by Us From the Various Connty Offices. Court Reporter Mike Wagner left Monday for Sheboygan, Wis., to visit his parents. Trustee John F. Pettit Of Walker township was in Rensselaer Monday on business, w The McKay laundry machinery, which probably cost upwards of >2,000 when new, brought a total of about >4O at sheriff’s sale Saturday.

The Marion township issue of consolidated school bonds were sold yesterday morning by Trustee Postill to the State bank of Rensselaer at par (>18,000) accrued Interest and >307.50 premium. The Fletcher American bank of Indianapolis bid >305 premium; Breed-Elliott & Harrison, also of Indianapolis, >lßl, and J. M. Waugh of Crawfordsville, >lO. B. F. Alter and County Surveyor Nesbitt Invested in a little real estate Monday before the price got up to >I,OOO per acre, and purchased of Barney Kolhoff the old Jerry Shea farm of 100 acres 1 mile west of the Alf Donnelly corner north of town. The price paid, it is understood, was >225 per acre. Mr. Alter owns a farm close by the land purchased.

—t—;— Land prices are certainly soaring tc heretofore unheard of figures in Jasper county and many farms have changed hands in the past 30 days, some of them two or three times, and each purchaser has made a nice sum on the advance. John W. Sage of Rensselaer, who bought 325 acres of the J. J. Lawler lands, east of Pleasant Ridge at >lB5 per acre about 10 days ago, was offered >225 per acre for this land last Friday. This was an advance of >4O per acre, or >13,000 profit. Marriage licenses issued: July 12, Frank Browning Dempsey 'of Chicago, aged 34 February 28 last, switchman, and Benona Frances Larson, also of Chicago, aged 30 May 20 last, housekeeper. First -marriage for male, pecond for female, first marriage dissolved by divorce June 20, 1919. July 12, Randle Delos Gorham, son of Mrs. George Gorham of Rensselaer, aged 21 January 15 last, electrician, and Louisa Griggs, daughter of Len Griggs, also of Rensselaer, aged 18 February 5 last, telephone operator. First marriage for each.