Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1919 — COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

I ntsrostlng Paragraphs From the Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL V Legal News With Other Notes Gathered by Ws From the Various County Offices. D. J. Pettit of Wolcott was a visitor in the city a short Ume Saturday. • Trustee John F. Pettet and son Jay of Walker township were visitors in the city Saturday. Mr. Pettet has let the contract for the new school building at Oak Grove to C. P. Clager of Wheatfield for $2,460. Trustee B. F. LeFevre, Theodore Phillips and Jerry Shea were down from Gillam Monday. The latter, who suffered a bad fall from a load of hay when a rope he was pulling on broke with him a month ago, letting him fall over backward to the ground nine feet below on his head and shoulders, was getting along nicely until Saturday, when at work tightening some tape on his car he wrenched his neck again and toe was suffering almost as badly as ever Monday. Trustee Postill received but one bid Saturday for the new consolidated school building, which he proposes to build about a half mile west of the Alf Donnelly corner, on the north side of ( the road just west of the old Donnelly farmhouse. This bid was about SIB,OOO and is in excess of the bond issue. The bid was' from Hodshire & Young of Monticello. The matter has not been disposed of as *ydt, but it is hoped that a Jew changes may be made so that the contract can be entered into.