Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1919 — COURTHOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

COURTHOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

InlerojllHhiitriplisFromlhu Various Deportments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL Legal News Epitomized—Together With Other Notes Gathered by ¥s From the Various County Offices. Robert Michal was up from Reynolds on business yesterday. The regular meeting of the county commissioners will convent Monday. Attorneys Emory Sellers \ and Capt. W. A. Guthrie of Monticello were visitors in the city Monday. J. E. Burton,’ field director of the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce, was in Rensselaer yesterday in the Interests of the State Federation of Farmers.

New suits filed: ’ No. 9087. Central Garage of Rensselaer vs. Ray D. Thompson, receiver of the Chas. Guttrich garage. Action to replevin an Oliver tractor plow, valued at $125, which plaintiff alleges it is the owner of. Marriage licenses issued: August 23, Earl Raymond Smith of Rensselaer, aged 18 August 22, laborer, and Airy LeNora Myers of Gifford, aged 18 March 25 last, housekeeper. First marriage for each. Male being under age his father, Oscar Smith, gave consent to issuance of license. Married in the clerk's office by Squire S. C. Irwin. • Dr. C. E. Johnson of this city has been appointed by the government a« examiner for the burteau of war risk Insurance for this district, which comprises Jaspgr, Newton, White and Pulaski counties. This movement on the part of the government is for soldiers discharged from the service, and who may be suffering from injuries or illness of any kind contracted during their epriod of service and which may prove a handicap to them in civilian life. This examination will be given each applicant, bringing his discharge papers or a certified copy of same with him to prove that his disabilities were incurred in the service, free of any charge,- Dr. Johnson receiving pay for his services from the government. Treatment of any kind, hospital expense, teeth disorders of the soldiers, will be taken care of free of charge.

The county council and the advisory boards of the various townships 'will meet next Tuesday to pass on the estimates of expenditures for the year 1920 and to fix the tax levy for this year. The estimate tor county expenditures for the year 1920, published Tri The Democrat Saturday, totals $161,967.66, which is precisely $102,577.46 more than the estimate for 1910—ten years ago—when the total was $59,390.20. In the estimates for next year is $50,000 for repair of gravel roads, and this, too, when the county will be 'relieved of about' 45 miles of road which will be taken over by the state 'highway commission and much of which is the most expensive mileage to keep up in the county; $25,0.Q0 is asked for new bridges and bridge repair; $18,070 for payment of court house bonds and Interest (sor 1910 this item was $5,747.50); $6,500 for the county poor farm (in 1910 this item was $2,875); $3,470 expense of assessing (in 1910 this amount was $2,171.80). Above are' the principal differences in the estimates of this year and those of ten years' ago, but an. increase now of practically three times the amount for 1910 is certainly going some.