Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1919 — COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs From the Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL Legal News Epitomized —Together With Other Notes Gathered by Us From the Various County Offices. Commissioners’ court convenes Monday. The Newton circuit court will convene one week from next Monday. Marriage licenses issued: Oct. 1, Bernard Brookema of Chicago, aged 32 Meh. 16 last, salesman, and Agnes Clery, also of Chicago, aged 32 Sept. 28 last, housekeeper. Second marriage for each. First marriage of male dissolved by death in 1918; first marriage of female dissolved by divorce in July, 1919. Sheriff Wood worth received a telephone message yesterday from the sheriff of Lake county, who is asking for men from neighboring counties to act as deputy sheriffs in protecting steel workers in Lake county who desire to return to work but are afraid to do so for fear of bodily injury fromi the more radical of the strikers. Twentyfive men were asked for and the pay is $6 per day. H. W. Greist, county health commissioner of White county, has ordered the White county jail closed on account of its unsanitary condition, etc. This jail has been a bone of contention for the past 20 years and has repeatedly been condemned by the state board of health, the state board of charities and by county grand juries, and yet nothing has been done toward building a new jail. The health commissioner says that it should be demolished.