Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1920 — COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

inlerostlnt Paragraphs From tiro Various OeparMs OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL Legal News Epitomized—Together With Other Notes Gathered by Us From the Various County Offices. New suits filed: No. 916 i. Thomas M. Callahan vs. Jessie Grimm; suit oh notes. Demand |l5O. The Hansson vs. Hansson divorce case, taken to Newton county on change of venue, is set for trial there next Thursday, with Judge Berry of the Benton-Warren circuit as special judge. Yes, this is leap year and there are five Sundays and five Sunday evenings and one day extra in the month of February. If you can’t land “him” with all this advantage you will have to wait until 1948 for a like favorable opportunity, so far as the Suqdays are concerned. A petition for a dredge ditch in Salami township has been filed in circuit court by Joseph E. Pelsy and others. The proposed ditch starts in the east edge of Jasper county, and follows the route of the Lawrence ditch south of Francesville, emptying into the Monon. —Pulaski County Democrat. The adjourned November term of court, designed especially to hear the Ryan ditch case but during which a few minor matters and estate causes were heard, was expected to be wound up by Judge Hanley yesterday. Special Judge William Isham of Fowler will mot hand down bls findings in the Ryan ditch until the February term. Miss Annabel Wartena, who had been employed as cashier in the Rowles & Parker department store for the past year or more, has resigned her position and it is understood will soon become the bride of "one of our prominent county officials. It is also rumored that one of the lady employes at the court house is soon to be married to a Carpenter township young farmer. Marriage licenses issued: . Jan. 19, Bert White of Crown Point, aged 24 July 23 last, laborer, and Maggie Baker of Roselawn, aged 21 Dec. 9 last, housekeeper. Second marriage for male, first marriage having been dissolved by death in 1918; first 'marriage for female. Jan. 19, Albert Jenkins of Rensselaer, aged 19 Jan. 8, farmer, and Golda Mae Toombs of Walker township, aged 19 May 29 last, housekeeper. First marriage for each. Male being under age, this mother, Eliza Coleman, gave .consent to issuance of license. Jan. 19, Calix C. Paquette of Rensselaer, aged 22 Meh. 16 last, skating rink manager, and Hattie McCurtain, also of Rensselaer, aged 22 Meh. 18 last, housekeeper. First marriage for eaCh.