Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1920 — 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. Attorney Roy Blue was down from Wheatfield Monday. Attorney and Mrs. Jasper Guy swere over from Remington yesterday. Trustee B. F. LaFevre and wife and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Toyne of GlUam township were visitors in the city Saturday. County Highway Superintendent W. S. Parks • was in Kankakee on business Saturday. Mr. Parks had over 60 miles of road dragged last week. J. D. Rich, one of the numerous Newton' county candidates for the Republican nomination for joint-rep-resentative from Benton, Jasper and Newton counties, was over from Brook Saturday. Monday W. D. Simpkins of Bosweil, the Benton county Republican candidate —Jasper has no candidate—was here. Place for the notice of voting precincts in Carpenter township as published in the last issue of The Democrat was reversed as ’to east and west precincts. The Nierengarten residence is in the east precinct and the Klauss residence is in the west precinct It was put in type according to copy, but the copy was wrong.

Regarding the placing of women on the primary ballot fOr delegates to the state convention, Chairman Bosse of the Democratic state committee, in a letter written to Mrs. J. I. Gwin of this city, eays that while the attorney-general rules that women cannot be placed on the primary ballot, the state board of election commissioners refused to rule on this question, and left the matter up to the county board of election commissioners. The Republicans have placed a woman on their ballot at Richmond for state delegate, and there la no, reason why the Democrats can not do likewise, Mr. Bosse writes.