Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1920 — COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs From Iha Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL Legal News Epitomized — Together With Other Notes Gathered by Us From the Various County Offices. Vern Davisson has filed his resignation as candidate for sheriff on the Democratic ticket, and the place will be filled in due time by the county central committee. Candidates In the recent primary should not neglect to file their expense accounts with the county clerk, under penalty of the law. Candidates for precinct committeemen and delegates to the state convention do not have to file, for -these offices are not remunerative. All others, however, must file even though they were to no expense whatsoever. Please do not forget this. Filing must be done within 30 days following the primany. At the Democratic district meeting here last Tuesday afternoon, a committee of non-partisan ladles appeared before the meeting and asked that-Mrs. J. I. Gwin of Rensselaer be elected one'of the delegates from this district to the national conven tion which meets in San Francisco. As the selection is made by the delegates to the state convention the committee could only receive the request ajid ask the delegates to consider it. It is very probable, however, that Mrs. Gwin will be made a delegate. Attorney A. D. Babcock of Goodland was in the city Thursday afternoon on his way home from Plymouth where he had been looking after some business matters for a client near Brook. Mr.. Babcock is not taking his defeat for the Democratic nomination for judge very much to heart. His opponent only got two votes in A. D.’s precinct, and but very few in Grant township. Not but what he is a good man and well qualified for the office, but Mr. Babcock has lived in Goodland practically all his life, and the vote he received was a fitting testimonial from his neighbors and friends.