Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1920 — GOURI HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

GOURI HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs From the Various Departments OF JASPER, COUNTY CAPITOL Legal News Epitomized — Together With Other Note® Gathered by Us From the Various County Offices. Attorney W. H. Parkison of Lafayette was in Rensselaer Thursday on businesp. County Clerk Nichols went to Indianapolis yesterday afternoon after the state election ballots. County Agricultural Agent Dwight Mawhorter and wife attended a meeting of the National Dairymen’s association in Chicago the first of the week. Miss Florence* Ryan, home service secretary of the Red Cross, accompanied Mrs. Mary Deere and son Edward to Chicago Thursday to consult a specialist regarding the latter’s health. Marriage licenses issued: Oct. 14, Herman Robert Heimlhch of Ft. Wayne, aged 21 Meh. 6 last, electrician, and Lulu Alice Rowen, daughter of Charles Rowen of Rensselaer, aged 20 June 15 last, housekeeper. First marriage for each.

Argument was, being heard by Judge Hanley yesterday in the big Collison vs. Collison divorce case from Porter county, which occupied the boards at the last term of court here to the exclusion of all other cases. The expectation was that the argument of the attorneys would take up most of the day. The cases against Merle Casper and Lester Mannis, the two Starke county men who have* been in jail here for the, past three months as prisoners of Newton county for stealing an automobile at Morocco on the night of July 5 belonging to Arthur Cooper of near Brook, have been set for trial at Kentland on Oct. 25 and 26. There will be four tickets on the ballot in Jasper county this~year, the Farmer-Labor and Socialist parties having filed this week candidates for congress. The candidate on the Farmer-Labor ticket is Jim McGill of Valparaiso, who is about as much of a farmer or laborer as “Farmer” McCray of Kentland; the Socialist candidate is Burr A. Gott of Wheeler. Former County Commissioner William Hershman was down from Walker township yesterday. The big marsh in Barkley township, east of Newland,., on the east side of the Pinkamink, has been on fire this week and has made a nasty blaze, the weeds and grass thereon being 8 to 10 feet high and almost a solid mass covering upwards of a thousand acres. The smoke has been very dense and the ashes have covered everything for miles about where carried by the wind. The fire has not done much actual daihage other than to the muck lands of the marsh, except in one place it swept through George Winters’s cornfield.