Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1920 — COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs From the Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL . I Legal News Epitomised — Together With Other Notes Gathered by Us From the Various County Offices. Attorney and Mrs. Jasper Guy and daughter Geraldine of Remington were visitors in the city yesterday. New suits filed': No. 9264. Charles Howard Mills and Martha Jane Mills, petition for the adoption of Edward Lucien Lord, a minor child. John Buck of Goodland, aged about 52 years, was brought- to Rensselaer - Saturday evening and placed in the county Jail to await his admittance to the insane hospital at Logansport, where he has once before been a patient.

The will of the late John Franklin McCord was filed for probate in the Jasper circuit court yesterday. The instrument was executed Jan. 20, 1909, and provides that after paying! all just debts, all property, both real and personal, moneys, etc., goes to his sister, Elizabeth Jane McCord, who is also named as executrix. Looey’s screed of abuse of Democrats in Thursday’s Boomerang brought that gentleman several warm callings Friday morning, and a hasty apology was attempted in his Friday issue for the uncalled for dirty flings. Looey always “renigs” when he can’t lay It onto anyone else, and now that Clarkey isn’t handy any more he should be more choice with his billingsgate. It must take a wonderful amount of self-assurance , for to boast the “whole-hearted, unselflsn and splendid support of their friends and neighbors who knew them best,” when they ran hundreds of votes behind the rest of their ticket where they “were best known.” Senator Watson ran about 100 behind his ticket tn his own county of Rush and Governor-elect McCray received the smallest majority of any man on the state ticket in his home county of Newton, running 295 lower than the head of the ticket. He also ran 195 behind his ticket in Benton;’ 282 in Jasper; 188 in Pulaski; 134 in Starke; 96 in White, and about 18,000 behind in the state. Watson was also thousands of votes under the head of bls ticket, and a little more of this sort of “hearty support of their neighbors” accorded them in other counties would, in any ordinary election, left both candidates at the' quarter pole.