Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1920 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings In the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Localities. STARKE CO. TREASURER SHORT Over SB,OOO in His Accounts, Says Report of State Examiners. Indianapolis, Nov. 16. —Charges that John L. Kesler, Starke county treasurer, owes his county $8,231.15 are contained in a report W. A. Haminond and U. M. Frazer, field examiners for the state board of accounts, have submitted to the board. The total is made up of a lack of balance in accounts bf $7,250.10, plus $531.05, of a 6 per cent interest and $450 alleged to have been Illegally spent for a temporary office in North Judson to collect taxes. It is expected that the report will be certified to the Starke county grand jury, In accordance with the law. Kesler has on file a personal bond of SIOO,OOO as county treasurer. Charles S. Lyndln of Knox is attorney representing Kesler in negotiations with the board. Approximately $2,000 of the alleged deficit has been made good. Kesler was elected on the Republican ticket In 1918 and will go out of office Jan. 1, 1921.