Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1875 — IN COMMISSIONERS’ COURT. [ARTICLE]

IN COMMISSIONERS’ COURT.

The Board of Commissioners of Jasper county met in special session, September 16th, 1875. Present—Samuel McCullough, Frederick Hoover, Commissioners, Frank W. Babcock, Auditor, and Lewis L. Daugherty, Sheriff. The Court was duly opened for the transaction of business, with Mr. McCollough in the chair. Ordered that proposition of DeCoursey & Thompson to build a “pile bridge,” for $495.00, be aceep’ed, and when said bridge is completed, and accepted by the Board, said sum to be paid from the County Treasury. Ordered that proposition of DeCoursey & Thompson to build a bridge over Curtis creek in township, for $202.50, be accepted, and when said bridge is completed, and accepted by the Board, said sum to be paid from the County Treasury. Ordered that proposition of DeCoursey & Thompson to build a bridge over Carpenter’s creek, for $225.00 be accepted, and when said bridge is completed, and accepted by the Board, said sum to be paid from the County Treasury. Ordered that proposition of DeCoursey & Thompson to build a bridge over Carpenter’s creek where the center line runs east & west through section 11, township 27, north, range 7, west, for $382.50, be accepted, and when said bridge is completed, and accepted by the Board, said sum to be paid from the County Treasury. Ordered that the order of Board in relation to the building of an iron bridge over Carpenter’s creek, and advertising therefor, be, and the same hereby ii, recinded.

Indian summer will soon ba here. It’s money that Doc. Martin wants. It is currently reported that at least twothird* of the population of the town of Remington, ware in Rensselaer, on Wednesday, in attendance to the Circuit Court. Marriage licenses were issued, by our obliging Clerk , to the following named parties, this week: Samuel Bowman to Frances E. Blood; Andrew K. Sayler to Emma M. Fulton. Indianapolis Joumaf: “General Milroy, who was the first colonel of the Ninth Indiana Infantry, that organited at Laporte in 1861, has been appointed agent for several tribes of Indians in Washington Terri toty.i - Among the attorneys attending the Jasper Circuit Court from abroad we noticed Messrs. Troxell, Ward and Martin, of Kentland ; Travis, Strait and Robinson, of Fowler, and Pierce and Jouvenat, of Remington. The committee of arrangements appointed for the Old Settlers’ Reunion will meet at Jared Banjamin’s on Saturday, October 2nd, to arrange a programme for the meeting, and perfect arrangements generally. All are invited to attend this meeting.— The Grand Reunion is to come off on Saturday October 9th—one week from to-morrow —at the Indian Village, in the grove on the farm of Jared Benjamin, five miles west of Rensselaer.