People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1896 — Dissolution of Partnership. [ARTICLE]

Dissolution of Partnership.

The firm os Thompson & Bro., is mutually dissolved. The debts and credits of the firm will be paid by, and to David J. Thompson. Simon P. Thompson, \ Marion L, Spitleb, David J. Thompson, November 7, 1896. • There are now about seventy men employed. on the court house, besides the men engaged in the stone q uarries, brick yard and. hauling the stone from depot The work is progressing rapidly and by the middle of February the main roof will be commenced. The iron for seconc’ or top floor is now being received, and will be used at once. The law under which parties intend to improve the Kankakee river valley through Jasper, LaPorte, Lake, Newton* Porter, and Starke counties, is not the Five Mile Law or the Timmon’s Act; as* somesuppose, but the proceedings are under a law passed Marchthe sth, 1889, and amended March 11th, 1895. It is the reenactment of an old law passed March 10th, 1873. The law provides that any number of persons not less than five may form an association to construct any levee, dyke, brake water or ditch. The articles of incorporation are on record in the recorders’ offices in each of the above named counties. The law can be found commencing at section 7202 and ending at 7230 of revised statutes of 1894, and the amendments can be found in the acts of 1895 on pages 376 to 378. The supreme court has affirmed the celebrated case of Thompson vs. The Board of Commissioners of Jasper county, Judge McCabe writing the opinion. The court holds that when the assesments exceed the benefits the ditch can constructed. This is the River Ditch case and is of vital interest to. those who reside on the Iroquois river above the City of Rensselaer. The court holds that the petitioners are required to pay the cost. The Waukarussia Ditch is at a stand still and probally will never be revived and the supreme court has declared Gifford’s Drainage District unconstitutional and knocking cut the River Ditch disposes of all the gigantic schemes to drain this county.

The Editor of the Arena, Mr. B. O Flower, has in the December number of that review a very interesting paper on the late William Morris. The two phases of Morris’s life are made to appear each distinct, and the two in contrat with each other the earlier time when he was the “idle singer of an empty day,” and the later years when he had developed into the measure of the stature of a fullgrown man, and hie brain and heart were busy with the all absorbing social problem. Morris’s was a striking personality, and we are given a very good idea of it in this delightful paper. W. E. Overton has|just returned from Chicago where he has been for several weeks preparing himself for entering into the undertaking business here. He has rented the large store room in the Nowels block and as per announcemet elsewhere, will be ready for calls by Dec--21. A fine new hearse has been purchased and the best equipment in every particula r will bo procured. Mr. Overton is a young man well calculated to make a success of undertaking and he has our best wishes for success. A dollar social will be given by the Ladies Aid Society of the Christian church at the home of Mrs. Coover, Friday evening, Dec. 11. It is not designed to charge a dollar admission, but each of the members of the society who can are to contrive to earn a* dollar for the society and tell their experience in doing so at the social. Frank Watson returned today from a trip to Illinois.