Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1900 — Court House Ordered at Kentland. [ARTICLE]

Court House Ordered at Kentland.

Its <’ust Limited to Ten TlmuMiml Dollars. The court house tight waged mightily last week in Kentland, before the county commissioners. Goodland presented a petition asking for an election. It had the requisite number of signatures but was rejected Tuesday on account of a technical objection, namely, that the bond should have had some signers who were not also signers of the petition. Kentland then asked for an order for a court house to be erected there. This also was on Tuesday. Two of the commissioners refused to take aotion at that time and an adjournment was ordered until Saturday.. By that time Goodland had another petition ready, and filed in the auditor’s office. For some reason, however, it was not presented, and instead action was taken on Kentland’s petition. It was decided to build a court house in Kentland. After much discussion it was voted to limit the cost to 810,090. What the next step will likely be we have been unable to ascertain, The County Council must make an appropriation before the court house can be erected, but whether there will be any difficulty encountered there, we are also

unable to say. There is also considerable probability of the matter being taken to the higher courts.