Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1904 — Court House Ordered in Kentland. [ARTICLE]

Court House Ordered in Kentland.

A press dispatch from Kentland Tuesday, says: The Board of Commissioners of Newton county entered an order of record today providing for the erection of a new court house at Kentland. The board decided on this course after a recent decision of the Supreme Court was banded down declar ng the special act under which three elections were held was unconstitutional The action of the commissioners met with no opposition from any part of the county, and the unfortunate controversy may be considered as definitely settled. All the same a court" house can not be built under present laws until the County Council makes an appropriation, and from ab reports there is great doubt about their making one.