Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 189, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1911 — LIVED TOGETHER 33 YEARS; DIVORCE SOUGHT BY WIFE. [ARTICLE]

LIVED TOGETHER 33 YEARS; DIVORCE SOUGHT BY WIFE.

Mandora Alice Cox Charges Husband With Desertion After Years of Habitual Drunkenness. Through her attorneys, W. L. Wood and J. A. Dunlap, Mandora Alice Cox has filed a complaint for divorce from her husband, James H. Cox. The complaint sets forth that they were married Oct. 17, 1877, and lived together until Christmas day, 1910, a little more than 33 years. She alleges that for a number of years during their married life he would frequently get drunk and become insulting and abusive, threatening to do her bodily harm. She alleges that Le is now an habitual drunkard. She states that dfiring all their married life she has been a good and dutiful wife and has always worked hard to support the family. And since the alleged abandonment she has rented a farm and has been managing it for the support of herself and the children, Grover aged 17, Hazel aged 16, Ruth aged 14, Rachel aged 12, Goldie aged 10, and Neva aged 7. The plaintiff alleges that the defendant is not a fit person to have the custody of the children, and she asks that they be placed in her care. The complaint sets out that herself and husband were, when they separated, the owners of one horse, one mule, two cows, and some farming implements, which are encumbered by a chattel mortgage, and she asks the court, to decree that she be declared the owner of the personal property subject to the mortgage. The case is set for return the last Monday of the September term, which is Oct. lst : 1911. The defendant is now a nonresident, presumably living in Illinois.