Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1912 — MARRIED 56 YEARSNOW WANTS DIVORCE [ARTICLE]

MARRIED 56 YEARS—NOW WANTS DIVORCE

Mrs. Plesa Clift Asks Separation and From William Clift —Another Case. Mrs. Plesa Clift, through her attorney, William H. Parkinson, has filed suit for divorce from William Clift. The complaint alleges that plaintiff and defendant, were married February 7, 1866, and lived together until March 8, 1912, on which day he deserted her, and that they have not cohabitated nor lived together since that time. It is further charged that defendant has neglected and refused to suitably provide for her for more than six jnonths past. Complainant alleges that during all their married life she has been compelled to work and labor to support and maintain their family, herself and the defendant, and further alleges that the defendant has been guilty of cruel and inhuman treatment, that he cursed and abused plaintiff and at various times threatened to kill said plaintiff. Complaint alleges that defendant draws $24 per month and will draw S3O per month under the new pension law. Plaintiff alleges that she has a small property in Rensselaer that would rent for $5 per month, but that defendant has taken possession of said property and is living in it and refuses' to pay the taxes and refuses in any manner to contribute to her support. She further alleges that she has taken in washing and sewing during her mar_ ried life, but now at the age of 74 years she is no longer able to support herself and is compelled to live off the charity of friends and relatives. In a separate complaint plaintiff states that she has no means with which to prosecute this cause, and an order of the court is asked to prosecute the cause and for her separate support and maintenance.

Bertha Davids, through her attorney, Geo. A. Williams, has filed suit for divorce from Carl Davids. The complaint alleges that they were married January 24, 1910, in Rensselaer, and lived together until February 15th : the same year, on which day they separated and have not since lived together, that the plaintiff has since lived sat the home of her father, John Huffman, in Rensselaer. Plaintiff alleges that'she has not known his whereabouts since their separation and that he has wholly failed to provide for the support of herself and child. She states that she has tried to learn of his whereabouts by writing to his parents In Lafayette and that she now understands he is In the United States army. Plaintiff is now employed as an operator in the Jasper County Telephone office. Plaintiff asks for the care and custody of her child, Kenneth Davids. i

Mrs. Eugene V. Debs, wife of the noted socialist candidate for president, was a guest at the Makeever hotel over last night. She was traveling in a nice limousine automdbile from Terre Haute to Chicago on a visit of several days. Her brother, O. Baur, accompanied her. .. » “Politics to being a good fellow brought about my downfall,” said William H. Kruse, 36 years old, teller of the German National bank, Covington, Ky., Tuesday, when he admitted a defalcation of $14,050 of bank funds, for which he was arrested by a federal deputy marshal at the bank. Crops generally throughout the world this year are bumper. This is shown by figures in a cablegram received by the U. S. department of agriculture from the International Institute of Agriculture at Rome, Italy, giving the preliminary estimates of the production of wheat, rye, barley, oats and com. 'Reports received by the Great Northern railroad say that more than 350 Montana fanners have been literally crowded out of homes by bumper crops. The bouses are filled with grain to the second story windows. Harvesters camp in tents beside the stubble fields, waiting for cars to move the season’s yield. Snowstorms are sweeping portions of North Dakota and Minnesota. At Crookston, Minn., a- steady rain of 3d boors tamed into a blinding snowstorm, and the northern portion of the Red River Valley is covered with snow. Two and one-half inches fell at Larimore, N. Dak., and light falls of snow also were reported from Grand Forks and Napoleon, N. Dak., and Pierce, 8. Dak.