Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1913 — MATRIMONIAL TANGLE IN JORDAN TOWNSHIP [ARTICLE]

MATRIMONIAL TANGLE IN JORDAN TOWNSHIP

James A. Keister Wants His Freedom From Woman He Married in 1911. James A. Keister, of Jordan township, who was married on February 1, 1911, to his present wife, Sarah J. Heister, has brought suit in the circuit court for a divorce, after living with his present wife until April Ist of this year. In his complaint he charges his wife with cruel and inhuman treatment alleging that she refused to permit his daughter, Lola, by a former marriage, to live at their home or to come there to visit him. He also charges that she was cruel and unkind in her treatment of his 12-year-old son, Everett by a former marriage, and abused said son and cursed him and refused to properly care for him in the way of washing and mending his clothing and refused to prepare and cook food for said son, and at one time threatened to poison the boy, and in her punishment of said son was unnecessarily cruel and beat him with her hands and a large stick. __ He also alleges that the defendant during their married life, cursed the plaintiff and called him vile and indecent names, and without cause accused him of having intimate relations with other women, and refused to properly care for his clothing and wearing apparel,' although fully able to do so, and that defendant would not make plaintiff’s bed and keep the same in order; that, the plaintiff and his said son were frequently required to make their own beds and clean up and arrange their own rooms, and to cook and prepare their own meals, although defendant was fully able to do and perform all such labors. That during their married life the plaintiff was ever mindful of his marital duties and obligations toward the defendant and at all times furnished her with a good and comfortable home and performed his duties and obligations as a husband toward the defendant at all times to the best of his ability so to do. That the plaintiff and defendant have no children as the fruits of their marriage.