Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 235, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1915 — Says Monon Brakeman Ruined Home of Rural Route Carrier. [ARTICLE]

Says Monon Brakeman Ruined Home of Rural Route Carrier.

The .Monticello Journal of last Saturday says: A Monticello home was disrupted last night, a husband and wife estranged, and two little brothers separated, when Mrs. Ertie Rogers departed by the 6:09 Monon train for the north, taking with her their son, Louis. The father, who is a wellknown rural mail carrier out of the Monticello office, was prostrated by grief, and was in such a tate of mental distraction that the services of a physician were required. At his request, word was sent to his father, John C. Rogers, who resides at Brookston, who came over in his machine and spent the night with his son. This - morning Mr. Rogers and his son, Vernon, accompanied the senior Rogers to Brookston. The story of the unfortunate' estrangement of the well-known couple is to the effect that Mrs. Rogers had permitted a Monon passenger brakeman to show her attention, and that the intimacy between the couple has r been progressing for a considerable time. The separation between husband and wife followed the discovery by the husband of the infatuation of his wife for the brakeman. The many friends of the Rogers family will sincerely hope that the story has been overdrawn and that a reconciliation will follow.