Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 180, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1918 — COUPLE MEET AFTER 23 YEARS [ARTICLE]

COUPLE MEET AFTER 23 YEARS

They Promptly Renew Old Quarrel Where It Left Off. New York, N. Y.— Twenty-three years ago, after twelve years of happy married life, Thomas Hanley and his wife, Elizabeth, had a quarrel. Thomas left home, declaring he never Would return. This week Mrs. Hanley saw her husband on the street and Immediately had him arrested. "Won’t you return to your wife now?” Magistrate Harris asked him. “She Is sorry she quarreled with you." "No, she isn’t either” retorted Thomas. **l stayed awayifor twentythree years and yesterdayrwhen I saw her she started quarreHngJagain right where she left off about the same thing.” ' Magistrate Harris advised Hanley to pay his wife |2 a week. The Brazilian state of Bahlo produces one-third of the worid’s cacao and as much tobacco as alßof Cuba.