Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1919 — WIFE CLINGS TO HER FIRST LOVE. [ARTICLE]

WIFE CLINGS TO HER FIRST LOVE.

Evansville, Ind., June 20. —Mrs. Julia Valina Barnett today is living with her husband, Charles Barnett, handsome and bronzed soldier, returned from the battlefields of France, while her second husband, John G. Parker, of Philadelphia, was contented to give up his claim to her. Mrs. Barnett today secured an entry in circuit court annulling her i marriage to Parker. ! She wedded Barnett when he came here on a furlough last July. He ' was sent overseas and no word came from him. Last fall the wife was ' notified of his death in action and her mother saw the announcement in the newspaper casualty lists. Some time later the wife met Parker ant. wedded him. They had lived together for six months when the young soU ; dier returned home. The wife immediately left Parker and applied for an annullment of the I second marriage. Parker did not appear in court to contest the case, I being represented merely by counse ’and asserting/<he was satisfied that he had no further claim upon her.