Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1906 — A PLETHORA OF “WIVES.” [ARTICLE]

A PLETHORA OF “WIVES.”

Dr. Wittman. who closed a two weeks engagement here Saturday with his medicide show, seems to be a regular Reed Smoot for wives, except that the doctor does not appear to bother with the formality of a marrriage ceremony in most cases. Two different women seem to have been passed off as “wife,’’and last Friday still another woman —who is said to have been the real wife—put in an appearance, it being thought here that she was appraised of the gay doctor’s fickleness by one of the deposed “wives” before mentioned, who whs miffed at being cast aside for another favorite. Mrs. Sears, at whose home the outfit was rooming, became indignant when wife No. 1 putin an appearance and proved to her satisfaction that she really was "the" wife, and fired the whole business out into the street.