Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1914 — NO CAUSE FOR DIVORCE. [ARTICLE]

NO CAUSE FOR DIVORCE.

Says 'Hudgo “Boh” Van Atta, Because Wife Is Required to Manicure Husband’s Toenails, Miuncie, lnd., February S. —Because a wife has been compelled to wash her husband’s feet and manicure his toenails is not suffiicent excuse of iitself to entitle her to a divorce in the opinion of Judge Robert Van Atta, of the superior court, in refusing a decree of divorce to Mrs. Mahala Barnard, wife of John J. Barnard. The court held there were other grounds for his refusal of the decree. The court believed there is a possibility of a reconciliation between tho two. Judge Van Atta is a son of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Van Atta of Rensselaer, and a former principal of the Remington schools, and is well known in Rensselaer and to many Remington pupils. His daughter is living here with his parents and is a student in the Rensselaer high school, Mr. Van Atta being a widower.