Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1914 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in Distant and Nearby Cities and Towns.—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Plaoes. FORMER RENSSELAER BOY, Now Judge, Tells Woman 14 Separations Are Not Enough to Grant Her a Divorce. Muncie, Ind., Nov. 30. —Although it was admitted in superior court by both parties in the controversy that Mr. and Mrs. Alfred J. Botts had separated fourteen times since their marriage, and that they have nine children, Judge Robert Vanatta, of the superior court, refused to grant a decree of divorce. The husband averred that hfs wife “nagged” him, and in the wife’s cross-complaint she declared that her husband failed to provide suitable clothing. “Fourteen separations are not enough to convince this court that there is anything between you two to warrant a permanent separation,” said the court. “You must think of your nine children first and of yourselves later.”