Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1917 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Hapi>enings in the Nearby Cities anc Towns—Matters of Minor Mentios from Many Places. GROOM OF AN HOUR IS FREE Orie S. Winger Given Divorce from Fleeing Bride. The granting of a divorce to Orie S. Winger from Retta Winger by the superior court at Lafayette Thursday came as the grand finale of the sensational Winger wedding at Covington last July. They were married on the afternoon of July--15 and went to a restaurant for supper. The bride said she did not care for anything to eat, pleading a headache, and while Winger and the other members of the party were eating, she went outside. That was the last time that Winger ever saw her, although he instituted a state-wide search for her. He alleged that she has said that she will not live with him, and that she married him to escape the custody of her parents. The affair created a considerable sensation at the time.