Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1919 — OLE JOHN PROVES AN ALIBI [ARTICLE]

OLE JOHN PROVES AN ALIBI

Divorce Applications Are Increasing Since Barleycorn’s Demise. The radical element of the "dry” forces used to tell us that intoxicating liquors were responsible for most of the divorce cases filed in this country. But it is quite eVident that something else Is to blame, for there seems to be no let up in the applications for divorce since the entire country went on the water wagon nor in the states that have been dry for a long time. Take Indiana, which has been dry for nearly a year and a half, more divorce cases have been filed during this time than ever before in the history of the state. In Marion county alone there have been filed during the first seven 'months of the present year 1,396 divorce cases, against 882 for the same period last year, an increase of 58%. In our own county, with a population of less than 15,000, eight divorce cases have been filed since the adjournment of the April i term of court, on May 10. It wohld seem from this that old John Barleycorn can prove am alibi on the divorce charge.