Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1892 — “SWAPPED" OFF HIS WIFE. [ARTICLE]

“SWAPPED" OFF HIS WIFE.

A Michigan Farmer Trades His Better Half for Farming Implements. ( Henry Hudson, a fanner of Sage township near Jackson, Michigan, has sold his wife to Philip H. Chubb, a neighbor, for a lot of farming implements and supplies. The document recording the transaction is unique, and is as follows: “Agreement Betwixt P. H. Chubb of the fust Part ond henry m. hudson of the sekent Part he dose agree to sell al ice Hudson his wife to P. H. Chubb for these things what is named down below, morsh hay and buckwheat and potatoes and one grain cradle one hand rake one plow one set of wide treas and three chevaseS one grass sithe 1 barrell solt 1 Window sash one grine stone. Philip H Chubb Henry Hudson. “Witness:— “slice Hudson.” The transaction is certainly as remark- ' able an affair as it is a true one. The exchange has taken place and the form e r ' Mrs. Hudson is now installed as mistress of Philip H. Chubb’s household.