Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1898 — To Amend Diyorce Laws. [ARTICLE]

To Amend Diyorce Laws.

There will be a determined effort at the next session of the General Assembly to amend the divorce laws of the state The movement will be pushed by the churches of the state, which regard the growing number of divorces as a puplic evil which must be cured by legislation. The movement originated at the Western Yearly Meeting of the Friends, recently held at Plainfield* when a unanimous expression was given in favor of some effoft being made to stop the promiscuous granting of divorces. A committee of five persons was appointed to have the subject in charge, and solicit the co-operation of other religious bodies in the state. The committee is headed S. E. Nicholson, of Nicholson bill fame.