Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1899 — Repenting at Leisure. [ARTICLE]

Repenting at Leisure.

I y, A vvV Rensselaer people will remen»-J ber the marriage a few months ago at Mouticello of Miss Anna Schilti and J: E. Weidman, a journeyman f barber. The yoong lady had M number of acquaintances in this< city who were surprised greatly at her marriage as were also her Mouticello friends. The marriage was greatly objected to by the young lady’s parents, as Weidmaii was considered worthless and not able to provide for a wife. Recently the yonng couple; moved to Elwood, where Weidman had arranged to bny a barber shop with money furnished by IM wife’s parents, bat he spuandered the money in the saloon and ended! up by mercilessly whipping his yonng wife, and was sentenced to hard labor on the stone pile. Mrs. Weidman is now at the home of her parents in Monticelloi .; and has lately made application for a divorce from her husband and the restoration of her maiden name.