Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1906 — Another Wife Wauts A Divorce. [ARTICLE]

Another Wife Wauts A Divorce.

Mrs. Viola Marion, of Wheatfield has begun a suit for a divorce from John E. Marion. They were married in Rensselaer on Jan. 57th, 1902, by Squire J. M. Troxell, and at which time they were described in this paper as a nice young couple from Wheatfield, and her age at 19 years and his 23, -and his occupation that of a farmer. But if he was a nice young man then, bis nicesess must have soon soured, if the allegations of her complaint are true. # She says he cursed her before they hjd*been married two weeks. That in Oct. 1905 he knocked her aown twice and would threaten to kill her and to kick her across the ditch. Also that he failed to provide for her support, especially -when she was sick. They finally parted Oct 7, 1906, and have pot lived together since. She states that she now lives at Wheatfield and works out for her living, and that the defendant lives near Parr. She wants a divorce and her name changed back to Archer, which it was before her marrige.