Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1907 — ALBERT PATTEE WANTS DIVORCE [ARTICLE]

ALBERT PATTEE WANTS DIVORCE

Readers of The Republican will remember the marriage last January of Albert E. Pattee, of Newland, and Sadie Belle Monroe, of Lafayette. The feature of their case that attracted the most attention at the time was that the bride upon coming here from Lafayette to meet him did not find him at the depot and so hired a rig and started to his home near Newland, and he started at about the same time to town on foot, and they passed some place on the way. They finally found each other and ;vere married by Squire Irwin On Jan. 31st. Mr. Pattee was somewhat aggrieved at the- time at some re marks made by this paper about the difficulty they had in bringing their marriage program, tjo a terminal, incorrectly- thinking that the article reflected oU the newly made Mrs. Pattee. He wrote demanding a retraction and correction, and claimed his bride to be the virtue queen of the age. Now Albert has changed his mind and in a complaint he has just filed for divorce he sets out that very soou after they were married she apElied various approbrious names to im, mentioning a very ugly three word affair, the middle part of which is a* two letter preposition. This must have been a serious jUr to Albert after his public declare- 1 tion of her good qualities thru this paper, and he was loath to believe the transformation was real and clung to the hope that she would again appear the dove-like creature he had pictured her to be. He clung to this belief until her departure on Sept 15th for Luray, Mo., altho he states in his oomSlaint that she was of cruel and in uman disposition and refused to perform household duties or to even cook his meals. The case is set for the November term of the court and the plaintiff is represented by Foltz & Spitler.