Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1908 — Griggs Dismissed Divorce Suit. [ARTICLE]

Griggs Dismissed Divorce Suit.

Nelson Griggs, who last year eloped with a fifteen year old girl named Bennett, from up about Glffprd, tired of his “little sun-beam” and sought to release himself by seen ring a divorce. He Is spending his time in Rensselaer and the little wife, socn to become a mother, Is spending her time at the home she had before he twittered love songs into her inexpsrienced ear, and he brought suit about » month .age? ehsrgiag that his wife was cruel But he dismissed the suit, for the attention of Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Leopold was called to the case and he was preparing to defend the child wife. Learning of this Griggs decided to dismiss the suit, and he paid the costs so far accrued. And now, If he will jump In and work and devote what he earns to the support of the girl he took away from her childhood home, he will deserve the respect of the world, but If he does not help care for the lives he is responsible for the maintenance of, then he should be brought up with a short halter and treated as a wife deserter. (