Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1909 — Wife In Rensselaer; Husband In Alexandria. [ARTICLE]

Wife In Rensselaer; Husband In Alexandria.

James Frix, of Alexandria, wants his wife, who came to this city a week ago. She alleges that he drank and abused her and that she came here with her three year old child in the hope that she could put it in the Monnett Children’s Home so that she could go out and work and provide a living for herself. She was told at the home that they could not care for a child so young, and she has’been seeking a place where she could keep the child with her.

Probably a. number of people saw a young woman poorly clad hauling a little trunk in a small wagon and struggling under the weight of a heavy telescope last Saturday.. She went through the main street with her worldly possessions. This was Mrs. Frix. She found a temporary home for her little girl with W. A. Green and his daughter, north of town, and she herself has secured employment at the home of John English.