Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-10-30
THE HERALD.
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Atchison. lKap.l Patriot.


triot will remember, daring the ses-
sion of the recent Ladies Foreign
Missionary society, the presence OF
a finely dressed, fine looking lady,
named Mrs. Foster, who took &C
tive part in the proceedings of the
meeting, and during one evening oil
the week delivered q lecture on
temperance, that was largely at
tended. she was lawy eress, be
ing associated with her husband at
Clinton, Iowa, 10 the practice OF
law, under the firm name OF Foster
& Foster. The Kansas City Jour
nal finishes the story we have here
commenced IA follows:
Once upon time, as all true sto-
ries begin-but for the sake OF ac-
curacy, say fifteen years sgo--Rev.
DR.. Warren,a somewhat celebrated
clergyman of Philadelphia, per-
formed the marriage ceremony for
two people, who afterwards sent
out their cards, inscribed "Mr. and
Mrs. Avery at home 70 their friends
Tuesdays and Fridays, 10 the after
noon"
A few weeks later found Mr.. and
Mrs. Avery comfortably located 10
Manhattan, Kansas. Mrs. Avery
was one OF that class called'strong-
minded" women. Sho was an adj
vocate of female suffrage, made
speeches and wrote for the papers.
So far a., b 3wever, the public knew,
the marriage life of the Averys had
the average amount of felicity in it.
One day Avery went away-no-
body seemed to know just where.
Some said he weat to Colorado TO
make his fortune 10 the mines ;
some said be had gone to look after
q railroad contract somewhere.
He never came back. The pee
pie of Manhattan forgot him, and
even Mrs. Avery gave him up for
dead. Her neighbors called her o
'smart woman . and she is very
intelligent, energetic woman. She
is now a member of the law firm
of Foster Il Foster, Clinton, Iowa,
and is said to be the only woman
who has been admitted to the bar
! 10 that State.
/ Her name isn't Avery now. One
/ day Judge Foster was introduced
to Mrs. Avery. Another day, a
month later, he married her, she in
the meantime having taken care to
procare divorce from Avery on
the ground OF desertion, for fear he
might turn up some time.
Mts. Foster studied law with her
husband, and assisted him 10 his le-
gal business, which is quite large, as
Judge Foster ia one of the most emf
neut lawyers 10 the Hawkeye state.
Being woman of spirit, or rather
public spirited woman she naturally
enlisted in the cause of temperance,
and was elected President of the
WomAn's Christian Temperance
Union. She attended the national
temperance camp meeting at Bis
marCk, in August, and took a very
ao tive part in the proceedings. She
remained also through the church
enoamLment, which Immediately
followed the temperance encamp-
ment. Rev. DIR. Warreu, of Phila-
delphia, who performed the cere-
mony at the time Mrs. Foster was
married to her first husband, at
tended the church encampment and
renewed their old acquaintance.
When the church eDcampment
closed, Mrs. Judge Foster and
another lady went over to Denver
together. A few days later, Rev.
DR.. Warren took the train tor Dem
yer. In this city he was the guest
of Rev. Earl Cranston, pastor of
the Methodist church. The next
Sunday after his arrival he sat 10
Earl Cranston's pew, and glancing
up at Mr.. Cranston 10 the pulpit, he
noticed very strange lock on his
face. Mr.. Cranston's look seemed
to be directed to some one behind
DIR, Warren, aud the doctor turned
around TO see what it was that at
traoted Mr.. Cranston's attention.
On the next seat behind him DR..
Warrea saw Mrs. Foster and just
behind her a man whom he recog-
niZed at once as the long lost
Avery. The look of surprise and
astonishment which the doctors
features presented, attracted Mrs.
Fosters attention and she turned
around TO SEQ what it was behind
that interested so many people. As
she turned her movement attracted
the attention of the people in the
next seat behind her, and she found
herself face TO face with her first
husband, whom she supposed dead.
Their eyes met, and the recognition
was instantaneous aud mutual, al
though they had not seen each 9TH
err Tor fifteen years. Beside Mr..
Avery sat woman and two or
tehee children. 1t was his family.
She got up and left the church
Avery remained through the SER
vice.
All that night Mrs. Foster walked
the floor in her room, silent but
greatly agitated. The next morn
ing Mr.. Avery called, and in the
presence of q friend, had an inter-
view. The meeting was like that
of acquaintance, cold, formal, and
yet very quiet, and devoid of aDy
sensational features. Mr.. Avery,
so tar as the reporter knows, gave
no explanation of his mysterious
disappearance and subsequent mar
riage, and was asked for none. He
had married during his absence and
has five children, whom he invited
Mrs Foster to visit. Later in the
day Mrs. Foster called a hack and
M TO see MIR Avery's family.
MIR. Avery's home a. the reporter
is informed, is IN Denver. Mrs.
Foster has returned to her desk and
resumed her law practice in Clinton.
The meeting in the church al
Denver was q strange one. The
man, the woman and the clergyman
who married them sat in adjacent
seats. The presence of Judge Fos-
ter was all that was needed to make
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