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correspondent when you may go to Okla
homa and have table to yourself?
Excellent shooting everywhere. Sow
eral Daltons, Yeagers and Doolins still
remaining to cheer the eager sportsman
in or out of season.
The Messrs. Prickett g. Dunn will
give their clients letters of introduction
to leading outlaws.
Abandonment is made very good
ground for divorce in Oklahoma, and an
implied promise to be home from read
ing the election returns by / / p. IN. and
failure to get home before l q. III. has
been declared by the court to be aban-
donment within the meaning of the
statute. (See McSwatt versus McSwatt,
First 0. L. Reports, page 81 Also
, Mandy versus Mandy, same volume,
page 1913, wherein Epworth, @. j., hold
that defendant refused to return from
her mothers to plaintiffs home until
money was sent her for railroad fare and
sleeping car ticket, the court declared
that after three weeks the charge of
abandonment set up by plaintiff was
good and valid. Again, in McNutt
versus McNutt, where defendant was
charged with deserving the table repeat
eddy prior to the dessert, leaving plaintiff
alone to face her own pie, thecourt held
that this constituted dessertion within
the statute.)
These cases merely suggest how wide
open, free ard gladstone is the life in
Oklahoma.
Alva has 1000 inhabitants, mostly
jurymen.
Oklahoma is indeed the Mecca for
the married yet minated. 1t has more
gentle climate than Dakota, and q man
can go there as late rs December and
get divorce i'll his duck trousers with
out discomfort. Correspondents are fire.
quently seen at Alva making New Years
calls i'll their shirt sleeves.
Viva Kersykes- Vernon, nee Misgs,
says that she will bet her alimony for
six months that better climate never
grew outdoors than there is in Ok
lahoma She was one of the Messrs.
Prickett & Dunn's clients, class of
'93, and says she never felt better in
her life.
Divorces are procured without pain
or publicity.
One client writes to the Messrs as
| follows:
Before I got my divorce I suffered
the perils of the id. was ostra-
cized from good society and had to live
| in New Jersey. went to the United
States consul there and begged him to
| let me return to America. l had sharp,
darting pains up and down the spinal
| colyum.
ga II ut once I got permit to 90 to
| Oklahoma, where ] heard that you wero,
but unfortunately could not raise the
ready John, if You will pardon little
lapsus lazuli on my part.
| 81 then heard that clients who wish.
ed q divorce could be treated at dis
lance through the aid of your valuable
homo treatment. I bought two of them
and was soon again free man. So was
my wife. We are the best of friends
and as happy as the day is long. On
long winter evenings I run over there,
and we play dominos for the alimony.
Sometimes we play to see who shall
have the custody of the children.
1--WE both feel that we owe you so
much. Go on, go on, you dear, sweet
things, is what we both say.
"We are to have double wedding
Thanksgiving day. My wife will marry
n gentleman friend, and will marry his
dear old mother. So we shall be again
related by marriage-wife and l. Won t
that be jolly?
"Your climate is real good too
Alva is on the A. Il. and S. F. R. R.
and but ~ hours from Kansas City. 1t
is the county seat of Wood county and
is n sort of what was once called tho
Cherokee outlet. 1t is right plumb in
the heart Of nature, and l have taken
the liberty Of writing q few lines in
verse, touching OH her great beauty and
freedom. will put them in hero if I
hear no objection:
| o Alva, down in Oklahoma,
I Can it be you do not know me?
Hearts snd and tore UP
That staid at homo from Europe
All that might go and sec
You and Oklahoma II. [Chorus. |
SECOND VERSE.
| Seems to mo little coarse
To do nothing>bu divorce,
Or become too passing fond
or the wicked correspond.
The best people l have met
| Look upon this with regret.
| So, unless you desire that I should
write poetry about you, Alva, please try
| to inaugurate an additional industry as
soon as you can.
Arkansas had the reputation of being
n sluggers' retreat, but she has wiped
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