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GUsTIE STEWART, Bennington County Court
ERWIN STEWART. June Term. A. D., 1895.
LIBEL FOR DIVORCE.
WHEREAS, Austie Stewart of Arlington, I'm
the County of Bennington and State of Vermont,
heretofore, viz on the first day of April, A, D.,
1895 has duly filed in the flee of the clerk of the
County Court within and for the county of Ben
ningtO aforesaid at Bennington in said county
of Bennington, her libel for divorce from the
bonds Of matrimony now existing between the
said Austie stewart and Erwin Stewart, former
ly also of Arlington aforesaid but now of parts
unknown to said libelant, without this State;
SETTING FORTH in said libel, and the sub
stance thereof is as follows, to wit:
That on the 18th day Of December, A. D., 1883,
she was lawfully Joined in marriage to the petit
tome Erwin Stewart, at Arlington, in said
county of Bennington, by Reverned A. R. Field,
a min ster of the gospel, duly empowered by law
to solemniZe marriage.
That from the date of said marriage she lived
and cohabted with said petitionee as sband
and wife, in Fichburg Massachusetts, Manches-
ter. New Hampshire, WeybridRe. Vermont, and
Arlington aforesaid until about the first dav of
April. 1892 and was living in the town of Airing
ton with said petitionee on the date last above
mentioned.
7 hat during all the period of their said inter
marriage she has lived in strict and careful OBJ
seryance on her part, of all the duties and OBJ
legations of the marriage covenant but that the
salu hTWln stewart, SAlu peJtlOnHeI MS marriage
VOWS has nor kept in this; that on about the first
day of April, 1892, he said Erwin Stewart with
out just cause or prnvocation wilfully deserted
said petitioner and such sert on of said petit
toner on the part of said Erwin Stewart hath
ever since continued.
And further setting forth that the said Erwin
Stewart, though possessed of sufficient pecuniary
ability to provide suitable maintenance for her,
wthou. cause, grossly, wantonly and cruelty re-
fuses and neglects 50 to do.
That she has not lived n)r cohabited with the
said petitionee since the hrst day of April, 1892,
because of his aforesaid desert on of and refusal
and neglect to support her.
And said petitioner further sets forth in said
libel that she has resided in the State of Vermont
aud in The county Of Bennngt for the three years
Immediately preceding the filing of said petition
for divorce
That SAID Erwin Stewart, said petitionee, is
without the State of Vermont, and in parts to said
petitioner unknown.
And praying therein that the bonds of matri-
mony between her and the said Erwin Stewart
may be dissolved. and bill Of divorce granted
her, and that she may be permitted to resume ht r
maiden name of AuSte Seeey.
All under the proper hand of the said Auste
Stewart libelant, and dated at Arlington, in said
1895
Whereupon, it appearing that the said libellant,
Austie Stewart. has filed her said libel for d.
vorce in the office of the clerk of the Court in the
County where the same is required to be brought,
and that the said Erwin Stewart is without this
him, 1T is ORDERED, upon the request of the
said Austie Stewart. that notice of the tendency
of her said libel for divorce, e gwen to the said
Erwin Stewart, by publishing the substance
thereof, together with this order, once eack week
for three weeks successfully, in the Bennington
Semi-Weekly Banner, a public newspaper
pr nted and published at bennington, in the
County of Bennington aforesaid, the last of which
said publ cations shall be at least six weeks pre-
vious to the next stated term of said Benningt IN
County Court, to be holden at Manchester within
and for said county, on the first TUESDAY OF June,
A. D, 1895, in which court and at which term
thereof said libel is pending
AND FURTHERMORE. the said Erwin Stew
art is hereby and by the publication here of i'll &C
cordance with the provisions of the statute in
such case made and provided, NOTIFIED and
REQUIRED to appear before the Honorable
County Court at the next stated term thereof, to
be holden at Manchester within and for the
County of Bennington aforesaid on the first
Tuesday of June, A. D., 1875, then and there in
SAID court to make answer TO said libel for di
vorce of the said Aust,e tewart, and to stand to
and abide such order. judgment and decree there
on as 10 said court shall seem meet, the premises
considered.
Dated a. Bel n Ston, in said county of Ben
nngtOn this first uayof april, A. D., 1895.
HARRY T. CUSHMAN Clerk.
MARTIN & ARCHIBALD.
q Attorneys for Lbellant,