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- COUNTY, IS.
XUsTIE STEWART, Bennington County Court
V.
ERWIN STEWART June Term. A. D., 1895.
LIBEL FOR DIVORCE
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A. W. BRAISTED.
Commissioners.

- COUNTY, S.
XUsTIE STEWART Bennington County Court
ERWIN STEWART June Term. A. D., 1896
LIBEL FOR DIVORCE.
WHEREAS, Austie Stewart of Arlington, In
the County of Bennington and State of Vermont
heretofore. viz. on the first day of April, A D..
1895 has duly filed in the Office Of the clerk of the
County Court within and for the county Of Ben
nngton aforesaid, at Bennington in said county
of Bennington, her libel for divorce from the
boEdS Of matrmony now existing between the
said Austie stewart and Erwin Stewart, former
ly also of Arlington aforesaid but now Of parts
unknown to said libellant, 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., 1888,
she was lawfully Joined in marriage to the peti
tionfe, Erwin Stewart at Arlington, in said
count y of Bennington, by Reverned A. X. Field.
minister of the gospel, duly empowered by law
TO solemniZe marriage.
That from the date Of said marriage she lived
and Cohabited with said petitiOnee as h sband
and wife, in Fitchburg Massachusetts, Manches-
ter. New Hampshire, Weybrdge, 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.
That 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
said Erwin Stewart, said petitiOnre his marriage
vows has not kept. in this that on about the first
day of Apri, 1892 he said Erwin Stewart, with
out Just cause or pruvocatOn wilfully deserted
said petitioner and such desert on Of said peti-
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,
withou: cause, grossly, wantonly and cruelty re-
fuses and neglects sn to do.
That she has not lived nor cOhabited with the
said pettionee since the first day of April. 1892,
of hiS aforesaid 1psartiG Of and rpflIsa
and neglectto support her.
And said petitioner further sets forth in said
libel that she has resided in the State of Vermont
and in he county Of Bennington 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 matr-
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 her
maiden name of Austie Seeley.
All under the proper hand of the said .Austie
Stewart, lbellant, and dated at Arlington, in said
County Of Bennington. the 10Th day of March,
1895.
WherPupon. it appearing that the said libeant
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
State so that asummons cannot be served upon
him, 1T is ORDERED, upon the request of the
said Ausie 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
SemWeekN Banner, a public newspaper
pr ntad 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 Bennington
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 ia
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., 1895, then and there in
said court to make answer to said libel for di-
vorce of the said Auste .tewart and to stand to
and abide such order judgment and decree there
on 10 said court shall seem meet, the premises
considered.
Dated at Bennington, in said county of Ben
nington. this first dayof April A. D., 1895.
HARRY I. CUSHMAN, Clerk.
MARTIN & ARCHIBALD.
81 Attorneys for Lbellant,