Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-10-25
EASY WAY TODINORCE
INDIANA LEADS AND DEGREES
ARE VALID.
uoOSicrs We're the First to Recognize
the Utility Of Flexible Laws anc; to
Make Escape from Marriage a Mat
ter OF Little Diiiicuity.


Statistics of Several Counties.
\ recent issue Of the Chicago Tribune
had the following 10 say about the divorce
industry in This State:
While certain well-dehned rules govern
ali other trades. fixing their locations ant
establishing their centers. those of the dS
vorce industry seem 10 be as migratory as
strong legged tramp and as uncertain
as the marble in n roulette wheel.
Indiana was the first Stale which ever
recognized the possibilities Of mutual
profit between Suitors aud residents in lax
divorce laws and for Il long time had
monopoly of the business. Then the laws
of Illinois We're so amended that the mar
riage bonds could be more easily united
aud Chicago had quite boom. Its ad
vantagcS aS a place of residence during
the year of waiting were quickly recog-
nized But lately the Dakotas. Wyom-
:nr and oklahoma offered inducements
no person seeking a divorce could resist
But il is one thing 10 secure trade and
another to hold it. and 81 much fault has
been found with The divorce goods offered
on Western bargain counters that their
custom is deserving them and now In
diana's trade is looking mp again. with
every prospect of an increasing and we'll
maintained boom.
On the September docket of the Parke
Comfy. Ind. Circuit Court. just ended.
the divorce cases were One-elghth the en-
tire number of cases set for trial. In
Clay County there were thlrty-eight di
vorce cases tried during the September
term. while in Nico County there We're
four times as many as in ParkP. There
are already five cases filed for the \Oven-
Der docket i'm Parke County For the
February term of this year there were
seven. while six divorce suits found places
on the April docket. making a total of
twenty nine in the Parke County courts
thus IL" his year.
Forty Count EN-.
The records in the clerks Office for
November show forty divorces during the
year. IN the 1893 docket this record sinks
into insignficance. out Of the 153 cases
tried there being forty of them for
divorce. or nearly one-thirl of the entire
list. OF these the February term put up
six of them. April eleven. September
brought in seventeen. while by NOvem-
Der fourteen more dissatisfied couples
ness in Parkc County was only in it's in
fancy in 1891. and in 1892 il only brought
up sixteen cases during the year. Sep
tcmber. with seven petitions. being the
heaviest month.
With twenty-nine divorces on record in
Parke County ut the present date. The
year 1880 will outstrip all its predeces-
sors before it gives up the fight on Dec.
81 From every other county in the
State. whcr" the September term Of court
has closed. comes the report of an amaz-
ing number of divorces on trial. The
population OF the county is equal to one
one-hundrcdth of the population of the
State of Indiana. Taking the eleven di-
vorceS i'm the September court as an aver
age. which is fair and conservative es-
| innate for the State as Il whole. it means
that there were LOO divorce suits on
| trial in the Indiana September courts Just
| closed.
They represent 200 parties 10 the suit.
! An army big enough To defend the State
| from any military intrusion. If this great
| company of disappointed mortals could be
got together in kind of retitting school.
with sly little Cupid rs the chief instruc-
tor. il is believed fully 500 new couples
| could he made from the old LOO dis
unions and insists.
! IIoosicrdom's Way Of Divorcing.
| pom investigation II is found that the
common method of procuring Il divorce in
| Western Indiana * To have the clerk OF
| the court make out Il notice of non-reSi-
dcnce. The fee for this process belongs Ia
the clerk. but it happens that three time.
out of five he never gets il. and il is also
q fact that nearly all divorce cases are
worried along through the courts on a
deadbeat process. Then when the com
planant. or attorney. asks the clerk Tor
the papers. he has no choice bvt TO give
| them. and place the case ON the docket
ready for Il hearing. Next Il notice is
taken 10 the printing Office of Il paper of
| general circulation, and the editor is
asked to print it four successive times
| When court convenes the attorney asks
| this same editor for Il statement showing
the notice to have been printed four times,
which statement is given the court.
| Here the dead-beating process comes in
again. and the Parke County papers have
| inaugurated q crusade against the prac-
| tice claiming that not one of four of
| these divorce complainants ever pay for
| the publication of the notice. They say
| that hereafter all notices must be paid
| for before they will testify Ia their having
appeared. which testimony is absolutely
! essential To every granting of a divorce.
| The attorneys are also steering shy of
these manifold divorce cases. stating that
| Of the ten to twenty in every term of the
| Circuit Court not more than half Of them
are good pay. And still further the court
| officials are getting Il little weary of this
divorce business on the ground that it is
| largely due To these divorce suits that so
| much important court matter must be
subjected to Sundry docketingS. and. in
| many cases. held ever from term to term
| owing 10 Il lack of time To hear il. Thus
the moral reformers. the editors. the
court clerks. the lawyers. the court OF
| ficials in Indiana have at last struck Il
sympathetic chord and it will bind them
| all together on this divorce question. The
average time of these divorces is found
to be within three years after marriage
Minor State News.