Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1896-07-24
LIBEL FOR DIVORCE.
ORDER CAPITALIZATION.


STATE OF VERMONT, ESSEX COUNTY SIS.
ALICE e pRircHARD Essex County Court,
BENZ F. PR1rcHARp. Sept. Term 1896
To the Honorable the County Court next
to be holden at Guildhall, within and for the
county OF Essex, on the third Tuesday of
September A. d. 1896, comes Alice c. Pritch-
ard of Canaan, in the County of Essex and
State of Vermont, and shows and gives your
Honorable Court to understand that on the
- 12th day OF November 1885, at Portland, in
the County of Cumberland and State of
Maine, she was duly joined in marriage with
Benjamin F. Pritchard of Portland aforesaid
by ii. J. White, minister of the gospel duly
authorized by the laws of the State of NJ ains
of she lived Mi f 3s the date
jamin F: Pritchard in the strict observance of
all the duties and obligations enjoined upon
her by the marriage covenant and in all re-
spects conducted herself as true and faith
full wife ought and should. That there has
been born to them one child Harold X .
Prtchard, who is now eight years of age
And your petitioner further shows that after
said marriage the said Benjamin F. Pritchard
not regarding his marriage VOWS and COW
enants from the 9Th day of January 1886 to
the 9Th day of December 1894 continually
treated your petitioner with intoerable Sc
verify, and that on the day and wear last
mentioned by reason of such intolerably Sc
we're treatment your petitioner was forced to
and did cease to live and cohahit with the
salu Benjamin r. Prltchard. And your peti-
toner further shows that she is resident of
Canaan, in the County of Essex, and has re-
sided in said County of Essex for the sixteen
months last past, and that she has not lived
or cohabited with the said BENJAMIN F
Pritchard since the 9Th day of December. A.
ID. 1894. Wherefore your petitioner pravs
the bond of matrimony between her and the
said BENJAMIN F. Pritchard be dissolved, and
bill OF divorce granted her. That the Gus
tody of the minor child Harold X be given
her, ana for such other and further relief n
to law and justice may appertain.
DATED at Canaan in the County of Essex
this 9th day of July 1896.
ALICE C. PRITCHARD, Petitioner.
H. W. LUND Attorney for LibeIIant.
ESSEX COUNTY CLERK OFFICE, July 10 1896.
Whereas, the original of which the fore
gong is a true copy, has this day been filed
IN this Office, and it furthermore being made
TO appear that the libeee is residing with
out this State so that subpoena cannot be
served upon him it is ordered that notice bv
pubication be given him of the tendency of
this libel, and the libellant is ordered to cause
the substance of said petition, together with
TINS order. to be published three weeks sue
cessively IN the Essex County Herald, a news
paper published in Brighton, in said County
Oh Essex, the last of which publications to be
at least six weeks previous to the third Tues
DAY OF September A. ID. 1896 at which time
the hbellee is summoned to appear before the
county court to be held at Guildhal, within
ana tor the County of Essex, and make
answer to the said petition, and abide the
orders and DEGREES that shall be made therein.
Dated at Guildhall this 10th day of Julv
A. ID. 1896, GEORGE A. HUBBARD, Clerk