The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1898-10-07

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the penetrating darts OF Cupid3 These
questions and others Of sociological
nature easily arise. the result OF lega
procedure IN the courts OF Anderson
Ind, which go to show that nptri-
monial infeliciiy often Il the result OF
Inherent qualities. Allen Lemon has
Just been granted a divorce. ho mar
ried his wife. Minnie. some months
ago. and from the very firat there
arose strife. and In the light OF the evil
dence brought out In trial. II
may DO presumed that she was the
fountain head OF an Of the trouble. In
diana divorces are quite often granted
on very common evidence. but this de-
cree was issued because Of most re-
variable sociological demonstration.
After showing that she was disagree
able fauli-nudlng and suspicious Of
him on every possible occasion and
was otherwise anything but agreeable
the defendants attorney introduced
her family tree and most intercai-
ms one 10 proved TO be-.
In order not 90 20 back over one
hundred years thoy began with her
grcat-great-groat-grandmuthcr. and
showed that she had been divorced.
This old woman'a two sisters and their
mother had also been divorced. The
Applicant grandmother and her His-
tefu had an been divorced from ono
20 four timos. and their daughters. In
Gliding the applicants mother, had
similar records. except one had carried
on all honora by contracting a ilfth d.
vorco. That brings the women side
down 10 her own generation. all OF
them with black divorce records. Tho
applicants mother had been divorced
three times. and her namo In her
fourth matrimonial venture. which la
now In the novelty stage. la Fox. The
mother had two daughters. the appll-
cant and her elder sister. The appll-
cants axe was but 20. but stlll Hho
had already contracted ono divorce
and was due for the second. which
camo In on tlmo-qulte n good record
for one 70 young Her sister. who IL
| two years her senior. had Just got
through her second divorce. which was
also a fair record for the last two OF
the divorce family. Il is impossible 10
figure tho number ~ nnmea that the
women OF this family have thus gath
| cred into probably the most Interest,"
ing family tree In the country. but
they mount mp near 10 a hundred,
Tracing their history back atlll fur
Their. Il n found that the women far
beyond the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
mother were also built ON tho divorce
plan. II ~ also found that with prob
ably three exceptions the women were
always the applicants for tho divorce
and In the case OF Mrf. Lemon she had
previously applied FOR q divorce from
Lemon and because she had resided Ia
the state ~ Indiana alX months tho
case was thrown out OF court. She had
then been married but hvo months
lie then filed the cross complaint and
on this most remarkable showing the
court decided that probably Lemon
had gone up against the real thing In
the squcezor line and he promptly re-
leased him from the ties that bind.
The other case which r. strangely
along the same line was a mixed az
paternity-probate-wiil anair in which
tho property OF Frank Black, insane
was at issue. young man named Gep'
hart being n claimant on tho ground
that Black was his father. his mother
having previously been Mrs. Black
and giving birth TO the plaintiff a few