The Iola register., 1901-11-22
OLD FOLKS SEEK DIVORCE
At the Age of y He Asks for Divorce
From His Wife, Aged GO A
Remarkable Legal DOcu-
ment.

DR.. Sherman l.. n. Foote, of Gas
City, has sued for divorce from his
wife, Lizzie d. Foote. Thompson &
Thompson represent the plaintiff and
Wednesday they filed the papers,
which are remarkable in text and in
the matter which they set forth.
The beginning chapters read thus:
Comes now the plaintiff to the al
tar Of justice, bearing his burden of
sorrow and of woe which he humbly
lays down before the Ermine and the
Wool-sack.
He declares with solemn truth that
he has been for more than one year Las.
passed an actual resident in good
faith of the state OF Kansas. whose
va liant sons swan the Bag Bag; that
state pointed out by all the world as
being the deserted home of Carrie
Nation and Mary Ellen Lease: and
that he is now resident OF Allen
county, same state, where the roar of
natural gas wells and the whistle of
great industries have become as
familiar to its inhabitants as was the
croaking of frogs to the people of
Posey county, Indiana, in the days of
Auld Lang Syne.
1T was back east in the good old
state of Ohio, that has given birth to
statesmen and politicians 1t was
long years ago and in the sultry sum
mer time, when the dog fennel bios
somed inl she lane and the wood pecker
pecked his peck on the decaying trunk
of the hollow Sycamore tree. 1t was
at the spring meath the hill close by
the spreading beech, a youth ana
maiden met and meeting, loved and
loving plighted their troth.'
1t was in the fall, the melancholy
days, the saddest of the year, when
they met again, but parted not in love
but in anger. He married another
girl and lived in Ohio She married
Mr.. Walker Of Texas and removed
there. They we're divorced. Then
she married man whose name is un-
known to the Doctor. He died. Then
she married Mr.. Baker and moved to
California He died She had Two
children by her second marriage.
He early knelt at the feet of Aescul-
apius and learned to heal, Came TO
Kansas in 1899 and his wife died
shortly later, leaving him alone at the
tender age of seventy-two, He wrote
TO his old sweetheart in California
and she replied They met in Kansas
City and she fell on his neck and
stayed there. They were married
September lG 1900 At that time he
had good prrctice and was prosper
ing and knew many men ofnote. The!
moved to Gas City.
But his dreams were not realized
From the altar VOWS she turned for
getiul and showed him warm tim,
thencetorth. Her supposed honey
sweetness of disposition looked tohin
like a spray otyinegar, She began +,
knock ON Kansas aud then knock on
him. Among his titles bestowed b,
her were "bigot, back number, loaier
idiot, crank, fool, tyrant, n0 gentle
I man, filthy, low, indecent, old cur
mudgeon." Privately and publicl.
I she hailed him thus.
Was she helpmate to him? Nay
, Nay. Did she love, honor and obey
Not con your tiptype, Nor ibid sh,
l cook, wash or sew, although in goo,
health and mighty spry for lady 0
e 6S summers.
He is not an epicure but likes goot
e things to eat and always provide,
S plenty, but she refused 10 cook, de
5 claring the house empty and forget
4 ting the text; Rev. XII, S.
- Once he went to the cupboard whe
I she declared there was no butter il
the house and brought forth hun
n which was not strong enough to wal
o the table aloae She was Iangere