The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1903-10-16
REPEHTS OF HER MARRIAGE.
HAGGIE TEAGARDEH, FozMKR GOOD
LAND GIRL, SUES FOR DIVORCE.
While Attending q Dance in Denver I'd
ward z. Nash Proposed, and to BE
~Game," Miss Teaearden Accepted
Pour Months of Married Life. g.

husband only four months Since they
were married in March, 1902.
Edward s Nash, a stenOgrapher IN the
e1 ploy Of Spratleu & Anderson, is the
husband from whom the wife wants to
be permanently separated The couple
were married il Denver on March 81.
1902, and after married bliss which lasted
q trife more than four months, the wife
in her complaint charges her husband
with deserving her September 1 last year.
He went to Omaha, whittier the wife fol-
lowed. After living there but a week,
Mrs. Nash says she was compelled to
leave him.
She claims that her husband so an
noyed her by his attention to another
woman that she was compelled to return
to her fathers home. Since then she
has not seen her husband
Mrs. Nash, who is a winsOme brunette,
with dark, snappy eyes and a wealth Of
hair, is stopping at her fathers house.
Il suppose / am thought gay and
giddy, but Pm not" she said TO a re-
porter. Il cannot help being light
hearted. even though have troubles
Maybe you think 1 haven't troubles, .
she continued. sWell. I guess yes. It
isn't any fun to be married and then
have your husband act like mine did"
81 suppose I'm to blame tOO-but then
I was so young and didn't realize at the
time what I was doing. Why, I was
scarcely Is years old at the time. Papa
and mamma lived at Georgetown, and
Edward was a stenOgraPher in the en-
plOy Of an attorney in Georgetown /
guess 1 hadn't known Edward more than
three months, when We helped to make
up a parry that came to Denver. We
came on March %, last year. It was the
day before Easter Sunday, and our pur-
pose was to dance.
"Well, we had our dance and had q
good time over Sunday. The following
day-Easter Monday-when we were
about to start for home Edward suggest
ed we get married. 1 thought be was
merely joking and 1 replied in the afir-
native.
He started for the courthouse to get
a license and I, still thinking he was
joking, followed. I was surprised when
found he was serious-but was game
and we were married by Rev. Rankin
Of the First Presbyterian church.
"Well, we went home, and there were
the parental reconciliatiODs. There was
at least on my parents side, but Ed
wards mother didn't seem to want to
forgive Us, and 1 am sure she is at the
bottom Of all our later troubles.
Things went well till about Septem.
Der 1, when Edward suddenly left me-
skipping to Omaha. I didn't know where
he was till a week later received a pen
itent letter from him asking me to go to
Omaha"
"You fOllOwed?"
'Yes, and 1 wish I hadn't
"Wby?"
"Oh, it's short story although to melt
seems long" pathetically remarked Mrs
Nash. Il reached Omaha on Thursday
and we lived together till Sunday night
when the trouble broke loose. 1t hap
pened IN Krug's park. We went there
and had a good time till IN the earlI
evening Edward left me sitting on 1
bench while he trotted of with anothe
woman.
81 guess must have sat on that bencl
for nearly four hours, when he returned
with the same creature and both hat
been drinking.
sOf course 1 left him then and there
and haven't seen him since. I came &
Denver and stayed here. Father an,
mother came here from Georgetown
number Of months ago and since then
have been stopping with them. Edwarr
returned to Denver some time ago. an
although he has been here since,
haven't seen him.
sDou't you want to see himsa
Indeed 1 don't Never want to Ia
eyes on him sgain."
perhaps you want your divorce {
marry anOtheFg" was suggested.
Indeed / don't, was the answer 8
may be young IN years but I'm old i
experiences. have had . taste Of th
old axiom, Marry in haste, repent Z
leisure No more Of that for me.
want divorce, and once 1 get my maiC
eE name back III never change
again
George ". Teagarden, the father
Mrs. Nash, lived IN GoOdlsnd mar
years He conducted the coal and Zee
business nov owned BY HestOn & Bart
olOuew- Mr. Tsagardeu became prou
inent in the politics Of the county an
for several years was county commi
siOner. His daughter. Maggie, vas
little girl when the Tesgarden fami
moved to GOodlaud, and she was abol
Is years Of age when her parents move
to Colorado i've years ago.
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