The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-09-14
DIVORCE SPO|LS / ALI
ROMANCE OF RANDOLPH FARMER
is BADLY SHATTERED.
HE sPuRNED WOMAN ANeRlLY
Believing That the Woman Whom He
Went to Meet, Was Single, Phillip
Becker Of Randolph Found Bill for
the Divorce She Was Getting.

Sioux City, Ia, Sept. 13.-Coming to
Sioux City to be married to Miss
Sophy Story of Correctionville, who
answered his advertisement for wife,
and who met him at the station as he
alighted from the train, Philip Becker,
a well-to.do farmer of Randolph, Neb.,
after taking in the sights at the Inter
state fair left for his home today, wife
less and unhappy, his confidence in
womankind sadly Jared.
Through the medium of letters,
Becker gave the Correctionville wo-
man a description of himself and how
he would be dressed, and when the
train pulled into the station yesterday
morning she easily picked him out
| from among the throng OF fair visitors.
| They had agreed to meet here and be
married and then take in the fair be-
tore returning to their home at Ran
dolph.
After a few minutes conversation
at the station, however, between the
two matrimonially inclined people, the
deal was declared off by the Randolph
farmer. The woman, in arranging the
details for the wedding, handed the
farmer a bill for $35, stating that it
must be paid before the marriage took
place. His investigation revealed that
the money was to pay for her divorce
from her husband, which is now be-
fore the courts, and that instead of q
single woman, he was counting mar
|
using him as a means to free herself
from undesirable matrimonial ties
Although in all of her letters she
signed herself as u single woman
the cruel truth that she was married
woman fairly staggered him, and TAX
ing the little daughter who accom-
panied him he left the woman at the
station and went to the fair grounds
to drown his grief in the excitemen
of the fair attractions and pink lemon
ade.
Thought She Was Single.
That woman led me TO believe tina
she was single" he declared. "Whel
| arrived here, however, she wanted
me to pay for divorce she is getting
y from her husband.
Pm an honest man." he continues
hotly, and don't want to freak u
= any married couples, and furthermor
= | would not be party to the smast
j ing of any matrominal ties"
When he told the woman to be-gont
scene took place at the station, an
crowd of men and women gathere
: around the couple while they were Sc
Ting their differences. Taking hi
> little girl by the hand he pushed hi
. way through the crowd and was 500
y lost to sight, leaving the woman VIII
Z was to be his bride alone with his di
appointment and wrath.
He Is Still Game.
Dismayed by the failure Of his frs
attempt to secure a wife, Becker sti
" says that he is in search OF ont
and that he has $1,000 in cash to SUI
e port the woman who takes his nam
r, Il do not want any of your cit
4. women" he said. "A middle-age
!. woman, who will make good mothe
el for my children, and who was reare
IS on farm, is the kind of woman
r am looking for. have $1,000 in cas-
@ and as soon as find wife | will bu
4 farm and live on it with her"
n. Mr. Becker said that he has fly
v. children, and that he perfers Germa
re- woman, one that has had experient
q. on the farm.