Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-10
Once Prominent Iowan Long
Forgotten Bobs Up as Plain
tiff in Divorce Suit
WIFE COULDN'T LIVE ON POETRY
Call Once Teacher in E.. H. conser's
Normal School at Dexter - Free
Love Got Him in Trouble - Now a
Prominent Scientist and Author in
New York.
Special to Times-Republican.

Des Moines, Aug 10.--R. Ellsworth
Call, once prominent in Iowa now
scientist and author In New York, once
at the head Of a normal school that
was started by the late Edwin III.
Conger, and others at Dexter, Iowa,
and TOW holding q position on the
faculty of the Dewitt Clinton high
school of New York City has been
heard from. Iowa people had all but
forgotten the genius of geology till
information came from New York that
he was mixed up in divorce pro-
ccedings.
Call is suing his wife for a divorce
and she proposes to resist it. He
claims that she married him for his
money. She claims that they entered
into strange wedding pact whereby
they were to be married for year on
probation, but that the probation
proved unfavorable in that Call failed
to supply a sufficient amount of the
coin of the realm with which to run
the house and that she left him soon
after they were married because of
that fact.
She has given to the press some
poems and letters written by Call in
which, she calls her his "angel-faced
child" his turtle dove" and his own
baby girl but 'he failed even to at
tempt to support me-"
al x,,hi1 Nf 1ivl6
mostly in Abel county. While he was
connected with the Dexter Iowa, nor,
NAL, Mr.. Cox, was also connected
with the school. Cox was a Presbyter-
ian and Call was an ATHEIST and adj
vocate of free love-" Most of Abel
county was Presbyterian. Trouble fol-
lowed and the management of the
school began to hunt for an excuse for
getting rid of Call. They soon found
1t when in his advocacy Of free love"
he became too intimate. The manage
ment of the school met and passed
resolutions requesting Call to resign.
He replied by suing the management
for $4,000 damages and lost. From
that time on Call was lost to Iowa. He
Travelled and lectured on free love-"
but nothing had been heard from him
till information of the New York d.
vorce was found in the New York pa
pers and the story of the strange pact
between he and his wife, Mrs. Bijou
Jeanette Clarinet Call.
Now Professor Call claims that he
gave his wife pre-nuptial present of
$1,000 and post nuptial present OF
$1,000 and that as soon as Mrs. Call
secured these she left him. Mrs. Call
claims he never gave her anything but
a handkerchief and wedding ring.
Mrs. Call previous to her marriage
was a beauty doctor to the 400" and
is herself beautiful and young. She
says:
Professor Call is silly old man,
whose love professions were all em-
bodied In talk and poetry"
Call was in Abel county in the early
sos
The soils section of the Iowa expert
ment station at Ames are preparing an
elaborate soil exhibit which will be in
stalled In the agricultural building
during the state fair. The exhibit this
year will contain many objects of
special interest to the farmers of the
state A huge soil map made from soil
collected in the field will show the
principal type of soil in each county of
Iowa No one who visits the fair
grounds should fail to see this very in
structive map which is about twelve
feet square.
Near the map will be found long
cylinders of soil which accurately show,
every important type of Iowa soil to
depth of more than three feet. These
cylinders will enable every one to get
definite idea of the character of the
soils and subsoils, which produce the
great cereal and grass crops of Iowa.
There will also be exhibited a model
OF the soil experiment fields which are
located in various sections of the state.
This model will clearly show the meth
DDS of crop rotation, of soil manage
ment and of fertilizing which are en-
ployed in this extended study of the
productive capacity Of the various
types of Iowa soils.
These large displays and a goodly
number OF other features will make the
soil exhibit one Of the most interesting
and instructive features of the state
fair in 1907 Professor Stevenson and
his assistants are hard at work on the
soil exhibit for this year.