Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-06
Court to Convene at Nevada.
Monday, With Judge Wright
on the Bench
OVER 200 CASES DocKETED
OF This Number t41 Are Old Cases,
and Only Sixty, New Ones - Two
Embezzlement Cases Against L. j..
TjernagIe, Disbarred Attorney of
Story 'cty-Msny Divorce Suits.
Special to Times Republican

Nevada Jan 6-Court will convene
OF Fort Dodge on the bench, and Re
porter Tinllham at the reporters desk.
The trial jurors are summoned to APP
pear at 1920 on The morning of Tues
day, Jan. II. and the grand jurors for
1: 30 the afternoon of the same day.
While the docket is a large one, 1t con-
, tains many old cases. that have been
carried over from term to term, and
many of them will either be dropped
from the calendar or be continued.
There are 81 cases on the docket, of
which 1il are old cases. and sixty new
fifteen cases, and on the criminal dock
ct but eleven cases. Among the GRIM
inal cases of importance. are the two
embezzlement eases against L. ]. Tier
maggie. disbarret attorney of Story
City. These cases have been on the
docket for some time. At recent term
of district cour., motion for a
change of Venue was denied the de-
PENDANT, and 1t is expected that the
matter will be pushed at this term The
trial of John p. Albert. for conducting
a bucket shop in his city. is also dock
eted, and is expected to be tried There
are two cases to be tried under the
wife desertion law. One of them is that
of young Hatfield, who was brought up
mere from Missouri some months ago
upon a charge of wife desertion, and
was released after bonds had been
furnished for the support of his wife
and child. Frank Dvoracek, who was
arrested on similar charge at Fort
Dodge recently, is also in Jail in de-
fault of bonds, to- answer to a similar
charge. Dvoracek was the first man to
be arrested under the new wife de-
sertion law. and was dismissed by
Judge Wright. The matter was taken
to the higher court by County Attor-
ney Mccall. however. and the decision
of the lower court reversed.
There is the usual divorce grind
scheduled. Fifteen couples will unbur.
den their woes before the court and
should be legally separated. One of
-. WI
H. Meeler, prominent society people of
the college town, who have been in
the limelight for some time. The case
was started by the plaintiff as sep
arate maintenance case, but later was
amended and made a divorce case.
There is an alleged affinity in this
case, and for some time there was
a strenuous effort made at the college,
to have the matter quoted down. This
was to no avail, however. Mary Hardin,
of McCallsburg, a popular society wo-
man Of that place, will tell the court
how cruel her husband, j. w. Hardin,
has been in the past, and ask for a de-
cree. Grace Carney, now of an un-
known address, is in the courts asking
a divorce from her husband, Pearl F.
Carney, who at one time conducted an
electric theater in this city, and has
since been engaged in making balloon
ascensions, as we'll as following various
other vocations. The last known of |
him he was at Dewitt, conducting a
moving picture show. Clayton Harris,
of McCallsburg. is asking a divorce
from his wife, Emma Harris, of this |
city, and Emma Waltz, of Nevada,
asks a divorce from her husband, j. |
A. Waltz. The two latter cases have |
been tried in the district court before,
and been either denied or dropped. Be-
side these cases there are those en-
titled Ruth A. VS.. F. G. Glidden; Flor
ence vs. George Pierce; Della VS.. Dew
len Bates; Sarah j. VS.. David Law;
Martha A. VS.. Henry Bryant; Mary e.
VS.. Simon p Myers; Jessie NJ. VS..
Charles M. O'Neil: Emma VS.. George
B. Herrick, and Minnie VS.. William
T. Scott.
There are a number of important
civil cases docksted, the majority Of
which are appeals in drainage cases,
Of which there are number under
the course of construction in the