The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-09
SPOIL GOOD Man
Lights and BOuIevards Too Much
for Her Husband.
Vesper Girl Asks Divorce From
Former Farm Hand.
OWNS TWO BIG CARS
Band Hired to Play for Supper
Wife Doesn't Attend.
General Affinity Charge Made
Against A. G. Reed.

Kansas City, Sept. 9.-Some years
| ago out in Lincoln county, Kansas,
| Albert c. Reed was considered about
the best all around farm hand west of
Salina. He could pitch more alfalfa
and husk more corn than any of the
neighbors, and besides that he was a
| handsome, dashing young fellow, with
a celluloid ring on his flowing four-in-
hand and all that sort of thing In
VeSper, Kansas, every Saturday night
he was the cynosure of every eye, so
they say.
And along about that time Joseph
White. a wealthy Lincoln county man,
decided to his daughter Lille $40 acres
of as fine land as every lay outdoors.
There it was. A big property, a win
some heiress and debonair young
farm hand working for her at SIS a
month. The answer is easy She was
then % and he a. year or SO younger.
So They Sold Some Land.
But before the marriage Lille wrote
out a prenuptial agreement, so she
says, by which she was to retain the
management of the property. In few
years farm life became a little prosy-
Two hundred and forty acres of the
land was Sold and with the proceeds
the Reeds went to Excelsior Springs
and bought property, and year and a
half ago they came to Kansas City.
Now Mrs. Reed has filed suit in the
circuit court for divorce, making a gen.
eral affinity charge, but mentioning
no names. She adds, however, that it
the names will be told when the case
is tried, if such a course is necessary.
Mrs. Reed is worth about $4,000.
The Reeds have been living in Kan
sas City a year and half. They sep
arated August "a. There seemed to
be no disagreements. according to the
petition. until last May Then the gay
lights of the city, which never had
bothered Reed in Vesper, seemed to
get in their work, the wife asserts.
Her husband, who had purchased two
motor cars with her money, went in
to the livery business, and some OF his
passengers were not men, she alleges
He now has a stand near the Hotel
Baltimore. From SIS a month, and
glad to get it, to two motor cars and
nothing to do but ride, has spoiled an
otherwise perfectly good husband =
the wife's estimation.
Did Not Invite Her, she Says.
According to the petition. Reed
went on many rides in the motor cars
without inviting Mrs. Reed to go with
him. In one instance, it is said, he
went to suburban place of amuse
ment hired a band and gave a little
supper. that it would have taken him
several months to pay for if he We're
still getting his $15 per out in Lin
coin county. And that isn't all. the
petition says. He has done similar
things so very, very often, and IN Such
an open and scandalous' manner,
that Mrs. Reed feels she must have
a divorce at once. She didn't know
know anything about her husbands
doings, she says, until a few weeks
ago.
Having. as she alleges, given her
husband a good many thousand dol
lars already to spend for himself, and
fearing that he Will spend more if he
isn't prevented, she asks an Injunction
preventing him from in any way in
terfering with her property, barring
him from the rent money from the
$40 acres she still has out in Kansas
and making him keep away from her
house altogether.
Mrs. Reed estimates that her prop
erty in Excelsior Springs is worth
some $4,000, the Kansas land about
$4,000 and the two motor cars $500
and by the way, she would like to
have the judge forbid Mr.. Reed to sell
those cars or to use them, for that
matter At present, Mrs. Reed says,
her husband has the two cars stand
ing in front Of hotels and takes tran
sients out to see the parks and boule-
wards at a reasonable price. And he's
a mighty good looking man yet, she