Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1917-05-12
John ". STATION. solicitor.
Order of Publication
Mary Bowen
NS
Walter Bowen

walter Bowen
In the Circuit Court Tor Worcester
ouniy. MARYLAND No. 2~u3 Chancery.
marcf Term, M. to.wit April T..
nj
The object Of this suit il 10 procure a
;.vorce a mensa ct thoro OF the plain
,F from the defendant. the guardian
-nip and custody of the infant children
the plaintiff and defendant. almony
nd counsel fee for ne plaintiff
The bill states
That on the lth day Of August
~. the plaintiff wn- married % the
iefendant in Wicomico County. Mary
and. and resided with him 10 Worcester
ounty Maryland. from then until the
ast part Of September l9l6.
2 That ever since the said marriage
me plaintiff mas behaved herself as II
ialthful. airectlonatc and chaste wife
towards her husband and her conduct
has always been above reproach
g. That the said defendant about the
last part of September lal6. without
any gust cause or reason abandoned and
deserted the plaintiff and went to the
fity of Chester IN the State Of rcnnsyl-
anla. leaving the plaintiff, and their
.pur children namely Margie Bowen,
age about seventeen years George
Bowen. age about fifteen years Conrad
iiowen. age aboui nine years. and Ben
ION Bowen, age about two years. with
II any means Of support except by her
dai!v labor
+. That the said defendant il a non.
Al
j engaged IN lucrative employment in
q factory in or near Chester. Pennsy-
Sanla, and is well able to contribute to
the support of the plaintiff and Of the
said children. but notwithstanding that
fact he has contributed 20 the support
~ the plaintiff and their said children
since the time Of his abandonment and
desertion aforesaid the sum Of only
thirteen dollars
=. That the SAID defendant has de
cared that it is not his intention to
return to the plaintiff but that it is his
intention 10 remain permanently in MS
new location in the State of Pennsyl
vania and to permanently abandon the
plaintiff and their said children
i. That the said Walter Bowen in
10 his earnings in the factory
hereinbefore set out. il the owner Of an
undivided one half interest in parcel
Of land on the State road leading from
snow Hill to Berlin and near thp town
II Snow Hill in the Second Election Dis
trict Of Worcester County, containing
Anout eighteen acres. improved hy
small dwelling said property being
orth approximately the sum OF eight
and fifty dollars
:. That the plaintiff is also advised
thnt the said Walter Bowen has an in
terest in the farm on which the plain
uiF lives IN the Third Election District
Of Worcester County in the State Of
Maryland. subject. however. TO certain
rights Of Ann Barnes, the mother Of the
said Walter Bowen. but the plaintiff is
ignorant Of the extent OF the interest of
the said Walter Bowen in said farm or
the rights of the SAID Ann Barnes. the
mother of the said Walter Bowen,
therein.
=. That the plaintiff resides on said
farm and has resided there since the
and desertion by the said
defendant but has had no revenue from
the said property other than that derived
by her own personal labor in cutting
and selling a small amount of cord wood
farm said premises in order to get the
necessary money for the food needed by
herself and their children
II is thereupon this eighteenth day Of
April, nineteen hundred and seventeen.
ordered by the Circuit Court for Wor-
cester County. Maryland. sitting in
Equity. that the plaintiff by causing
copy of this order to be inserted in
some newspaper published in said Wor-
cester County. once in each of four sue
cessive weeks before the fourteenth
day of May. nineteen hundred and
seventeen. give notice to the said absent
defendant of the object and substance
Of this bill, warning him to appear in
this Court in person or by solicitor on or
before the sixth day of June. nineteen
hundred and seventeen. TO show cause.
IL any he has, why decree ought not
10 be passed as prayed.
OLIVER y. COLLINS. Clerk.
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OLIVER u. COLLINS, Clerk.