The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-10-18

Garden of Love than did Father Adam
and Mother Eve in the old fashioned
Garden of Eden. For Mrs. Stubler-
Bolen, the Tree of Marital knowledge
has yielded big, sour lemons instead
of sweet apples. -~-
AS most pioneers know, Mrs. Amelia
Stubler-Bolen was the wife of Jacob
Stubler, once King Of the Austrians in
Duluth, as well as a prominent liquor
dealer. Adversely and irritable nerves
made Jacob such a family problem as
to compel Mrs. Stubler to divorce him.
Later on, Jacob mellowed down and
his former wife forgave him her griev-
ances, therefore they were welded a
second time and lived amicably until
rheumatism and other disabilities
caused Mr.. Stubler's death a year or
two ago.
When Jake Stubler was living, there
was mortgage of 81 900 on the family
residence at 10S East Second St. Be-
fore his death, $500 was paid on the
incumbrance, but prominent real es.
tate and loan agent embezzled the sum,
later going to states prison.
When Stubler died, the full indebted
ness, with accrued interest, still stood
against the homestead. 1t was not
long afterwards that foreclosure of
mortgage was started.
Matt. Boland, an Irishman of the
old school, had a home property on
Duluth Heights well worth So 500 to
$4,000. He was widower, his wife
dying somewhere near the time of
Jake Stubler, if general information is
correct.
In some way, unknown to this great
family journal, Mrs. Stubler and Matt
Boland became acquainted. Both were
lone bodies, despite the fact that each
had number of grown children. Gal
LIANT Matt, only SIS years of age, soon
was whispering honey and blarney to
Mrs. Stubler, who confessed to having
passed 81 summers.
On the twenty-sixth Of June, the
month of roses and weddings, widower
and widow were made man and wife
by the priest, according to the rites
of church and the laws of state.
Instead of taking the happy bride
to his residence on Duluth Heights,
Matt Bolen picked up his pipe and
'baccy and moved right into the old
Stubler residence on East First street.
He was not reared to wear a night
shirt. and a tooth brush, in the Bolen
eyes, was a sign of effeminacy, there
fore moving in was quick and easy
work.
1t was not long until personal differ
ences arose. The amorous bridegroom
quickly forgot how rale ould Irish
gintleman should treat bride of his
elder years. He became peevish, ex-
acting and cranky, according to the al
legations of Mrs. Stubler-Bolen. That
was followed by coarse and vulgar
language and that, in turn, gave way
to curses and cruelty.
"Shet yer mout' and 60 to H."
Mrs. Stubler-Bolen alleged, in her ac-
ton for divorce, her lawfully welded
husband growled at her.
"Oy've lost fifteen pounds since I
began to live wild ye," Bolen is al
legged to have said on another occasion,
"an' Oy'm domned sorry that liver
married again."
Both Bolen and Mrs. Stubler.Bolen
had adult children. Miss Stubler, a
young woman grown, finally left her
parental home because Of what she con-
sidered Bolen's coarseness, vulgarity
Of the Stubler union stuck to home and
mother.
Matt. Bolen also had grown children,
several of them being girls, very easy
to look at and credit to the original
union Of the House of Bolen and Quain,
as was the first Mrs. Bolen's name.
She came from that grand ould Irish
settlement in Cedar Lake, Scott Co.,
Mimi, but that entirely another
story.
Mrs. Stubler-Bolen declared in her
prayer for divorce that the grown b.
len children treated her with studied
| contempt, even when she faithfully
nursed Bolen son, i'll with tubercu-
losis and later victim Of the dread
disease.
That son caught the influenza in
the army, if the Rip-saw' information
is correct, and after-effects developed
into tuberculosis. His army insurance
ran to father Bo1en but, when it was
seen that recovery was impossible, the
Bolen sisters induced the dying boy to
make the insurance over to the young
er sister, thereby cutting the step
mother out of any share in the wind
fall. But that is another and an un-
official story, also.
When Matt. Bolen came a coortin
to the Stubler home, Mrs. Stubler told
him of the mortgage on her home.
"Wed wild me, mavourneen, an it g
me, Matt. Bolen, who will sell his prop.
erty on the hill and then clear yer
ouwn little home and even make some
bettherments.
That was fair, square proposition
and it appealed to the lone woman.
Then Mrs. Stubler told her ardent
sutton that she was sadly troubled with
inflammation of the arteries and vari.
cose veins.