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Show THREE ARE ASKING FOR DIVORCE In the petitions for divorce fled in the district court today Mrs. Clara Standing, Mrs Hulda Peterson, Mrs. LaVerne Burnett and Mr. William C. Bryant say they are tired of married life and- desire to be released from the obligations. Mrs Standing says she married Abel Standing at Ogdon, August 23, 190G, and that since that time he has been a quarrelsome man, subject to the ex cessive use of intoxicating liquors He has been In the habit of using vile and obscene language, at times calling her bad names, and that most of the time ho has been indecent toward her. The plaintiff a'lieges in particular that in February. 1907, only a short time after marriage, the defendant struck her in the face with his fist. On June 10, 1911, : she claims that he grabbed her by the wrist and brutally brutal-ly twisted it and that again, on June 24, 1911. he twisted her wrist and he pulled her nose until it bled. At the lator date, the plaintiff says, the defendant was violent in his attacks upon her She asks for divorce, $10 a month alimony, costs of suit and her maiden name, Clara Osborne. Mrs. Burnett alleges that she was married to George Burnett. November Novem-ber 25, 190S, but that since December 25 of the same year. Mr. Burnett has failed to provide the necessities of life. She asks for divorce and such other relief as the court may seo fit to grant William C Bryant, in his petition for divorce, sets1 forth that he and Mattle Bryant intermarried at Dallas, Texas, November 17, 1901, and that on May 10, 1910, Mrs. Bryant without cause or provocation, deserted him and the home and' has since absented herself from hlmt and has refused to live with him as his wife. He desires to be divorced. Mrs. Hulda Peterson also wants a divorce from her husband, Nels C. Peterson, Pet-erson, on the grounds that he has failed to provide herself and four children Mrs. Peterson says that the defendant has not only failed to provide pro-vide for her, but that" he has squandered squan-dered $1,700 of their joint hard earnings. earn-ings. Tho parties were married September Sep-tember 10, 1903. oo |