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Show I innu I MEN IN 45 YEARS lH MRS. TOWNSEND OF DODGE, ME. H QET8 HELPMEETS CONFUSED IHj WHEN TALKING OF THEM. I LOSES BUT riVE BY DEATH B Two SpeuMt Were Colorado Men ami H One New Lives In Cripple Crtek H Advertised fr Lit H Omaha, Neb Jnoaph Zootw, B Charles K. Kiting. John J Halts. () II j RniU, rtiltlp Moornnw, Charles Hitch H cock, t) C lllgford, Owfl" W Smith. H Henry Straw. Jeaee Ionian, Thomas 1 lllrflhol.. Kdgar IVnton. Cherlee Hen j shy. A W Tiiwnscnd Mr A W j Towneend of Ilndge, Neb, Iim hm H married tn II men within the last lf Hj years Ahiitre le n complete llet of flH ttiHr name In the order In which ahe H married them Her marriage to flflfl. Townsend n wealthy retired farmer j haa Jiial bm celebrated H Mra Towneend Iwckiiw the wife of IH Joseph Stouter, n Colorado miner H when she waa II yeara old, ami before BHI eho was It ahe was a mother ami it IHj widow I (fore aha aa It she H marrltd tn Hwlng, ami before she wns H of nn ah hail had severs! huahamla H anil wna the mother of n number of H Hhe la now M years obi, ami la a H well preserved ami by tui means un fl attractive woman H All but fire of Iter I hnebamla ar H living Allbultwonf the II served In H the war H Z-Miyer, fill 1 1 a. Seotl, lllgford ami H flmlth are ilea.l Hwltig llea In Cripple H Creek, Col , Moomnw In Halt l,ake H City. Hitchcock In Oakland, Cal H Htrnw, Uiman ami lllrrhell In Council 1 lllulta, IVnton In Beattln. and Hcnshy M In Iksylon. O H Mra Townsend haa had ao tnanr H husbands that ah anmeltroea expert H rnrea difficulty In recalling the namea B of aotm of I In m When aim lalka of H them ahi' occasionally gels Ihcm con B fused anil Ima tn atop and think to net H tin in alralahl In bi'i lulml Their faces H the cannot ulwas ricnll cither nor H an she nlwus mall clcarl) Just what I SMI EH LI m, it 51 I? i Si H She Had 14 Huibandt, B eort or men some of them were mi'n H tally, morally nnd spiritually fl ' Of rourae I know tho names of nil my liuebands whin 1 atop to think,' H Abl Mra Townaeml "It la true, bow ever. Hint I ilo Ket them ronfuiied In B my mind occnalnnalty Within n ahnrt time I wna married tn nnd I'lHirutixl from n mxl ivany inon With aomo of B them I lived lull a few nuinlha It ta H thoeo with itl.jmm I llted an abort il B time that I aomellmea cannot recnll H reaillt) itiue of in) hiieliamla I re- VMH member very. ery illall'ii'th, nnd can H tell you alt alioul them MH I"1!" more than to uara thla remark BVS able wiimaii made her home In Council VVW UliilTa, vihern ahu la well known Moat B of her iinuieroua inarrlaKea wi r rvle B braleil thore Her old nulUibora In Hl Couiiell Hluffa have a rimkI word to HVr any fur lior In deaplte of her cuUar H lwa oil limrrlaiie and the exlraor H dinar) inatrlinoiilal record aim Ima MqV ' eatabllahed 9HNr The men II Inn In Council lllutfa V who were formerly her huabanda HMVM apeak not unkindly of her, either BHB Her children have opineed her limp ApVk ryln o freiuently, but they eay ahe KHHL la n woman of good heart and ahe haa RawaVMk k alwayi been nxxl to them BHiH-vSL A" 'r ar 'ri'wtt"""1 heraelf, ahe VJnHE71K raya the explanation of her U mar- IWHEilfejl rlae Ilea In the fact that ahe haa a "WgHjy .& very affectionate nature and cannot ''wW Wt live Imppll) alone, ami to the further 7(MmFP ' 'act that every woman needa n line vf'Tfil V ''"' '" ul'Prt '",r 1" i'v' M "'' B,lver"IM"l for R lmaband after W :l her iaratlon from her thirteenth i K 1 huabaud, and In thla way became ac If ' tifi ' - qualnted with ami finally tlio wife of I 'JPmH' 1 Tonnaend la 0& eara old, hale and I 'i jBJ ' hearty, prepoaaeaalng In appearance rOMaWir anJ nJ'lr""' "l"1 '" ,l,,tt '" ,lle warm jSBw it ' rt'f"lri1 "? n" w,' know him He .XpJpY -f bat lived In and near Dixlge for many JsflppT -J" yeara, aud no man In the community jJuVaB' "t ! more, j.ntteil and honored thnn he. SnP ft 'townaeml aaa It la enay nQpSE' ' - u;h for any woman to capture the iPpBw? ' huaband alia aeta hvr heart upon It ahe |
