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ASKS A DIVORCEEva Metzler Van Kirk Daughter of Mrs. Bice Metzler of This City; IS THE PLAINTIFFIn a Suit Against Harry Van Kirk—Brought in Jay Circuit Court.Mrs. Eva Metzler Van Kirk, daughter of Mrs. Bice Metzler of this city.and wife of Harry Van Kirk, formerly employed here, now residing in Portland, is plaintiff in a divorce suit, according to the following in the Portland Sun:‘'Suit for divorce, the custody of their only child, a daughter, named •Maxine, and aged but three years, to-gother with judgment for alimony inthe sum of $1,000, was instituted Tuesday forenoon in the circuit court by Mrs. Eva VanKirk against Harry Van Kirk, local engineer. The couple was married December SO, 1911, and according to the allegations in the complaint have been separated since June. 1M.5, not having lived together as husband and wife since that time, it is charged that before their separation the defendant was cruel and inhuman in his treatment toward the plaint ill’, struck and heat her and called her vile names. The plaintiff says that she has no money with which to carry her suit through the court and that the defendant is a younj? man. a ide bodied and capable of earn ins;per month, hence asks alimony in the amount stated and all other proper relief.”-o--
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Decatur Daily Democrat
Decatur, Indiana, US
Wed, Feb 02, 1916
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