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IS-A lt;riat of Social Scandal from Gibson’*Station.Pl-11-The social atmosphere around Gibson’s Station in this connty has beensurcharged of late wiih rumors ofscandal of some magnitude, in whiche.lethe name of Abel Garber a wellknown stone and bridge contractor,»eand a Mrs. Floyd, wife of SamuellifticFloyd of near Gibson’s Station werefreely made use of as being associated together rather more frequentlyand Ht times and under circumstarc-t._ es m re suspicious than wouldI be proper between persons of the opaposite sex. other than those bearingn0the ielation of husband and wife.If seems these minors were so rifef.as to become common property, so to fspeak, being so generally discussednas t'j cause threats by Garber of suitsfor slander against, sor.e of the bes I 1people of the community, and while 1this may have deterred their peacea- ytbly disposed neighbors from openlycharging them with crime, the factof suspicion being aroused againstthem, does not seem to have deterr*1ed the parties themselves from continuing to tread the forbidden path.On the other hand, their conduct became so notorious as to convince Mr.- -j Floyd, who had hereto ore maintained the utmost confidence in his wife,that she was unfaithful and a separation we at once determined upon.Mrs. Floyd possessed in her ownngnt a few hundred dollars whichshe had always managed hjrself, tipstogether with her share ofthe household goods, which
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Cambridge News
Cambridge, Ohio, US
Thu, Mar 25, 1880
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