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BOUGHT FARM ON r. $9.00 PER WEEK rj Supreme Court Reveals Fine Case of 1 Tlirift tn litno County.II m m.. •- Des Moines, May , 10:—Special:— The EUpreme court In deciding a Linn county divorce has exposed a. fine example of thrift on an Iowa farm. Anton and Joseph Hartl cam# to this , country in 1SS7, landing: in Cedar jRapids with only forty dollars. Hartl went to work for one dollar and a half per day and three years later bought a farm of twenty acres. The court granted a divorce to the couple. The estate of thirty thousand r ! dollars was divided between the two, i the wife getting four thousand dol-! lars more than the husband, doc to . ithe fact that there were ten children = j in the family, the wife getting possession of rr.orc than half of them. t which gives her more of the estate. lt;1 j The supreme court rendered Hie fol- , | lowing decisions today: • j• ' William A renames versus Donaker ;. ! Bros., appellant. Calhoun district, af- j' • firmed. ;j Charles McLaughlin versus C. E. j j Griffin. appellant, Sac district, af- , j firmed.i Julian Roov#r vargus Bankers Life S association, appellant. Linn district.| reversed.Crosby and Fordyee versus Lester [I O. Smith. Linn district, affirmed.1 { Anton Hartl versus J oseph Hartl, \ [ •appellant, Linn district affirmed.
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Cedar Rapids Republican

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, US

Sat, May 11, 1912

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