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u iiu ii'uiuuiri , uu.-Mrs. E. R. Wright arrived today for a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Johnson.•Mrs! Ada Kendall has gone to Loo-gootee where she will be the guest of Mrs. Eugene Dcsch.Miss Glorabelle Wade arrived from Evansville today to attend the run-eral of her father. (\ W. Wade.Miss Bertha Hagnrtv has gone to Caunelburg for a short visit.Miss Lizzie Ash has returned fromLoogootee after visiting with Jier-parcnts.SKXSATIOXAL CASE FILED.(Concluded from hast one.) nine yfars of the married life of the Ragsdales were passed in Daviess county! and two children were born, one of these in 1SS7, and within three months after its hirth, she made a hand for her husband in clearingthat, she had to defend Iiersel:’ as belt;t she could with brooms and thelike*, and that in ] 9 1 ;i he sravi* hersuch a swift punch in tin* side that a tumor developed and that she was compelled to undergo a “serious and painful surgical operation.'' On a Memorial da/ the minister attempted to kick his v. IP* dov n stairs ar: i failed only v.l,«-n she rh:ii-r to the stair rails as is the habit of a bull dog to the rear end of a man’s trousers.In 1IM:L 19 K! and 1914. the Rags-dtUe's lived in Belleville, Illinois, and tin* minister kept company with me ol‘ the girls of his congregation a:lid when Airs. Ragsdale came in with n rc-monstrance and tried to convince the minister that another scandalI would result he told her to “shut her 1 durn fool mouth and culled her n1 damn jealous hearted fool. and informed the wife that he would notifI DON'T SUFFERANY MORE”“Feel Like a New Person, says Mrs. Hamilton.NcwCastle, Ind.—“From the time I was eleven years old until I was seventeen I suffered each month so I had to bein bed. I bad headache, backache and such pains I would cramp double every month. I did not know what it wasto be easy a minute.My health was ail run down and the doctors did not do me any good. A neighbor told my mother about Lydia E. Pinkhm’B Vegetable Compound and I took lit, and now I feel like a new person.! I don't suffer any more and I am regular every month. * ‘—Mrs. Hazel HamltJon, 822 South 16th St1 When a remedy has liyed for forty yearv, steadily growing (n popularity and influence, and thotsands upon thousands of women declare they owe their health to it, is it not reasonable’ to believe that it is an article of great merit?; If yoii want special advice write to Lydia E* Pinkhapfa MedicineCo. (confidential)* Linn, Mass* Tour letter will be wened, read‘ amivakh! hr a woman andleave this girl alone. It is intended to show by the witnesses from Belleville iliat the minister and the jiirl would promenade the streets of that town as young lovers and it is also n«utl by that testimony it will be shov.u that the couple would bo nut of the city on various occasions at the same time. Mrs. Ragsdale says in her complaint that on an occasion when she was ill in a hospital the minister came to her bedside and confessed to tier that the relations of he and other women had been wrong. Mrs. Ragsdale further charges that the minister caused her to contract an incurable disease and that because of this she had to pass many weeks in a hospital and said disease has so broken down and impaired her health that she *is now wholly unable to earn sufficient funds with which to support herself.The closing paragraphs of the long complaint sets out the fact that she is unable to put up the funds necessary to bring into the Daviess court the witnesses necessary to substantiate her case and she demands that the court issue such an order as will compel the minister to furnish the funds.The Rev. Mr. Ragsdale gave lip his charge some time ago at Carmi, where, according to relatives, he received n salary of St,500 a year. He is now connected* with the Methodist publishing, concern and is interested In the work of compiling directories for that denomination, one of whichhe issued i:i Washington some tameago. Both the Rev. Mr. Fags dale j and Mrs. Ragsdale are well known Jn| Daviess county, and the filing of the; divorce proceedings hrrs caused no lit-; tie sensation among their personal{ and church friends throughout southern Indiana, and iii the state of Illinois. In support of her complaint, Mrs. Ragsdale has several -photosof the Rev. Mr. Ragsdale while hewas In company with some of the women referred to In tfce complaint.
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The Washington Herald
Washington, Indiana, US
Mon, May 15, 1916
Page 3
Full Page
Clipped by
Debbie K.
NA, 16 Feb 2019
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