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:setlskeItHeiress/Mate PartIt charged that Mrs. Gilliland had “struck and “thrown objects at Gilliland and made “malicious charges about his“reputation and character.Mrs. Gilliland is at her Jiome in Scottsdale, Ariz.-Oildet-Riverside, Calif. — (IP! — heiress Elsinore Machris Gilliland has been sued for divorce by her husband of 18 months I who seeks division of property he said is worth $15,000,000.After the surprise marriage of Mrs. Gilliland, 74. and C. Ray Gilliland, 61, in Las Vegas, Nev., on May 3, 1954, the couple threw a lavish $35,000 rham-| pagne party in a Hollywood nightclub. In the same month that she married, Mrs. Gilliland made a $1,900,000 coqtribution to the City of Hope hospital inDuarte, Calif.Mrs. Gilliland, widow of George Machris, majority stockholder of the Wilshire Oil Co., sued for annulment last March 15 on grounds that Gilliland married her “with a secret intent not to consummate it or toenter fully into the contract. The suit was dismissed on June 24.Historical GroupDedicates PlaqueMilwaukee —(IP— The Milwaukee County Historical Society' dedicated a historical plaque here Tuesday marking the route of the old Watertown I’lank Road.Charges CruellyCourt records showed that Gilliland had filed for divorce on Oct. 21 in superior court here. The suit charged that Mrs. Gilliland treated her husband in a “cruel and inhuman manner. It asked that she be enjoined from selling “joint property” which he listed as stocks and bonds, oil and gas leases and miscellaneous securities “all in the possession of the defendant or her attorneys and agents.Gilliland said he and his wife made an oral agreement at the time of their marriage to “pool all their property. The couple separated Aug. 1, the suit said.The road was built more than a century ago between here and Watertown. As the name im-plies, the roadway consisted of | wood planks laid across white oak stringers to prevent the i road from becoming too muddy during rains. It cost about $2,-000 per mile to build.The text of the marker follows:“Started in 1848 and completed in 1853, extending 58 miles west from Milwaukee on a course roughly paralleling State Street past the Frederick Miller Plank Road Brewery through Wauwatosa, Pewaukee, and Oconomowoc to Watertown.“The $110,000 road of white oak planks provided a route for farm products, wood, lime, and passenger lehicles. It cut round-trip travel time to three days, j all at a toll of about one cent a mile. • I©ance tcthese rwith tebeforeladies'LlTFALLYOUFed iCRCNIVfi• New a• New f• Beautbrace!17 jewtr*:
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Kenosha Evening News
Kenosha, Wisconsin, US
Wed, Nov 02, 1955
Page 5
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