From One End To The Other

From one end to the other of Washtenaw are applications for divorce.

3 bills filled today.

Ypsilanti, Chelsea and Ann Arbor Parties after the Decrees.

From one end of Washtenaw to the other there seems to be a demand for decrees of divorce and the fall opening of decrees gives promise of a great rush.

Yesterday bill of complaint were filed by parties living in Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor, and Sylvan which comes pretty nearly stretching over the east and west breadth of the county. 

Mary St. Clair, of Sylvan, wants a divorce from her husband Percy St. Clair, after three years of married life. She sets forth as the cause for divorce, cruelty, desertion, drunkenness and non-support. Among other things set up is that when they started to house keeping they purchased the neccessary outfit from a Detroit firm on the installment plan amounting to $224 upon which had been paid $120 and that shortly after the husband had left her, the Detroit firm came on and stripped the house of everything.

Emelie Welch, of Ann Arbor, has not been married quite two years and swears that she has had all the marriage partnership with Michael Welch. She charges him with non-support. She says that for a time she was working in Mrs. Newman's restaurant for $3.50 a week and her husband's board at the place was charged up against her. Then she went to work in the woolen mill and her wages were used in the support of herself and her husband. She also incidentally swears that he has been guilty of cruelty, desertion and drunkenness.

Robert Woolsey, of Ypsilanti, has had 22 years of married life with Eva Belle Woolsey and says that he has had enough. He wants the court to grant him leave to quit on the grounds that his wife has called him names that would scarcely be heard at a five o'clock pink tea and that she has threatened to kill him.