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About Ashland daily tidings. (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1970 | View Entire Issue (May 5, 1926)
r of absolute obstinacy, uncogi* jbuniohtive to the point of abso* Ilute silence ta d parsimonious tp the point- of ►niggardllnesa*’ ¿ J Louise Cruse, dlvproee.’ w t$ have »100 a month alimony. But she is 09 and husbandless Just as they should be celebrating their golden wadding. THE SPHINX •.> > *' t » S r r Louise Cruse went about her work and Frank Cruse went about his. He . tolled in the fields and she tolled about the house. And never, a word did We speak to her. Loneliness de scended on the crowded farm h o u se. For seven years! Not one word from her hus band for seven years. Through springtime and sum mer, through basy autumn and keen winter, through Christmas es and birthdays and homely lit tle fireside holidays— not one Htruggilng Togathcr Frank Cruse is 76; Mrs. Cruse Is one year younger. They* came lato the west, these two, back in 1383, when the lush acres of lew s spoke to the strength of youth and challenged it to garn er treasure from its rich black breast ' They bought a quarter section ef land. H onest happy struggl ing pioneers in this virgin coun "B u t, nt last, {the torrent try. Ten babies cease to them. broke. Love and work, tempests and then It was ha who. could stand the sunshine again-*- silence no longer. Until that one night when, He found hip roiee. with nearly forty years of mar Like searing, burning lava all riage behind him, Frank Cruse shouted to his wife that be would never speak to her again. Jnst a trivial thing they had quarreled over, .the children say — Some little spat about Mrs. Cruse's desire to adopt a little niece. Littl e a t Mg Trivial— and yet big enough to w r e c k a home that had been b ald ed on 37 years pf love and the dammed up speech that htftl been festering and corroding and turning tq gall and vitriol with in hid heart poured Itself on the white head of the woman who had stood by him through talk and through silence. The husband, a sphinx no longer, drove away «he child ren with a shotgun. He cut the telephone wires * and poured abuse on his wife in ( a .raging torrent—un\li ,s^t last Bhe got away from him. , ‘‘A Good Provider" The county court denied her a divorce. Cruse was a ‘‘good pro vider,” honest and hard .working. What more could a worain want. •But Supreme Court Justice De Graff aaw it differently. He gave her the divorce, and de scribed Cruse as follows: "Domineering and arbitrary to the'ptolnt of tyranny, unsym pathetic to the point of cold bloodedness, unkind to the point of cruelty, stubborn to the point An Emblem Of •• Freedom I t’s only natural that the eagle was selected as most significant for out National Emblem. 10,000 BULKS of every description of fencing ta d wire Just in. Fence posts. AU .kinds of garden tools and IMKRH! Look to your mow- and rakes' repairs early, leave your order tor what A growing bqnk account is likewise significant of yoúr financial freedom. ’ 1 * Returned to H ilt— } . Al McNabb returned fast night to Hilt, where be is employed for the summer. Workmanship you buy Schumacher Plaster W all I, you are buying perm anent inter- trepared by skilled craftsmen. A ll larh and plaster way. Ask your lumber dealer about U. SCHUMACHER WALL BOARD CORP. LOSANOELES NATIONAL mâcher fe w a ll, ' B oard • FOR MOTHER A carhation that will last the year round. 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SAN FRAf/CISCO, Hay 3.— (U P )— Charlie Hoff of Norway, world’s champion pole vaulter, will attempt to top his own rec' ord here Hay 8. Hoff will appear as the most Important individual star In the track and field championships of the Pacific assosiatlon; sectional branch of the A. ‘A. V.. at Kes- ar stadium. The Norwegian’s record— the world’s record— is 18 feet. 11 , 13-16 Inches. He has announced ' that he will try to clear 14 fedfc. According to tentative plana, Hoff will meet the strongest competition he has had since . coming to the United States. He is slated to engage Lee Barnes, O ly m p ic g a m e s chjampion and' holder of the American outdoor - record, and Ralph and Harry Smith, who have both defeated Hoff in competition. With prospect o f'th is meeting in view, sport critic« believed it , certain that d new record will be , set in tbe American pole v a u lt}, at feast. Interest o f Californians fc largely centered on Hoff's sched- ' uled performance, despite the 1 fact that the meet will furnish a 1 a three-cornered battle between < the University of California, Stan- 1 ford University and »be Olympic 1 club of San Francisco, The com- < L O U IS A C PU 2E - , |U r come through tea JUdt W , ljfc‘5.— (Ù P )— uta.' o t y pf ^ r ftg spa, £ p l ^ o t t t o . - X b Æ u h t a l n pen’ * llh W the most un- handicaps That 4a»a becoaae »tfiolent is par- 'bundles ‘ Of partontal negisdt.' whlcg.Luther BurBahk aept hie iBBpg to • Dr. Later thB sSMbl gWe fcotd' bf records, signed Ms letters, inter- 1 of Teacfann them sad eorspota «Map of « te d views ana’'* otro I documoAta is S«bstl>«tH MECHANICSVILLE. Ia„ April 30.— “I'll hP«hk to you again as long ay we live!” It was seven years ago that Frank Cruse, in hot anger, ahout- ed those words at ljis wife, Louise. For seven years he made good bis threat During those long years he said not one word to bis wife— tbe woman who bad been bis helpmate for nearly half a cen tury, who bad borne him ten children and totted and struggled with him to make a home on the rolling Iowa prairie. And so Mrs. Cruse has Jnst been given a divorce, by Chief Justice De Graff of the Iowa Su preme Court, in o n s o f the strang est cases in American legal his tory— “for, silence.” . Ward,«- ew s• pwpsaa t sd .w ith« tee- (k by Mrs. Elisabeth Burbank. W M h h h ircn AS . , V W it t To -Friend ■ Ht ’’i