VARIED MATRIMONIAL CAREER

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 700, 3 November 1909, Page 3

VARIED MATRIMONIAL CAREER

Minnonri Womnn 'Who Hh.«i Been Married Six Tillies mid lias Four . Hiikliuimls lilviiisr. Mrs. Moke Smith, of Ca.. ..ood, Callaway county, Mo., lias perhaps had the most varied and remarkable matrimonial career of any woman in Missouri. Her life shows what may be accomplished under the marriage and divorce laws of this state by a woman who is active, industrious and not slow about falling in love, or falling out again. Mrs. Smith's maiden name was Fanny Terrance. Her first husband was Moses Shaffer. After with Mose awhile she got tired of hira, secured a divorce and married Moke Smith. Tiring of Moke she got a divorce from him and united herself to Ferd Altheiser. After she had lived with Ferd awhile, she concluded Moke was. a better fellow than she had thought, and she left Ferd and was remarried to Moke. Tiring of Moke a second time, she again separated herself from him, and in due course of time was wedded to J. H. Berry.' Berry, however, suited her no better than Shaffer, or Smith, or Altheiser, and she soon left him. Net long afterward she was remarried to. Berry only soon to weary of him and get a seeor.d divorce from him. Now she is frying Moke again.

"The buxom young bride who has weathered so many storms." says the man.'Who related Mrs. Shaffer-Smith-Altheiser-Smilh-Berry-Berry - Smith's matrimonial adventures, "is the daughter of Uncle Ben Tf-rninep. who carried the mail over the C.ilwood iiiils for 26 years, and with all her troubles looks none the. worse for the storms cf domestic life. In {?.<>*,. she told ire herself once of her troubles, s-r ing that she had b'.-en married mx rimes, had four living husbands, and yet in all her marital ventures had never yet owned a man that either Killed a hog or took a turn of corn to mill."