from The Republican (Danville, Indiana)--issue of Thursday, February 28, 1907—page 4, columns 3-4:
SUITS FILED
Boone McCoun vs. Lou Etta McCoun. Divorce. Plaintiff alleges that they were duly married January 14, 1895 and lived together until Feb. 14, 1907; that for seven years the defendant has been guilty of cruel and inhuman treatment in that she has cursed him and called him vile names; that she has failed and refused to look after the interests of his home; that she has made unnessary [sic] and exorbitant bills for plaintiff to pay and when he requested her not to do so and stated that if she continued the extravagant expenditure of money they would both be without a home, she would abuse him; that she would leave home and neglect her household duties and refuse to tell plaintiff where she was going simply to annoy him; that she would threaten to leave him and take the children and that she would make these threats on bad, rainy days and at night for the purpose of annoying him; that in July 1906, she became angry at him when he was in hay harvest and took their two children and left without cause; that she would fail and refuse to prepare his meals; that the plaintiff has always been a dutiful husband and that defendant's conduct has made life intolerable and that she left with the children February 14, 1907 saying she would not live with plaintiff again.