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Waupaca Republican

March 23, 1882

Weyauwega Awakened

A man in this town with too many wives left the place in a hurry, Tuesday. Wife No. 1 appearing on the scene he thought it about time to leave.

The above item was all that appeared in that great and enterprising sheet, the Weyauwega Chronicle. The facts which Keeney didn’t deem of enough importance to publish are as follows: One Hazen, proprietor of the Tarbell House, recently married a servant girl in his employ, the ceremony being performed secretly by Justice Waterhouse in the sitting room of the hotel, Hazen having led her in clad in kitchen array, and after the knot was tied sent her about her culinary duties. Saturday morning “Brigham” Hazen got wind that Mrs. H. No. 1 was on her way to Weyauwega from Maine with blood in her eye and vengeance in her heart. He immediately began preparations for a hasty departure, disposing of his interest in the hotel to his partner, Mr. Rowe. Tuesday he shipped wife No. 2 on the early morning train to Merrilan Junction. His first and wronged wife came on the noon train Tuesday only to learn that her numerously married husband had hied him away to parts unknown by taking the east-bound noon train. The sympathy of the justice-loving people are with the lady from Maine, who is a prepossessing young woman of lady-like demeanor. A community usually dead awakened to life, two trusting and loving hearts shattered by the infidelity of one man, and he a fugitive from justice, is the sweet morsel the gossips of that ancient berg have to chew on.