SOLDIER HAS PAIR OF WIVES Raymond C. Hayes, Roaring Spring Man, Con[tracts?] Plural Marriage in --?--, No. 1 Wants Divorce ONCE LIVED HERE Two wives within thirteen m[onths?], both living and undivorced and laying claim to his military allotment, is the record of Raymond Carl Hays, a Roaring Spring young man, now a private in Company F, 146 Unites States Infantry. One of the wives has made application for a divorce in Blair county, the subpoena being issued yesterday by Judge Thomas J. Baldrige. Whether or not Hays will be prosecuted for bigamy, remains to be determined by Ohio authorities, as the plural marriage was solemnized in that state. Hays, who is a son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Lloyd Hays, of Taylor township near Roaring Spring, was married to his first wife, Frances Margaret Hays, at Cumberland, Md., Aug. 21, 1916. For a time after the marriage, the couple resided in this city, the bridegroom being employed by the Pennsylvania railroad. Early in 1917, Hays went to Akron, O., where he obtained employment, his wife remaining behind with relatives . . . he could provide a home for her there. NEVER SENT FOR WIFE. According to Mrs. Hays, a correspondence was kept up for a time, but as the letters grew colder and father between, the wife began having visions of desertion, but her fears were later allayed, somewhat when she learned that her husband had entered the army. With this information at hand, Mrs. Hays wrote the war department, making application for a soldier's wife allotment. To the great surprise and chagrin of the Roaring Spring woman, she received reply that the allotment of Mr. Hays was being paid to one Mrs. Eva Hyas, to whom Hays made affidavit in his questionnaire he had been married on Sept. 26, 1917, at Akron. Her address was given as 1414 East Market street, Akron, O. APPLIES FOR DIVORCE With this information, given by the war department officials, gleaned from the sworn statement of her husband, Mrs. Hays No. 1 sought the advice of an attorney, and yesterday made formal application for a divorce in the Blair county courts. In her libel, Mrs. Hays charges her husband with adultery, alleging that he has given himself over to adulterous practices since Sept. 27, 1917, the day following his alleged marriage to the Ohio woman. Local relatives of Hays and his wife are very much chagrined over the culmination of the dual romance. Great indignation is expressed on behalf of the relatives of the aggrieved wife, but because of the great expense likely to be incurred by opening litigation in Ohio, charging him with being a bigamist, coupled with the utter lack of desire of the first wife to again take up with the soldier, even though the second marriage were annulled, led the wife to take the action started yesterday in the Blair county courts. Altoona Times, Altoona, Pa., Tuesday Morning, December 10, 1918 LAWRENCE E. FINK WOUNDED IN ACTION According to a telegram received yesterday by Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Fink of 108 West Tenth avenue, Juniata, their son, Lawrence E. Fink, was wounded in action on Sept. 25. The Washington message states that the soldier was slightly wounded. The parents have received four letters from the son since Sept. 25, the date of the soldier being wounded, and in each letter the son states that he is in good health. He makes no mention of being wounded. The last letter was dated Oct. 27, a month after he was supposed to be wounded. The soldier only writes that he has been absent from his company. Lawrence has a brother, Leslie K. Fink, serving in France, the latter being in the engineers. Altoona Times, Altoona, Pa., Tuesday Morning, December 10, 1918 ALTOONA BOYS TO COME HOME SOON Charles L. Salyards of 921 Twenty-sixth street, received a cablegram yesterday from Herbert W. Kelly, one of the top sergeants in the 305th engineers, reading as follows: "Safe. Home soon." A number of Altoona boys are in the 305th engineers, among them Regimental Sergeant Major Paul Winter, son of F. A. Winter; Harry Felton and Robert Wagner. The above cablegram will be good news to their parents and friends. Sergeant Kelly made his home with Mr. Salyards and was employed at the Home Dressed Meat company's plant, with which Mr. Salyards is also identified. His message would indicate that his regiment is slated to be sent home and mustered out of the service at an early date. Altoona Times, Altoona, Pa., Tuesday Morning, December 10, 1918 GEORGE KOELLE AND WIFE HAVE CELEBRATION George Koelle, the well known stone mason and contractor, who resides at1614 Fourth avenue, celebrated his 73 birthday at his home last evening. Mr. and Mrs. Koelle served a sumptuous dinner, and enjoyed the rather unusual distinction of having seated about the festive board, nine children grown to manhood and womanhood, five sons and four daughters. In many respects, this was also a family reunion as two of the daughters have not been home for some time. After dinner the sons went out on the front porch and sang some of the old fashioned melodies that Mr. and Mrs. Koelle had delighted in when in the day of their youth. In addition to the children the grand-children also attended, and a number of useful and expensive gifts were given the aged couple. Mr. Koelle has been a resident of the city for 50 years and has always been closely identified with the business interests and development of the city. Both he and Mrs. Koelle are hale and hearty and Mr. Koelle is still actively engaged in the contractor business. The sons are Adam, George, Edward, Albert and Harry, all of this city and the daughters are Miss Louise and Mrs. Chronister, both of this city, and Miss Carrie of Pittsburgh and Mrs. Cotter of Boston. Altoona Times, Altoona, Pa., Tuesday Morning, December 10, 1918