Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-09-13
A PRETTY GRASS WIDOW
Takes In the Whole Town of Booths
vile
And Takes OF a Son of a Promi-
nsnt Citizen,
Whittier, No One Kn0Ws---She
Leaves Her Post0ffice.
A Very Spicy Little Romancs End
ing in ElOpement.
Spteial % q, S,nitn Reaislr.

BooTBsvILLE, MABIuN Co, W. Va. sep.
temb9 l2.--This little hamlet is all torn
up over an elopement that occurred here
one day last week but has been kept COM
parstively quiet About year or more
ago there came to this place female rep
resenting herself to be grass widow.
She was accompanied BY her mother, sister
and by child, the latter purporting to be
her legitimate offspring by her fsithless
husband. She gave her name as Mrs.
Irene Watson and being young, handsome
and vivacious, she soon won
the sympathy Of the COM
munity; and the citizens here, almost with.
out exception, eVinced a laudable desire to
assist her in an effort TO gsin livelihood
for herself mother, sister and child, who sp-
peared to be entirely dependent upon her.
She began business as milliner and man.
tau-maker and was given generous patron
age and unstinted encouragement. Subse-
auently when one Of the cx- rascal" who
Eeld the office of postmaster here became
Extensively partisan in the eyes Of the local
bosses, he was bounced, and these same
charitable friends secured for the attractive
young grass widow that nice plum, the
postofice.
She did thriving business, dr. ssed we'll
and associated With our best people. Bat
this pleasant state Of affairs could not for
ever last:
"For pleasures are like PopP'es spread,
You seize the flower, It's bloom 10 shed
Or IKE the snO~ fall on the river
A moment white, then melts forever
Reports of n Serious NSture
!con began to creep through our town, and
sone CT them got 10 my lsdys ears. She
began to look about for house for her
child, but failing to find one she changed
her plans. She had her sister sworn in as, her
deputy and departed last week, along with
Charles Barnes, son OF prominent citizen
and one of her admirers, without notice
and for where the deponent saith not lie
he does not know. II is now rumored that
Robert B. Martin, who WAS one Of her
0OlUSn6D, Onu VINO ISAt EceuA1 70 Sho'Oiy
for the Wheeling Fair, has gone in
search OF the fleeing couple that
he may 1ot suffer because of
alleged disarraagement Of the affairs Of the
postoffice. What there may be of truth in
in this rumor we are not prepared 10 say but
ors day last week A. NJ. Coon received no.
tice Of his appointment to succ ed to the
position he'd ny Mrs (?) Watson, and this
new appointment nay have spur7ed Mr..
Martin on to get the affairs OF the :tiice in
proper shape for turning them over TO Mr..
Coon. Young Bsrnrs stated before leav-
ing. 10 some of his friends, that he wss go
ing TO Wheeling to secure employment and
he further stated that if he tailed TO Snd
work there he would &c on to Cincinnati.
Where he went, however % mer" matter
of conjecture but il is certain that he, in
company with the central figure in this
mysterious performance startrd west on No.
1, which they boarded together, on Wednes'
day evening at Fairmont
New developments may soHoe Ehat alter
the state OF af4irs, but at present the above
appears to Ie substantially corr set