Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-05-22
4 o6NAN's ROMANCE.
s.Ssd from thu Pennsyivania Floods ~
Cisl whom tie Married


GIL whom lie Married.
Iohu prowley. a young fisherman,
whose rood natured habits have made
hin, oonular for many miles along the
Susouehanna river, walked INTO the fer-
nv county court house the other day and
asked for marriage license. His face
wos not so brown that it did not betray
his bushes when he announced the name
If his irrespective bride, but II was not
bocatse she had ever been guilty OF
wrongdoing that he flushed. The girI
was Mary Yerger, and he was very
proud of her They had lived within
ten miles of each other for years, but IT
was not until the recent great flood in
PENNSYLVANIA that they were brought to
an acquaintance
John is n carpenters son, and he in
dustriously aided his father to provide
for a large family by fishing and plotting
fishing parties from the big towns around
the river Most of his time was spent
along the SusQuehanna, near winch ms
narents lived When the June Hood
came people from all parts of the couI'-
fry hurried to the river to see its sights
Mary Yerger and a boy, son of the farmer
with whom she lived, loitered on the
waters edge until dusk of the day when
the water had reached its highest mark.
Few persons had tarried SO long, but she
and the boy forgot the time while look
ing out on the swift waters at boom
log catcher He was standing in frail
skiff, hooking che big booms with long
pole and towing them to land on the OPP
posite side of the river Boom after
boom was thus secured. and he operated
with such vigorous regularity that it
seemed his strength would soon be ex-
hausted He had Just landed one of I'M
usual size which took all his strength,
and Mary thought he would rest while
before going out into the troublesome
waters again. But he didn't, and wip-
ing the perspiration from his brow with
a part of his torn shirt sleeve, he quick
lv rowed out and was headed toward a
large walnut log. Before he reached the
coveted prize his boat had been caught
between a mass of the booms, which
ground it to pieces like thing of glass.
He escaped most miraculously from in
slant death by climbing over the logs
and reaching the water. He tried to
swim for the shore, but it was plainly
seen that he was too much overcome to
get even half the distance The current
was swift, and he was beginning to GO
down with it.
Mary Yerger knew that he would
drown unless she saved him. for body
else was in sight. 1t was a perilous at
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not the kind of woman to see human
life thus sacrificed without at least an
effort to rescue, and with almost super
human strength she dragged into the
water rowboat that had been pulled uI
on elevated ground safe from the rising
water When she reached the man he
was so nearly exhausted that he could
not climb into the boat without her as
sistance. That night from the same ta
bic at which John Prowley ate his sup
per- Mary Yerger's meal was also taken
1t was at Johns home, and the two sa
around the table a long time, telling
their experience of the early evening t
Johns parents and their other children
Mary was always thereafter welcom,
guest at the Prowley home, and JOIN
spent much of his time i'll her company
1t was with proud satisfaction tina
: John related this circumstance with
the clerk was filling out his marriage ii
, cense. John and Mary are married now
. and they expect to get pretty goo'
start toward housekeeping when tn
Lumbermens Exchange of Williams
> port pays for the logs which Jchl
> caught Harrisburg Cor. New YorI
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