St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-07
MAMMA DIDN'T CARE,
But Bonnie Sprague and Paul
Wood Thought She
Did,
So the Young Couple Went to
Hudson and Got Mar
ried.
Bonnie Only Took Her Curl@
ing Iron and Paul His
Razor.
A Mothers "God Bless YOU.
Awaits Them When They
Come Home.

The cry all through the season az
White Bear Lake has been that every
thing has been so unbearably dull, but
something has occurred that has given
the whole place and st. Paul besides
plenty of material for gossip for several
days to come.
Hudson, WIS. being so near, elopet
ments are not such very rare occurz
rences, but it is very seldom that one
happens where everything might have
been serene and the over-anxious couple
married and lived happy ever afterwards
amid their friends and well-wishers. Ii
was at Mrs. j. ID. Ramaley's charming
Lake Shore cottage, last summer, that
Paul Wood, aged twenty, of the North
ern Pacific Railway company. met Bon+
ME Sprague (Who is about ten months
his senior, the Z
Ffetty and Vivacious
typewriter girl of the Thomson-Houston
Electric Light company. He admired
and fell in love with the attractive Bon
nie, and in due time they were to have
been married. All seemed very serene
no irate parents. no 'other feIlow''
his brother Bob, had taken up
his abode at Leip's hotel. Lake
shore, about May l. About the 1st of !
June Miss Bonnie, with her sister, paid
a visit to White Bear to look up cot
tage for themselves and their mother
for the summer. One of the Leip cot!
tages was still vacant, and seemed all
that could be desired, so a few days
later the Sprague family moved out for /
the summer. On the evening previous
to the change of residence being eff
fected, hoWever,a a disagreement of some
kind occurred, the exact nature of the
falling-out being rather obscure.l
1t it thought that Wood had misrepre-
Sented many things to the Bonnie, chief
among them being that he had
tried to convince her that he was in a
position to marry her at once. when she
discovered that he had not saved the
money that she had Supposed him to
have laid by\to
Enable TIlem to Start in Life,
and so she Immediately refused to have
any more of him.
The Sprague family moved out to the
lake about June 10, and from that time
until about ten days ago the pair "did
not speak as they passed by" About
ten days ago it appears that in some
way the quarrel was mended; but alas!
this did not seem to be all. The foolish
been perfectly happy again, became
possessed with a fear of what
their friends might say, or at
any rate this is the impression
that their action on the evening of .Julv
has made. However this may be. from
the time that the trouble betwee them
was made up until last Tuesday even
ing they had never been seen together,
and although they must have met on (
the sly, it is thought that the going off
to get married was done OH the spur Of
the moment.
The facts of the case are simply these:
When at about IL O'clock Oh Tuesday
night
Paul Failed to Turn Up, :
his brother Bob walked up to the sta
ton, but failed to find him around there.
He, suppoSing that he had gone
around until the 80 train from
st. Paul had arrived, and then returned
to the hotel to find Mrs. Sprague very
much alarmed at the nOn-appearance Of
her daughter. They were not left in
suspense very long, for telegram az
rived Just at midnight, signed by Paul,
and telling them that the two had been
married in Hudson, Wis. Chat Gretna
Green of the Northwest, at $50 on that
evening. Mrs. Sprague asserts that she
does not know anything more than the
facts contained in the telegram, and y
says that the action OF the foolish Young
people was entirely supertiuouS and un-
called-for, as she was altogether in sym-
pathy with their plans and anxious to
see them married and settled. That
The Affair Was Not Premeditafed
she is certain, as the gay Bonnie only
carried off her curling poker and her
bridegroom his razor. E. G. Brock
meyer accompanied them and type
writer friend OF Miss Sprague's was also
OF the party Wood is spoken of as q
very good fellow among the boys, but
young and inexperienced.
Miss Bonnie is as charming as her
name and very bright girl with good
deal of will
Both of the young people are known
so well and favorably heretofore that it
is hoped that in few days thev will
have returned from Chicago (whither
Wood left word with the hotel clerk at
Lelp's ne was going on business trip)
TO receive the congratulations of friends
and to give the mamma chance 10 say:
bless you. my children"
who They Are.
Paul G. Wood is well-known Young
man of good connections in Minnesota.
Hissmother is an estimable lady, who
resides on West Third street. Gov.
Willis a. German was the young mans
grandfather, and President Richard l..
German, of the board of public works.
is his uncle. Young Wood is old enough
TO be his own master, ana the lady in
the case is no doubt willing to stake
her hopes of happiness on the ability
and good faith of her sweetheart. They
have long known each other, and both
are well liked by a large circle of ac-.
qualntances who, now that they are
welded. will join in wishing them ali
the favors the gods can bestow. Mrs.
Wood ls>at present away on a visit i'm
bloomington, Ind, and consequently
garded the affair.