The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-04-14
THE WEDDING POSTPONED.
A. b. Cooper win Marry Miss StoweIl
But Not Now.


The rather romantic story detailed
below is concerning a young mar
who spent several years in Morgan
town and who has still many friends
here 1t is taken from the Chicag,
News Record of the go. ult.
Arthur Benjamin Cooper is a stu
dent at the Mccormick Theologica
seminary. He came to that institu
ton of learning less than two year:
ago, after having secured degree
from the University of West Virgin
ia. Parkersburg Of that state claims
him as one Of its bright young men
and looks forward IT, the time when
he will be graduated from the di-
vinity school where he is now study
ing.
Cooper, however, does not devote
his entire time to studying theology.
His fellow students say be has given
as much attention TO the ethics OF
lose as to anything else Mabel b.
Siowell is the daughter Of Corydon
G. Stowell, principal of the Newber-
~ school, who is an elder in the
Church of the Covenant and whose
entire family is highly respected
throughout the neighborhood. Mr..
StoweIl lives at 459 Dayton street,
only a short distance from the sem
mary. Young Cooper and Miss
Stoweli have been accustomed to
dwell in each others society almost
constantly. Cooper is in the middle
class and will not be graduated un-
til the expiration of another year,
and be had given his near acquaint
ances to understand that the wedding
would come off then.
The mystery that attends the af,
fair is the fact that the prospective
bridegroom procured the marriage
license FROM the clerk office yester-
day, but an inquiry at the Stowell
residence last night was met by the
statement that the wedding had not
taken place and that for competent
reason, in which both the family and
the young man are agreeably con
cerned, it would not take place for
several DAYS. Mr.. Stowell said that
his daughter was not then at nome.
and a dilgent wait for tue return of
Mr. Cooper to the precincts OF Fow.
Ter hall failed to give any more Ger.
tainty to his whereabouts than If he
were in Milwaukee Dat in the
hallway his classmates were dancing
glee steps over the intelligence that
he was so near matrimony and their
having learned the secret he had
been keeping from them. His near.
est neighbor said: why. Cooper is
one of the most popular students in
the college and rs for the match we
have all come to regard it as sub
ject on which both parties were to be
congratulated
1t seems that the Young people
had arranged Wednesday evening to
have Cooper procure the license yes
terday, but in the meantime, after
his departure from the Dayton street
residence, it was decided by the fam.
lily that il would be best to post
pone the wedding for few days,
and celebrate it in comfortable fam
lily style. This might have been
mutually agreeable, but young Coop.
er did not wait for any reversals of
judgment, and was at the marriage
license window in the city hall al
most as early as Chief Clerk Sal
monson. He gave his age as % and
the brides 90 With the precious
document in his inside pocket be re
turned TO the seminary and made an
attempt at resuming his studies.
He remained unconscious of the de-
cision by the Stowell family, which,
after careful rehearsal of the stu
alton, had voted for delay. An effort
was made with questionable degree
of success to suppress the announce
ment of the issuance of the license,
as it was desirable that the two be
spared the good-humored jibes of
their friends.
Mr.. Stowell said in explanation of
the situation that he had no objec.
tion to his prospective son-in-aw,
but that he had suggested a post
ponement until the young people
were little better.prepared for mat
rimony. When be found they had
secured a license and were going
ahead with their plans he had asked
them to wait four or five days, so the
wedding might come of in proper
style and the brides trousseau be
completed in orthodox fashion.