Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-10-03
Miss Mayme Carr.
COL. DALTON's PRETTY FIANCEE
IN ST. LOUIS WITHOUT PAR
ENTAIL PERMISSION.
Miss Cars Father Follows Her ana
Promises to Make Trouble for
Colonel Dalton.
From the st. Louis Post Disp..

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Two fierce big brothers ana az
angry, determined papa may sufnee
to keep an ardent sutton without tne
castle gate, but they cannot keep d
love lorn maiden in.
This much have Col. Silas Carr, Vi
Jonesburg, Mo-, and his big boys,
auckland and Richard, found ou'
to their sorrow. Sunday night MISS
Mayme Carr left the parental roof at
J~onesburg without taking time to say
good-by and HE'D herself 70 st. Louis,
where abides for the present Col.
Richard Dalton, a prominent federal
office holder and an ardent suitor de-
spite his three score years for the
young lady's hand. Miss Carr IS dom
iciIed with her cousin, Mrs. l.. ID.
Whitbrook, at 1905 North Grand
avenue, and that lady, as sponsor for
her, saws the marriage will take place
despite papa Carr and his big boys.
The date set is October 3.
Meanwhile Col. Carr having dis
covered his daughters absence came
post haste to st. Louis. He made up
his mind that his girl had run off to be
married and thinks she is now Mrs.
Richard Dalton. However, he did not
follow to bestow the parental bless
ing. but to make trouble for Col. Dali
ton on sight.
Now the fact that the marriage will
not take place for a fortnight brings
this strangest of matrimonial adven-
lures to a sensational crisis. There is
vet time for Col. Carr and his boys to
win over the girl and outwit the Col
onel. Anything is likely to happen
from matrimony to murder. The
friends of the interested parties are
making wagers on the result, the old
folks backing the family and the
younger contingent willing to go
broke on their judgment that "Love
will find a way"
The story of the romantic courtship
of 6~0-year-old Col. Dalton and 19-
year-old Miss Mayme Carr has heen
already told. To repeat briefly Col.
Dalton went fishing around Jonesburg
several months ago and saw Miss
Carr. He fell desperately in love. He
met her again in st. Louis and his suit
~prospered until her two big brothers
doomed up and put their foot down
vigorously on the whole affair. The
Colonel said nothing but sawed wood.
Now he's having his innings.
@zRsez~ s~~s STOUT, got gcn~
tleman, with iron gray hair, in Jones'
burg last Sunday. Who ne was and
what he was doing Jonesburg folks
seemed not to know, but they think
they do now. After supper Miss
Carr dressed and told her
parents she was going to spend the
evening with a girl friend. When she
eft the house she hurried to the depot
ind took the evening train for st.
Louis. Monday night she was at the
leaning on the arm of the
doughty Collector of the Port. The
Colonel was in festive mood and
,eamed on his many political ac-
luaintances. Only once did his visage
liter and that was when his 24-year-
I'D boy, Dave Dalton, doomed up in
he foyer. Dave caught sight of his
prospective stepmother and bore
Town on the pair in hopes of receiv-
ng an Introduction, but the Colonel
lodged him and got lost in one of the
crowded entrances to Music Hall.
Tuesday morning, at his wife's re-
quest, Col. Carr came to st. Louis.
Mrs. Carr is suffering from nervous
,%rostration as a result of all this
excitement. The Colonel
s a brisk, gray-haired old gentleman,
.bou IS years. of age. Hehas a genial
temperament, but recent events have
ended to make him irrascible and he
oses his temper at the mention of Col.
0alton's name.
"This is the first unpleasantness that
mas ever married our family life," said
Col. Carr to a POST Dispatch reporter
1t the Laclede Hotel Tuesday night.
Il cannot understand child's fas-
eination for this old man. 1t almost
seems to me like hypnotic influence.
II she has eIoped, ! wash my hands OF
ler forever and the old gentleman
his hand solemnly as he said it,
and looked very much like old Coul-
dock in the famous curse scene in
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