The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-10-17
MIKE DOWLINC'S MARRIAGE,

| up wealth. naQ ne Deen IN GRANITE Falls THIS
State, when the news of M. j. Bowling s
somewhat extemporaneous marriage was re-
ceived. In that place it was nine days
wonder, exceeding, even, the defeat of Wash
burn. for nobody expected it, nobody had
dreamed of it, and, in fact, the thing had
been previously reckoned the other way.
All this was brought out at the grocery,
where. if the man with the phonograph had
been able to conceal himself and takes notes
with his machine, he would have heard
something like this:
| And so Mikes married to Jennie" This
| from the man on the cracker barrel after
the first explosion of the unexpected news.
Yes Married at Atlanta, while the edit
ors were there This from the man leaning
against the counter.
Rather sudden, wa ant it,
Eyes. Not even the editors knew it till af-
ter it was all over.
That's what thought" said the man on
| the cracker barrel. Pears to me that Mike
was 'riginally engaged to Hattie Bordewck,
and it seems kinder funny to think he's gone
and married the sister,
Especially when the sister was already en-
gagged said the man at the counter.
| You don't tell me! Who to:''
Arthur Bennett of the Journal
| 1.-The editors SON.
| Yes
Well I'll be -''
That's what everybody said when they
heard it, observed the man at the counter.
| What beats me- said the other, lis Ben
netts going to Chicago with Bowling and
Jennie. They were jist as happy as turtle
| n cd be
who was jist taking care of her. Now, if
you had told me that Hattie and Mike had
met in Chicago and got married, wouldn't
have thought anything about it, for my old
woman told me they were engaged: but his
marrying Jen is what knocks me-
You can't trust a man with red whiskers,' -
said the man at the counter, thoughtfully,
as he took another bite of tobacco.
| 'Mebbe Mike is going to run for Office down
in New York and wanted to make a reputa-
| tion,'' suggested the man on the cracker
| barrel
| ''Mebbe so, but he's made one in Granite
Falls, anyhow, and the town won't talk about
anything else for month
Come to think of it, Jennie always did
seem to git along better with most any girl
| in these parts. I remember when she went
up to Redwood Falls to Ben Nelson we'd
ding. All the boys up there were wild about
her, and they worried her to death with let
tiers after she came home. She might have
| married the whole country if she said the
| word
"She CERT nly had very takin' way
But what do the BOrdewicks and Ben
nett's think about it, asked the man on the
cracker barrel
At that moment, however. there was a
| rush OF customers, and the man with the
monograph would have had to wait for an
other chance. He would have heard enough,
however, to indicate that Granite Falls has a
very sweet mOrsel which will be Chewed for
months to come There hasn't been any,
| thing like it happen in the Northwest since
Charlie Duncombe of the Fort Dodge
Chronicle, ran off with his old sweetheart
after she had had her trosseau made in an
ticipation of her marriage to another man.
Mike has always said he did not know
which one of the Bordewick girls he would
eventually marry. as he loved them all in
| that big-hearted way of his, and perhaps
that fact has engendered a great deal of
confusion A bouquet of flowers makes it
hard for man to choose. but when Bowling
got to Chicago with one of the flowers. he
found no difficulty in making up his mind.
However, it will take until his tin wedding
for Granite Falls to forgive him.-St Paul
Dispatch.
ARTHUR IS PHILOSOPHIC.
Arthur Bennett in Granite Falls Journal:
From what we have learned the occurrence
was much of surprise to the members of
the excursion as it was to our citizens. 1t
seemed to have been done on the spur of the
! moment, without much generalization. But
they are married, am by the time this paper
goes to press will probably be in Granite
ready to receive the congratulations of
their friends. which undoubtedly will be
freely and cordially given. They are both
| of sufficient age to marry each other if they
so willed. so we can see no objection to the
| match SO long as the are both satisfied.
The Journal has nothing but the best of