The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-10-19
SHE TOOK HIS DARE.
So George Spaulding Secretly
Welded His Dora Adair.
NOW is SECRET NO LONGER.
A Young Couples Jest Became Good
Earnest and a Puzziing Confusion
of Names Results.

IT may be a small surprise to some az
the friends of Mr.. George c. Spaulding and
the lady whom they have always known as
Miss Dora Admir-. TO learn that the couple
are man and wife and were married Sep
TENDER 6. 1894. in Victoria. For over year
they have kept their secret 10 a small cir
Gle of their most intimate friends and It
is less than week since the truth became
known beyond that Emit.
Geo. Spaulding and Dora Adair. son and
daughter respectively OF two well-known
families. have known each other for years
and that their friendship ripened into mu-
tual love was not to be concealed. But
two days before the marriage the young
man in a spirit of jest, more than other
wise. dared the young lady TO whom he
had been engaged for months, TO get mar
ried secretly.
Dora Adair never takes a dare was
the ready response of the handsome young
woman. The two went 10 Victoria, came
back man and wife and but two other per-
sons knew the facts until less than four
months ago. These were Miss Jennie No
be. of Snohomish. Miss Adar's aunt, and
Mrs. D. Fl. Wallace. of this city, Mr..
Spaulding's aunt. The parents on both
sides We're then told and the marriage was
approved but still secret.
Il simply had taken the step and delay
ed telling 1t from day to day, not wish
ing 10 gain notoriety." SAID Mr.. Spau,ding
to a Post-Intelligencer reporter last even
Ing. There was no real objection on the
part of either of our parents, and my faith
er / know would have consented had l
but asked him.
Since the marriage Mrs Spaulding. un-
der her maiden name, has boarded at the
home of Mrs. NJ. C. Bud.ong, of 1853 Third
street, and has been employed for almost
a year as bookkeeper and stenographer
for the Il. c. Miles Company At the
boarding house she had frequent causes
for embarrassment. Mr.. Spaulding went
TO California as mate of the steamer Mon
ticello and is there now with the boat on
her Vallejo-San Francisco route. When
he went away he gave his wife a letter
of introduction to his attorney and she
having called at the attorneys office, the
latter afterward, on a business matter
called at Mrs. Budlong's ana asked for
Mrs Spauld.ng. The landady answered
that Mrs. Spaulding did not live there.
But she added, Il will ask Miss .Adair
who is friend of Mrs. Spaulding" In
speaking OF the incident the young woman
told of her being compelled TO go to the
door with great embarrassment and face
them both. II never explained to either
and neither thought it strange" said Mrs
Spaulding.
Mrs. George C. Spau.ding is the daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander Adair, of
Novelty. and for four or five years has
been a school teacher, bookkeeper and
stenographer. She was employed in 1898
by the Crescent Creamery Company and
last year, after being married a month or
two, commenced working for the Miles Co
She announced her intention a week ago
of leaving to join her husband, but her
employers have urged her to remain with
them for the winter at least. She is spoken
of as a careful and competent office woman
and her grace Of manner and carriage are
both very striking. Her parents are pio-
neers in this section. and twenty-five years
ago they were the owners of the now his
tor.c United States hotel, in this city
then a village.
Mr.. Spaulding is me son of Capt. and
Mrs A. P. Spaulding, and when but years
cd went steamboating with his father, and
has followed 1t with great diligence ever
since. He Is also something of comedian
and 1t is his delight TO sing negro meio-
dies to the admiration OF social gather
ings and societies of which he has been a
member. His approximations OF darky
characters are quite realistic.
The happy bride of a year will visit her
parents at Novelty for a while, and No
vember Will sail for San Francisco on
the Walla Wa.la 10 join her husband. She
is at present living with Capt. and Mrs.
Spaulding at 40S South Eleventh street.