West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1897-11-18
CUPID'S CUNNING CAPERS.
True Story Of Fond Hearts Brought
Together After Many Years.

ways been great rivalry between
Reedsyllle and Masontown, each
place aspiring to be the metropolis
Of Valley dIs,ric. and trying to get
ahead Of the other place in some
way or other.
During the past few years Cupid's
capors around Rceisvillc have rath
or knocked out Masontown, and the
latter place has felt rather left to
some extent in this particular
There was the romance Of DR.. Me-
Ginnis. m which he secured wife
that any man might be proud of.
Came from far of State right to
his hearthstone, and at once began.
playing the part OF a ministerlng
angel to lonely and neglected
widower without his having ever
seen her before. There was a we'd
ding, and she has remained queen
Of the household and q true help
mate ever since, and the Doctor
hugs himself every day over his
luck. Then, again, there was the
romance of the well known single
lady who had long since lain aside
short dresses and was still heart
and fancy FREQ, waiting for the gal.
liant knight who never came. But,
10 u Lochinvar comes out of the
west, even from the Golden State"
where the last kisses Of the God Of
Day bid good bye to the golden
shore Of Uncle Sans domain, az
he sinks down in the deep blue
waters of the calm Pacific, came
lover bold and carried off the maid
en- to his far away home. All this
happened at Reedsville, while Ma
sontown was quietly pursuing the
even tenor of her way, with moth
ing to ruffie the surface of her INIT
rimonial sea. The good people of
the town naturally felt that they
we're dropping behind, and have
longed for a ripple or plunge of
some kind in the matrimonial sen,
that would vie with the breaks
along shoro at Rockville.
The break has come at last, and
was made by the philosopher New.
ton, instead of by a modern Loeb
inVsr. In last weeks ARGUS APP
peated the following marriage IL
censs: Albert Newtou Cobun, aged
Al, and Molhe Zotz, aged IS. But
this did not tell much of a story to
the uninitiated. Here is the story :
Many years ago 8 family named |
Zo!E lived here in Kingwood and
kept the jail, the old ssone Jail that
stood back of the Court House, and
whefc Elihu Gregg was first con
fined for burning the Court House.
In 1870 Heironimous Zotz, the
head of Ihe family. died while
building She old Exchange Hotel,
that burned down several years ago.
Some time after that the widow
married man named Jake Huff
nun and moved to Grafton. She
had a couple Of likely girls by her
first husband. The girls soon grew
up, and as the family kept a rail
road boarding house at Grafton,
young Cobun boarded there while
railroading many years ago and
oourted Mollie considerably then,
but he quit the railroad and came
home and married another girl and
forgot all about his little fraulien.
Several years ago her mother be-
came a widow for the second time
and Mollie drifted westward, and
has been running a boarding house
in Kansss City. Becoming tired Of
single lonesomeness, after having
passed half Of the allotted age OF
morssls, in a retrospective com
mune with auld lang syne, hap
pened to think Of her old lover,
Newt. Cobun, and wrote TO the
postmaster at Masentown TO know
what had become Of him-whothe
be was living or dead, married or
single, etc. The postmaster, Mr.
S. J.. Cobuu, a relative Of Newt.
handed the letter 80 him, and bic
wife having diod three years ago,
he at once entered into correspond
enco with his old sweetheart, aud
after mutual comparison Of
sentiment, decided to cousummste
Tho long delayed fancy Of their
early youth, and The bride 30 be
cold OF everything and started for
the West Virginia lille, notifying
she e1pectant groom 20 meet her Of