Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-11-22
INTERESTING ROMANCE
OF RICH SPENCER GIRL
Uncle-Guardian Refuses Consent
to Her Marrying Poor
Young Man.
The HEROINE is sEa1 ABROAD
Lover Learns of Her Failing Health aud
Follows Her Over Two Continents
Meet and Arc Married ia
Ecrne.
The HEROINE is Sent ABROAD

Chicago, Nov. IA Chicago paper
tells a romantic story in which an
Iowa girl, Miss Ella Storr, figures as
the heroine and a former Iowa school
teacher, Mr.. Frank Case, takes the
part of leading man. Ella Storr and
Frank Case have recently been made
one and returned from abroad, where
the contamination of their love dreams
Was reached. Frank Case was born at
Halls Corners, a New York hamlet,
and at the age of is decided to enter
the profession of teaching and entered
the state normal school at Brockport,
where he graduated with high honors.
He taught several years in the east
and then decided to come west end To-
cate Ut Spencer, la. He met his fate
there.
She WAS Ninsone lass of JIG years,
the only daughter of Ezra Storr, a
prominent citizen of Clay county. Her
father and mother We're dead and she
had been brought up as daughter by
hel guardian. her mothers brother II.
u. Lattimer a lawyer of Spencer and
for some years Clay countys repre-
sentative in the Iowa legislature. The
result of the meeting of Frank Case
and Ella Storr was love. MIR. Case app
preached the guardian for the hand
of his sweetheart, and the latter was
furious. His niece was an heiress to
$4,000 in her own right, and what was
he, a poor pedagogue that he should
sue for her hand? So the two We're
parted, both conscicntiously asserting
to the will of the girls uncle. But the
girl dropped and her health failed, and
her aunt alarmed, took her to Europe.
Some sympathetic friend wrote to Case
IL; h,1 a no
decided that he could endure the sep
aration no longer, and SO followed the
aunt and her niece abroad.
He traced them TO London. Liver
pool, Glasgow. He followed them to
Rome. He found they had gone TO
Egypt, and he pursued them to Cairo
and Alexandria, only to find that they
had sone back To Switzerland. So he
went to Berne. Here he took an in
barely SloO left. i must go home, he
said sadly.
On his way 10 the station he saw her
on the street. He leaped out of the cab
and ran to meet her. With glad cry
she greeted him.
Il will marry you tomorrow" she
said. ~ am of age now and they cam
not prevent it if they would Come and
tell aunt"
Mis-. l4dliliilei NdS dSlOHiSIlGQ. l5uL
she was a wise woman and the wedding
was celebrated next morning in the
Protestant Episcopal church in Bernc.
md d cable was sent to the uncle in
America.
When the wedding pair reached Ber-
lin they found a message from Mr.. Lat
timer disowning his niece. But she
laughed.
Just before they started for this
country they received Il second letter
from the guardian. He said he had
made Inquiries and found the young
mans character above reproaoh. So he
had decided TO forgive them and to
give Mr.. Case place in his law office.
He begged them to come home.
They are now visiting in Halls Cor
ners and will soon start for Spencer.
Mr. Lattimer's guardianship of his
niece's estate has been so wise that it
is now worth 100000. So all's well that
ends we'll.