Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-05-17
IN A Wedding
Wedding with Many Elements of
Romance Scheduled for Bismarck
in Near Future.
New Orleans Lady Finds a Fiance in
North Dakota through Pan-Amer-
lean Commission.
Commissioner Turner will See that
the Couple are Welded with Due
Ceremony.

A wedding is scheduled for Bismarck
in the neal future that will have all
the romantic and unique features that
the novelist and Economically inclined
could desire. and if the efforts of GER
tain good folks who sympathize with
the love lorn avail, the wedding will
be almost a state function.
Now to unfold the a Through
the agency of the North Dakota COM
missioners at the Pan-American expo
sition the Buffalo papers told a har-
rowing tale of the lack of manageable
girls in this state and of the grand OPP
portunities here for ladies seeking
married bliss. The story found wide
circulation in the papers not only Of
this but of other countries and hum
dreds of letters from women of all ages
and nationalities have since been re-
ceived by the aforesaid commissioners
relative to this proposition
A short time ago Governor White
received a letter from a lady residing
in New Orleans in which she said she
had seen the item referred to and had
gotten into communication with a
rancher in Hettinger county. on the
extreme western boundary of the state.
AS a result of the correspondence, so
the lady wrote the governor. the Het-
finger county mar had proposed mar
Tiage and suggested that she come to
Bismarck, where he would meet her
and have the knot tied, but before &C
cepting his offer she had taken the lib
erty of addressing the governor with
a view of making inquiries as to the
lovers responsibility and moral char
acter.
Inasmuch as the propose was from
the same section of the state as Com
missioner of Agriculture Turner, and
as the governor thought such matters
came more properly in his department,
the letter was turned over to the COM
missioner. MI. Turner knew the man
we'll; that he had formerly been a
school teacher; had taught his son., in
fact: that he had a~good ranch with
sheep, cattle, horses and three or four
kids-being a widower Of several years
s~tanding-and in every way a desir-
able party. All this was communi-
Gated to the lady.
Now comes another letter to the gov
ernor from the lady asking if she and
her rancher can be married at the exc
cutive mansion. This cannot be, but
Commissioner Turner can be depended
upon to tender his mansion for that
suspicious occasion and it is hoped the
governor can be prevailed upon to
give the bride away" The date
and details have not yet been arranged,
but when they are those at interest
say it will be one of the SWEETEST
functions in Bismarck for many a
day. Leader Poole of the Bismarck
band has volunteered with Roth's or
chestra to furnish the music for the
occasion and a number Of entertain
! ment features will be secured to make
the event memorable.
The bride is descended from a long
line of illustrious Virginia folk and her
father is a minister Of the Episcopal
church in New Orleans. Her family
is opposed to a marriage under such
circumstances, though assured as to
the worth of the groom t. be, out the
young lady seems to have lost he1
heart entirely to the North Dakota
man and is determined to try love in
a cottage IN the great prairies.