Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-01-23
ALL Is FORGIVEN

NIECE OF SENATOR HANSBROUGH
ELOPEs BUT GETS THE PROPER
BLESSING AFTERWARD.
Washington Post: Mr.. and Mrs
Loren M. Fryer, the young couple who
were married at Towson, Nd, undel
rather romantic circumstances las
Saturday afternoon, have received the
maternal blessing and have arranged
temporarily at least, to make their
home at 1016 Massachusetts, avenue
where the brides mother, Mrs. Anna
O. Hansbrough, resides.
Immediately after their marriage the
young people returned to Washington
and it was their intention to keep the
fact that they were man and wife a
Secret for several months. Unfor.
tunately for them, however, it became
known that the ceremony had been
performed. :
After a consultation it had been de-
cided by Mr.. and Mrs. Fryer that it
would be best for them to acquaint
Mrs. Hansbrough OF their marriage
rather than allow her to learn the fact
though the published account Ac-
codingly the bride and groom were
early astir yesterday and by the exer-
else of a great deal of diplomacy the
Sunday Post kept away from Mrs.
H%ansbrough until her return from
church.
A few minutes after she reached her
room Mr.. and Mrs. Fryer paid the lat
ter's mother a formal call and she was
appraised of the marriage in as deli
cate a manner IS possible. Naturally
she was much surprised, but after she
had recovered from the first shock she
told her new son-in-law that she had
no objection to him personally and
that the only ground upon which she
would have objected to a marriage
with her daughter was the extreme
youth OF both. Mrs. Fryer is about
II years Of age and MI. Fryer not
quite three years older.
Mrs. Hansbrough also told the
young couple that she was glad the
matter had become public, and that
they had not succeeded in keeping at
a secret as they at first intended. After
the interview, with Mrs. Hansbrough,
Mr.. and Mrs. Fryer held an informal
reception in the parlors of the board
ing house, where they received the
congratulations Of the guests of the
house, among whom the young people
are great %favorites.
The bride is a niece of Senator Hans
brough of North Dakota, and has been
living with her mother and unmarried
sister at a private boarding house at
the corner of Eleventh street and Mas
sachusetts avenue. MI. Fryer is a
native OF New Jersey, and since he re-
ceived an appointment as a clerk in
the ~postoffice department has been liv-
ing at the same place. The young
couple soon became intimate friends
and their friendship rapidly developed
into something stronger. Knowing
that Mrs. Hansbrough would object to
their marriage on the ground OF their
youth, they decided to marry without
her knowledge.
Accordingly Saturday afternoon
they met by Encouragement and went
to Baltimore, but were advised BY
friends to avoid publicity by going to
Towson, Nd, where the marriage was
later celebrated. A correspondent Of
one of the Baltimore papers, however,
learned of the marriage and tele-
graphed here for confirmation of the
report and the story consequently be-
came public property. Mr.. Fryer said
last night that he had acquainted his
parents, who live at Hightown, N. j.,
by letter, and he is anxiously waiting
to learn how they receive the news Of
his marriage.
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