Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-02-26

mality, avoided all the wedding tricks
which sometimes are played on newly
lions and best wishes, and left
married people, avoided congratula-
tons and best wishes, and left.
The parents OF the bride-heJ
father is an official of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron ompany-decided that
they had 'eloped" Just for the romance
of it, and are not worrying much about
their disappearance. tTracers" were
sent out along the various railroad
lines to find them, but the parents
fully expect that they will be home
again when they have completed their
romantic" trip.
Married on Railway Train.
Just for the romance Of it" is prob
ably as good reason as any to give
for the following unusual marriage:
Miss Jennie B. Jessup Of Anderson.
Ind, boarded an eastbound train at In
dianapolis for Greenfield. When the
conductor looked at her ticket he told
her that the train, an express, did not
stop at that station. There was
predicament for the young woman.
Whether or no she had to be carried
past the town in which her friends
were and into a strange city. 1t was
a puzzling situation which the conduc-
tor might have met by the simple plan
of stopping the train in spite of the
fact that it was not scheduled to-
Cupid, however, had other plans for
Miss Jessup. For no other reason than
to carry out his plans he had pas
senger on the train by the name of w.
E. Johnson, a mining broker going to
Pittsburg. He became interested in
the young woman and discussed pos
sible ways of remedying the matter
with her. The simplest thing to do.
as it occurred to him, was for him to
marry her. Some people do think of
the most preposterous things and
have them accepted. 1t was thus
with Johnson. Miss Jessup, just for
the romance of it, probably, said yes.
The whole train load of passengers
then entered into the growing ro-
nance. The conductor telegraphed
license, and a deputy went west to
meet the train with it. As soon as
the license was delivered a clergyman
was found among the passengers. He
consented to perform the ceremony
By the time the train was pulling out
of Columbus the mining broker and
the young woman from Anderson, Ind.
who never had met each other or
heard of each other before in their
lives, were married.
Welded on Days Notice.
Here is another wedding which took
place in Illinois "just for the romance
of it," Miss Emma Rollins of Koenig,
Mo, arrived one evening in Kewanee
and registered at the KeWanee hotel.
The next afternoon she was married
to Lewis Mulholland, whom she never
had seen before. While neither bride
nor groom had seen each other until a
few hours before they were married,
this wedding was not quite SO Sud
den" as the one which was arranged
on the train. They had been writing
to each other, as a joke, for some
time. Finally Miss Rollins decided to
go to Kewanee and find out just what
sort of looking man Mulholland was.
Evidently he pleased her and she him.
They decided that it was no use TO
have her go back home to Missouri. 1t
would save car fare, they argued, to
have her stay right there in Kewanee
fIon oe
it." So they were married.
Tilted While in a Ballroom.
Having read these three stories,
which illustrate the general PROPOSE
ton started with, you are now in a
frame of mind to read and believe the
following. 1t was saved to the last be-
cause it was feared that it would
prove too much for a reader not "ac-
1t comes from Kentucky.
Henry Prater, who thought he would
figure as a bridegroom, is now acting
only as a relator Of acts. Another
man is the bridegroom and Prater is
only because he tells the
story. He was engaged to marry
was beautiful, and Kentuckians are
to be believed Everything
was set for their marriage, when one
day they went to country fair.
A balloonist was preparing to make
an ascension. Just before the ropes
were cast off he looked about him and
asked if some young woman, some
pretty young woman preferred, would
not like to make the trip with him. 1t
was only a dare, but the young woman
at Prater's side said she would do it.
Prater did not offer objections, and she
was helped in the car.
Off went the balloon. That was the
last Prater ever saw of his bride to
be. They have not been killed There
is good evidence to prove that they
descended and made away safely.
While up in the neighbOrhood Of the
clouds the balloonist found oppor-
tunity to make love to the young girl.
She was attracted by him. A balloon
list must be much like soldier in at
tractiveness. Anyway, she could not
resist him. By the time they alight
ed they were engaged to be married.
and they fastened away for a mar
rage license-"just for the romance Of
it,"
Paper cog wheels have been salts
tested. One would imagine
hot popar in onv form could hardly 10