The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-07-24

DIR. aid Mrs. J. w. Nuckolls,
Mr.. and Mrs J. S. Anderson, Mrs.
J. K. Nuekolls and Mr.. A. S. Muck
oils are at Rogers Springs for a
few days.
Mr.. George Ransom and Miss
Irene Houston paid friends at Gal
weston, Texas, a brief visit, return
ing TO Wallis to witness the Ran
SOM Ward marriage the 18th.
From there Miss Houston went to
Winnsboro, Texas, where she ex-
poets to remain several weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Whitfield, of
Medon, visited Mrs. Ras Black this
week.
Mr.. Hamilton Ransom, one of
our most handsome and popular
Young men, returned Tuesday OF
last week with his charming bride.
Ham. has always been the best man
in the best place, getting the best
of verifying, as is shown In the
getting of life partner from ma
ture's truest type of noblest wo-
manhood. Following is splendid
story of the happy love affair and
marriage, taken from the Brennan
CTexas) Weekly Press:
Wallis, Texas, was the scene of happy marriage
Sunday in which there just enough romance
to make it all the more interesting.
1t was the happy consummation OF loves young
dream between Mr.. T. 81. Ransom, of Toone Tenn.
and Miss Katheryne Ward, daughter of Mr.. an'
ID Of VVall lie nd oil
{ Maggie Ward one of the charming sales ladies
Mistrot Bros. Co.'S department store of this city
who accompanied by Mr.. Green Morgan, wen
I down on the delayed Santa Fe Sunday morning
be present at the wedding. which took place at IN
residence of the brides parents, the happy coupl
T passing through here the midnight train sun
: day night, route to the home OF the groom /
Tennessee, Miss Ward and Mr.. Morgan, OF this city
& | returning this far with them.
Mr. Ransom, the groom, spent his childhood
y Texas, and his family and that of the fair Bird
!. | were neighbors and he and Miss Katherine wei
sweethearts. Before they had reached their teeI
they had learned the first sound ia the song OF I.V
and the hand of the invisible spirit had touche
Il the strings of that mysterious instrument, the sou
and was playing, to them unconsciously, Il
prelude to their fate.
His family moved to far away Tennessee, ar
e the youthful lovers were separated, but absen
only made the heart grow fouder, and when Nj
. Ransom had grown to manhood and accumulated
competency in the home OF his adoption, and beg'
to realize the truth of the biblical injunction tn
I ii is not good for to be alone, his though
Is turned to his first love, the infatuation OF
q childhood and he wondered how the little pla
mate of his in far away Texas looked in 10
d dresses he had arrived the ripe and tert
season of action, when he had the head to eontrl
aud the hand to execute, and he decided all
once
"How dear to my heart are the scenes OF 4
Childhood"
and he came to Texas, to see the achievemei
0f during the years of his absence. lie remember
I'd the unbroken prairies of the coast country, wh'
hand in hand with the little girl he had wander
gathering blue bonnets and sweets for the 81
Il from thousand unwithering flowers, catchi
music from the spheres, and beauty from
q, thousands acre fields of light
p ON his return he noted the achievements OF
two decad es of his absence, and it almost seemed
i. miracles had been wrought. Modern reapers w
i, sweeping like phantom ships through seas OF sun
gold. and he listened to the music of the harv
20 song and he caught glimpses Of the myrlads
cities that had sprung into existene during
:, absence. The once unbroken prairies of his sou
al Texas home, on which his fathers herds b
grazed. he found dotted with homes, crossed w