Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-01-29
ROMANCE ON The FARM
A Lonely Iowa Man Finds Hap
piness Thru the Efforts ola
Mutual Friend
LETTERS LEAD TO MARRIAGE
Farmers Interest in the Original Of
Photograph Leads to Arrangement
for Correspondence and Finally to
Meeting in Person - A Wedding
Followed.
Special to Times-Republican.

| Special TO TImeS-RepubllCan
| Nora Springs, Jan. 29-Gustav Wop-
schall, ST.. wealthy farmer living on
d farm northwest of this city some ten
of fifteen miles, in Ccrro Gordo coun-
ty, is one of the principal parties in a
ding at Syracuse. n. Y, recently The
Syracuse Herald says:
One of the prettiest middle aged
romanccs which Syracuse has seen in
~ long time found it's elimination
last Thursday evening, when the Rev.
David c. Huntington, rector of All
Saints church, united In marriage Mrs.
Esther A. Goulding. of No. 220 West
Castle street, and Gustav Wopschall
Iowa. Both the bride and groom have
passed the first flush of youth and the
circumstances of their courtship
were somewhat of unusual character,
but they are as happy as
any newly welded pair of the pres
ent generation, and are looking for
ward to spending the evening of their
lives in each others company in quiet
and congenial companionship.
Mrs. Wopschall was the widow Of
John Gbulding who died seven years
ago, since which time she and her
aged mother, Mrs. Esther Thurston,
have lived alone together. They had
pleasant neighbors and many friends
and We're deeply interested in parish
affairs, but as time went on and her
mothers health grew more feeble,
Mrs. Goulding began to look forward
with sorrowful apprehension to the
time when she would be left alone in
the world. The thought OF changing
her state had not occurred to her, but
she could not help feeling lonely
when she saw women of her own age
with husband and children around
them, and came more and more to re-
alze how different life would seem il
she. too, were the central figure of a
happy home circle.
One of Mrs. Goulding's closest
friends had after her marriage years
before gone to live in Iowa. and with
her the comely widow kept up close
correspondence. 1t may be that from
her letters this friend had obtained a
knowledge of her loneliness, but at all
events, last fall, one of the epistles
that came from the west asked Mrs.
Goulding whether she would be willing
to enter into correspondence with
friend and neighbor of the writer's
husband-a prosperous farmer, a
Wild ol,i 4
her photograph and had inquired
earnestly as to the name and station
of the original, and who on learning
that she was a widow, had requested
that an effort might be made to make
him known to her through the
medium Of their mutual friend
Mrs. Goulding considered the mat
ter and talked it over with her moth
err. and finally consented to receive a
letter from Mr.. Wopschall When it
arrived, she was struck by it's frank
and manly tone, and in due time an
answer was returned. BY degrees the
letters grew more and more frequent
until at length Mr.. Wopschall with
true Western bluntness, asked his
correspondent whether she would per-
NIT him to visit her in Syracuse, and,
if their acquaintance proved agree
able to both, would accompany him
when he went back to his home.
Mrs Goulding consented to seeing
her sutton in person - indeed assured
him that she would be very glad to
do so, but when it came to question
of setting the wedding day, she hesi-
tated But the westerner came, leav-
ing home as soon as Christmas was
over, and reaching Syracuse on Deem
Der 29th. So we'll did he press his