Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-07-25
ARE REUNITED BY A
PIECE OF NEWSPAPER
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out any idea of their parents.
When the girl was Is years old, she
displayed such aptitude for the needle
that she was sent out by the home as
a seamstress and eventually obtained
a position with the Ballard family as
a family seamstress. Her beauty at
tracted the attention of young Ipher, a
stalwart farmer Of, the neighborhood
at Glenview, and they were soon be-
trothed. They came to this city on
January 8, 1905, and were married.
In the interim Mrs. Treasure had be-
come Mrs.. Thomas O'Byrne. Sudden
ly one day Mr.. O'Byrne was glancing
at a bit of torn newspaper that caught
his eye as it lay ON the ground, and
he saw the marriage notice Of Ruth
Treasure and William Ipher. Hurried
ly he took it to his wife.
She knew that the only family with
that peculiar name was her former
husbands. She looked through the d.
rectory, but not one trace was there
of the names of Ipher or Treasure.
At the suggestion of her husband they
went to the Office of the county clerk,
but he did not know the people or any
thing about them. They started to
leave the office when sudden idea &C.
Cured to Mrs. O'Byrne. "The wit
nesses!" she exclaimed; they will
know" At last she found that they
lived in Glenview and Mr.. O'Byrne
telephoned to them. Mr.. O'Byrne
spoke to Mrs. Ipher and in trembling
tones asked her who her parents were.
She had no parents, she said.
They went to see Mrs. Ipher and in
a touching scene the daughter and
mother were reunited. They talked
Of old times and it was discovered that
parent and child had seen each other
several times a week for years with
out knowing it, while all the time they
were seeking each other all over the
country. Mrs. Ipher had been en-
ployed in millinery store where Mrs.
O'Byrne had been in the habit of deal
ing. They had passed each other on
the street and for half year had lived
within a stones throw of each other
without knowing it.
The son had left the home at the
age Of II and had worked on a farm
near Frankfort. For several years he
had corresponded with his sister, but
she was sent out from the home, some
of the records were lost and they were
separated. He began to seek his sis
ter, but without avail. One day she
no IN - 4IS
of her brother and incidentally left
her address. In the course of few
months he found out her address and
the sister and brother were united
Then came the news of his mother and
in as short a space of time as it takes
to tell it mother, son and daughter
were reunited and were vowing never
to leave each other again.
The quest of Is years had come tt
a happy end and the sorrows of years
were recounted amid tears of JOY anc
happiness. Il never gave up hope,
said Mrs. O'Byrne, although there
were times when I despaired greatly
II it were not for the fact that my
name was SO curious-I have never
seen any other Treasures besides oul
family-1 might yet be seeking my
own, and if it were not for the scral
of paper that my husband saw We
would probably be as far off as ever.
II made VOW that as long as had
strength and money would seek them
and I have sought for them through
thick and thin until at last met with
success. We are all reunited now anC
nothing will ever separate u.s.