Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-11
Oddity in the Mems
Babe Has Twenty -nine Parents.

Babe Has Twenty-nine Parents.
Warsaw, tnd-Theres baby at
Rldinger's lake resort who has whole
hotel colony for his adopted parents.
Like the little comrades OF Peter Fan,
he may have been dropped from ms
mothers perambulator. altho indica-
tons are that he was left behind pur-
lposely.
However that may be, he landed IN
a pretty good sort of a Never, Never
Land, for he has a big hosiery for a
home, and there is no particular limit
upon the sum which may be spent for
clothing and toys when he needs more.
The baby Is a boy. of course. be-
cause. as Peter Pan said. little girls
know too much to be dropped from
perambulators or get lost their from
their mothers"
Most OF the new parents OF little
Peter--for he is to be named Peter
are from Chicago. There are seven
teen foster mothers and twelve foster
fathers. And there isn't one of them
who isn't wiling to put up the price to
dress the founding for years.
The little fellow was found on the
veranda of N'eaver's hotel early Sun
day morning. The foster parents to-b be
followed the tracks of a horse and
carriage for nine miles trying to find
the mother. but the trail was lost at
a crossroads near Warsaw.
| The guests at the hotel have signed
| a paper agreeing TO contribute annu-
ally to the expense of keeping and ed
ucating Peter, and he will be fixture
at the hotel He doesn't seem to be
more than two or three days old. but
he can grin little and ne seems to be
acquainted with the fairies all right.
for he blinks most wisely at the flick
ering freely lamps In the marsh near
the hotel.
| One foster mother even claims that
he said ma" once when he was look
ing at the crowd OF parents.
To We'd Girl He Wooed IS Years Ago.
| st. Louis, .Mo.-A romance which
began eighty-five years ago soon will
lead two swe'ethearts to the altar.
John B. Brunden, who admits 101
years has left his home in Tate
| Springs, Tenn, for London where he
will meet his bride to be, Miss Rose
Mcguire, who, has just turned her
century mark. Together they will jour
ney back to the little town in Tennes-
see, where they Will be married before
an assemblage of 135 boys and girls"
| the youngest Of whom Is 80 years old
| In 1922 Brunden and Miss Mcguire
who lived on adjoining farms in Ten
| nessee, became sweethearts. They
were parted when the girls parents
decided to abandon their new home in
America and return to the one they
left In England.
In those days mails were uncertain
and irregular and after a few letters
which were exchanged between the
boy and girl. they lost track OF each
other.
Brunden went to California long be-
fore the gold rush in 40. He thrived
| and spent a fortune hunting Miss Nc
CURE. Until recently his search was
fruitless.
Finally he learned her address in
England and found that she had never
married. Letters We're exchanged and
he learned that Miss Mcclure still
loved him, tho almost a century had
elapsed since they parted. Then
Brunden bought the two old Tennessee,
farms and made them into one, erect,
Ing fine house for the coming of his
bride back to the scenes OF their WOO
ing.
Senator, Daughter and Wife Graduated
Lawrence Kas.-The family OF C. I.
Martin, state senator from Bourbon
county, Kansas is we'll supplied with
legal talent. Both Senator Martin,
and his wife have just received diplo-
mas giving them the right to practice
law, and the Martin family, consisting
Of the senator, his wife and their
daughter, are now all out Of school for
the first time in two years. The mother
and father were at the University OF
Kansas and thu, daughter at the Law
renee high school.
Senator Martin, who has been
farm hand. school teacher, a major in
the Twentieth Kansas, and is now
state senator, having decided, altho he
has reached middle age, that knowl-
edge of the law would not come amiss,
resolved to study here, and brought his
wife and daughter along.
Mrs. Martin had no intention of TAX
ing up law, but the sight of so many
students at work aroused her and she
began to dig into Senator Martins
books. She found Blackstone interest
ing and kept up her studies. She
passed the same final examination her
husband did.
The home of the Martins is in Fort
Scott.
Bury Wrong Body as Mother.
Peoria AS the result Of strange
confusion of names and the mistake
of a supposed daughter, the body Of
Mrs. Mary Mccormick, an inmate of
Bartonville asylum, who died last
April, has been exhumed from the
Mccormick family lot In Geneseo and
will be brought here this week for