The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1907-02-15
LOST-TWO BRIOEGROOMS
AND A BRIDE

! ana TRUSTING maidpnH who turn up
their noses In disdaln for the honest
youths In their own ncighborhoods
and 80 away from home seeking 70.
nance
Miss Magoon once won prize In
a cattle rOping contest Her picture
was printed In the papers. and she
received letter from a man In Min.
nosota and answered H. In time the
correspondence reached the point Of
Tenderness The young man proposed
and was accepted Miss Magoon trust.
cd him fully. and loved him 40 we'll
that she was willing to meet him
more than half way. She agreed to
40 To Dies Moines TO be married to
her northern lover. because he said
II was difficult for him TO get away
from his business long enough to
make the journey to Texas.
When Miss Magoon reached Dos
M6inos she went TO the hotel, but
her Lover had not arrived She was
not disappointed, but yet alarmed
She waited until the next train. and
then the next one. In fact, she wait.
ed uncomplainingly for two weeks.
during which time she wrote and tele,
graphed In vain hut there was not
a word from the missl bridegroom.
q Miss hagoon had her lasao In her
trunk, and she was mad enough by
this time 10 wish that she had IL
around the Minneapolis mans neck.
When her money was all gone she
went INTO the sherihs once ana told
ner troubles deputy Ness tried to
console her They went around to
All the hotels, but the recreant had
not been In town.
Money was raised 10 send the un.
fortunate young woman back TO her
homo In Waco.
Christona Meyers IL another girl
who Ia advertising In Cupids Ca
zetto for lost bridegroom. The mys
toriously disappearing young man In
Fred Gleason. a dry goods clerk,
about 20 years old. A suitable 70
ward will be paid for his return to
Christina at AvOca. Nob.. where the
wedding feast still IN waiting.
Gleeaon went TO Avoca last spring
and accepted a position" with one
OF the leading dry goods Arms OF
that place. lie was a now man In
town and OF course tho girls were
Interested In him. He devoted him.
sell To Miss Meyers. however. and In
limo their engagement was an.
nounoed.
Preparations were made for n big
wedding. The guostB came and
Christina waa a. happy and AZ proud
as any bride ever was. When " came
time for the ceremony, however, they
discovered that tho bridegroom was
missing IL would be hard TO have
a marriage without bridegroom. so
they sent poathaste to the store TO
see what had happened To Gleeaon'
lie was not there-nor anywhere IN
the town OF AVoch
The sad news that Fred had oloped
by himself was broken TO the Meyers
family and the wedding guests wero
dismissed. Up TO tho time OF go
ing 10 press not a word has been
heard from the missing man, and
Christona says n no comes back now
she won't marry him 10 save his
life.
They do things differently along
the Manayunk canal In Pennsylvania
There the shoe IL on the other foot
Il IL the girl that vanlshes on her
wedding day. II may be said, how.
ever, OF Annie Fonkay that she had
more courage than a man usually IL
able 10 muster up on similar occa.
sions. AMMO went away but she
returned at once. bringing another
lover with her.
Miss Fonkay had been engaged 10
Stephen Hazk. Stephen was the hap.
piOst man along the canal. He made
his arrangements for wedding al
tho slayish church. at which all tho
Poles OF Manayunk we're invited, and
the feast that was prepared 20 follow
tho ceremony was expected 10 sur
pass anything ever seen In that part
OF the state.
on tho night before tho great day
Miss Fonkay went TO attend recep.
ton at the home OF her sister In Nice.
town. stephen was not thore, but
Andrew Lutohco was, and there was
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