Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-09-14
Fiction is Equalcd in the Life
Story OF Il Couple in West
ern Iowa
welded AFTER TWENTY YEARS
Story of Stern Fathers Opposition to
a Poor Boy, the Daughters Marriage
to Wealth, Death of Husband, Pow
erty, and Finally the Return of the
First Lover.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
jefferson, Sept. 14.-After a separ-
alton of twenty years, but still re-
Numbering the love of childhood days.
Charles T.. Eldon and Mrs. Lulu Mon
traville were united in marriage at
Council Bluffs yesterday afternoon. and
in this mornings mail news of the
marriage was received by friends and
relatives of the happy couple telling
them of their future plans.
Dating back twenty years or more IS
the beginning of romance, and also
the beginning of series of extraor-
binary events.
1t was while they were children to-
gether. living on r-by farms, that a
simple friendship sprang up for each
other which in few years developed
into true love, and they promised each
other to be husband and wife. But
stern father who, having had his heart
set that his daughter should marry
the man OF his choice, objected to their
keeping company and by so dolns
crushed out their hopes. lie demanded
that they should never see each other
again Living near the Gibson farm'
but across the way, b. q. MontraVlile
lived in house which was the prlde
of the country, and upon acres OF WaV-
ing grain which stretched as far as
the eve could see. And living there
alone with the two old people was their
only son, Harry. 1t was he whom the
father wished that his daughter should
marry. For if this could be brought
about, perhaps within few short years
the two farms would be joined. and
his daughter would be mistress OF the
beautiful house and of those bound
less acres.
Eldon was but a poor lad then work
ing upon the different farms within the
neighborhood and earning his living
as best he could. Perhaps the father
saw that if his daughter married the
poor young man her life would be
long struggle. But If she married
the neighbours boy her future would
be assured.
But the Eldon lad had determine
ton He held a secret interview with
his fiance and begged her to leave
her home and join him in 81 new coun-
try. where they would live alone to-
gether A few clothes We're hurriedly
packed and undoubtedly the two would
have succeeded in clipping had 1t not
been for the sudden appearance of the
father.
The years flew by. Lulu Gibson was
to the man of her fathers
choice, and the Eldon lad was for
gotten.
But the Eldon lad had journeyed far
the night that her father took his
away Westward he went
to the gold fields of California. It |
was there he hoped to find his for
tune.
At last, tho the years had passed, !
and his hair was streaked with gray,
a mine was discovered (which has
proven as rich in gold as was his SEEM
ingly endless dreams. True to his
boyhood fancies, he built mansion,
and, undaunted in his love, settled
down in it, alone.
But a great longing seized him. He
desired to come back to the old neigh
borhood, and view the old scenes, and
see the familiar faces. A strange pow
er seized him, and he could not re-
sist.
On arriving in the old neighborhood,
he discovered that time had added a