The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-18
Now Her Lover Is Gone and
With Him ST., 900.
TOLD FLASHY STORY.
Had Income of $500 a Month
and Mansion in Los Angeles.
Her Wedding Outfit Finest Ever
Gotten Up in lola.

lola, Dec. 1S.-A woman who has
lived in lola practically all her life has
returned from Kansas City a sadder
but wiser woman with her dream OF
love, of Broom house in Los An
geles, with an income of $500 a month,
two trips a year across the ocean to
Germany shattered and probably $1,000
of her money gone with her missing
lover. Her young daughter, she has
been married before and has six chill
dren returned with her mother.
Her daughter doesn't know where
her mother met the man. He gave the
name of John Mattison. But the daugh-
ter, a married woman living in the
country. says she believes her mother
became acquainted with him through
the means of matrimonial advertise
ment. In ten days after they met they
were engaged to be married.
He told a somewhat romantic story.
He was a German by birth and came
to this country while still young. He
prospered but he didn't forget the lit
tie German sweetheart of his youth
and after he had erected fine 12-room
house in Los Angeles where they We're
to live he sent for her to come to this
country and they were to be married
Her father, she was motherleSS then,
accompanied her. He hurried to New
York to meet them. AS the big Ger
man liner drew up at the pier he
rushed up the gangplank to welcome
her and found that she had died on the
journey over. The father had the re-
mains embalmed and sadly the two
started back to the old home with the
body.
The old man made him the heir to all
his property and gave him another
good start before he died. But he made
it a condition that he was to visit him
once or twice year and he went over
the ocean to see him often.
The man came to lola about month
ago. He has been here twice and n
few letters have passed between him
and his intended bride. They were TO
leave this part of the country forever
and he told her it would be wise for
her to sell off her property. A month
ago she disposed of a farm and horses
and buggies and cattle. She was try
ing to dispose of her property in lola
Each time he cautioned her to hurry
and get things in shape for her to leave
and take charge of their big estate in
Los Angeles. And she did hurry. But
she didn't get sale for her other
property as quickly as she thought she
would.
Last Wednesday was the date set for
the wedding. They were to leave here
and go to Wichita where they were to
be married. From there they We're to
continue on their road to California.
Wednesday afternoon she received a
telegram from him saying that the old
German. whom he had to visit occa-
was dead and that he was
leaving that night for Germany to at
tend the funeral, settle the estate OF
some $4,000 and return to lola.
That was all the telegram said. but
it seems to have reused the Woman's
for the first time. She hur-
ried to Kansas City to find some trace
Or something of him. Whether she
is not known. She has pro-
ressed that he never received a cent Of
her money, that the money she drew
from the bank she still has But her
friends and relatives are certain that
her patrimony is gone forever.
And to add to the confusion of the
incident the woman has purchased the |
most elaborate set of wedding clothing |