Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-08-10
NOT EVEN YOUNG
LOCHINVAR KNEW LOVE
THAT EQUALS THIS
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with her mother, and stated that she did
not want her to mention the name Of her
sweetheart again.
She brought her foot down with a stamp
on the hard floor, and said she was tired
of having Amos talked about" The
mother then attempted to say something
else, but Jennie interrupted again. and
began to walk up and down the corridor
of the ward.
Finally Mrs Partain left. and as she
went through the door, her daughter call
ed out to her that she would have to
send her to a reformatory to prevent the
marriage.
The girl wore a bouquet of flowers she
said Prater had given her, and as she
talked of him after the departure of her
mother, she pulled the petals from each
flower, with ''he love me-he loves me not
-" and lone 1 love-two 1 love-three 1
love, say" etc.
She said that Prater had not been TO
see her yet, but that she knew he would
come before long.
Mrs. Partain began to watch over Jen-
ME at her home at 81 Tennelle street
Saturday evening and kept it up until
Sunday evening, when the love lorn girl
was turned over to the police. The vigil
OF the mother was not lonely one, how
ever The crowd of young friends of
than 200. and then II was that the moth
er became frightened and feared that
the young people would really kidnap
the girl and turn her over to Amos.
Early in the morning Saturday Amos
passed the Prater homestead and little
Jennie was on the porch shivering in
the cold. Despite the watchfulness OF
the mother. Amos made a break for the
bright-eyed girl and cried:
Hello. Jennie"
"Howdy, Amos" came the reply.
Then the two clasped hands and two
notes were exchanged.
BE brave, little girl" was the part
ing admonition of Amos as he walked
away.
There was a lull in the love story DUR
ing the day Saturday. but towards even
ing the romance began to revive. Young
people began to arrive at the Prater
home, singly, in pairs and in groups to
wards dusk and by s o'clock the porch
was full, the yard was full and the ell
tire block was crowded with the sympa-
thizers of the love-sick pair.
In the meantime Jennie had escaped the
maternal vigilance about o'clock and
had gone to Oakland cemetery where she
was caught and made to return home.
About dark she again escaped and this
time went to the home of her married sis
ter, Mrs. Thomas Reeves. at 80 WymaE
street where young Prater boards. Mrs.
Thomas Reeves was in sympathy with
her sister and kept her hidden away for
several hours.
Amos Prater telephoned Sunday night
that he had engaged an attorney and that
he would invoke the power of the law to
restore to him his sweetheart. Just what
steps he proposes to take have not been
made public.
However. both Jennie and Amos say
that neither time. nor mother. nor prison
bars shall prevail and that eventually the
marriage will take place.
All day Monday the friends of the youns
lovers, or those of them who were on '7ty
In the cotton mills, were sitting in groupE
on the porches on Wyman street discuss
ing the romance.
Floyd Partain, the uncle of the girl who
lives at Dallas, is hourly expected to come
to town and take the love-lorn lassie
home with him. The friends of Amos say
that this procedure Is as good as the
hero of the love story wants. as he can
easily elope with the girl from her new
country home.
Amos is already provided with marriage
license and the presence Of a willing min
lister of the gospel for a few minutes Is
AL that Is desired