Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-11
FARMER RESIDING
NEAR NEVADA WEEDS OLD
sWEETHEART's CHILD.
SAW COUNTERPART OF MOTHER
IN GIRL OF IS YEARS
Dennis p. Maroney, Who Vowed Never
to Marry When Rival Won Heart Of
Girl He Loved, Changes Mind When
He Sees Photograph of Woman's
Daushter-Presses Suit, is Accepted.

Nevada. Oct. Like 1.-The Honor
able Peter Stirling" hero of the novel,
Dennis p Moroney, of Nevada, led to
the altar in his middle age the daugh-
ter of the woman he loved and lost in
his youth. His bride was Miss Ethel
NJ. Richey, 16 years old, of Jerseyville,
Ill. They were married at St. Francis
Navier's church in Jerseyville a few
days ago.
Years ago there lived near here a
pretty, round-cheeked girl with dark
hair and on neighborng farm lived
Dennis Moroney, her scholo fellow and
playmate. When they ceased to be
children and entered their youth Dem
MS mad more serious. deeper feeling
for his fair girl neighbor than he had
known in their school days.
He was very devoted to her and she
liked him. but j. V. Richey was the
favored sutton. He wooed and won her.
and Dennis Moroney, almost heart
broken. took VOW never to wed
Richey and his bride settled in the
neighborhood of Moroneys home and
after time. when little Ethel was
born. Moroney felt the loss of the wom-
an he loved less because he was ac-
corded the privilege of visiting her
home and showering his affection on
the baby girl.
The bachelors heart was ruled by
the child when the Richeys moved
away, about eleven years ago. and went
10 live at Jerseyville. Moroney wrote
to his little friend and she sent him the
( first letters she ever wrote after she
learned how to make her letters
Thru all the years this exchange of
letters kept up. but Moroney did not
see his little friend again. Last spring
she sent him a new photograph of her.
self. 1t was the first picture even that
, Moroney had seen of her in the eleven
years since she left with her parents
10 live in Jerseyville.
Moroney was startled by the picture.
Mrs. Richey was dead-had been dead
several years. But Moroney seemed to
see in little Ethers" photograph q
| picture OF the girl he had loved in his
youth. There were the same rounded
cheeks, the same dark eyes, and the
same masses OF golden hair. He could
/ hardly realize that It was not the
sweetheart he had lost, but her daugh-
ter-his baby friend.
He determined to go to Jerseyville
and see for himself if, in little Ethel
his old love lived again. But it was not
until three weeks Ago that he could
arrange to leave his business and make
the trip.
When he arrived in Jerseyville he
was even more astonished at the re-
semblance than he had been when he
saw the picture. In Miss Ethel he Eel;
he saw again the girl he had lost and
ne felt all the old love in his heart
again.
And he lost no time in telling Mis-:
Ethel of his love and asking her t.
mary him, for the VOW of celibacy HI
made long ago was not to be consider
: ed any longer. he said. Miss Ethe
gave different answer from that he
mother had given. She said Yes"
. The consent of the girls father wa
asked and given readily, for he admiret
, Moroney and knew him to be ;
wealthy ranch owner. It would be
: fine match for his daughter. he said.
SO arrangements for the weddinl
) were begun at once. 1t was said a
) the family home after the marriag
1 that Mr. and Mrs. Moroney would leav
at once for this place which is to b
1 their home.