Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-14
BLANCHE BRUNER
TO Wed j. COULD
Mother of Girl, at Home IN
Davenport, Admits the
Engagement.
BOTH ARE NOW I'M. EUROPE
Young Women Is Playing in Anna
HcId'S Miss Innocence"
Company.

Mrs. a Bruner, mother of Blanche
Beatrice Bruner, is now in Davenport
residing at 1902 LeClaire street and
today she confirmed the report OF the
engagement of her daughter to Jay
Gould.
Mrs. Bruner states her daughter is
L.N in London, playing with Anna
Held in Miss Innocence Mr.. Gould
is also understood to be in London.
While I have been advised Of my
daughters engagement to Mr.. Gould,
SO far as I know no date has been
set for the wedding" declares Mrs.
Bruner.
Mrs. Bruner feels greatly Chagrined
at the sensational press reports being
sent out from Boston about her
daughter. particularly the one to the
effect that when a mere girl she as
sisted her mother in taking in wash
ing at their humble home in Trenton,
also those to the effect that other
families had adopted the girl and as
sisted her in her musical education.
Blanche Never Did washing.
IN denying these reports Mrs.
Bruper said: The report that Blanche
ever assisted in doing washing is most
ABSURD and absolutely false. She was
a delicate child when young and never
knew what work was outside of her
musical line. Her father was a Pres
b. terian preacher and as everybody
knows preachers are not milliOnaires
and do not have all the luXuries of
life, but at the same time we always
had a comfortable home and Blanche
was never obliged to do a days work
in her life She was a musical genius
and when but Il years of age was
teaching a class of scholars in piano
playing. Like all my children, she
was a good girl and 1 am proud Of
them all. The report that another
family had adopted Blanche and edu-
Gated her is absolutely false. All the
money that has been spent on her
education has been furnished by me-"
Hardly a year and a half has elapsed
since the Davenport girls first ro-
nance came to an end in a secret SEES
sion of court in Judge Fessenden's
chambers in Boston, where, in a dark
ened room, reporters and others ex-
cluded, the judge gave her a divorce
from Arthur w Godfrey, son of Lester
y. Godfrey, Back Bay millionaire and
known as the lumber king of Boston
Infatuntes millionaire.
Miss Bruner studied in the Boston
Conservatory of Music, but it was
through Carl InSraham of Chicago
that she met Godfrey. Miss Bruner
was visiting the Ingrahams in 1904.
They went to Boston to see the inter
collegiate rowing contests. Mr.. Ingra-
ham, being a Harvard alUmnus. it was
the Harvard set" that the party min
gled with principally on this trip.
Miss Bruner and Godfrey. still
student, were together most of the
time and were reported to be engaged
when the Ingrahams and their fair
guest started back west.
Godfrey graduated, appeared sud
denly in Chicago where Miss Bruner
again was a guest of the Ingrahams
in October, 1907 and they were mar
ried, most of the guests at the wed.
ding being Harvard fellows"
Groom's Mother Wrothy.
Mrs. Godfrey was wrathful over the
marriage and induced her husband to
persuade their son to return to his
home. Young Godfrey sued for divorce
Aug. q, 1908, naming Richard Carrie,
The actor, as correspondent. The bride
replied with a suit against her father
jaw asking eSn nnn donnres m an