The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-12-01

HONESDALE ON THE MAP FOL
ANOTHER YEAR-BUT THEN
YOU KNOW, MAPLE CITY GIRL
ALWAYS TAKE THE CAKE!
There's nothing like love, the rea
kind,
The right kind, when you strik
it."
All the Honesdale girls will wan
to go to Germany now" peril,
spoke up dainty young miss to he
companion at the Union Station
Tuesday evening, where a larg,
crowd had gathered to see tn,
Honesdale bride and Boston groom
the story of whose romantic court
ship and marriage on board the goot
ship pennsylvania, homeward bound
from the Fatherland, had been wiret
from the Atlantic to the Pacific
come to town.
They got off at East Honesdale,' ;
the conductor and brakeman OBJ
lingingly informed the disappointed
spectators, when the pair failed tc
alight from the $3.50 p. m. Erie
train.
Ten minutes later the happy
couple were seen driving up Main
street in cab towards the brides
| residence at 1918 West street. Just
| to make them feel at home, the
County Seat boys between the ages
of nine and ninety, gave them a
'skimmerton,' a little later in the
evening. And it was a dandy, too
The groom came down handsomely
/ however, and everybody went off
smoking for dear life.
To see the Bostonian, Dwight e.
Price, who could not in the aristo-
cratic and select confines of that
cultured city, find a girl to suit him,
and who was smitten by the charms
of returning Honesdale musician,
Miss Sophia Carolyn Helferich, by
name, Citizen man went up to the
Helferich house Wednesday after
noon with view to finding out all
| about it. He was met at the door
by the bride herself.
Would you like to talk to a
newspaperman?" asked the reporter,
cap in hand, and making his best
bow.
Why, yes, certainly. Come right
in" smiled Mrs. Price.
well, you put Honesdale on the
map for another year." suggested
the reporter.
Yes" she answered from the ad-
joining dining-room where she had
gone to join her hubby who was just
finishing late dinner.
Lots of people in New York
didn't know about this place until
we advertised it. Quite an excite
ment in New York." she continued
turning to Mr.. Price for confirma-
tion of \her statement. Wasn't it?"
''It pnrt in lu - ha
replied.
A few minutes later, Mr.. Price
got up from the table and came in
to the parlor, his face suffused
with smiles.
"They held the boat for me at
Hamburg few minutes" he said.
1T was very peculiar the way we
met. | told my father and mother
just before l went abroad in Septem-
Der that l never in the world would
get married They had a girl pick
ed out for me-"
81 am in the automobile manu-
featuring business in Boston, Mass
My parents live at 81 Massachusetts,
Avenue. | am the youngest son.
am vice-president of my company
We organized two companies, the
Rogers Wheel Company of which
am vice-president, and also the Rog-
ers Unika Wheel Company in which
l am a stockholder.
Il went over to the old country,
September 8, to spend two years, on
a pleasure trip. l got a cablegram
to come back
Il met her a day after we got on
shipboard. We met on the twelfth.
We thought we would be rather slow
about becoming engaged, so we
waited until the thirteenth. We
didn t like to rush into it. Love at
first sight, you know that.
She was playing at the piano. l
asked yong man who knew her
for an introduction. He was
Baron, and was cutting quite a dash.
He wouldn't give me an introduc-
tion. Another young man from Cal
ifornia, a manufacturing jeweler, a
Mr.. Dick of Los Angeles, California,
was acquainted with her. l asked
him four or five times for an intro
duction. He always put me of. So
/ said, Here, if you don't introduce
me you are no friend of mine" 1
took her away from the Baron. I
kept her the rest of the trip. He
took 1t pretty bad. He is connected
with one of the most influential
families of Germany.
$50 l told the little girl il it's a
title you're after, you'd better stick
to the Baron but if you want a
good American, let's talk business"
All of which goes to show that
Mr.. Price is typical straightfor-
ward Ameri business man, who
believes in g right after any
thing that's worth getting. He evil
IDENTITY believes in the most shorten
ed form of the old order of Love,
Courtship and Marriage"
so we got down to tacks," he
continued. "You got the incest lit
tie girl on the ship the Baron said
They got us up little party in the
upper cabin and wanted to know If
we were going to get married or
were engaged. She said she would.
A doctor In the party then drew up
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