The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-07-07
TO ONE
WEDS ANOTHER
Miss Helen WiISey, School
Teacher, ElopeS with
Scott RutIedge
DASH AWAY IN MACHINE WHILE
RIVAL FOLLOWS IN CAR
RIAGE.

With dust binding his eyes from
the automobile bearing away from
him the idol of his eye, Clarence
Fortman, a prosperous young farm
er, Tyler Hill, followed for several
miles over rough Wayne county
roads, rocks and thank-you-marms,
the machine that contained Miss
Helen M. Wilsey, a bright-eyed
school teacher, and Scott l.. Rut-
ledge, her suitor.
The chase was exciting and only
Fortman knew what it meant to him,
for the pretty young damsel had
four years ago promised him that she
would some day be his helpmate
through life and now the thought of
that opportunity was slipping fast
from him as the auto rolled over the
roads and took from view the, face
of his supposed intended. Catching
glimpses of her as the machine
wound in and out over the hills of
the turnpike Fortman talked to his
faithful horse and encouraged him
on. Little by little the machine
gained on him and then they disap-
peared from view.
The elopers came to Honesdale,
obtained their marriage certificate
from Prothonotary Hanlan and then
continued their journey, passing
through Honesdale and sped on to
Aldenville. AS no one appeared and
answered to the question, Does any
person present object to this wom-
an becoming the wife of this man,
and If there be one let him now speak
or forever afterwards hold his peace,
or words to that effect the nuptiaI
knot was tied.
Fortman came to Honesdale and
here lost track of them. But that
did not prevent him thinking of his
chosen one and what only a short
time ago she did toward making
their proposed home at Tyler Hill
beautiful; how she journeyed with
him one day to help select the fur
niture with which his newly-remod-
eled home would soon be furnished
and how only few days before her
elopment she helped clean the home
for their proposed occupancy; how
now all was blasted and his sweet
heart-to-have-been was the wife of
another. With bowed head he re-
turned home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Scott l.. Rutledge
are now living at the home of the
bridegroom father, in West Da-
mascus. 1t was here that Mrs.
Rutledge, formerly Miss Wilsey,
boarded last year when she taught
the district school and at the Rut-
ledge Dan Cupid struck her heart
with his dart. Miss Wilsey went to
Bloomsbury to take a course in the
normal school and from there let
ters were sent to Rutledge and also
to Fortman. She had written Fort
man to meet her in Honesdale one
day, and then sent letter to Rut-
ledge to meet her two days earlier.
She arrived on schedule for Rut-
ledge, but when Fortman came with
his turnout, behold the train arrived,
but no sweetheart. Mr.. Fortman
Immediately called up Mrs. Wilsey,
the girls mother, at Tyler Hill, and
told her that he had searched the
town over but had not heard or seen
anything of her daughter. He then
returned to his home at Tyler Hill.
1t appears that the bride-to-be and
suitor went home by the way of
Boyds Mills, different route than is
usually travelled, staying that night
at the Rutledge home, where she had
boarded for year while teaching
school. The next day they came to
Honesdale and secured their mar
riage license.
The manner in which Miss Wilsey
came to board at the Rutledge farm
home, seemed to be the leading of
Dan Cupid, although blind at that
time. 1t appears that Miss Wilsey
had engaged board at another farm
house, but owing to members of the
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disease, she was recommended to the
Rutledge home, which she after
wards found to be very congenial
The brides marriage was a COM
plete surprise to her many Tyler Hill
and other county friends.