Weekly journal-miner., 1912-11-27
HAPPY ENDING OF
 THORNY COURTSHIp
(Fsom wsdnssday's pailvA

That Hove laughs at loeksmi,hs" was exemplifed yesterday, when fascinating and vivacious Miss Chloe Miller was welded to Billy" Heath by Judge Chas II. McLane. under the most romantic circumstances that have been known in Cupid's annals in this section.
 The principals to this event, in short, have had a thorny road to travel to reach the hymeneai goal of bliss, and all because the bride was just out of range of the legal requirement. in age, while the groom was a day or SO late in clipping off the legal race of attaining twenty one years.
 In a neatly laid plan 10 get into the moose of the matrimonial iaria,, MT. Heath went to Phoenix during fair week to see the sights cutting across the country on his range horse. just for the fun of the thing. presumably, but in fact to distract attention as to his movements. In a short time he was joined in the capital city by Miss Miller of Pine, some distance from the home of the groom in the Verde Valley. Stealth. fly sizing up the judicial complexion of that burg, they made a rapid en- try into the clerk of the superior courts office and requested a mar riage license. The blushing young maiden tipped the game of. by hcsi- tating when her age was demanded, and let the cat out of the bag. As misery likes company. SO did the groom fall down. on the same firing line, and both dejectcd lovers lef, the building ehagrincd at their fail ure, but determined to win out ai any cost The gliitering attractions of the fair appealed to them like a last years birdnest with the bottom gone. and they took the first train out for dear old Prescott with the fire of love burning at frcnzicd temperature. At this stage of the game the tender age of the bride was tipped of, and the second de feat met them. The father of the grooom. also was reluctant to give his consent. and in this complex mixup, the couple sought shelter under the patcrnal roof. Finally the bride returned to the soft shadows of her home under the rim rock of the Mogollon mountains. and the groom was about ready ,o punch" his cattle on the pla,cu above on the range.
 The climax came when the mother of the bride weakened. as they all ways do on stubborn pinch. and to throw little of the silvery color ing on the horizon. the father Of inc groom also relentcd. The groom in short. rounded up" the old folks and the pretty tying of the diamond hitch. which the new brand burned in good and deep crystalizcd the happy union of two of the finest young couple in the country.
 The bride is a native of Pine. and her seventeen summers spent in the attractive environment of that rural country, is reflected m a prepossess- ing personality and disposition which has won her many friends and scores of admirers Mir. Heath is also splendid young fellow. and to provide for his faithful and affec. tionatc partner through all the years to follow. his large herd of range cattle can be draw upon to fill any financial requirement necessary. The wedding was attended by many people of the Verde Valley who were in the city. and there was re- joicing all around that happy mar riage had been cemcnted. and that all would be well when they re- turned home to start on their jour