Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-09-23
AIR Of COLLEGE
TOWN CHARGED
WITH ROMANCE
OXFORD SEEMS TO EXERT \
STRONG INFLUENCE IS BE-
HALF OF DAN CCPID-TOWN s
HISTORY READS LIKE DIME
NOVEL.

Emory College, oxford, Georgia, Sep
TENDER 20, 1913. SpeciaD.-Oxford,
Georgia, makes no pretense to being
city; but it ic known far and wide As
the seat of Emory College. Not salts
fed with this distinction, the village IS
becoming unique in romance in which
some Of her young people figure. Some
thing more than a year ago Miss Edna
Ousland, of Boca Grande, Florida, and
Mr.. Bonnell Stone, of Oxford, were
! married in Atlanta. Mr.. Stone re-
turned to the University of Georgia to
finish his course in forestry and Mrs.
Stone returned to her home in Florida.
1t seems that the couple had planned to
keep the matter secret until COM
mencement as surprise to their
friends. but the secret was out in less
than a week. Mr.. and Mrs. Stone are
now living happily in Blairsyille, Ga.
Less than a month ago Miss Sarah
Thomas and Mr.. Brooks Kitchens, both
of oxford. were married in Atlanta. AT
ter the ceremony the couple returned
to oxford. and no one but the immedi-
ate families of the two young people
knew of the marriage until two weeks
afterward. Mr.. and Mrs. Kitchens are
now pleasantly domiciled in the g. w.
w. Stone residence on Branham
Heights.
The latest romance, in which Oxford
figures only indirectly, reads like
chapter from a thirtieth century nov
elf they will still be having novels
in that distant day. Last winter there
resided in oxford Mrs, Geo. R. Loehr,
her daughters, Misses Marie and Lou
Use, and her son, George. Another son,
Allen. named for his grandfather,
Young ]. Allen the great Georgia mis-
sionary to China, was teacher of lang
uages in the University school at
Stone Mountain. Mr. Allen Loehr is
now studying law in Atlanta.
Last June Mrs. Loehr, Miss Louise
and George went to Italy for the sum-
mer. Miss Marie had left Oxford some
time before and was at that time visit
ing Madam Sylvia d'Amore in Buenos
Aires.
The other day George landed in New
York, direct from the shores of the Ad-
Ratio where he had spent the summer
en- route to oxford. Georgia, for his
senior year in college. When he g0J
! off the steamship in New York. be
thought his sister, Marie, was still ic
8uenos Ayres. Imagine his surprise
on finding her there waiting for him
! and his greater surprise on being in
J Introduced to her husband, Eric Tarran'
Davis, OF Fort Worth, Texas,
Mr., Davis is engaged as civil en-
gineer on the Pan American railway II
Uruguay and he and Miss Marie Loeb
CHANGED to be on the same steamship
bound for New York. The fourth day
off the South American coast the two
met for the first time. The twelfth d@l
after the meeting the ship put into ha"'
\ Dor at Barbados. British West Indies
and the couple was married at Sain
MichaeTs Cathedral, August 25th.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. Davis are now in For
Worth, Texas. for a few weeks, after
which Mr.. Davis will return to urugua'
to resume his work, and will there be
Joined by Mrs. Davis, after she has
visited her mother and sister in Flor
ence. Italy, and her father in Su Chow
China.
The Loehrs are we'll known in Geor
gia. During the last twelve months
= they were frequent visitors to friends
in Atlanta, Augusta and other Cieorgi,
cities.