The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-20
YOUNG COUPLE FORGOT
TO GET FATHERS CONSENT
Wire and Telephone Are Called
On to Aid Wedding Ar.
rRnYemcnts.
BRIDE IS ONLY II YEARS OLD
W. NJ. Riddick and Miss Annie
Laurie Owen, OF Richmond, Arc
Married In Washington After Few
Hours Delay In Securing License.

The course OF true love as travelled
by William NJ Riddici. twenty-five
years old, a business man Of Rich
mond. and Miss Annie Laurie Owen.
seventeen, also Of this city. WAX
smooth enough until they went TO
Washington Saturday morning to get
married. and then they ran into big
lunches Of the most persistent kind
of trouble.
When they decided 10 visit the capt.
tai city on saturday ana surprise every
body at homo coming back as newly
"eds. they were just Il trinc forgctful.
as lovers 80 frequently are. and failed
10 take forcthought as 10 tho brides
tender years. and Il probable requisite
IN the way OF parental consent. And
1T was Just in that happy, thoughtlcss.
carc-frc" mood that they marched into
the Washington city Hail about
O'Clock in tho morning and announced
that they desired "a marriage license
The little bride was 90 pretty that
everybody stared. She Is "a brunette.
with soft. velvoty complexion and
red. poutinG lips \ man ia the Of
ice remarked that when he looked at
her big. melting brown eyes no
could almost hear hooking birds sing
. ing. Tho same man was willing to
wager his weeks pay that she WAS
from The South Miss owen wore
dack blue. uodish travelling suit. and
(, wasn't difficult To see that sh,
wasn't thinking Of anything much be.
yond the we'll -Ect-up. bluc-cycd young
man with her.
AGE OF THE bride Is
CAUSE OF DELAY
And then Marriage License Clerk
Knoll asked her age
I'm seventeen" was the timid re-
ply.
Clerk Knoll looked sad, for he hated
to disappoint her.
I'm very sorry" he said, but /
can't issue "A license unless YOU GO,
your fathers consent"
Crash" went th,ir hopes. The girl
b't her lips. ana H. young man shift
ed nervously.
Clerk Knoll saw tina, they were sin.
ccrc ana were not trying to practice
the least deception, SO he advised them
all he could and they went out 10 Try
TO get in touch with the brides father
II VAS trouble after trouble Young
Riddick tclcSrapited. ana then Miss
owen ,elegraphcd. but II seemed that
no one was AT home in Richmond
| They returned to City Hall few
minutes after o'clock In the afternoon
and explained TO Clerk kroll that they
had telegraph ed. and that tho answer
would certainly come and everything
would be all right but the marriage
license clerk cannot Issue licenses un-
less the law is complied with, and once
'io'' ~ !!'tb 10 Si!d hc ms uGdu.
CONSENT COMES
BY TELEGRAPH AT LAST
BY that time several men had gath
I cred around the marriage license desk,
all deeply interested in the young
couples dilemma. Some one suggest-
/ ed that they hurry TO Rockville Md
where the bride has 10 be only sixteen.
but Miss owen objected. she said her
brother had been married last year IN
Washington by Rev. ". l. AlcKcnncy,
aud she wanted be married by III.
same minister.
Then Mr.. I;iddick went out and tiled
10 get In long distance telephone com.
municat!on with Miss Owens father
in Richmond. After n wait Of nearly
half an hour II was learned that a tele-
gram bearing parental consent to the
marriage of Miss owen was on the
way. They hastened joyfully back
~ith the information. and Clerk kroll
agreed TO return at . o'clock and Issue
the license.
In the meantime, they had arranged
With Rev. Mr.. Mckinney. Of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church. and from the
City Hall they went to his home at 4I2
Tenth Street, Southwest. where the
ceremony was performed