The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-07-23
WOMAN, IS, ASKS
HEART BALM
OF MAN
Children BaIk Aged Parents in
Effort to Wed after an
ElOpement.

QaIuO DduIluIs uao OSSh AN4'SN
in his more or less continuous efoit
u get married.
This time Rinaldo. wno was only
Sc on his last birthday, June q, and
who had been trying to ct married al
his nfe, was not only foGtd, he was
ANONYMOUSLY Kidnapped, spirited
twLy to the home of hi soa, Gilbert
in Freehold, n. j. Heavens!
1t should be said right here that Mr.
sammis did achieve matrimony once
in his fourscore and six years. But
when he appeared last week before W.
B. Trainer, town clerk of Huntington
leading by the hand the blushing Mrs
Harriet T. Conklin, OF East Main
street, Northport, aged 70, and asked
for a license to wed her, his five chill
dren by his first marriage, rose up
10 protest against its issuance. Their
father, they declared, was much too
old and feeble to take a wife, even
though his choice had fallen upon
Mrs. Conklin, friend Of the family
,or forty years
Still Vow to Wed.
The eloQuence Of the children so i'm
pressed the town clerk that he refused
20 issue the license, and the venera-
BILE elopers went back to Northport I'M
wed, but yowing that no earthly power
should keep them long apart
But alas for the instability Of mas
culine VOWS! Sunday the tickle octo-
gel arian permitted himself TO be taken
to New Jersey by his second son al
Ter bidding a very cold and exceed
ingly nervous farewell to the lady he
had sworn to make his wife.
And a very pretty old lady she was.
too. as she sat in her rose empowered
cottage on East Main street, and told
all about her wrongs by the pertidlous
Rinaldo Sammis.
Old Enough to Know
az never felt so mean in all my life
as | did when Mr.. sammis's children
Jumped out at us in the town hall and
said he was too old and feeble to mar
nv. and didn't know his own mind, any
how. If man isn't old enough to
govern his own actions at Sc, when is
he old enough, I'd like to know? But
there is a little money involved, and
the children are afraid Of losing it. Mr..
Sammis sold a 6O0-acre farm, three
miles out of Northport, and lives on
the money, and they are afraid II ne
gets married they will lose it. lie
boards around with his children, three
sons and two daughters, Richard,
Lawrence and Gilbert Sammis, and
Mrs. Mary Jane Lewis and Mrs. Clara
Hendrickson. Just before Mr.. SAM
miss birthday his son-in-law, Charley
Lewis, raised the price of his board
from IS to 81 week. Mr.. sammis
came around to talk the matter over
with me. He has been coming to see
me ever since his first wife died, eight
years ago. lost my husband, George
Conklin, fourteen years ago,
Aged Mans Proposal.
"I won't pay Charley Lewis a cent
more. Mr.. sammis said to me, bang
ing the floor with his cane. Instead,
ri have home Of my own. Come on
over to Huntington, and we'll get mar
ried today
You're too fast for me, Mr.. Sam
mis-, l said. I've got to take time to
study my own heart and search my
mind before can decide II love
YOU enough to marry you
Take your own time Mr.. Sammts
told me. I'm 86 and you're 10. We
have all the time there is"
Ibid he tell you he loved you?" she
was asked,
"Not in so many words" Mrs.
Couklin replied while faint sugges-
ton of a blush tinted the pale parch-
ment of her cheeks, but his actions
proved it. He was very-well, senti-
mental, | refused him at first, but
he was so persistent finally gave in
And he went to Ben Brown to engage
an automobile to take me over to
Huntington. That was how the chill
dren found out we were going to get
married, because a little while after
we started, Charles Lewis, Mr.. Sam
miss son-in-law, went to Ben Brown
TO get a car to take party to the
beach, and Ben told him his father
in-law had the car and that we had
gone to Huntington to get married,
Son Takes Quick Action.
"Well, Charlie did some pretty quick
work, because he got another auto
mobile and got all the children in ii
and they reached Huntington in time
to prevent our getting the license. We
would have had it in time only that
day the town clerks office was being
used for board Of health meeting to
deal with the infantile paralysis cpl
demic and that caused our delay.
never said word to the children and
they never spoke to me. When the
license was refused we got in our au-
tomobile and came back to my home
That was last Friday.
"Can't you put me up here till after
the wedding?' Mr.. Sammis said to me,
4 don't want to go back to Charley
LewIs's house
There's a spare room and you're
\ welcome to It, l answered. So he
stayed here Friday and Saturday"
Didn't the neighbors TALK" she was
lsked frivolously.
Kept It from the NeighbOrs.
"They didn't know anything about
It." Mrse. Conklin replied. But Satur-
day the children and the lawyer got
hold Of him and until yesterday when
he called with his son, Gilbert, to get
his nYercoat and his arcties and to