Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-08-25
EIopement Takes Place While
Florida and Georgia Men
Wait for the Girl Who Never
Appeared

While a University Of Florida man
chung to the curbstone at Five Points
WEDNESDAYS afternoon nervously con-
shifting watch, and while University
of Georgia baseball star and the aunt OF
the young lady waited at the Termlnal
station. anxiously watching the hanus
of the big station clock, Miss Margaret
Fields. one of the prettiest ana most
popular members of the 1915 graouaI-
ing class at Agnes Scott college, was
nIoning with Iupton A. Wilkinson.
president of the Dramatic club at
Auburn. -,
II was an elopement. and it was skill
fully planned and ingeniously executed.
In the Walton building, in the offices OF
the Frontier Press company, MISS
Fields became the bride of Mr.. Wlikln-
son. Rev. A. T. Spalding performing the
ceremony. Several of the bride college
friends were present, and Immediately
after the wedding the young couple
climbed into big red car and sped to-
ward Inman Park.
Too many people wanted Miss Fields.
While she was packing three suit cases
in her home at 100 Lucille avenue be-
tween $3.50 and o'clock Wednesday
afternoon she was feeling sorry for the
man she'd promised TO meet at Five
Points, and for her aunt Miss Moliie
Phillips, who was waiting at the Ter
ninal with a ticket for McDonough, Ga,
where a house party was being planned
in honor of the popular Agnes Scott
girl.
O'CLOCK-GOOD-BY
At exactly o'clock the big. red car
drove up to 100 Lucille avenue. Miss
Fields babe the people at home hur-
ried goodbye and drove off-but not to
the Terminal station.
The chauffeur of the machine, under
the direction of Miss Fields, stopped in
front of the Walton building, and she
rushed up to Room 303, and in five min
utes was married to the president of the
Auburn Dramatic club.
At o'clock there were several per-
sons still waiting. Miss Phillips and
the Georgia man in whose care she in
tended entrusting her niece were per-
picked, and at Five Points a Florida
man was wondering just what was the
matter, but was still consulting his
watch and clinging to the curbstone, ex-
pectant, hopeful.
He had expressed a desire to take
Mrs. Phillips niece with him to Florl-
da, and Miss Fields had promised We'd
nesday morning to meet him Wednes-
day afternoon and give him his answer
But before nightfall some one told the
FlOrididn that there wash any use
waiting, and some one also made this
clear to the aunt and the favored youth
who had grown weary watching the
movements of the hands of the Ter
minal timepiece.
SHE COULDN'T HELP IT.
81 couldn't help it," declared the bride
at the conclusion of the ceremony. 1
didn't want to be unkind to Aunt Mollie,
and I didn't want to be cruel to two
boys who wanted me, and 1 didn't want
to miss the house party at McDonough,
but 1 loved Lupton-thats all there is
to it,"
1--WE are young and we were willing
to wait a while" said Mr.. Wilkinson,
"but they were pressing us too hard,
and I'm afraid if Margaret got to Nc
Donough she would have never come
back, and this fall she would have been
watching with interest the progress of
the Georgia football team"
The romance between the Agnes
Scott giIl and the Auburn boy began
when young Mr.. Wilkinson saw Miss
Fields in a play at Agnes Scott. They
have been thinking of getting married
for months and started to the ASnA aS a.