Arizona republican., 1919-07-08
WELL KNOWN COUPLE QUIETLY MARRY AND
 LEAVE FUR THE COAST

Wallace Button nas lost a hat, C. o. Case, state superintendent of public instruction is minus the most efficient girl secretary he ever had, and the well known young gentleman archer is shy one bolt in his quiver.
 Clifford T. Carpenter and Miss Eliz- abeth E. Pruitt are the principals in the story. MT Carpenter is a we'll known mining man and popular rag time artist and funny man of the Ro- tary club. Miss Pruitt is a graduate of the Tucson high school class of 1917, secretary to Mir Case, and a sister of Corporal John H. Fruit. congressional medal of honor war hero.
 Without taking anyone else in their confidence MT. Carpenter and Miss Pruitt quietly slipped away and were married and are now at the coast while their friends, not even the parents of the bride suspecting any ouch al | liance
 i The couple met a year ago at a picnic and the romance dates from that time. 1 Several days ago a reporter for The Republican heard certain rnmors which 1 I. ; office. At first MT. Carpenter denied that he was married, although admit ting that he planned to be. Upon fur ther questioning however, he told the whole story.
 June 30, it appeared, the day before Miss Pruitt was to leave on her vaca- tion, he and Miss Pruitt slipped quietly away on the morning train for Flor ence where they were married by Judge Baughn, a personal friend of MT Carpenter. Having exacted a promise from the Judge to suppress the issues of the license for a few days, they re- turned that afternoon to Phoenix, the
 bride returning to her home in Al hambra and the groom setting to work at once to arrange his business af-
 fairs for 30 days absence on a honey moon
 Brother Rotarians were suspicious,
 however. Wallace Button had once bel
 a hat that he would be married before
 Mir Carpenter should be. and at the
 watermelon festival given for the club
 members at John F. Barker's home last
 Thursday night, Mr Button, on sus- picion, gravely presented MT. Carpenter with a W-crowned derby in token
 of defeat. The rest of the club ap-
 plauded vigorously and crowded , around to offer congratulations and ii was only after most strenuous sort ot , denial and eXpostulation that the re- cent deserter from the ranks of single blesscdness was able to falsify himself to a position of safety so he states. The following day the young married . couple continued preparations for de- p parture, the rousseau, smuggled bit by
 bit from Alnambra was hidden away
 in drawers, filing cabinets and othel out of the way corners in MT. Carpent- CTS office until yesterday nlorninE i when MT and Mrs. Carpenter left fo . Los Angeles and the beach resort V where they will spend their honeymoon
 That the marriage was complet
 surprise to the parents of the brid was evidenced last night when tn
 father, G. B. Fruit when called on tn telephone, insisted that there wa | nothing in the report of the wedding T T His daughter had left last Friday oi U merely a picnic outing to Moron Fla . he said
 . But very likely there will be letter |. and telegrams flying between the coas I and Phoenix possibly today when thi 't story gets thoroughly out.