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rtb« afifttiiitojb .. Mefitedil'. #beJMItbtten himself Info * eriotf* ttotttite; ’• tlMm* he hag beep pftyio'i ttteotio^i foiMtne tltoe pnit to a young Ifid^ cftcbad S'lilbe who |lives eotne in trtilee bortli lt;■ Henderfcoa. These attentions, so the young lady asserts, became so pronoun bed that they finally culminated as theygenerally have a habit of of doing, ifa aproposal of marriage. This proposition *as agreeable to Phyllis and she told Oorydon she was his. Miss Frame bad evidently beeu reading Herrick’s poetry and was just in the right frame of mind to be susceptible to the tender sentiment expressed by that delightful old bard in tbe following lines:“Maids be not coy bat ose yoor time And while ye may, go marry;For when yon one© have lost yoor prime,Yon may forever tarry,”Had they immediately gone and gotten married as the, poet and good sense suggested, all would have been well. Instead of that however according to the young lady, they committed the fatal mistake of going ahead and enjoying all the privileges pertaining to the marital relation, without assuming the responsibilities incident thereto. .The usual re-9 I • rsalt of this course of conduct followed:9 *the you^ng lady soon found herself in serious trouble which could only be remedied by a marriage ceremony. This remedy young HouSer seemed averse to apply, Instead, be came down to Glen-wood, Sunday evening, to see Hon. Ir, T. Genuug' hia attorney to see if he could not get out of tbe scrape in some way, He was advised to skip, over into Nebraska and was just taking tbe early westbound train Monday morning for the West when Sheriff Morgan stopped him with a warrant for hia arrest. He was taken over to the. jail and later on in the day the constable from Carson came down aud took him up to Pottawattamie county. The joke tho is on Jno, W. Evans. He is an uno e of young Houser’s and had driven the latter down to Glen-wood. Sunday night while waiting around town he encountered Marshal McMillen and told him the whole story, Tbe latter didn’t do ^ thing but tell Sheriff1 Morgan and he did the rest tbe next morning as has already been related.
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Mills County Tribune
Glenwood, Iowa, US
Thu, Sep 13, 1900
Page 8
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KS, USA 23 Apr 2020
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