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Eloped There have beenWith His numerous oases onfIotlier»lii*Law record of men having several wives, undivorced, at the same time, and likewise, of men deserting their wives to run away with some other fellow’s wife, but it has remainded for Cass county to produce the man, or rather the boy, who deserted his wife to elope with his mother-in-law, who is mother of nine children. Mother-in-laws are generally considered, at least by the comic papers, as the most dreadful and to be dreaded accessories to marriage, and the one subject about which all married men are silent, but here comes a Cass county youth who throws all these libels in the teeth of their originators and shows his faith in mother-in laws by eloping with his.It will be remembered by the readers of the Teleqrafh that about the first of last December, John Gochanour, a well known farmer living near High land'church, north of Anita, was in this city on the lookout for his son Earl, who, he claimed, was coming hei e to join a Mrs, Taylor and accompany her to Colorado, where he would marry her 16 year old daughter. He found the woman and the daughter, but the boy did not appear, The woman bought two tickets for Fort Collins, Colo, and she and the girl departed. Mr. Gocka-nour returned home without his son,A day or two afterwards the Anita correspondent of this paper chronicled the fact that the youth had escaped the vigilant eyes of his parents and had de parted for the west on the trail of his youthful love. He found her and married her and what followed, is graphically told in the following special to the Omaha World Herald;Denver, Colo., March 7.—Mrs. Earl Gochanour, a mere girl, is here deserted by her husband, who has eloped with the girl’s mother. Mrs. Mary Taylor and her three daughters, aged respectively 16, IS and S years old and Earl Gochanour came here from Iowa in December last. Mrs. Taylor’s husband remained in low a to settle up some business.Soon after arriving here her eldest
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Atlantic Semi Weekly Telegraph
Atlantic, Iowa, US
Tue, Mar 13, 1900
Page 4
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Priscilla G.
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