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GOES 10,000 MILES TO WED HER LOVERColumbia CttyGiri Left for Korean Gold Mine* to Marry Minerm m¥Sweetheart., Columbia City, Ind., Sept 10.—MIsb9 •yjola Bowlby, a young woman, who grew to womanhood at. Etna, and Is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Bowlby, of this city, left Friday evening on a 10,000 mile trip to Korea, where the romance of childhood will be consummated when she weds Fred Bennett a sweeheart of days upon the farm.The young man has bben in the employ of the Oriental Gold Mining company, of which L. S. J. Hunt is the originator, and left here two years ago. In that time he has amassed money enough to support an American bride in the style that pertains to ladies of this country, and his brave little bride-to-be 'has left on the journey that will end in wedding bells.She has been a seamstress at the home of Mrs. George Hoos for a 5rear and had expected to leave with Oscar T. Schinbeckler and wife, of Jefferson township, but the illness of Mrs. Schtn-beckler prevented their departure at th4 time selected.Miss Bowlby expecta to sail from San Francisco September 14, and will arrive in Yokahama in thirty or forty days. She has every confidence that she will make the trip safely and has the best wishes of a large circle of fniends for a safe voyage, and congratulations for the joyous event for which she is making a trip half way across the world.Besides Mr. Schinbeckler, who came to Whitley county for an American wife, Joe Dower, Fred Deal, J. N. Fletcher and A. E. Deardorf also “came back,” and returned to the Orient with a partner for life. Mies Bowlby will have the unique experience of being the only one to make the trip to the mines for the man She loves.
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Sentinel Fort Wayne Weekly
Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
Wed, Sep 14, 1910
Page 15
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