Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1896 — A VINEYARD ROMANCE. [ARTICLE]

A VINEYARD ROMANCE.

A Note in a Basket of Grapes Got a Hus--1 band. When the marriage of Miss Agnes Fields, of Sheridan, and Albert A. Pierpont, of Grange Grove, Fla., took place recently at Dunkirk, N. Y., it was the happy ending of a romantic correspondence. The merry grape harvest Chautauqua County is famous all over t Hie country. In the season everybody goes into the vineyards. Miss Fields Is a pretty brunette, the daughter of Myron W. Fields, a well-to-do grape raiser- of Sheridan. At the opening of last fall’s harvest she had been graduated from college and returned home in time to join the merry grape pickers. With several girl companions she was working in her father’s packing house when it was suggested that each of the girls place a note in the last basket packed before the noon hour. The Contents of the note placed in Miss Fields’ was as follows: “To Whom It May Concern: This basket of clustered fruit was packed by Miss Agnes Fields, of Sheridan, N. Y., upon her J graduation from college. Should It foil in the hands of a gentleman, and should he take time to carefully sample the delicious flavor and sweetness of the fruit, he can form some Idea ,of the sweet qualities of the fair maiden who so carefully placed the clusters in this basket” This particular basket fell not upon stony ground, but into the hands of Mr. Pierpont, who Is a wealthy orangegrower of Orange Grove, Fla. He was in Chicago when he bought the basket, and he liked the fruit so well that he thanked Miss Fields by letter. He also probably wrote that he was young, Unmarried and also a college graduate; that he had large possessions In his Florida home, and, incidentally, that he would like to become better acquainted with the fair Agnes. His letter was answered by Miss Fields, and in a month or so a lively correspondence was in progress. It re suited in Mr. Pierpont visiting Miss Fields’ borne last Christmas. The marriage was the result of the visit. Miss Fields is quite well-known in Dunkirk and Fredonia, having attended both the academy and normal school, where she was regarded with esteem and favor. After a tour including New York, Boston and Washington, Mr. Pierpont will take his bride to his Southern home.