Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1910 — Loves, Pickles and Crackers Not Accepted as Railroad Fare. [ARTICLE]

Loves, Pickles and Crackers Not Accepted as Railroad Fare.

With a box of crackers and a bag of pickles, Melvin Kaylor and Ruth Qettys, and Henry Burlace and Alice Bauer, all seventeen years/old, eloped from Ft. Wayne to Hammond Tuesday night to get married. They spent the night in the Hammond police station. Neither of the yohng men had a cent. They got oft the train here on their way to “Chicago, where they were to become actors and actresses, because they had nothing but pickles and crackers to take them to Chicago, and th» conductor refused to take either one for fare in lieu of money. They were sent back to Fort Wayne, where their parents have promised to spank them.