Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 169, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1911 — HAPPENINGS IN INDIANA [ARTICLE]

HAPPENINGS IN INDIANA

FATHER GIVES BLESSING TO STUDENT NEWLYWEDS. Kentnckian Says He Wanted to See * Daughter's Husband Before Ceremony Took Place.

Bloomington, Ind., July 18—After granting parental forgiveness to his daughter and new son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Johnson, Indiana University summer school students, who were married here at a late hour last night, after encountering many embarrassing difficulties, William Mcßea, a business man of Mayfield, Ky., returned to his home this evening. —• Mfßea arrived in the city Intending to stop the wedding, but before reaching here learned that it had taken place. Police Chief Hensley met McRea at the station and drove him to the rooming house of the bride. McRea said: “I was not intending to raise trouble, but would like to have seen the young man before my daughter married him. I wish she had waited and married at our home.” Mr. and Mrs. Johnson annuonced to friends that they will remain here until the summer term is over, after which they will visit the girl’s home in Kentucky. They were married at the Phi Psi chapter house by Justice Simpson Robertson.

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