Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1911 — COULDN’T KEEP MARRIAGE A SECRET ANY LONGER. [ARTICLE]

COULDN’T KEEP MARRIAGE A SECRET ANY LONGER.

Pnrdue Student Brings Bride of Two Months Home to Receive Blessings From His Mother. It happened on June 12th. The place is supposed to have been Lafayette. > The girls were two pretty sisters. This story, however, does not stop with “the time, the place and the girl.” There is another chapter, and a mighty important one. There were two Purdue students and a preacher and a determination to keep the steps they were taking a secret for a couple of years, during time the boys could complete their education. Only once in awhile can secrets of such importance be guarded for so long a time and the watchful mothers of the girls soon obtained a confession from them. The local Interest in the marriage is caused by the fact that one of the principals was James Jordan, son of Mrs. W. N. Jordan, of Barkley township, and a member of the 1909 graduating class of the Rensselaer high school. The other Purdue student was a chum of Jim’s from Dayton, Ohio, named Edward Frane, and the brides were respectively Martha and Eva Bender. Jim went to Lafayette some ten days ago, after spending the summer working on his mother’s farm, and it was decided to take his mother and family in on the secret So Jim came home and broke the news and Saturday his bride came here and was met by Jim and his mother and the maternal blessing was given. She will remain with her husband at the Jordan home until the fall term of the university, when they will return there, and he will enter the Junior year in the mechanical engineering department. Jim is one of our best boys, and his wife is a pretty little miss, and the surprise is that Jim would ever think for a moment of keeping secret his marriage to her. It looks like he would have been so happy that he would have wanted is known every place he went Much joy is the wish of his many friends in this county.- 1 Robert Buckell, of Oxford, England, will arrive in Terre Haute this week to visit friends of the days when he was a member of the Terre Haute city council and a leader in church and other affairs. Since then he has been lord mayor of his native city of Oxford and has been knighted.