Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1912 — KEPT WEDDING SECRET SINCE FIRST OF JULY. [ARTICLE]

KEPT WEDDING SECRET SINCE FIRST OF JULY.

Miss True George and Hurley Beam Were Married on That Date by Minister at Wheaton, 111. Late yesterday afternoon somebody let the cat out of the bag and the belated news quickly spread over town of the marriage of Mr. Hurjey Beam and Miss True George. The city of St. Joe, the Gretna Green of Michigan, does not enter into the story at all as this marriage surprise was the culmination of several years of courtship. On the first day of July, 1911, Miss George went to Chicago to “vipit friends” and was met by Hurley. They proceeded forthwith to Wheaton, HL, where Hurley procured the marriage licence and they were married by Rev. Robert Sheppard, at the Presbyterian manse. Miss George, or rather, Mrs. Beam, returned home on the 4th of July, but took nobody but the George and the Beam families into her confidence. True has been a trusted employe of the Jasper Trust & Savings Bank for a number of years and her industry and genial disposition has given her a wide popularity among her employers. Hurley is a clerk in the billing department of the Monon freight Office at Chicago and has had two promotions since he started to work there, last June. He is a very capable young man and a born leader among his associates. Mr. and Mrs. Beam have made no definite plans as to their future home as the secret came out so unexpectedly, but The Republican takes voice With jheir many friends in wishing them a happy and prosperous married life. *