Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1912 — TRAVELS FAR FOR HIS BRIDE [ARTICLE]

TRAVELS FAR FOR HIS BRIDE

Nine Thousand Miles Somewhat of a Journey, but Not Too Long for Norton Johnson. Los Angeles.—Coming 9,000 miles' to claim his bride, Norton Johnson arrived in Los Angeles. He reached San Francisco on the steamer Tahiti from New Zealand, and. was met by his fiancee, Miss Helen Wells, and her father, Arthur G. Wells, general manager of the Santa Fe, who had journeyed north in their private car for that purpose. Mr. Johnson, who is a geological expert, is general superintendent of the Consolidated Goldfields of New Zealand, and after the wedding ceremony took his bride for a wedding trip* through the east, and will sail the first of May for their future home in New Zealand. Mr. Johnson is the son of Mr. and Mrs. George Johnson of Binghamton, N. Y. Miss Wells was graduated from the Marlborough and afterward attended Wells college.