Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 162, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1912 — SPURNING DARE; SHE WEDS [ARTICLE]

SPURNING DARE; SHE WEDS

Girl Is Won by a Youth Who Collected Her Fare—Leave Ball and Get Knot Tied. Winsted, Conn. —On a dare, her friends say, Miss May Emma Corbat, who lives with, her widowed mother on South Main street, became the bride of Jesse T. Rose of Torrington at midnight recently. Both are In the early twenties and popular in their respective towns. On attaining his majority recently Mr. Rose came Into possession of about $50,000, left him by his grandfather. He owns two automobiles. Before he was twenty-one he worked as a conductor on the trolley line between Torrington and Winsted, and often collected fares from Miss Corbat. ‘ Miss COrbat went to Torrington the other evening and with Mr. Rose attended toe annual ball of Company M, Second regiment, C. N. G., In toe armory. In an intermission Dan Cupid prompted Mr. Rose to pop the question. Daring her, as friends assert, to go and get married, Miss Corbat, not to be dared, left toe armory with Mr. Rose. Rev. Albert Todd, pastor of Calvary Baptist church, was routed out of bed at midnight and he tied the knot,, after which Mr. and Mrs. Rose returned to the dance.