Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1912 — LOVE REVIVES AND THEY WED [ARTICLE]

LOVE REVIVES AND THEY WED

Result of Virginian’s Return to His Native Town After an Absence of Forty Years. Cape Charles. and Mrs. Andrew Crother6, a bridal couple, were passengers on. hoard the New York express train from here en route to New York to spend their honeymoon. The bride is sixty-five years old and the bridegroom sixty-seven. The couple were sweethearts during tl<eii youth in their native town, Adamsto a, Vt., and after a quarrel parted. This was forty years ago. Following the quarrel Mr. Crothers left Adamston for the west, became a mine prospector In Nevada and accumulated a fortune. Mrs. -Crothers, who was then Miss Lilli* ton. never, heard from Mr. Crothers (luring the entire forty years. A few 'veeks ago he visited his' home town and was surprised to hear that his sweetheart of early days never had laarried. He called on her, proposed and they wedded.