Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 200, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1912 — Kept Their Marriage a Secret Until Last Week. [ARTICLE]

Kept Their Marriage a Secret Until Last Week.

The people of Gifford and adjacent towns were surprised last Thursday to learn of the marriage of Miss Opal Russell to Mr. H. Frank McOallister, of Tell City, Ind. They were acquainted before Miss Russell came to Gifford and meeting again in the university of Valparaiso, the acquaintance ripened into love and <the marriage followed. They informed their friends at Valparaiso that they were going to spend a day in Chesterton with friends. They went from Chesterton to Porter and from there to St. Joseph, secured a license and were married by Rev. Hoag, of the M. E. church. Returning to Valparaiso that afternoon, they went to their respective rooming places and during thfe rest of the term attended classes as usual. At- the end of the school year Mrs. McCallister came home and was followed a few days’ later by her husband, and upon his arrival the announcement was made. The evening following several young people in and around Gifford turned out in force and serenaded them with guns, tin pans, etc. Mr. McCallister was recently elected president of a commercial college in Mexico, Missouri, and goes to that place to assume his duties. His wife will remain with her parents for a short while and will join her husband at their southern home. For the past two years he has been teaching commercial work in the Valparaiso university and is well fitted to hold his new position.