Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1913 — H. S. ROMANCE TO END IN MARRIAGE [ARTICLE]

H. S. ROMANCE TO END IN MARRIAGE

Will Price, Junior and Football Player, to Wed Pretty Miss Leona Tullis, Freshman.

The bigh school has lost two of its pupils, a girl and a boy, and a marriage sifted to take place next Sunday is to bring to the usual conclusion a high school romance that has made Latin, Greek, German, literature and geometry look mighty foolish and insignificant compared to a cottage built for two. The principals in the love affair are William Price, a junior, a star on the 1912 football team and one of the hopes of the 1913 team, son of John Price, the Parr blacksmith, who resides with his family in Rensselaer, and Miss Leona Tullis, a pretty freshman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Tullis, of Parr, who attended the Rensselaer high school. Will is 19 years old and Leona is 17. Together they went to Parr Tuesday morning to inform her parents, who up to that time were wholly ignorant of the fact that their daughter was, involved in a love affair, that they were so deeply in love that they were going to get married and that parental objections would avail naught. Mr. Tullis liked the grit of his daughter’s suitor and talked the matter over with the young man’s father, who said that he had hoped to keep his son in school but that he realized the futility of the undertaking. He said that Will was already a little older than he had been when he got married and that he thought the boy showed splendid taste in selecting a pretty and sensible girl. The fathers were agreed and the young folks delighted. All the request made was that the marriage be postponed until next Sunday, so that arrangements could be made for it to take place at the Tullis horne. The young folks reluctantly agreed to the seemingly interminable delay. They came here Tuesday evening so that the bride-to-be could get her clothing from the home of Mrs. Mary Peyton, where she has been living during the school year, and together returped to Parr this Wednesday morning. School friends who had thought they were married met them at the train Tuesday to showered them With rice and then organized a belling party for that evening, but the action was a little premature and The Republican is • reliably informed that the marriage Will take place Sunday evening and that for the time being Mr. and Mrs. Will Price will take up their residence with her parents at Parr, where the groom will work as a painter.