Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1913 — CUPID CROSSES CRACK RIDER [ARTICLE]

CUPID CROSSES CRACK RIDER

Miss Griffon of Washington Refuses to Become Bride of Corporal Heffelflnger. j Washington, D. C.—Corporal J. P. Heffelflnger, crack rider of the Fifteenth United States cavalry, did not dream that while he was winning honors and blue ribbons at the recent military horse show he was riding out of the affections of his fiancee, Miss Emma V. Griffen of this city. Post society at Fort Myer had been looking forward to the wedding as a culmination of a pretty romance, begun more than two years ago in San Francisco. The fact that the army’s crack horseman had come a cropper In his riding for the matrimonial hurdle became known when the license that had been issued for the wedding was returned to the city hall with the foP lowing inscription In Miss Griffen’* handwriting: “Did not nse this, as f have a reason.” Corporal Heffelflnger could not be found at the army post and relatives of the young woman denied all callers. Miss Griffen was said to have left Hie city.