Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 282, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1913 — MARRIAGE SECRET FROM NEAR FRIEND [ARTICLE]

MARRIAGE SECRET FROM NEAR FRIEND

O. A. Yeoman Married Last Week and Kept It Secret Until Everett Brown is Also Wed. Two marriages of very close friends, one occurring Monday of last week and the other this Tuesday morning, will cause interest to the mutual friends of the grooms in this city. Last Monday O. A. Yeoman, of this city, and Miss Frances Petty, of Chicago, were married at 2:30 o’clock at the Presbyterian parsonage at Valparaiso. Mr. Yeoman desired that the wedding be kept a secretjintil-this Tuesday morning In order to surprise Everett Brown, of this city, and iMiss Emma Beilfuss, of Chicago, whose marriage they attended. It is probable that the surprise was complete, as Mr. Brown had no inkling of the fact that Mr. Yeoman and wife, who accompanied him to Chicago Monday afternoon, had been married a week agot Both were very close friends and each knew of the enof the pthers, and after Mr. Yeoman and Miss Petty received an invitation to attend the Beil-fuss-Brown wedding they decided to surprise their friends by getting married first. Accordingly they Vent to Valparaiso, that being the city in which Mr, Yeoman’s daughter, Miss Ora, resides. She was informed of their marriage, as also was his mother and sister in Rensselaer. • All are to be present at the Beilfuss home in Chicago this evening, when a reception is to be tendered Miss BeHfuss is the daughter of Mrs. Albert C. Beilfuss and resides at 6913 Union avenue, Chicago, where the marriage to Mr. Everett Brown occurred this Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock. Mr. and Mrs. Brown will remain in Chicago until Thursday and then return to Jasper county to take up their residence on the Brown farm near Pleasant Grove. On Friday evening at their home a reception will be given them by the groom’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Brown. Invitations to this have been sent to many friends in Rensselaer. Mr. and Mrs. Cljnton O. Brown and Mrs. M. L. Spitler went to Chicago this morning to attend the reception given Everett Brown and his bride tonight.