Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1917 — ELOPING PAIR ARE WED DEEP IN WAVING CORN [ARTICLE]

ELOPING PAIR ARE WED DEEP IN WAVING CORN

Doctor Outwits Farmer's Wife in Ra«* to Win Brld* -All End* 1 Happily. Wilmington, Del. —Maud Muller on a summer day never looked lovelier than Margaret Beattie, a farmer’s daughter of Hockessin, when she stood a bride in the middle of a waving cornfield. The bridegroom was Dr. Alvin Rupert, of New Rochelle, N. Y. It was a runaway match—so much so that the bride played her stately part in the fetching simplicity of a stlnbonnet and a gingham frock. -—■A difference in religious beliefs hid caused her parents, Mr. and Mrs, Samvel Beattie, of "Fernside," to forbid her marriage to Dr. Rupert, as the young people had arranged. But the enamored doctor was not to be denied. Accompanied by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Rupert, he established quarters on a neighboring Ism, that of William Crossan. Communication had been so.-bidden, Lut the sighing pair discovered « hollow tree of the type traditiona'ly favored by Cupid as a lover's pustofoce ard thus in scribbled words they exchanged their hopes and plans. Dr. Rupert came to Wilmington, procured a marriage license and a clergyman and motored with them sack to Hockessin. Margaret Beattie met them at a turn in the road, having slipped away from her father's farm in her everyday clothes. Fearful of pursuit, the ty hastily penetrated the shelte 41 expause of a cornfield. It wai as much as the minister could do, however, to get through th* service quickly enough to outs peed the bride's vigilant mamma, who had followed Margaret and Arrived breathless just after the ring had- bebn slipped on her finger. Faced with the iuevltable, the Beatties decided to forgive their daughter and her Lochinvar, and the happy pair went South for their honeymoon.