Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 206, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1917 — HUNTS FOR MAN SHE LOVES [ARTICLE]

HUNTS FOR MAN SHE LOVES

North Dakota Girl Travels From City to City Till Success Crowns Efforts. Eugene, Ore. —Mary Dorothy Ford, eighteen years old, following the death and burial of her parents at Dickinson, North Dakota, set out three months agp to find ■Granville E. Wetzell, twenty, from whom she had been separated for several years. Her general knowledge was that he was in either California, Washington or Oregon. She traveled to the Pacific coast and from city to city, paying her expenses by working as a waitress. Miss Ford came to Eugene recently and scanned ’the faces In the crowd assembled to celebrate Independence day here and found Wetzell, who had been making his home with his father, W. G. Wetzell, on a farm near this city. Wetzell and the girl first became friends when both were residents of North Dakota. The girl’s parents moved to another city and the Wetzell family came to Oregon. Each lost track of the other. Following the meeting at Eugene the old friendship was renewed and immefijate plans were made for the wedding, which took place at the home of the bridegroom’s father.