Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1909 — OLIVE JANE WOULD ELOPE. [ARTICLE]

OLIVE JANE WOULD ELOPE.

Bill Beasey, who came here from Monon about a year ago with a reputation, has notified County Clerk Warner of this county and the clerk of White county not to issue a marriage license to his 15-year-old Olive J. and Rube Gray, whose parent Wiiliam alleges is one of the deepest dyed fellows that ever gumshoed the north side precinct patroled by Lyman Zea. Rube and Olive, it seems, have stewed up a beautiful romance while the injured papa Beasey was out on a still-hunt for provender, and imagine the fond parent’s Burprise when he learned that the shiftless Rube had wormed his way into his daughter’s affections. Rube, in the meantime, is browsing around on the prairie in bunnyside addition till there is a drop in Beasey’s mercury.;