Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1909 — JILT PREACHER ON WEDDING DRY [ARTICLE]

JILT PREACHER ON WEDDING DRY

Indiana Clergyman Waits In Vain at Church. GIRL IS WHISKED AWAY Rumor Is That Young Woman Rev. Mr. Snodgrats of Hammond Thought Would Be His Bride la In Love With Another and That Brother Who Opposed the Match Helped to Keep Her Away From the Altar-—ln-definite Postponement Announced. Charleston, 111., July 9. —With the trousseau completed and partly packed, the Invited guests assembled, the minister, Rev. B. B. Braden and the prospective bridegroom standing expectantly by his side, both awaiting the entrance of the bride-to-be, the proposed marriage of Miss Tannie Doty, the beautiful daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marion Doty, living five miles south of this city, and Rev. James Snodgrass, pastor of the Baptist church of Hammond, Ind., did not take place, but instead the father of Miss Doty entered and announced that the wedding of his daughter to the clergyman from Indiana had been postponed indefinitely. The wedding hour had been set and every detail had been completed for the saying of the ceremony. The invitations were issued two weeks ago, and the affair was to have been one of the most elaborate country weddings ever seen in Coles county. Instead of being present to meet her husband under the bridal arch, Miss Doty was being whirled away in a buggy by her brother, Lyman Doty, who, it Is said, had been opposed to the proposed match ever since it was first announced by the parents of the girl. The Doty family is one of the most prominent in Coles county. Intimate friends of Miss Doty say the reason she rejected the minister at the altar is because of the love she entertains for another.