Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1911 — COULDN’T HELP IT. [ARTICLE]

COULDN’T HELP IT.

Elopement Bug Runs In the Family, Says Editor Isherwood. Speaking of the elopement of his daughter last week, Editor Isherwood of the Tippecanoe County Democrat says: “Miss Margaret, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Isherwood, No. 5 Reifers’ flats, surprised her parents Tuesday evening by the announcement of her marriage at Danville, Ills., that morning to Donald G. Gardner. The ceremony was perfprmed by the Rev.'Ancil, of the First Methodist Church, at his residence. She is 18 years 014 and her husband 24. There seemed to be no real good reason for the elopement unless the young lady wished to emulate the example of her mother, who eloped about twenty-two yeafs ago, or of her grandmother, who ran away about forty-five years ago and was married. It seems like the girls of that family just can't help it, and as James Whitcomb Riley says: “Girls that’s in love, I notice, generally has their way.”