Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1918 — LETTERS FROM OUR READERS [ARTICLE]

LETTERS FROM OUR READERS

NIGHT RAIDERS! WERE WE? One day last week, Dicie Freeman and Roscoe Sprague were seen going to Rensselaer in a Ford with the curtains drawn, driving at a break-neck speed. Neighbors suspected their errand and learning that they had secured their marriage license, decided to have a little fun by chivaring them that night, as they were going to leave the next day, and Dicie always said that no one would know when she got married, The crowd consisted of about fifty men and women of the neighborhood and relatives and part of the club girls of which the expected bride is president. Not being certain that the ceremony had been performed, and learning that Roscoe was. at the Rose mansion, we decided to get him and take hilm to the Freeman home with ns and after the usual merry-making and wishing to them a happy journey through life and showing them their neighbors and friends were interested in them, we expected to depart peacefully, not as raiders disturbing anybody’s peaceful rest. When we arrived at the Rose home we were greeted with cold water that was thrown in the faces of two of his closest neighbors. A dirty trick that no gentleman would '.have done under the circumstances. He informed us that he had told Roscoe to stay in his room' and we could not have him, and he ordered us to leave, ? which we were courteous enough to do, “for the last time,’’ was the expression of several. It was Roscoe we wanted, not you, Bill. The next day they were married. Bill went to so much trouble racing over Jasper and White counties in order to get them safely away, while he could have loaded them on the train at the junction of Wall street, on the C. & W. V. railroad, without so much as any one wasting any rice.—THE RAIDERS