Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1919 — HIGH SCHOOL GIRL ELOPES [ARTICLE]

HIGH SCHOOL GIRL ELOPES

Miss Marguerite Swartz Marries Young Man From Missouri. Last week William T. Neal of Bethany, Mo., a recently returned from overseas soldier, came here to visit his young sweetheart, Miss Marguerite Swarts, of Rosebud, Mont., who has been staying here for the past couple of school terms with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. N. Osburn, of west of Rensselaer, and attending the Rensselaer high School. The young man visited Miss Swartz, of course, out at the Osburn farm. She attended high school as usual, and Friday evening notified her grandparents that she would stay in for the entertainment at the school building. The young Man was also in town, and as Neither of them returned home Friday night, Mr. Osburn came in Saturday morning to investigate. He went to the county clerk’s office and found that the young couple came there shortly before closing time Friday evening and procured a marriage license, but no return has as yet been made on the license and they were not married here. Mr. and Mrs. Osbuqp got a card from the girl Saturday, mailed here, saying that they were married and had gone to Missouri, and a letter Tuesday, dated at Kentland but mailed at Sheridan, la., saying that they were on their way to Missouri. Mias Swartz’s parents reside at Rosebud, Mont., and so far as known no particular objections were held to the marriage except that they thought the girl most too young. But she was 18 and probably thought she knew her own mind best.