Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1891 — WEDDED ON THE SLY. [ARTICLE]

WEDDED ON THE SLY.

A. Tittle Hooiler Romance In Real I.ife. A pretty lloosier romance, Involving a beautiful rural school marm and a young medical student, was recently brought to light at Frcelandsville. The hero is Dr, George W. Scringor. of Indianapolis, and the heroine Is Miss lira Smith, who startled the family by introducing the doctor as lief husband. .Subsoqucntdovelopments showed that the couple first met In April, 1889, and that the mecl - irig resulted in a desperate case of love at first sight on the part of both. The following July the lovers met again, and at intervals during several months the doctor was a' frequent visitor at the young lady’s home. July 21, 1890, Miss Smith paid a visit, to Indianapolis, where she was married to I)f. Scringor in the presence of only two witnesses. Returning home immediately after the ceremony,she resumed her duties as teacher, in which capacity she has since continued. The secret of the marriage during all these months was so profoundly kept that the most intimate friends of the cofiple had not the slightest suspicion of It. The husband’s parents do not to-day know that their son was married nearly a year ago, and the wife’s family would have been as blissfully ignorant h«d she not grown tired of keeping the secret. However, the match is an amicable one, and Mrs. Scringer has concluded to teach the young idea how to shoot during the ensuing winter, while her husband completes his medical cducatipn at Indianapolis.