Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1891 — LOVE CONQUERED. [ARTICLE]

LOVE CONQUERED.

Miss Jarred Preferred Her Lover to Mormonism, They Elope and are Married Mueli to Papa'* Chagrlne. A special from Parkerburg, W. Va., on the 28th. says: For a number of months some Mormon elders have been In tho counties of Boom) and Raleigh, in this State, making converts. Among those who had become believers was a family named Jarrod, one of the wealthiest in Boone county. The restbonnd train on tbo Chesapeake & Ohio railroad Wednesday night brought four Mormons and tho entire Jafred family to Guyandottd on their way to Utah. Mr. Jarred had become so enthusiastic that he sold,his possessions in this State. The party remained in Huntington over night, waiting for other converts from Kanawha and Boone counties. There was one member of the Jarred family who had not been converted. This-was Mlss Mildred Jarred, a beautiful girl, nineteen years old, wltb had a sweetheart, 11. L. Griffith, a young lumberman. Although she begged pitiously to be left behind, her father and mother were obdurate.

On tho next train, which brought twenty or more persons who were converts, Griffith arrived. During the night Mildred had oecai>ed from her father, but was caught and Juo-aght-back.. Griffith brought wifb hfm four friends, and after vainly attempting to induce Mr. Jarred to allow Griffith to see Mildred, a police officer was told of the affair. He gained admittance to the room Mildred was In. told her that Griffith was near and she could see him if she wished. A few minutes later she and Griffith were together, and decided at once to marry. She was not twenty-one, and no license conld be secur cd in this State without her father’s consent, which was not given. They at onct Sired a buggy and drove to Ohio, when they were united in marriage. A few hours after the train bearing the Mormons and the converts pulled out foi Ittah, leaving the young on the platform, happy in their victory. The Postmaster General has awardet the contract for the China mail service, a; weiias the Central America service, to th< Pacific Mail Steamship Company. Th< subsidy of the contracts will be $300.00 'ortho first Tearand $500,000 for each'o ’.ho following nine years. The contra a. win go into effect Jan. 1,1898.