Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1899 — Mr. Haff Gets a Better Half. [ARTICLE]

Mr. Haff Gets a Better Half.

Our esteemed townsman, Mr. E. G. Haff arrived here Tuesday night from Chicago, and with him came a new bride. She was formerly Miss Ella M. Brown, of Aurora, 111., and their* marriage took place on Wednesday evening, Mar. 22nd, at her father’s home, in Aurora. After the wedding the newly married couple went to Chicago where they remained until Tuesday, when they came to Rensselaer and repaired at once to Mr. Haff’s residence, near the south end of Cullen street. The Aurora papers, in describing the wedding, mention the very smooth manner by which Mr. and Mrs. Haff escaped from an extensive old shoe and rice raid, on leaving Aurora. About 18 or 20 of the bride’s friends bad assembled at the “Q” depot, with an even bushel of old shoes and a corresponding quantity of rice, expected to waylay the bridal couple, as they came to take the train. But Mr. Haff, who is a pretty smooth traveler himself, had got a hint of what was coming, and he and his bride quietly took a hack, and proceeded to the electric car line and went to Elgin, a few miles distant, and took the train for Chicago there, leaving the old shoe and rice crowd to nurse their disappointment as best they could. L. 8. Renicker will sell you a top buggy for |3B. Come and see it before buying elsewhere.