Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 24, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1901 — A Medaryville Elopement. [ARTICLE]

A Medaryville Elopement.

Medaryville and East Jasper county were considerably excited Wednesday by an elopement which came to light in Medaryville, that morning. The parties were Harry Robinson, field man for the St. Joe Oil Co., whose field of operations on the Gillam oil fields, and Mies Effie L >w. daughter of James Low, one of the leading business men of Medaryville. Miss Low went to her brother-in-law, Charley Long’s restaurant, to spend the night, and some time during the night she slipped out and biked out. Her absence was not discovered until Wednesday morning. Mr. Low, who seems n>t to have Known that Robinson wis paying his daughter any attention, objected very strongly to Robinson, and endeavored to overhaul the runaways. He tracked them to South Bend, but when he arrived there learned that they had been married there, and bad taken the train for Chicago, an hour before his arrival. Robinson belongs to a good family at South Bend, but personally he needs a job lot of reforming to make him a very desirable husband for a good girl. It was ( at first thought they might have headed for Rensselaer, and Mr. Low telephoned to have them refused a license, but they did not come this way.