Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1901 — A Runaway Marriage. [ARTICLE]

A Runaway Marriage.

Something of a sensation was caused here Tuesday morning when it became known that James Randle, son of Nelson Randle, and commonly called “Young Jim” Randle, and Miss Dollie Hemphill* daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Luther Hemphill had eloped during the night. The young lady is only 17 years old, and her parents, for reasons that seemed to them sufficient have very strenuously objected to her receiving the attentions of Mr. Randle, who was a widower though still under 25 years of age. When Dollie left home Monday evening it was with the experessed intention of attending Eli Perkins’ lecture, in company with some 4 other young ladies, who like herself were employed in Mrs. Imes’ millinery store; and the fact tha she did not return home after the lecture caused no uneasiness as it was thought she was stopping with the other young ladies, and therefore their absence was not discovered until this morning. They left on the 11:25 p. m train south, and went to Monticello, where they passed the rest of the night at the New Forbis hotel, registered as brother and sister, and assigned to rooms on different floors. Early on Tueeday morning, after some delay and difficulty in procuring a license, they were married by Squire Ross, of Monticello, at his office. They then took the first train for Rensselaer, arriving here on the 9:55 a. m. train, and then proceeded direotly to his father’s residence, on Main street. They expeot to make their home at Brook.