Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1908 — ROMANCE-ENDS IN HAPPINESS. [ARTICLE]

ROMANCE-ENDS IN HAPPINESS.

Childhood Sweethearts Meet at New Orleans and Are Married. A romance which began in their native land when both were children, and long before they dreamed of coming to America to seek their fortunes, culminated in the wedding of Antonio Hervatin and Joana Rumln of Pajln, Austria, says the New Orleans Picayune. They came over on the Sofia Hohenberg. Antonio is a farmer, and he came to look for land which he could cultivate and later build a home upon- Joana came to New Orleans expecting to obtain employment as a servant; but when the time came' for them to part at the ship’s side it was more than Antonio could stand and harder than Joana had dreamed, and then It was that love asserted its rule,., and they decided to cast their fortunes together. Stephen Jozsa, assistant secretary at the state Immigration bubeau, went with them to the St. Louis cathedral, where they were made man and wife by Mong. Laval. Radiant as children In their new-found happiness, bride and groom left for Laurel Hill, In West Feliciana, where they were taken by Miss Stuart to work on the sugar estate of Mr. Henry Stewart.