Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1908 — A Very Short Honeymoon. [ARTICLE]

A Very Short Honeymoon.

Adam Flesher bad quite an experience with .a newly wedded couple Monday. The groom came from quite a distance to claim a Barkley township young lady as his bride aud on Monday got Adam to take them to Rensselaer to meet hte 9:55 train to go by the way of Chicago to their future home Mr. Flesher put them off at the depot and went up town to do some trading and while in the. Chicago Department Store he heard the train go through town, ' and he was Just thinkings what a pleasant trip they would have when to his surprise, in came the bride and upon asking her where her husband was she replied that hi had gone home and she was gqjug bach with Mr. Flegher and that she would not gt> with her husband. The bride was taken back home and the groom went on his honeymoon alone. The groom is 40 years of age, while the bride is only 17.