Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 134, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1909 — SENIOR HOPKINS ELOPES WITH CRAWFORDSVILLE GIRL. [ARTICLE]

SENIOR HOPKINS ELOPES WITH CRAWFORDSVILLE GIRL.

Former Rensselaer Boy Takes Sweetheart to Danvflle, 111., Where They Are Married Tuesday. Senior G. Hopkins, son of Mrs. Mattie Hopkins, and who lived kt Rensselaer until within the past two years, when he began work with his brother, Louis F. Hopkins, in Chicago, eloped Monday with a Crawfordsville girl and was married. The details of the elopment are well told in the following telegram sent from Crawfordsville to the Indianapolis Star, under date of Dec. 29th: . Miss Lorena C. Bryant, a member of the younger social set of this city, and Senior D. Hopkins, of Chicago, caused quite a stir in society circles here today when it was learned that they had eloped and married at Danville, 111., yesterday.

Early yesterday morning a girl friend of Miss Bryant came to her home and said that she was wanted on the telephone. However, this was not the case, as Mr. Hopkins was there awaiting the girl. Plans were immediately made for their elopement, and the couple took a circuitous route to the Big Four station and left for Danville, where they were married yesterday afternoon by the Rev. H. H. Shawham, pastor of the First Presbyterian church. About the first of this month Miss Bryant started for California to spend the winter, but suffered nervous prostration in Chicago and had to return home. Rumor has it she and Mr. Hopkins were to have been married in Chicago, but that they were kept from meeting through the interference of Miss Bryant’s aunt. The aunt was to acconipany Miss Bryant to St. Paul, it is said, and thus keep the two young people apart. Mr. Hopkins formerly attended Culver Military Academy. He is now associated with L. F. Hopkins & Co., investment bankers of Chicago. Mrs. Hopkins is 20 years old, a graduate of the city high school with the. class of 1908, and is a leader in tbs younger social set of the city. The girl’s parents objected to the wedding because of her age.