ELOPEMENT WITH BEST MAN.
USE OF BRIDEGROOM'S MOTOR CAR.
NEW YORK, June 1. People *cf fashion m Georgia are indulging m much merriment to-day over the elopement of Miss Clara Louise Parker, the. daughter of the Mayor of Gainesville, with Mr. Benjamin Sullivan, her bridegroom's best nian. Everything was ready for the wedding at Gainesville, and the bridesmaids had assembled at the Parker mansion, when Mr Sullivan, who is described as "a dashing and wealthy undergraduate," persuaded the bride to jump into, the bridegroom's motor car. Unobserved, the couple left the wedding guests and raced to Atlanta, whero they were married m haste.
The bride telephoned the news to her distracted mother. "I love Ben best," she said; "he is my first sweetheart, mother" ; and Mr Sullivan confided to the mother on the telephone, "I justi had to marry her.", .-.-.- The news' was diplomatically conveyed to the bridegroom, Mr Edwin Gilbert, a successful business; man, who, with admirable self-control, observed : "I congratulate myself. I have had a lucky escape, but I hope they will return my motor-car m good condition."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12814, 13 July 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)
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