PREFERRED BEST MAN.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10401, 15 July 1912, Page 3

PREFERRED BEST MAN.

Miss Glare Louise Parker, daughter of the Mayor of Gainesville, Georgia, was to have been married to Mr Edward Gilbert Instead of doing so she eloped with the best man, Mr Benjamin Sullivan, using Mr Gilbert’s car to run away in. “Everything was ready for the wedding, and the bridesmaids had assembled at the Parker mansion, when, unobserved, the couple left the wedding guests and raced to Atlanta where they were married in haste. The bride telephoned to her mother. "I love Ben best,” she said; “he is my first sweetheart;” and Mr Sullivan confided to the motor on the telephone. “1 just had to marry her. ” The bridegroom took the . news philosophically enough, remarking: “I congratulate myself. I have had a lucky escape; but 1 hope they will return my motor oar in good condition.”