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Show FIFTEEN AMD FORTY. Pretty Mary Woods Elopes and MarrffuKn Farm Hand. Tlboia Putnam, Conn., July 10. Litl.V. Woods of pretty Oxford villageV'dtn across the line in the Bay State.V tj( young to elope, being only 13 yeaiV, old, but her time had come and he ran away with a farm hand also named Woods. Mary was pretty and demure and nobody had an idea that romance bad got into her little head. Her father is a well-to-do farmer on the Thordyke road, and the man Woods, who is 3. or 40 years old. came to the house frequently to talk about the crops and speculate whether the hay crop was going to pan out as big as it looked, and whether corn and potatoes were likely to yield well. Mary's folks never guessed that he came to see her. The other day the young girl went slyly upstairs, put on her best dress and strolled down the road to a love tryst where Woods was in waiting. The couple then drove merrily mer-rily to Chicopee. where they hunted up a clergyman, who married them. Thence they "went to Springfield, and nobody knows where they are now, except there is reason to believe that they are in the west and have gone to farming. Mr. Woods, father of Mary, traced the elopers to Chicopee and Springfield and there lost the trail. But he says he means to have Mary back again at anv cost, and if he can bag the groom will prosecute him for running away with a child. |