OCR Text |
Show SOCIAL SEM-.ATION. Memphis Agitated Over the Action of a Voting Alan. Memi'Uis, Tenn., Sept. C A marriage mar-riage that was not consummated was the cause of the biggest local sensation that has agitated Memphis in forty years. A large crowd of prominent people gathered at Grace church to witness wit-ness the wedding of Hal Douglass, a prominent young man about town, to Miss Irono Smith, the beautiful daughter daugh-ter of General W. J. Smith, a very wealthy and prominent man. The ceremony cer-emony was set for 4:o0 o'clock. The bride and her attendants and the guests were, on hand. Five o'clock came, but tht bridegroom came not. Another half hour passed, still the would-be husband hus-band failed to materialize. Then the bride was borne home, utter'y prostrated pros-trated by grief and shame. About two hours later Douglass called at the Sinilh resilience and wildly protested his love for his liance. He was summarily shut off in the midst of his apologies and forcibly tired from the house. Hts excuse ex-cuse was that at the last moment he had discovered that his financial condition would not permit him to take a fashionable fashion-able wife, |