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Show LOCHINVAR HEYWOOD. A TaIc of Our Gretna Green. "In days of old, when knights were bold" and Bonnie Bon-nie Queen Bess wielded the sceptre on Briton's soil, the flower and chivalry of merry England were wont to court ye layde faire by serenade under the fickle moon, and when the hour was ripe a coach and four-whirled four-whirled .away 'cross country bearing the young Loch-invar Loch-invar and his sweetheart. Nowadays, with the advent of steam cars, automobiles automo-biles and flying machines, all has passed away and become ancient history and the marriage of convenience con-venience has robbed courtship and its consummation of all its sentiment and poetry, but occasionally an event serves to lighten the marital horizon and awaken the disconsolate little god of love. On the morning of August 19th the plot was laid whereby the gallant representative of the Western Sugar Refining Co., J. W. Heywood, would be united to miss Ida M. Judd, one of the most popular young ladies in the city, and at 1 :3o on the same day they boarded the train for Farmington. They arrived at the Lagoon, and after courteous inquiries hied themselves them-selves to the pretty haven of timid lovers the County building at Farmington where they obtained the important document which permitted them to unite their joys and sorrows; with two obliging court attaches for witnesses and a deputy clerk named Palmer, Miss Ida M. Judd became Mrs. J. W. Heywood, Hey-wood, while a stack of yellow coin of the realm sealed the lips of the obliging legal Cupid. If the marriage bells bid not peal forth their rejoicing symphony, sym-phony, there was a chorus as sweet as vesper chimes in the hearts of the gallant groom and blushing bride as they stole back to the shady park with the sweet secret safely tucked away in their single heart. But alas for the wiles of newspaperdom! A little sparrow flew through the office window and twitted the tale of Cupid's triumph and the secret marriage at Salt Lake's gretna green was scattered to the four winds, and congratulations to the happy couple are headed by Goodwin's Weekly. Next ! |