VIEW OF BRIDEGROOM KILLS DESIRE TO MARRY
YOUNG WOMAN MAKES A LONG TRIP IN VAIN. After having travelled from Brooklyn, New York, to Grant’s Pass, for the express purpose of wedding Jefferson Wimer, Jim., a prosperous farmer, Miss Wilma Meter, a comely young woman, baulked at sight of her fiancee, refused outright to marry him, and is now speeding on her return trip homeward. Young Wimer is 27 years old, and, though prosperous, was lonesome, and resorted to the matrimonial want columns in his anxiety to find a. wife. Mjss Meter answered: a correspondence thus opened progressed, and soon there was an engagement. Then Miss Meter agreed to come to Oregon, and she came. “I have made a mistake,” she told Wimer. “I cannot marry you.” Winner could not budge her resolution, and sadly escorted her to a returning train.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3277, 24 July 1911, Page 3
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140VIEW OF BRIDEGROOM KILLS DESIRE TO MARRY Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3277, 24 July 1911, Page 3
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