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In 1920 Mrs. Lamar Looney was elected to the State Senate; Miss Bessie McColque to the House and Miss Alice Robertson to the Lower House of Congress. Adelia C. Stephens, president of the State Woman Suffrage Association, and Miss Katherine Pierce, chairman of the Ratification Committee. The following testimonial was gratefully offered: Mrs.
Boutwell was married July 8, 1841, to Sarah Adelia, daughter of Nathan Thayer of Hollis, N. H.. Their children are Georgianna A., born May 18, 1843, and Francis M., born February 26, 1847. Mr. Boutwell resides in Groton, Mass. The eighth day of July, 1891, Mr.
He has plenty!" "No'm, he 'ain't," Adelia assured her. "An' he's carryin' on so I don't scarcely think he knows much what he's doin', Miz Baxter.
Rosier Pile, the pastor of the church in the valley, and Rev. W. T. Haggard, chaplain-general of the Governor's staff. The bridesmaids were Miss Ida Wright, Miss Maud Brier and Miss Adelia Darwin, and Sergeant York's best man was Sergeant Clay Brier, of Jamestown. Their friendship had been proved upon the fields of France. The wedding march was the wind among the laurels and the pines.
His wife glanced significantly about Young Thomas's big, untidy sitting-room, where there were cobwebs on the ceiling and fluff in the corners and dust on the mop-board, and said nothing, but looked volumes. "Dang it all," said Young Thomas, as they drove away, "they'll marry me yet in spite of myself." The gossip made him think about Adelia Williams.
"Could you manage step in the back hall a minute, please, ma'am?" Mrs. Baxter managed and, having closed the door upon the laughing voices, asked, quickly "What is it, Adelia? Have you seen Mr. William? Do you know why he doesn't come down?" "Yes'm," said Adelia. "He gone mighty near out his head, Miz Baxter." "What!" "Yes'm. He come floppin' down the back stairs in his baf-robe li'l' while ago.
They corresponded occasionally still, although it was twenty years since Charles had gone west. The letter was to congratulate Young Thomas on his approaching marriage. Charles had heard of it through some Valley View correspondents of his wife. He was much pleased; he had always liked Adelia, he said had been an old beau of hers, in fact. Thomas might give her a kiss for him if he liked.
These modern 'Arabian Nights' are too hectic for quiet folk. I declined upon a more rational Cairo the Arab city where everything is as it was when Maruf the Cobbler fled from Fatima-el-Orra and met the djinn in the Adelia Musjid.
"I've been kind of supposing that you must be going to marry somebody, and folks just guessed it was me," said Young Thomas he said it anxiously. "No, I'm not going to be married to anybody," said Adelia with a laugh, taking up her knitting. "I'm glad of that," said Young Thomas gravely.
Adelia Louise suggested to the others that his lack of advantages in the past had made him feel rather awkward and embarrassed; but Palford knew he was not embarrassed. He accepted his own limitations too simply to be disturbed by them.
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