He Wanted a Prohibition Bride.
Thlkl was a small not. in Bolton lat-t week because a manngo which had been anticipated with much inte»e-.t did not come off. The budegroom, a well-known tradesman, who i-> an ardent ad\ocateof temperanac pnnciples, went to the bride'.\ house before piocecdmtr to the chinch, and placing a pledge caul before her. insisted on her at once Mmmg 1 it She lefused, whereupon he announced that there Mould be n i M'eddint,'-. Tlie clcr<rynian and a number of friend-, neie waiting at the chinch, but the parties did not appear, and when the cause transpired, a number of women a^embled outride of the bridegroom's house and pelted him with rotten eg^rf and other pleabant implies, and so much resentment was manifested that he found it expedient to leave home for a time.— London " Truth."
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 255, 14 April 1888, Page 6
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139He Wanted a Prohibition Bride. Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 255, 14 April 1888, Page 6
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