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FATES AGAINST HIS WEDDING  Sexton’s First Choice Eloped and he hated to waste the license. The four Spence sisters, daughters of Rev. Allen Spence, an elder of the “Holiness” religious sect of Moores Ferry, Ky., evidently think there is better fish in the matrimonial sea than Lewis Sexton, a young farm hand, and have each jilted him in turn.  Sexton, a few days ago, secured a marriage license to take Miss Clarinda Spence as a wife. Sexton had with him the written consent of the girl, and secured the license without trouble. He did not go after his promised bride at once, but concluded to wait until the next day, as he thought his license would keep without ice. Next morning Sexton put on his “Sunday best” and went to the Spence residence, where he was informed that Clarinda, believing that as Sexton had not appeared the night before he had concluded to desert her, and that Edgar Highly, a former suitor, having appeared on the scene, she had eloped to Ohio with him and been married.  Sexton was inconsolable for an hour or so, but at last said that he supposed as the license contained the name of Spence It would make no difference to him which one of the Spence girls he married, and he alternatively proposed to each of his former sweetheart’s three sisters, but was rejected by each. His pleadings of the wasted license availed nothing, and he was forced to return home without a wife.--New York World. (Source: The Garland Globe, Feb 17, 1906, pg 3. Transcribed by Richard Ramos)

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