Hinton Daily News, Hinton, WV 3 Jan 1903
Home to her Ma – Went New Bride
Married in Haste, Repented at Leisure did John and Delia Adkins
The matrimonial experience of John Adkins and his wife Adelia has not proven to be one of unalloyed bliss. It will be remembered by the readers of the News that on the 17th day of December last, John and his cousin Delia decided to leave the life of single blessedness and unite their fortunes, join the ranks of happily married people and sail down the river of life in the same little red canoe.
Accordingly, John and Delia hoofed it up to Hinton, registered at a hotel, and sent a friend round to the clerk’s office for a marriage license with as much sang froid as they would send a boy for a can of beer. Failing to get a license they hied themselves to Ironton, Ohio, got married, and came back home.
But here is where John’s trouble began. A very few days after they returned from their wedding trip, Delia’s parents sent her word to come and get her clothing. As her wardrobe was not very replete just then, only containing her Sunday dress and other fixins’ which she had worn when she eloped, she availed herself of the kind offer of her mother and went home to pack her things intending to return to the companion of her bosom the same day.
However, when she entered the old home, a flood of tender recollections rushed through her brain and took possession of her. She was clasped in the embrace of an ever-loving mother, while the other members of the family gathered around her to bid her welcome.
Even the old house dog came up and licked her hand and wagged her a fond welcome with his caudal appendage, and the cat went into ecstacies of delight at her return.
Going into the little room which had been her own before she had voluntarily left it for a husband, fond memories of happy hours spent there overcame her and the joys of married life began to pull up on her and her newly made husband seemed unto her like the proverbial thirty cents.
So she decided to cut the whole business bid farewell to married life and its restraints and stay with her ma at home.
Accordingly, she sent her loving husband, who was waiting for her with an aching heart, the message that she had decided to stay with her folks and that he could go about his business without let or hindrance from her.
So John, at the end of two weeks from the time he led the fair Adelia to the altar, finds himself a poor lone widder man.
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