Vanblaracum Is Happy Again

VANBLARCUM IS HAPPY AGAIN

Stoney Creek Bachelor Finds His Lady Love

SHE WANTS TO COME HOME

Promises to Return July 12 – If She Does Not He Will Have Her Prosecuted

George Vanblarcum was in the city Monday.

This, in itself, is as innocent looking a personal as ever appeared in print, but there is that about the man that makes the time pregnant with interest to many of his friends in the south-western portion of the county. For be it known that George is a well known character and he and his affairs are always of interest to those who claim his acquaintance.

The chief interest in the man, to his friends and neighbors, just now comes form the fact that he is a lover. Not one of your cold, calculating swains, but one whose heart, despite his 46 years, the fires kindled by Cupid burn as fiercely as do those of Vesuvius. But alas for him the usual fate of true love seems to be in store and as yet he has had no opportunity of seeing fruition of his desires.

The object of his fervid passion is Mrs. Anna Bell Bates Throop, a coy grasswidow of 24, who has woven her spell well and strong to enmesh her stalwart lover. Mrs. Throop has had her experience, too, and while she may pine for the peace that will come with wedlock's joys, fate has seemed to keep her from enjoying them.

George Vanblarcum met Mrs. Anna Bell Throop about a year and a half ago, while she was visiting a friend at Stony Creek, near where Vanblarcum lives. He was at a party and became so impressed with her that they struck up a very strong acquaintance. She was living at that time with her sister, a Mrs. Smith, at Wyandotte. She promised to marry Vanblarcum, and he went to work at different places. Once he worked on the North-western Electric railway at Farmington, again at Sibley's quarry at Trenton, and all the time was giving and sending her money, in amounts of $5 and $10 on her promise to marry him.

Last fall they were to have been married and he came to Ann Arbor and secured a license on November 18 last, but the wedding did not come off then, as Vanblarcum had expected.

During this time Anna Bell had a divorce suit pending in the Wastenaw circuit, the funds to carry on which were evidently furnished by her lover. Later this case was thrown out of court because she failed to look after it and she applied for a divorce in the Wayne circuit.

Different dates were set for the wedding, but the bride-elect always failed to turn up at the proper time and George was disconsolate. Meanwhile he was furnishing her with cash until, he claims, it totaled about $400, when he appeared to feel that perhaps he was an "Easy" and began to consult attorneys to see if he couldn't realize on the investment or recover some of the coin. At one time, he says, she got $50 from him on the plea of going to Lupton, Mich., to see her father, who she claimed was dangerously ill.

Some time ago Vanblarcum lost track of his lady love and was sick at heart and would not be comforted, but he is happy again as will appear from the following from our Milan correspondent:

Milan, July 1.––Your correspondent has had an interview with George Vanblarcum, regarding the Vanblarcum-Throop case, which came out along early in the spring.

Ever since the article appeared in a Detroit paper in April, Vanblarcum has been looking for her in Detroit, Trenton and Wyandotte, and last Saturday morning he located her and called at 261 Grand River avenue, Detroit, where she with her sister, Blanche Bates of Lupton, Mich., is keep house for a man.

When Vanblarcum opened the door she said, "George, how did you find me?" and he said "Anna, it is an easy mark to find you."

She nearly fainted when he came into the room, and when she revived somewhat, she asked him if he had had any dinner and said she would get him some if he had not.

George stay there until three in the afternoon.

Vanblarcum says that she looks think and worn from eating morphine, to which habit she is addicted.

He says she now goes by the name of Mabel Stone, instead of Anna Bell Throop – or Bates, which was her maiden name.

She is 5 feet 2 inches tall, weighs 115 pounds and is 22 inches around the waist. She wore a blue suit and a large white brimmed hat with a blue ribbon band.

She had been going with another fellow by the name of Miller, of Trenton, and when the article appeared in the Detroit paper in April, a friend cut it out and sent it to his mother, which caused their breaking up and prevented their intended marriage.

Vanblarcum told her she must come home with him and she said she would as soon as her health would permit it.

She said to him, "George, what are you going to give me for a present?" and he answered by saying, "Anna, what are you going to give me as a present," and she said, "I will give you the best kiss you ever had," and she did so then and there.

Then she said to him that the dress she was wearing was the only one she had and that it would not be nice enough to wear out to see him, and asked him to give her $5 to get another one with, but he did not give her the money as he had done before.

Vanblarcum told her that she must not marry any other man, and she said that she would not.

She was in Ypsilanti about three weeks ago, and Mrs. Albright, of Stony Creek, saw her to take with her, and was requested not to let Vanblarcum know she was there. However, Vanblarcum found it out somehow and went to Ypsilanti, but could not locate her.

She asked him to write to her in the name of Anna Bates, General Delivery, Detroit. He told her that with all her misdeeds he loved her still and will never give her up.

Vanblarcum says that if she does not meet him in Ypsilanti by July 12 he will have her prosecuted.

Vanblarcum called at Prosecuting Attorney Hunt's office, and was told the suit could not be tired in Wayne county, as she had gotten the money from him elsewhere.

George Vanblarcum lives at Stony Creek, a bachelor.

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WILL USE THE TELEGRAPHONE

Michigan Central Putting in the Latest Invention

Will Be Able to Both Telegraph and Telephone Over Same Wire

The telegraphone, which enables the use of telegraph wires simultaneously for telegraphing and telephoning, has been adopted by the Michigan Central road, says the Detroit Tribune. The system is already in operation between Detroit and St. Thomas, 111 miles, and between Chicago and Michigan City. The entire system will be equipped with the instruments as soon as possible, the Michigan Central being the first road in the country to take this course.

The apparatus used at both the sending and receiving points is very much like a telephone. For each set of instruments the company that controls the patents and supplies the instruments is paid $12 a year. For the operating department of a railroad the service is said to be of inestimable advantage. If, for instance, an operating official at Detroit wants to communicate quickly with an operating official in another city he simply touches a button in his office and the bell rings in the distant office of the other official, which is the signal that somebody wants to speak to him. The conversation then begins over the telegraph wire, while the telegraph operator on the same wire is entirely oblivious of it.

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HUMANE SOCIETY ASKS YOUR AID

The Humane Society of this city make the very human request of the people that they will patronize only those merchants who treat their horses kindly. A man who overloads his horse is in danger of underlapping his measure. It is sometimes his way of balancing accounts.

These things ought not so to be and can only be adjusted by the individual insisting upon the rights of the dumb animal. Educating out of an evil is better than punishment for it, and so some men and women burdened with love for the cause, have written "Black Beauty," "Beautiful Joe," "A Dog of Flanders," and "The Kentucky Cardinal;" all of which show the human side of this dumb creation which man often treats with greatest inhumanity.

The law is strong in Ann Arbor against this evil and if the people will co-operate with the law, investigations will be made, and satisfaction given.

Judge Cheever is president of the society and Mr. J. J. Goodyear, who formerly held this office and resigned from active work, is still as active as ever in his ardor for doing good.

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OSTRICH PLUMES FROM ARABIA

Miss Lorraine Milly of Geddes avenue, received Wednesday four magnificent white ostrich plumes, each two feet long. They were sent from Arabia by her brother, Harry Miller, he who has shouted the U. of M. yell in so many foreign ports. Mr. Miller says that the ostrich boa which costs $15 in America, can be caught for 12 shillings of our money in Arabia.

It is hot on the Red Sea, he writes, so hot that while sailing through great precaution is taken to prevent prostration from heat. There is no vegetation on the shores, only high red sandstone cliffs, baked and barren.

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YOU NEED A REST.

If you are not feeling well, don't call a doctor but take a lake trip! You return home feeling new life and your brain blown free from cobwebs. Send 2c. for folder and map.

Address,

A. A. SCHANTZ, G. P. T. Mgr.

Detroit, Mich.