Cupid is winner of auto race with irate mother
Published 6:00 am Wednesday, August 28, 2024
- The Delafield School is shown in a photo provided by the Western Kentucky University Museum and Special Collections Library.
On Aug. 27, 1921, the Daily News reported on a dramatic elopement, complete with car chase.
A local couple – Frances Crowell and R. R. Polslum – left at 10 p.m. the previous night and headed to Portland Tennessee. About 45 minutes later, the bride’s mother went to her daughter’s work place, only to be told about the elopement.
She jumped in a car and sped to Tennessee but thought the couple would be heading for Mitchellsville, Tennessee, and failed to stop the elopement. The pair were married at 1:15 a.m. and headed back to Bowling Green afterward, to many congratulations from their friends.
– “Way Back When in Warren County” is compiled by researchers at the Warren County Public Library and appears twice weekly in the Bowling Green Daily News. For more information about the library, visit warrenpl.org.
