Rumford, Me. April 16.—(AP)—Brides are sometimes left waiting at the church and bridegrooms sometimes find themselves in the same predicament, but it was the audience that waited in vain here tonight when both bride and groom failed to appear.
The marriage of Miss Alice Randall of Buckfield, to Arthur Treworthy, 21 year old Oxford paper mill employe, was to have been the feature event of Rumford’s first annual style show and better homes expedition. Two thousand persons had assembled to shower the happy pair with blessings and gifts from the exposition exhibits.
Two hours after the ceremony was to have taken place, deputy sheriffs and police sent to find the errant couple returned to report failure.
The place where the couple were to meet the rest of the bridal party and drive to the exposition hall was deserted. Not even the bride’s parents were at home when searchers called there and the prospective bridegroom’s house was dark and deserted. Friends attributed the disappearance to “stage fright.”
Daily Kennebec Journal, Augusta, ME, April 17, 1926