The Preacher's Daughter Eloped, and Her Father Met the Groom With a Shotgun
Emery Bickafoose and Rose Holgate slipped out of Oakesdale, married in Idaho, then drove home for a parental blessing. They got a loaded reception instead.
Emery Bickafoose, son of Rev. Mr. Bickafoose, and Miss Rose Holgate, daughter of Rev. Mr. Holgate, eloped from Oakesdale June 14, went to Idaho and were married. Then they drove to the Holgate home to receive the parental blessing. The preacher was wild with rage. He dragged his daughter into the house and chased her husband away with a gun. At last accounts the bride had not been recovered. The couple are of age.
“The preacher was wild with rage. He dragged his daughter into the house and chased her husband away with a gun.”
Two preacher's children, both of age, married lawfully in Idaho and then made the mistake of coming home for a blessing. The father's gun and the bride's detention read today as a small-town story about who gets to decide whom a daughter marries — and how far a parent can go before the law or the neighbours object. No charges are recorded, only the paper's dry line that the bride had not been recovered.
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