Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1890 — Married Without Knowing It. [ARTICLE]

Married Without Knowing It.

It is not often that a young woman is married without knowing it, says the Chicago Herald, but that is what happened to Miss Belle Woods, a young lady at Schuyler, Neb. She was one of the guests at the wedding of a young lady friend a few days ago, and sowas George Poole, a young man who had long been enamoured with her beauty. She was to officiate as bridemaid and young Poole as best man. Just before the ceremony Poole called the clergyman aside and told him privately that he and Miss Woods were to be married, too, and suggested that a change in the order of the ceremonies would be an interesting, surprise for the audience. The guests, as he had surmised, were completely astonished when he and Miss Woods came forward and went through a regular marriage ceremony. The other wedding followed immediately, and then everybody wanted to know what it all meant. On being told that she was Poole’s wife Miss Woods becomingly fainted, and on “coming to” said that she had supposed herself to be merely going through the performance of her duties as a. bridemaid, and that she should never, never be the wife of the wicked Poole. Nothing has since changed her mind, and a legal separatism has Leea applied for.