Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1911 — MANY WEDDINGS OCCURRED AT CHRISTMAS TIME. [ARTICLE]

MANY WEDDINGS OCCURRED AT CHRISTMAS TIME.

Tws Licenses Issued b/ Clerk—One Minister Had Four Weddings in Two Hays and Had te Hustle. The month of June never nv so busy a marrying period in Jasper county as did the 19H Yuletide, Cupid lias been working just as hard with his wlhter underwear and overcoat on as he ever did with his scant/ midsummer raiment County Clerk KVarner was kept on the jiimp Saturday and again Monday and ten licenses were issued-in the two days ! There was not a very even distribution of the marriage business among- tbe preachers and the sqires and Rev. C. L. Harper, of Trinity M. E., had considerably the better of It, having four of the ten and a prospect of another one or two. His first ceremony occurred Saturday at 12:1b o'clock at the home of Mrs. Stockslek on North Dayton street, when her daughter, Matilda, was united In marriage- to Mr. Karl Thomas Becher, a young farmer from over near Brook. Just after the ceremony had been performed and before the part’/ had set down to a fine dinner, a messenger was after the preacher to him to return to the parsonage and marry another couple. He departed at once and at 12:30 at his residence married Mr. Orange F. Snyder, a farmer from Waterloo, Ind., and Miss Ruby M-, Wolfe, of Gillam township. He then V ’ returned to the Stocksick home in time to partake of the wedding dinner. On Sunday at 1 p. m., at the parsonage he married Miss Minnie Ctrof Fair Oaks, to Mr. Frank Orr Garriott/of Parr, Frank is now farming in Union township, although for a number of years he followed school teaching, At 1:30 o’clock at the home of Mr. and 'Mrs. ,C. M. Stanley, in the northeast part of the city, he married their daughter, Laura E., to Mr. Raymond ,D. Dobelbower, a stereotyper on the Lafayette Morning Journal. They will make their home in Lafayette. On Saturday Squire Irwin, at the Clerk's office, married Arthur L. Wortley, a Jordan township farmer, and Miss Belle Bultis, also of Jordan township. ~ Information was not secured as to where or when the other licensed couples were married.