Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 191, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1912 — Couldn’t Get Marriage License— Buys Hunter’s License. [ARTICLE]

Couldn’t Get Marriage License— Buys Hunter’s License.

Henry Drake, of Wheatfleld, aged 27, and his intended bride, whose name we were unable to learn, went to the county clerk’s office this morning about 10 o’clock to secure a marriage license. Her mother accompanied them to give her consent to the marriage. When Miss Moore, the deputy clerk, found that the girl was only 15 years old, she had to refuse to issue the license.'" The bride-to-be looked her disappointment but the groom, who is much more'mature, mumbled a few words of the Wheatfleld brand of philosophy and„ purchased a hunter’s license. They still have a bright outlook, as the girl will be sixteen on the 19th of, next November, when, they assert, they Will return here for the license. -