Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1913 — FOUR MARRIAGES SINCE SATURDAY [ARTICLE]

FOUR MARRIAGES SINCE SATURDAY

Market Took a Brace and Two Ministers and One Squire .Perform Several Ceremonies. K- Four marriage licenses were issued by County Clerk Perkins within the past few days and one of the couples called the clerk away from home Sunday to get a license and the accommodating clerk always goes the limit to help out a couple with a marriage bee buzzing in their bonnets. Jerry. Tullis, son of George W. Tullis, of Parr, and Miss Gwendoline Swain, of near Aix, daughter of B. Swain, procured a license Friday, and their wedding took place at the bride’s home Sunday at 12:30 o’clock. ~ Some twenty-five relatives and friends’witnessed the ceremony, which was performed by Rev. W. G. Winn, of the First Christian church. All partook of the splendid wedding repast following the ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. Tullis will reside on a farm in this county. Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock at the M. E. parsonage, Rev. C. L. Harper married Mr. Walter Harrison Bell and Miss Floe Ethel Wilhoit, both of Illinois. They will reside in this county, living on a farm west of Rensselaer. Rev. Harper was again called upon Sunday to marry another couple, it being the one for whom Clerk Perkins had opened his office to grant a license to. The bride was Miss Ella Smith, daughter of Louis Smith, of Rensselaer, and a sister of Mrs. Lee Richards. The groom was Charles Henry Holt, of Frankfort, a baggagemfin for the Coulter hotel of that place. They were accompanied to the parsonage by Mr. and Mrs. Lee Richards aryl the marriage ceremony took place at about 4 o’clock. Mis? Smith is a graduate of the Peru high school and of the Peru business college. They went to Frankfort on the night train and will take up their residence in that city. Mr. Holt is a large man, weighing about 200 pounds, while his wife is very small, weighing scarcely 85. Squire Irwin was not altogether left out in the marriage business. He officiated at a wedding just before noon today at his parlors in the Odd Fellows block. The couple came here from Chicago, presumably to avoid having their wedding known in the city or to escape the provision of an Illinois act that does not permit divorced persons to get married within a year. The groom, John R. Ong, 30' years of age, gave his occupation as a clerk, and the marriage license record shows that he was relieved of a former matrimonial alliance last November by means of divorce. The bride was Miss Gefthea A. Borgstrom, 29 years of age. They were a mighty nice and stylish looking couple.