Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1914 — Borrows Five Cents to Take Bride to Altar. [ARTICLE]

Borrows Five Cents to Take Bride to Altar.

Santa Ana, Cal-, Dee. 21.-X)hiprng in a nickel Deputy County Clerk Hitchcock made it possible for a Los Angeles couple to 'get a marriage license. Justice of the Peace Cox performed the ceremony on credit and couple, having bought return tickets, went back to Los Angeles happily married. When (Mr. Hitchcock had written out the Romain Harrison Wilson, 26, a postjpffice clerk oft Los Angeles, and Marcella Ada Phillips, 19, a.stenographer oft Los Angeles, he asked Mr. .Wilson for the fee of $2. Mr. Wilson went through all his pockets, adding to the heap of coins until he had.sl.9s. The girl was not armed with a pocketbook and could not produce the remainder of the fee. Mr. Hitchcock put in a nickel and turned over the license. .. . In asking Justice Cox to perform the ceremony, Mr. Wilson made a clean breast of his financial embarraissment. He said that he did not know it took so much money to get married. Justice Cox said he would do the marrying on faith and Mr. Wilson promised to send him $3 /right alway. So they were married, The license, when recorded, is to ibe sent to Mr. Wilson in care of Frank C. Wiley, general delivery, Los Angeles.