Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1915 — COUPLE WEDS AGAIN JUST "TO MAKE SURE” [ARTICLE]

COUPLE WEDS AGAIN JUST "TO MAKE SURE”

Wife Was Troubled About the Legal Status of Ho- Marriage To a Divorcee. Mrs.' Gertrude Hassler Carpenter, of Chicago, thought people were whis-’ pering that she was not a lawfully wedded wife because Frederick Carpenter had not obeyed that statute of Illinois which forbids a divorced person to remarry within a year after the issuance of the decree. They were married in Kenosha shortly after the divorce. Two years later Mrs. Carpenter worried ko that her husband suggested “another quiet little wedding.” Last Thursday they went to Crown Point and had Judge Kemp officiate at a second ceremony. The bride gave herself to her husband “to have, to hold, to love so long as he proves true,” and the bridegroom agreed “to be faithful in words and thoughts and deeds, to protect and love and devote my life to her, to bring hej- the happiness and content-' ment which she so well deserves.” Several Chicago divorcees under the same court orders have been married in Rensselaer, but we have never known of their consciences affecting them sufficiently to have it done over again. The average Chicago conscience in such matters is not easily affected.