Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1916 — Marriage Licenses to Chicago Couples Have Interesting Features. [ARTICLE]

Marriage Licenses to Chicago Couples Have Interesting Features.

Chicago couples, particularly in - cases where one or the other party has been divorced, frequently come here for miarriage licenses. The Illinois statute does not permit marriage within a year, but the couples can come over to Indiana and get married the same day. Monday a license was issued to two couples here. The first was to Victor Hugo Henry Grothkopt, a motorman, and Miss Agmes Caroline Gresham, nurse. The record shows some queer international relationships. Grothkopf’s father was a German, his mother was a Norwegian and they named him Victor Hugo, after the French author. Just what the nationality of his first wife was is not shown in the record, but he procured a divorce from her or she from him and this time he married an English girl. It is hoped that no 42-centimeter guns or bomb tossing Zeppelins interfere to destroy the harmony of their lives and that the god of neutrality shall protect them throughout their lives. Another Chicago couple was Jay Cook Barr, an instructor, who married Mellha Mae French, who true to her maiden name, is a musician. The marriage license record shows that neither wtas married oefore and it is hoped neither will be again. Both couples were married at the clerk's office by Rev. W. H. Sayler.