Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 131, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1916 — BRYCE WHITAKER, OF HAMMOND, MARRIED [ARTICLE]

BRYCE WHITAKER, OF HAMMOND, MARRIED

Former Jasper County Man, Now Resident of Lake County, Becomes a Benedict. The Lake County Times gives the following account of the marriage of Bryce Whitaker, for some time deputy sheriff of that county and a former resident of Jasper: “It started six months' ago, when Bryce Whitaker, then deputy sheriff, cast an observing eye across the street from the courthouse and beheld a window framing a very attractive picture. Ordinarily he would have asked ‘Who’s the dame?’ but this time he was so much interested that he forgot his classic slang and asked in plain English, ‘Who is the pretty girl in the window ?’ Last Saturday he married her, Miss Florence Jackson, secretary of the Hammond board of education. They motored to Crown Point and procured a license at 10 o’clock and at 11 they were married by the Rev. Stockberger of the Methodist church, in the presence of the groom’s brothers and the bride’s mother, her brother, Ansel Jackson, and her sister. Mrs. Robert Dowling. “Sheriff Whitaker wanted to put his brother in jail on a grand larceny charge for stealing a march, but the couple pleaded an engagement at Flint Lake. They returned from there yesterday afternoon. “Until they get settled in their own home they will reside at the Jackson residence on Claude street. Mrs. Whitaker intends to continue for some time at least in her position as •secretary to the board of education, “Several months ago Bryce Whitaker resigned as deputy sheriff to take a position as chief of guards and safety first man at the Edwards Valve Manufacturing company in East Chicago. “The engagement of the former deputy sheriff and the popular secretary of the board of education was no secret to their friends, but their quiet wedding arrangements for last Saturday came somewhat as a surprise.