Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 220, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1916 — ARE WEDDED BY TELEPHONE [ARTICLE]

ARE WEDDED BY TELEPHONE

Couple Used the Wire* When Thsy Found They Could Not Meet.

Great Falls, Mont.—Arthur Brugger of Havre and Miss Hattie Hudnnt of Portland, Ore., were married by telephone the other pight. The ceremony .was performed by Rev. Prentiss H. Case of Havre, Mr. Brugger being at the telephone there and Miss Hud-*

nut at the other end of the wire at her home in Portland. The ceremony began at 11 o’clock but was not finished until shortly after midnight on account of a thunderstorm some place on the line. This form of ceremony was made necessary by the fact that Brugger, who is engaged in building grain elevators, could not leave Montana, and Miss Hudnut’s parents would not permit her to come to Montana until she wus the bride of Brugger.