Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 251, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1917 — Mayor Spitler Performs Marriage. [ARTICLE]

Mayor Spitler Performs Marriage.

Thomas Davis, prosperous retired farmer of Kniman, Ind., aged 65 years, but as spry as a youth fit for. military service, and Mrs. Anna Putt, a blushing widow of 45 years, were married at the office of the county clerk by Mayor Charles G. Spitler. This was the third marriage for the groom and the second for the bride, the latter being the mother of eight children. Mr. Davis is the father of a number of children, all of whom are adults. The couple were very happy and the kiss given the bride by the groom at the close of the wedding ceremony and his other acts indicate his great pleasure of re-entering into matrimony. Mr. Davis is very popular and undoubtedly received a warm reception upon their arrival at Kniman, where the frinds of the couple wish them all joy and bliss and a long number of years of happy wedded life. Mrs. Simon Cooper was operated on today for the removal of a felon on her Ift hand, which has been proving quite painful.

Ray Overton, Fred and Leo Mecklenburg left today for Jacksonville, Fla., where they will work for the government this winter. Mrs. L. A. Mecklenburg and Mrs. Overton will follow in a short time. Charles Fox, for a number of years a mail carrier on the star route that went up on Wall Street and later carried the mail to and from the Monon depot to the postoffice, was in Rensselaer Tuesday. He is now employed by the Monon railroad in 4 the shops at Lafayette. For the past two weeks he had been laid up with an injury to his foot, caused by stepping on a nail. During his inability to work, the railroad took- mighty good care of him, paying his expenses and allowing him 55 per cent pf his regular wages. Mr. Fox takes The Republican dnd keeps posted on the happenings back at his old home.