Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1906 — KENNEDY-POLLARD. [ARTICLE]

KENNEDY-POLLARD.

W. Kennedy, a well known old bachelor of Jordan township, hied himself to Pike county, Ohio, last week and returned Saturday evening with a blushing bride, in tbe person of Miss Mildred Pollard of Waverly, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy stayed in Rensselaer Saturday night and Sunday went out to their home in Jordan. They rather expected a visit from their friends Monday night, and in order to be prepared the groom laid in a supply of cigars, candy, etc., to treat the visitors when they arrived. Their friends, however, proposed to make their visit unexpected, and soon after midnight, men and women to the number of 50 to 75, who had met at another neighbors by previous arrangement, bore down upon the unconscious and peacefully slumbering couple, and a broadside of heavily loaded Bhotguns were fired which jarred out a couple of windows glass and made them think that a “seismic disturbance” worse than that which recently took place in San Francisco, had yisited old Jordan. , „ The music of other instruments of torture, however, soon dispelled this idea, and Jim hurried donned his pantaloons and hastened to the door and asked for peace terms, iuviting the bombarding host into the house and passing around his “treats.” The shock to his nerves was hard to get over even after seeing what bad caused all the noise,'and his limbs were wobbly for quite a while. Aftet making a brief visit and wishing them well the party of seranaders returned to their homes, having enjoyed the charivari no donbt more than did Jim and his bride, at least more than they enjoyed the opening part of it.