Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1911 — FOILED IN THE ATTEMPT. [ARTICLE]

FOILED IN THE ATTEMPT.

This afternoon Frank Strump of near Watseka, 111., and Miss Lilly Heneley of Rensselaer came to town with the intention of getting married. The bride-to-be was blushing and retiring and preferred to consult the clerk in the darkened precincts of the hall, and Clerk Norquest being of a gallant nature moved his office out to her, 'until alas, she announced that her home was in Rensselaer, and then it was all off. Hard-heartedly he refused to go further, because it is against the law for a clerk to issue a license to parties where the bride resides outside the county, and Clarence has a lively sense of the danger that someone else might want his cosy seat if he got too gallant in these little things. The groom was persistent and indicated that he thought that a measly little dollar and a half was too little for a clerk to get for issuing a license and all that, but the last 1 seep of the couple; Miss Henely was leading the procession out of the court house, and scornfully asking her admirer, “Why don’t you come on?”—Benton Review. t