Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1912 — BIG TIME AT WHEATFIELD. [ARTICLE]

BIG TIME AT WHEATFIELD.

Double Wedding of Gypsies to Be Celebrated After Tribal Custom. A double wedding of the two young Gypsy couples who procured licences here Tuesday afternoon will be celebrated at Wheatfield tomorrow’ after the custom of these dark skinned nomads. Ground has been leased for the celebration dancing and feasting will prevail all day. The marriage is quite a notable one the tribe, which is camping near Wheatfield, in that brother and sister marry brother and sister, and it is said that there will be tribesmen present from all over this section of the country. AX first it was said that there would be over two hundred Gypsies in attendance at the celebration, but it is now claimed there will be double this number, and no doubt with the large number of outsiders attracted to the grounds—a part of the field where ball games are held, having been leased for the occasion—a land-office business at fortune telling and “hoss trading” will be done. In addition to the Gypsy wedding celebration the Kankakee baseball team is to play the Wheatfield Regulars, and this game will also be a great drawing tfegiMiro. so that it is likely that Wheatfield will have the largest crowd of people there to-morrow that it has ever had in its history. The marriage of the two couples, by the way, is quite an international alliance. One of the grooms was born in Colorado, while his father was born in Australia and his mother in Brazil, South America. His bride was born, as was her mother, in Brazil, S. A., and her father was bom in France. Reverse it and you have the geneology of the. other couple. The occupation of both the grooms and brides was given as “horse dealer” in the license applications, also that of both their fathers and mothers. Only one of the applicants, Gus George, was able to write his name the others signatures were by marks.