People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1897 — Duvall-Braginton. [ARTICLE]

Duvall-Braginton.

We clip the following from the South Bend Daily Times, the groom being an old Rensselaer boy; Mr. Samuel H. Duvall and Miss Mary J. Braginton were happily married Monday evening at 8 o’clock, Justice Whitcomb tying the knot in the presence of a few friends of the contracting parties. Mr. Duvall is a well known contractor of the city, and both he and his bride have many friends who will join in wishing them much joy in their new relation. They will commence housekeeping at once in their pleasantly furnished home at 528 Michigan avenue. It is of course a great evidence of prosperity in a country like ours to record each week extensive real estate transfers. But if attached to each of these transfers were the records of mortgages due which forced the same, it would relate a different tale. Yet it is supposed that readers in other localities will not know the meaning of such experiences, but in that you are mistaken, for the entire country is making transfers on exactly the same basis, forced tranters, for the reason that the lands cannot produce sufficient to pay interest and a decent living for a landlord and tenants. We read of a sale of an 880 acre ranch for the sum of 835,000. Big transfer, but go back a few months that same

tract had been bought by some one who thought he could use it profitably, gives it up, and the papers are made out to another but it scores a ‘Teal estate transfer” and the mystifying process goes merrily on. Why does ligitimate business consist of eternally fooling the other fellow?