Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1901 — Megaphone Used to Wed a Couple. [ARTICLE]

Megaphone Used to Wed a Couple.

Dr. Joseph Lutz and Miss Belle Reed, society leaders of Smith Center, Kan., were married by megaphone. Both are sick with smallpox and are under quarantine. The minister stood on the opposite side of the street from the home of the bride and shouted the ceremony through the megaphone.