Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1884 — Recent Marriage Licenses. [ARTICLE]

Recent Marriage Licenses.

« . . The Circuit Clerk has done a ; good business in the Marriage j license line, lately, as per the following lengthy list since odr last report: Wm M. Tribby, Nell Harper. Walter Hershman, AnnaC. Sager.’ Frank Kenton, Ida Parker. Frank J. Babcoc-X', Mary A. May. Wm I. Yates, Grace M. Purcupile. Thos. C. Sayers, Emma F. Gwin.’ Jerome B. Taylor, Clara E. Spade. Smith Newell, Esther Ann Bull. Solomon A. Norman, Eliza Adair. Frank AV’ alton, Hannah Adams. John Worden, Martha E. King. James Conn, Susan Gingrich. Simpson E. Low, Florence Faris'. Wm H. Vance, Letta B. Church. A Fish Story.—Messrs. Sampson Erwin and J. P. Warner were upto the Kankakee liver very, very early this week fishing, and brought back, among tfte rest', a pike of three or four pounds weight, which, upon being dressed, according to the story, was found ■to be ballasted inside with six huge, 40 penny iron spikes. The story looks to swallow, but the same may be said of the spikes, and the truth'# it is vouched for by several responsible parties (and some of _them not fisherman which m strong point in favor of their credibility.) ; We saw the spikes ourselves and they look pretty hard feed, even for a Kautakee fiver pike, tyne o*’ihe gentlemen above nien- • doned’, ’ explains the presence of the spikes inside the fish, by say- , dug that many fisherman use them Xor sinkers, and be supposes the pike took them for something eatable and’ tore them from the' Tines of tire fishers.