Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1888 — A DOUBLE WEDDING. [ARTICLE]

A DOUBLE WEDDING.

' r • ■ •" ■' , s ' t Was II an Elopement! Two young couples came to Rensselaer on the 4 p. m. train last Thursday afternoon, February 23. Their names were Elias Pullins and Mias Mary Millage, and William L. Adams and Miss Jessie Hedge. Shortly after their arrival the young men called at the County Clerk’s office and each obtained a license to marry the lady with whom his name is herewith coupled. The youirg fellows took turn about in swearing that tip other’s prospective bride was ovpx 18 years old and a resident of Jas- - per county. The whole party put up the Nowe’s House and later in the evening the respective couples were united in marriage by the brisk and brief, but nevertheless effective marriage ceremony of J. C. Morgan, J. P., freely assisted by'“Bev.” John G. Ileynolds, D. D. (director of devilment) After the ceremony, the few witnesses present joined in congratulating the young couples, not omitting to follow Mr. Reynolds’ cheerful example of heartily kissing the entirely kissable young brides. The latter were uncommonly pretty girls and handsomely dressed. The grooms were stalwart young fellows, evidently rather fresh, in the ways of polished society, with even a slight trace of “toughness” apparent in their deportment. The whole p v*rty were reticent about answering questions as to their exact places of residence,, and at the wedding they all gave it as ih'ns’sekn'r: An obvious-anti undoubted ] irevarication. They all left town on the 11 A. M. train, Friday, having bought tickets and had their baggage checked for Medmyville, and near they Minally claimed to reside. They <dl gave Ohio as their birthplaces, and the ages of the brides’ •is 19 at their next birthday aud <.!’ the grooms as 22. and. 23 ia- ] if-etivelyi- - - —-jM.any of tire circumslances of this uiarriage would seem to indicate that a double action clopetpent was somewhere concealed therein, but as to the truth ot tine theory we have no positive e.-i----dence.