Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1895 — Divorced and Married, While You Wait. [ARTICLE]

Divorced and Married, While You Wait.

Two parties were granted divorces by the circuit court, just before dinner, Tuesday, and both got married just after dinner, the same day. Thomas Akers, the Parr blacksmith, was divorced from Calperna Akers, charging abandonment. He married her about 10 years ago, in Arkansas, and she left him soon after. In the afternoon he was married to Mrs. Alice Nelson, a widow living in Barkley township. Rev. B. F. Ferguson performed the ceremony, in the office of Ferguson <fe Wilson. The other divorce was granted to Mr*. Catherine Dexter, of Carperter township from Class Dexter. They They were married Apr., 9th, 1894, and he abandoned her Aug., 4, of the same year, and left the state. A A son born in Feb., 1895, was given to the custody of the mother. This plaintiff, also, was married before the ink was dry on her divorce decree, but under her maiden name of Catherine Zwart. The groom was Richard Kiken, a farmer of Carpenter Tp. Squire Burnham performed the ceremony, and the groom was too happy to remember to hand out a couple of dollars to the Squire, for his services.