Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1899 — Married While You Wait. [ARTICLE]

Married While You Wait.

« At 11 o’clock last Saturday forenoon; July Ist while Squire Burnham was taking a breathing spell from the arduous labor he . had been engaged in, of trying to settle the hostile difficulties of a couple of Jordan Tp. people, two other people from the same Tp., called upon him not to settle their •troubles but to begin their joys. In other words to perform the marriage ceremony for them. This the Squire proceeded to do in his usual dignified and fatherly manner. The names of the parties were Mr. Jesse E. Dunn and Miss Mollie Pruett. The ceremony took place in the Squire’s office.