Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1899 — Married By Judge Thompson. [ARTICLE]

Married By Judge Thompson.

Judges of Circuit Courts are authorized by law to solemnize marriage ceremonies, but plums of that kind do not come their way with troublesome frequency. Thus Judge Thompson ,though he has been a judge for several years, had his first call to pronounce a marriage ceremony last Saturday after noon Sept. 23rd. The contracting parties were Mr. Oliver P. H. Hodge, of Owen couq ty and Miss Cora E. Huber, of Wheatfield, this county. The ceremony was performed in the circuit court room. Though this was the Judge’s first marriage ceremony in this county, it was not his first work in that line, as he has also preform ed three marriages in Benton county and one in Newton county.