Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1899 — A Sunday Morning Marriage. [ARTICLE]

A Sunday Morning Marriage.

At eight o’clock Sunday morning, Oct. 22,1899, at the residence of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Alter, on Weston street, took place the marriage of Mr. Ross Grant and Miss Bertha Alter. Those present were only members of the two families and a number of the bride’s girl friends. Rev. V. O. Fritts, of the Missionary Baptist church, pronounced the ceremony. The newly married are among Rensselaer’s best known and most highly respected young people. The groom is the oldest son of Mrs. Mattie Grant. After years of faithful services as a clerk in Eger’s grocery store, he was given a good situation in Reed, Murdock & Co’s big wholesale grocery, in Chicago, and later was appointed their commercial traveler for southern Michigan and northern Indiana, with headquarters at South Bend. His bride has been, for a long time a clerk in Ellis & Murray’s store, and was one of the best and most popular lady clerks in the city. After the ceremony the bridal couple took the 9:55 train for Chicago, and for the present will make their home in that city.