Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1899 — A Halloween Wedding. [ARTICLE]

A Halloween Wedding.

A Halloween wedding took place in town, last evening. October 31st, It was known to be impending bat the general expectation was that it would take plaoe today, Nov. Ist, but the young couple stole a march on their friends and were married and oat of town before anyone knew anything about it. The parties were Mr. Arthur Oatt and Miss Georgia Eight. Their license was issued late in the afternoon, and about ten o’clock at night the young oouple turned up at the residence of Bev. B. F. Ferguson, on Weston street, and % his practiced hands the wedding knot was soon neatly and efficiently tied. < The young oouple then made ft short visit to the halloween dancing party, at Mrs. Ora Boss’s, hnt divulged nought of the important transaction they had just been engaged in. They left the party in time to oatch the 11 o’clook train south, whioh they took. It was their intention to take another train back to Chicago, where they will remain until Saturday, after which day they will he at home to their friends at the residence of the bride’s parents, on Franklin street The groom is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Catt, a worthy and industrious young man, and at present in the employ of Wade & Wood, of the Van Rensselaer street tonsorial establishment. The bride is the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Eight, and for two or three years past has been a book-keeper in A. McCoy & Company’s hank.