Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1901 — A Clerk’s Office Wedding. [ARTICLE]

A Clerk’s Office Wedding.

J. W. Jacks, one of the parties that arrived here last Friday, from Coats, Kansas, had a far more important mission here than the visit to the family of his brother, Hiram Jacks, namely the culmination of a love affair by the matrimonial route. The object of bis long journey and the other half of the marriage contract was Mrs Aogelia Shipman of near Remington. The marriage ceremony was performed by A. L. Ward in the clerk’s office at 9 o’clock last Tuesday mornnig July 30th, 1901. The groom is 64 years of age and this is his 4th' voyage on the matrimonial sea. The bride is 51 years of age and is proportionately to her age about as often married as the groom, this being her third marriage. Both are estimable people and have many friends and well wishers in this county. The groom is engaged in the poultry business in Coats, Kans. where they will go to reside aftef a short visit with relatives here.