Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1903 — Married After Some Tribulations. [ARTICLE]

Married After Some Tribulations.

Edward Davis and Clara Stephenson, a rather small and decid- ! edly youthful looking oouple, call-! ed at the oounty olerk’s office Mon- 1 day forenoon, for a license. They j claimed they werp both residents I of Kankakee Tp., and also both' old enough to lawfully marry without the consent of parents or guardians. Their looks certainly' 1 did not bear out this last statement, ( and furthermore, Clerk Major bad received word by telephone that a youthful runaway couple, one of whom lived in Starke oounty, were probably on their w«y to Rensse- 1 laer, after a license, and this made him rather reluctant to issue the license, and he asked the young man to put him in telephone com- j munioation with some one who knew they were entitled to a license. Instead, the young man [ said be would find some one in | town to vouch for them, and went out He returned aboat 2:30 p. j m., with the necessary facts, the license was issued and forthwith the young oouple repaired to Bquim TroxeU’e office, and were married. They were, in Bbake*. perian language, much more elder than their looks, for he is 22 and his bride 20, at their next birthdays. A