Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1903 — Got Into Matrimony Cheap. [ARTICLE]

Got Into Matrimony Cheap.

After Bquire Troxeli bad per formed the marriage ceremony for the young couple from San Pierre, Monday afternoon, the newly made bridegroom, who then smelled of the whisky, leaned over to the Bquire and asked him to “take soufetbing on the side.”" The Squire said be never ‘‘took” and the couple then started out. The Squire then politely but firmly told the youug fellow that there was something ooming, as his wedding fee. The young fellow

dug qp 50 cents, whioh the Squire remarked was a mighty small pay for a; job of that kind, and the young man then dog some more and found another quarter. And with that the Squire was fain to content himself. But that was 25 oents more than another happy bridegroom paid him, some tim ago. The Squire kioked hard against tbe smallness of the fee that time, and even threatened to “uamarry” the couple, but the groom thought he had paid all the job was worth to’ him, and he wouldn’t pay any more.