Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1905 — Sunderland-Scott Wedding. [ARTICLE]

Sunderland-Scott Wedding.

Thursday Miss Gertrude D. Scott of out in “South America,” came to town and had instituted patefnity proceedings against her affianced husband, Newton E. Sun derland, and Officer Vick went out to the home of his mother, Mrs. Alice Shields, northwest of town, and brought him in, he having just recovered from an eight weeks attack of typhoid fever. The young fellow readily agreed to a wedding, but some delay was experienced in getting the necessary consent of his mother, he being only 19 years old. It was finally secured however, and the marriage was solemnized by Squire Irwin, at the clerk’s office in the court house. There were no ushers, but Constable Vick officiated as the groom’s best man. The bride, who is a year younger than the groom, says they have been engaged for some time, but as the young nan had been selling some of his property lately, she became fearful that he was preparing to seek other climes, and hence thought it best to clinch him while he was clinchable. He is an industrious and pushing young fellow and capable of supporting a family, in spite of his youth.