Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1907 — Two Marriages Thursday. [ARTICLE]

Two Marriages Thursday.

There were two marriages in town on Thursday, the last day of January, and they were one fourth of all the weddings in the county for the whole of that month. The first of the two wedding took place just at noon, at the residence on Cullen street of the officiating clergyman, Bev. B. F. Ferguson. The parties were a young couple from northwest of town, the groom being Asa Moore Besse, 22 years old, and a son of Oliver Besse. The bride was Miss Pearl Addie Karr, daughter of John Karr, .who lives on the A. F. Long farm, in Newton township. They were accompanied by two brothers of the bride and by the wife of one of them. It is understood that thej will make their home with the bride’s father, whose only housekeeper she is. —* The second wedding took place about four P. M. at the office of Squire S. C. Irwin, wtio performed the ceremony. The parties were the couple whose troubles in finding each other in Thursday morning’s big snow storm, are elsewhere related. They were Mr. Albert Edward Pattee, son of John Pattee, of near Newland, and not much past 23 years old, and Mrs. Sadie Belle Monroe, of Lafayette. She was married on her 25th birthday, and thus got a young husband for a birthday present and reciprocated by presenting him with a bright looking little step-son about four years old. She lost her former husband on the 17th of last December, thus exemplifying the rule that “one good man deserves anj other” and that without any unnecessary loss of time. The groom states his occupation as a hotel clerk, and the bride her’s as a dressmaker. The marriage returns are witnessed by H. C. Reed, landlord of the Nowels House and by City Marshal Parks, tho he was not there in his official capacity, but no relatives of either party were with them. They will make their home for the present with Iht groom’s father in Barkley township.