Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1907 — A Pair Of May Day Weddings. [ARTICLE]

A Pair Of May Day Weddings.

Judge Hanley got the first May Day vedding ot 1907 in Jaspeu E county, bat the “Marrying Squire, ,r was not far behind him, reaching the winning post only a few minutes after tbfe jndge, and a much older and slower team to get there with.

The Judge's wedding took place in the clerk’s office immediately after court adjourned for the dinner hour, and the parties were a young couple from “ap on Gifford” being Mr. George \v. Hanniford, of Gifford, and a railroader worker by f occupation, and Miss Maud Mae Martin, of Newland. He was 25 years old and his bride only 17 and bad to produce the written consent of her pUients before a license could be issued. No friends or relative- accompanied them but their wedding was witnessed by a room full of people from the court room,

But while iu this first wedding the parties were in the May time of life as well as the May time of the year; in the second which followed a few minutes later, and

took place in the same room, the parties were well along towards December of their lives. They were Theodore Hurley, formerly for many years merchant and postmaster at Blackford, now having no occupation but giving as his means of support, a pension of S3O per month, as a soldier of the civil war. His bride was Mrs. Sarah Cavinder, and both gave their present residences as Rensselaer. There were no friends and but few witnesses at this wedding, the ceremony for which having been performed by Squire S. C. Irwin. The groom is 70 years old and has been married turee times before. His bride is 65 And has had one.