Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-10-05


Quaint Announcements cullod and c6n|s1
from Old Time Rnpara
This collection Of marriage announce
ments has been copied from old news
papers published within the last one
hundred years:
in Concord, N. IL. February s. 1914.
Isaac Hill. one Of the editors Of tho
Patriot to Miss Susan Aver, daughter
Of Captain Richard Aver
As / walked out the other day.
Through Concord street took my way;
saw a sight thought quite raro-
A Hill walked out 70 take the Aver
And now since earth and air have met %
gether,
think there'll be change Of weather
In Haverhlll. Mass. August 1929.
Cotton K. Simpson. Of Pembroke, n
H., to Miss Sarah R. Marble.
An old calculation Of gain nndloss
Proves "a stone that is rolling win gather 40
moss"
A happy expedient has lately been thought on,
BY which Marble may gather and cultivate
Cotton.
Married. at Washington. KY, March,
1914, Samuel January to Miss Panalia
january.
A cold match.
At Black Lake. L L. February,
1928, James Anderson to Miss Ann
Bread.
While toasts the lovely graoes spread
And fops around them iutter,
I'll be contented with Ann Bread
Aud won't have any but her
In Bozrah. Ct. August 1919. John
Bate of Williamstown. Mass, to Miss
Mary Ann Bass, Of the former place.
after courtship Of one hour
Is this not angling well. ask,
Such tender bate TO takei
He caught in one short hour the Bass
The Bass though caught the Bate.
Married-At williamsburg. on Fri
day, April 10, 1853, by Rev. Mr.. Ma
lone, at St. Peters Church, w. Moon
to Miss Ann Cooke.
He is not mad though lunar light
His broth did overlook,
For he has gained to his delight,
A wife that is Cooke.
His goose is cooked, aud other maids
May envy her the boon.
Whose tall ambition wished and got
The bright man In the Moon.
In New York. March. 1882. Thomas
A. Secord to Miss Cordelia Ketcham.
'Ketcham cordelia. IL you camp
I have" says she-'Secord's the man.
Married-At Bridgewater. December
16, 1883, Captain Thomas Baxter. Of
Quincy, aged sixty-three. to Miss Whit
man, OF the former place. aged fifty
seven, after long and tedious court
ship of forty-eight years, which thoy
both sustained with uncommon forth
tude.
In Concord, February. 1925. by Rev.
Dr. Mcfarland. Solomon Payne, OF
Canterbury. Ct, to Miss Ruth Barxer,
daughter OF Lemuel Barker, OF this
town.
Some females fall in love with wealth,
Some with lovely swain;
But Ruth in the boom Of health,
Takes to herself Payne.
In Concord, October, 1909. Jeremiah
p Raymond, of Weare, to Miss Susan
Gale.
constant Gale forever prove.
To fan the flame OF virtuous love
In Boston. April, 1921, by Rev. Will
liam Sabine, Joseph WiIticutt to Miss
Susan Whitmarsh, after a tedious court
ship of thirteen days. and but thirty-five
days after the death Of his former wife.
! The best way it seems for a deep sorrow to
smother
For the loss OF a wife is-to marry another.
In West Springfield, Mass. Decem.
ber, 1926, Stephen Bumprey. aged sew
enty-six, a revolutionary pensioner. to
Miss Sarah Dewey, aged thirty-eight
In 20 he fought and bled;
At seventy-six he wood and wed.
In Washington, May II, 1884 Joshua
Peck to Miss Amelia Bushel.
Alzookers, bobs and wedding cakes
What changes Ofmeasures marriage makesi
Quick as a thought at Hymen's beck,
A Bushel changed into Peck
June 26. 1915, in Carroll County, n
c., by Rev. B. Graves, Captain VIM.
Graves, son OF John Graves, Esq, to
Miss Nancy Graves, daughter Of Cen
eral Asariah Graves.
The graves, it's said,
Win yield the dead
When Gabrlels trumpet shakes the skies;
But If God please
From Graves like these
A dozen living folks may rise.
At Herculaneum. Mo-, May 20, 1921,
John w. Honey, Esq, to Mary S. Aus
ten.
From sweet flowers the busy bee
Can scarce drop Of honey gather;
But oh, how sweet flower is she
Who turns to Honey altogether.
Simple Cure for Cramps.
A physician made this statement:
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