The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-03
Divorce and Marriage.

1t was on the 21st day of February
last that Mrs. Margaret Gregory was
granted a divorce from her husband,
Samuel Gregory on the ground of
non-support. The case was tried be-
fore Judge Merritt, and Attorney Nor
ris Sommer was counsel for Mrs
Gregory and handed her the decree
which set her free at the age of DO
years.
Once more Margaret Walsh, she car.
ried her divorce to her trunk and
didn't do a thing the next day, Feb
ruary %, when all the country was
paying its respects to the memory of
the father of his country. George
Washington, but get a license to
marry James Mclaughlin, a sturdy
miner of Park City, and thus was sSe
divorced and married again within
tWenty-four hours.
Death and Matrimony.
From all that can be learned of her
ME as Mrs. Mclaughlin she was happy
and contented, and her husband made
her good living. Finally he took
sick, and after a lingering illness died
on November 18th ult She did not
ape the semi-savage barbarity of crepe
or useless tears. but hustled around
and got the estate left by her depart
~ L.
Last Saturday she was apnointed ad-
ministratriX by Judge McNally, and all
matters for the final accounting are in
ShlpShape. Yesterday afternoon she an
peared in the county clerks office on
tlp-toe and whispered the purport of
her errand-a marriage license-and
wanted it quick and quietly. Just
what she thought, or what the clerk
thought, If either thought, no one
knows, only that when Mrs McLaugh-
lin was told that she would have to
produce the male end of the matri-
mony contemplated she went out into
the tiled hallway and pulled Samuel
Gregory away from match tobacco
juice eXpectoration with one of the
Janitors, and waltzed him into the pres
ence of the man who issues licenses
The twain went through the formality
of twenty years ago. The whole bust
ness was gone through so quietly that
even the lady clerks did not raise
are the next couple to make themselves
miserable"
The license obtained, the old husband
and wife hurried out and down the
marble stairs, out the west entrance
and skipped over the gravel walks
across the lawn like school children.
On their way UP town thew
talked over the long ago, and more
recent subsequently,, and possible fu-
ture. The past was buried and would
remain buried. They had drifted apart
like two leaves down a stream that
were converged at an island to pass
on, each meeting a new and different
phase on either side, yet neither salts
fed, and, floating on they meet again
further down. where their currents Join
below that island and fall over ripples
of joy. That is, this is the way it is
understood they painted the pictures.
However, they went direct to Norris
Sommers' office in the Eagle block to
the very man that divorced them, and
there, in the presence of a few wit
nesses, they were again made man and
wife before supper time last evening.
Both are 46 years old. Mr. Gregory
is an employee in the Alta club, and
when Mrs. Gregory has the estate left
by her late husbands will, there is
not much prospect of an industrial
army separating them again The ro-
nance has some strange features about
it, especially that eccentric genius dis
played in doing things quickly and
without any sentimentality, which
clothe the story with more than pass
ing interest.