Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-12-14
WORT NEWS, NA.,9W EDNESi) IlDECEMl}ER Il, 1898
PRECEDENT REVERSED.
How a Pretty Girl Secured a Marriage
License Yesterday

Ai'" d TretlS AIifl secured a Marriage
License Yesterday
A good many curious and interesting
things happen under the roof of the
courthouse building. and in the dusty
and rnusty records. many q romance
and deed peculiar are hidden away.
Hardly day passes that something
does not occur just a little out of the
usual in one OF the departments, and
ofteneSt. in the clerks office
about the most surprised man in the
building yesterday was Mr.. c. C. Har
grave. deputy clerk He was sitting at
his desk as usual. scratching away In
the everlasting deed book. when a
pretty little lady stepped in and de-
nlanded n marriage license. This being
the first time in the history of this par
GUAR clerks ctiice that a lady has ever
made such demand. Mr.. Hargrave
was not quite certain that his ears were
not deceiving him. so he asked her to
repeat the order. which she did. and
very prettily. explaining az she went
along. that her husband who-is- to be
was at work and could not AFFORD, to
lose half Il day to get the marriage Ii
cense. SO she had decided to come dawn
and get it herself
OF course. there was a good deal of
blushing while this recital was in prog
resS. but the young lady, who has seen
nineteen Warwick county summers.
passed through the ordeal with flyiny
colors and stood at the head OF her class
in the customary examination which
followed
sometime ago and not so very long
ago. either Il young man procured IA
marriage license of the clerk hut in his
perturbation. he got the names wrong.
Someway. and being 4 busy individual.
as in the case of the other happy man,
he was unable to take the time to come
BACK to the office to have the proper
correction made. so his sweetheart came
instead. SAID sweetheart promptly
married the young man on the appGint-
ed date. and being something of an rx-
pert in the matter of getting marriage
icenses Strengthened out, she accom-
panied the pretty girl who reversed the
rule so charmingly yesterday.
1t is stated ;hat the masculine wit
ncsscs of the scene looked on with I'M
stinted admiration for there, said they,
is girl worth marrying. She'll save
that man more money in year than he
has saved in his whole life before
Now that the style has been set. the
prediction may be ventured that it will
not fall into innocuous desuetude but
VIII be followed oftener in the future
than some people are able To imagine.
And Why not?
AN IMPOSING DOCUMENT
About the most imposing looking doc
ument ever entered in the clerks office.
to be SO comparatively unimportnnt.
was commission Of power of attorney
brought in yesterday. This commission
was from Mr.. Joseph II. Young ct al. OF
Central City. Iowa, to Mr.. T. a. Gard
Her. of Wakefield, Rhode Island. Civ
Ing the latter power to dispose of GER
tain property of the first parties To-
Gated on the corner of Twentythird
street and Washington avenue.
Upon this innocent piece OF paper
were affixed no less than eight notarial
seals. stamped in offices in Iowa, Tex
as. Connecticut Illinois, Massa chusetts
and Rhcde Island. The reason for this
state of affairs exists in the fact that
the mysterious let al" above noted
seems to have been very widely scatter
ed. and. of course. it was necessary for
all the parties to the transaction to
sign the document. and to do it in the
presence of a notary according to i.ae
customary legal formalities. In th,s
:ase, representing the parties OF the
First part, there was Mr. Joseph r.
Yours and wife, of Creston City. Iowa;
Mr.. Frank r. Young and Wife, of Jolii-
tit. Illinois; Mr.. Hampton Young and
wife. of Galveston, Texas: and not to
particularize any further, n lot of other
Toungs of Providence and East Provi-
,'encc. Rhode Island a few in Boston,
some more in Atlanta. Georgia, and per-
hapS some others scattered over the
globe at various places.