The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-16

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 Therefore the clerk made out docu- ment, describing the color. of his hair and eyes, giving his night. weight and age. and other characteristics.
 Taking the license. tae young man set out to find his fancee and then to find a minister. The clergyman was about to perform the ceremony wIen he looked at the license.
 Well" he said. this authorizes you to hunt various kinds or game, but don't see anything aurnorizing you to take a wife"
 He handed Mir Bird the document, and the astounded bridegroom found that he had hunters license and not a mar riage license. The bride promptly did what all self-respecting brides would have done. She tainted. The bride groom left other persons to bring her back to life while he hIt the pike for the license office again.
 There is now in the clerks office a de- tached certificate pinued to the stub of the hunters license boox, and across the face in red ink is written: ''canceled; not needed"
 Jacob s. Rosenthal of Cincinnati went about his courtship in q strange way. He represents New York house, and in the course of his travelling stopped at In-
 
 numerous occasions and fell fin love with the voice of the telephone operator. He proposed marriage over the telephone and was accepted.
 The two made an appointment to meet and look at each other. They were not disappointed. They decided on an fmme- diate marriage and al 2 o'clock in the morning hunted up Magistrate Stout at his home, reused him out of bed and had the ceremony performed, the magis- trate in his night garments.
 The father of the grvOm took the mat ter philosophically and said that his son was old enough to take care of his own heart as well as his purse.
 Miss Bessie McNeaI of Wayne. Neb also had peculiar sort of wedding. She escaped from Wayne Tn boys clothing with Henry A. Blunt and was married at Sioux City fin the presence of her step mother and all her relatives. The geta- away in boys clothing was just to add dash of romance to the affair. They had been caught on the runaway by their stepmother and had been brought back to Wayne. There everything was talk ed over and it was agreed to permit the marriage. So the wedding party set out for Sioux City and there the mar riage took place. The bride wore her hair tied with ribbon and hanging down her back.
 Instead of the wedding which was to have taken place between Oscar Hill and Miss Mary Morrison, the funeral of Os- car Hill occurred from the brides home. 667 Mississippi street. St. Paul.
 The gay bridal garments which had all been made, and other incidentals to the ceremony which had been provided, were laid aside in an unoccupied room, and the young woman who was to have been joined for life to the man of whom death had robbed her was arrayed in mourn full black. The priest who had already | been engaged to perform the marriage | ceremony read the funeral service. The end to the engagement of Oscar Hill and Miss Morrison came last. Mon l day when the intended groom died at | Bethesda hospital Of appendicitis. The stricken man was taken i'll two weeks | ago, but the nature of his afliction was not known at first. His physicians held | out assuring hopes to the anxious man | and the more anxious young woman, | who was constantly at nls bedside to at tend him.
 1 inalIy, his condition not improving. he | was advised to go to the hospital. The 1 exact state of his condition was careful ly kept from the solicitous young wom- an, and she was told that he would be out of the hospital entirely we'll before | the day set for the wedding. Prepara- tioDs, therefore were carried on. and as the day drew near everything was in readiness.
 Monday, however, came a fatal re- lapse. and all that his physicians could | do for him was of no avail. In the even Ing he died, while his intended bride was | putting the finishing touches to the gown | she was to have worn ar her wedding. Gently the sad news of the death of | her intended husband was broken to the | lll-fated girl. So prostrated was she by | the news that she was carried to her | ped, where she was careruIly attended by | friends. She recovered sui | nciently to be present at the funeral.
 A Cincinnati couple feared the things | which their kind and energetic friends | might have planned for them. William | Hickey and Miss Minnie Savage lodged | the rice throwing and other outbreaks | customary on the festive marriage occa- | sion by hiding their getaway clothes in | some part of the city not yet known | stealing away from their friends. dressing | at this unknown spoe, and leaving for ] parts unknown on some unknown train. | The friends still are standing about the | house with shoes and rec fin their hands | waiting for some onu 10 show up at whom they can fire the parting shots
 
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