The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-21
CUPID IN THE COURT HOUSE.
Romantic Wedding Presided Over by
Clerk Observation-Disclosures
Gets a Dazzling Bride.

The marriage here yesterday of Mr.
Frank Leslie Rodgers to MISS Mauu
Lee Spangle, both of PhlladeIphla,
gave truly holiday ten minutes OF
romance to noon day at the court
house and provided Deputy Clerk VT
r+1yins Royster with the price OF
Christmas turkey.
The wedding had a special interest,
both in the circumstances of its cele-
bration in Raleigh and in the person
ality of the parties to the contract, the
season was right there was the en-
chantment that hangs about mar
riage which is made without detail
of arrangement-and the bride was
pretty and happier even than she was
beautiful.
That is saying good deal for the
ioy of Mrs. Rodgers for she took
away the breath of the court mouse
ring" Clerk Royster kept his eyes
manfully on his book as he read the
service which is printed in the DOCK
of forms lest ne lose his place IN the
deeps of the eyes Of the bride; Clerk
Novel; stood and looked on enchanl-
edly with his lips parted III adihira
ton: and Clerk Penny turned ms eyes
piously to the ceiling lest ne lose tile
air of non-surprise which ne mas ac,
nuired i'm his travels over seas, ana
overflow the office at the roiiiallIie
rumor of a wedding gasped and look
| cd on Mr. Rodgers as prodlgy o.
And so he was The young woman
NJ his side was a bride to grace
| lxingly hall. She was woman hot
( large. but with a poise, not TAT, Dul
round, not tall. but nor ouIips. the
| was the perfection OF contour, the
SYNONYM of grace. Truly, she was
poem this court house bride and as
She stood by the side of her lover
backed against the iron doors 81 we
vault taking the acknowledgements
written down in a law book, she made
| a fascinating picture. Her halr was
brown, with living lgnt III ~
| mounted by a hat with long Wnlte
| feather cllrving about the brm ike
! the plume of an ancient lady on her
palfrev Her eyes We're broWner yet
with softer lights, coquetting under
/ darker lashes. Her nose was an
| adorable incident and her NOUN a
! flash of red lips and curves ana
cleaning teeth which was the cloMl l
| ing disconcertment. The rapt specta-
| tors got no further than the mouth
| the eve that forced itself away m
| couutered q small chin, stout ana
round and firm With dimDle IN IL.
| 4 dimple which came and went as
though nature had not ALREADY play
| ed the limit with its tantilizauon!
| And this creature VINO dazzlea tilt
| Register of Deeds Office had travelled
| alone from Philadelphia to Ralelgh
| 10 meet q slender. hard listed, knot
vristed man with a red mustasche
and sandy hair, dressed IN blue
! army shirt and with the wrinkles OF
| forty years criSs-crossing tofeheaei
that spoke Of hard work and nara
the husband of the woman Who daZ-
zled the oflice-a stoical, Scotch IKE
person who looked from his keen
grey ewes even at Beauty-his beauty
| -unabashed.
| And so they We're married. the prlqe
| vNaciously happy, dimpiins anu
| smiling through the service sAS
groom, sober with long haplt mahlhs
his face say his transport was q DUTY
| the crowd happy in the romantic PIC
ture, half indignant as crowds always
arc when loneliness capltulateS 10
| strength. And Clerk Register got up
p. beautiful certificate With red Dord-
! er to it: and Mr.. Rodgers PAID quart
! er therefor and handed over TWO dol
| lars as a fee; and everybody Siilile'i;
| and the certificate was signed. ana
Mr.. and Mrs Rodgers shook hands
all round and walked happily out into
| the-that is across to the 1arOorO lcf
| a wedding lunch.
All this took place about noon yes
terday. Mr.. Rodgers is an expert
machinist who is doing special work
! for the American Tobacco Company
! i'm Durham His business keeping
| him in the State his bride came on to
meet him here. They walked into the
Registers Office and Mr.. Rodgers
| bought license. He is forty she is
| twenty They are both from Phlla-
delphia 1t was suggested that the
! sooner the deed, the better Clerk
Royster was summoned. lie stoou
the happy pair in front OF the vault
door. looked at the license through
his eye glasses and proceeded TO ne
| the knot, while people tip-toed in Dy
the score to see The rumor flew and
others came Just as the certificate
was being signed, Rev. NJ ". Butler
arrived, having received a hurry call
for q parson. But the beauty and
the man whose hands We're fnotted
with work We're alreA}y hurried ana
happy in the fact. And Clerk i.uyS7
ter was jingling Christmas turkey IN
his pants pocket.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rodgers left III the
afternoon for Durham. Thence they
will go on d brief wedding trips ~
Washington.
If their life be as happy as they
ma dc the crowd that WlS@hct them
wed, the match will be the feast that
ever came out of the form book.
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