The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-11-20
ELLINGTON GETS
DIVORCE; MARRIES AGAIN

; RENO, Nov. 1.-THE Gazette If this city says: Miss Margaret
; Ellington, otherwise for three days last week, Miss Margaret Light,
+ the millionaire real estate and mining operator of the Pacific coast,
: with headquarters at Tacoma, yer married at $3.50 o'clock Saturday
: evening, at the home of the actress, o n Moran street. Justice of the
: Peace Souchereau of Verdi ofciated.
: It was evident that preparations for a speedy marriage between
: these two muchtaked-about people we're being made, but. their every
: move was marked with great secrecy. The license, which was signed
; as 2s and 50 respectively, and their residences a Reno and eta
: coma, = al issued until late Saturday afternoon by County Clerk
: Fogg himself.
: The actress had not had her decree but three days when she asked
Judge Pike, who granted ii, if he would marry her to Bowes, who
: had been in Reno for several days, having quietly left Tacoma the
; previous week for this city Judge Pike declined to do 10, saying
: that under the circumstances he would not consider it in good taste
} on his part, to order the issuance Of a divorce decree to her n day
! from N and practically the next day re-marry her TO another.
+ He said that he did not like the looks of such a thing and must de
+ cline her invitation to marry them
: The actress a then referred to the justice of the peace, J. f.
: souchereau Of Verdi, who is acting in the place of Justice Davis dur
ing the absence of the latter from the city. That official agreed to per
r form the ceremony at the desired hour, just previous to the depart
+ ire of No. 23 for the coast.
. souchereau trudged through The binding snow storm to the south
; side in Burke's addition, and found the couple, with Mr.. and Mrs.
l. H. Light, the parents of the actress and Miss Ehing, her maid, in
waiting. The ceremony IA performed. In speaking of the event.
Judge Souchereau said: .At its conclusion, Mr.. Bowes asked me what
: the usual fee was for the justice of peace to perform such a ser
J. vice. i replied So. He put his hand in his pocket and took therefom
! a So gold piece and handed it to me, saying thank you' 1 then de-
parted from the house and trudged back through the 10 storm
down town.
Upon the departure of the train shortly after, the actress par.
entsb bid the happy couple and the maid, goodbye, at the depot in the
binding storm, m others being present. Mrs Light then secured
a reservation for herself and husband or the Limited for the follow
ing night, for Bloomington, Illinois, and departed last night.
The Nevada home of Margaret Ellington is today dark and bare.
The couple we're eel by Reno people in San Francisco Sunday o.
their way tt the elegant mansion home recently purchased by
Bowes for their future residence in Tacoma.
The actress purchased her wedding trousseau from Mrs. J. w.
Smith, the wife of the United States army officer stationed in the
Philippines, and who recently in her bringing a large quantity of gorge
III Japanese silk goods of rich material to this country without pay
ing the duty, because involved seriously with the United States Gus
toms officials at San Francisco, previous to her reaching Reno.
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