Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1910-08-19
YOUTH A VICTIM
OF CRUELFATE
CRON FORGETFuL N TRYING
FOR MARRIAGE LICENSE.
lie is STILL DISSATISFIED
Drives from Sldatook 10 Tulsa
Drives Back--DrNcs to Tulsa
Agali-'rhcn Back.

II ever AN intended groom was put
to his wits ends to have everything
pulled OF ON the DOT in connection
Win his wedding IL was Cay CroN %
youth of ~, who Yesterday made APP
plicatlun tor marriage license to the
clerk of the county court
The young man showed early In
the game that hr did not quite under
stand the prescribed limits i'm taking
ont a license To- marry nor the rec
strictons that are paced ON those
who have not attained tu the rights
OF majority
Early In the day he appeared at the
court house, accompanied by his
mother and his Intended, Miss Pearl
Mikcls, ~ years old They had
driven down from Skiutouk to got the
license, the mother of the young man
coming along So that NO trouble would
be experienced getting the document
for which cupid had been mulesting
them
Everything was GLIDING along
smoothly until the clerk informed the
young man that It would be- neces-
sary for one OF her parents to con-
sent to the Issuance of the license.
The Prospective groom looked down
cast ana visions Of the wedding not
occurring ON schedule time swampcd
his mind
But pshnw' IT'S only a little jog
up To Skatook whore lives her faith
er--some fourteen olhftccn miles ana
while he was lOathc a. leave the
court house without the license he
bundled his mother aud sweetheart
into the rig, ana with lash In hand
had soon covered the distance to the
little town TO the north.
with only a few minutes delay at
| Skatook, he unloaded his mother and
| his intended, drove hastily To- the
home of Aaron Mikcls. got him into
| the vehicle, ana was happily on his
way back to Tulsa with his heart
as huoyant as hearts ever gcl 10 be.
II was pretty cool yesterday and the
steeds were urged up Il trille on the
return to Tulsa There's no harm In
driving a team "A little Bit fast when
| there Is so much at stake, ana the
| first thing the two animals knew they
We're swinging IN turn on East Sec
ond In front Of the court house.
Up the stair-steps went the Two aud
the father Of the girl showed that
everything was all right with him and
that he was happy to have the young
man Tor his son-n-law by uuhesi-
| tatingly signing a permit for the is
suanCe of the license.
| Almost anybody who has ever tray
| eled over the road Of marriage H.
| cense getting can appreciate the joy
Gus feelings that swelled In the bosom
| of Croy when he saw the old gentle
mans signature attached 10 the per
| nit
The fates are eXCeodinlY cruel at
times. lie couldn't yet be granted
the license.
In his haste 10 make the return TO
Tulsa he had inadvertently forgotten
that his mother had not given her
consent to his marriage nor had she
gone through the signing process re
Quired by law. Here WAS Croy and
his future father-in-law in Tulsa, the
second time for the young man
with SkiatOok fifteen miles away.
But that was the cruel clerks def
nothing doing until some one with
| authority to do 80 signed up for the
| l9-year-Old youth II was then too
late In the afternoon to go to Skia-
took and back the second time-of
course, the clerk wasn't afraid that
everything was not all right, etc, etc,
but the statute very plainly SAYS etc,
ETC. so the Soung man, goadcd almost
to despair, clambered into the rig and
slowly turning the steeds, began his
homeward Journey wholly dishearten-
ed with his days work,
But like nobody should -.be under