Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-06
ARMY WEDDING IN WHICH
BRIDE is A SOLDIER. TOO
Miss Hicks of Harrisburg Weds Captain George A. Jackson
of the Salvation Army

Her friends i'll Harrisburg have been
much Interested in the recent wedding
of Miss Elizabeth Hicks, a graduate
of the High School and whose home
is at Third and PETER streets in this
city. Her father. who died some
months ago. was Colonel John w.
Hicks. the first officer commissioned
in the Salvation Army in the United
States.
Captain George A. Jackson of the
Salvation Army, and Miss Hicks, who
Is also a captain in the army, were
married in New York city. In a signed
article in the magazine section of the
New York World last Sunday. Izola
FORESTER tells the story of the we'd
ding, as follows:
There was an Army wedding right
here In little old New York the other
night, with beat of drums and martial
music. uniforms, and waving of flags.
Right down in Fourteenth street.
real Army wedding. Makes you think
of all sorts of things. doesn't it? Gold
lace and dashing uniforms. clink of
swords and a military band-all the
gayety and color of garrison life-per-
haps little Tightening of the lips when
the old sweet words are read:
Until death do us part
For that means a whole lot of
things when you're an Army bride
whan any day may bring marching or
ders, call perhaps to distant land,
day when the little wife stands alone
waving good-by to a speeding train or
vanishing ship.
Army brides must be brave-heart-
ed, but this little brown-eyed one,
Elizabeth Hicks, was a soldier, too, q
captain in the same army as her hus-
band. Here there is no separation
Shoulder to shoulder they are to march
through life together, as sweetheart
comrades in the Salvation Army.
TT was a double VOW they took to-
gether promising loyalty to each other
and fealty to the Army. Promising
never to allow their love to interfere
with their work. Promising always to
regard their home in every way as
Salvation Army Soldiers or Officers
Quarters.
Wasn't it a strange Army wedding?
Captain Elizabeth Hicks and her SOL
dier sweet heart, Captain George A.
Jackson.
Just supposing, you boy or girl who
expect to stand one of these days be-
side the one You love best, just sup
posing You had to repeat these vows
to be faithful soldiers, continual COM
rades, obedient to your commanding
officer first of all?
'Supposing, like these two children
OF the Army, your parents had taken
you when you were wee kiddies
trotted you up to Headquarters and
dedicated you to the service of the
Lord?
"Supposing, before YOU could ever
see each other alone in the counting
days, permission must be given from
your commanding officer, leave of alb
sence to go a-wooing?
Then, when you had finally won
her consent, you must both ask for an
official engagement. Even your we'd
ding day was set for you. You knew
that while love was to link your lives,
your duty as faithful soldiers must al
ways come first through life. You
knew that you must dedicate whatever
little ones came to bless the union to
the service of the Army, just as your
father AMI mother dedicated you?
You'd think that was a pretty hard
restraint to place on Cupid-to hand
him blue uniform, and a drum slung
handily on one hip. with War Cry
rolled under his arm. Maybe you
think Ne doesn't enjoy it? Then you
haven't been to an Army wedding
You've never seen the little smiling
blue bonnet bride.
This one is brown eyed and dark
haired, with chin that points up
ward and lips that can't help but