The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-02
SEPARATED FOR
 B YEARS, PAIR
 MARRIED AGAIN

New York, Aug. 2.-"It isn't as if it Williams Dobbs Butler yesterday, as, at GA, she was again married to the man to whom she was married at 19 She and her husband had been sep arated 33 years, since she got a di- vorce from him after 12 years of life together, and for 15 years she has been Mrs. Butler.
 After Mrs. Dobbs had become Mrs. Butler MT. Dobbs married the core spondent in her action for divorce. Both partners in the second marriage have died. A reconciliation was brought about through the son of the couple, Wilbur Dobbs, 40 years old, an actor.
 Now did it seem different to be married this time than before?" said Mrs. Dobbs last night, blushfng be- meath her gray curls in answer to 8 question. Well, I was a lot more nervous this time. My hand shook so had to hang on to the minister, and guess I held MT. Dobbs hand longer than was supposed to.
 "Sixty-four is pretty old to get mar ried, isn't it? But it isn't as if it was a stranger. Both of us know just whom we are getting."
 Parted, Welded, Widowed, Welded.
 The bridegroom, who has been liv- ing at No. 1000 Decatur street, Brook lyn, is 68 years old. His neighbors re- been married again.
 MT. Dobbs wouldn't be married. !" they said. You've made a mistake. He's not young man."
 MT. Dobbs is a printer, and has been president of the Pressmen's Union several times.
 Mrs. Dobbs Butler Dobbs has been living at No. S54 Bushwick avenue.
 forty-five years ago, when Delilah Williams was 19 and Peter Jay Dobbs was 23, they were married Twelve years later, when their son Wilbur was seven years old, their home was broken up by the "other woman" Mrs. Dobbs obtained a divorce in Kings county and went away with the child, who continued to see his father occasionally.
 Eighteen years later she became Mrs. Butler. A year or two after ward MT. Dobbs married the woman who had broken up his home. The divorced couple did not see each other for years
 Six years ago MT. Butler died and soon afterward MT. Dobbs was left w1dower. Wilbur, the soh, while travelling in the west, met his father and told him of his first wife's af- fairs.
 Didn't Mind People Hearing.
 MT. Dobbs vowed he would come back to New York to see her. He did, and ,as Mrs. Dobbs says. ''he kept calling, off and on," and after a sec ond courtship of three years they were remarried yesterday at the home of Mrs. Lima Kimball, No. 96 Palmetto street, Brooklyn. Mrs. Kimball CT years old, was the matron of honor. Her husband, who was also in the bridal party, is 70.
 When we went to the Marriage Li- cense Bureau and I showed them my divorce papers so I could get married again., said Mrs. DobbS, b1uShing again, T said to MT. Dobbs that the newspapers would hear some way, of. us old folks being married again. And he said, Do you care?' and I said, Well, I guess I shouldn't care about people hearing about it, if you don't So then he had to say he didn't care, either.
 'The papers didn't all get it right They said we had been separated only 2T years. It is 33. That's Q long time. isn't it? But then, when you get married again, you know each oth- CT and yet you don't, SC it's all