The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-05-19
John Sob0tOwicz and Bride
to-be Have Eleventh
Hour Difficulties.
NOW WANTS ANOTHER
misunderstanding Before AL
tar Results in Bridegroom
Sidestepping Ceremony.

A lovers quarrel before the altar
put an end to midnight wedding IN
Kenosha on Saturday night when the
nuptials of John Sobotowicz, of 513
Balm avenue, and Miss Lottie Duda,
463 Pearl street, were halted at the
Independent Polish Church after the
priest and wedding party were all
present and ready for the ceremony
to be performed. Now each of the
participants, who were to be wed,
maintains love for another after hav-
ing so narrowly escaped from the we'd
ding bonds with each other.
The couple had gone to no end of
trouble to be married at once when
their plans all went awry at the altar.
Friends who had been hastily sum-
moned to see the strange midnight
ceremony could hardly understand the
interference which had occurred and
part of it is still shrouded in mystery.
Reused Clerk from SAUNDERS.
Early Saturday afternoon Sobotowicz
and his promised bride" went to the
Office of Judge Tully and secured a
special permit to become married at
once. The bridegroom had purchased
wedding ring and had made all pre-
parations for starting their home in
Kenosha. Then with legal advisor
from Kenosha, they hurried away to
Racine to secure the signature of Mrs.
Mary Duda, the brides mother, for
the special permit. Some little diff
culties there were finally Strengthened
out and with the permit all signed
the couple returned to Kenosha.
The office of the County Clerk was
closed but they were not halted by
this They went to the home of
County Clerk Charles Holderness,
where they reused him from his slum-
bers and persuaded him to come to the
Office to issue the wedding license.
Priest Ready for Ceremony.
Then, aften ten o'clock, the couple
and their bridal party went to the
Independent Polish Church at the
corner of Congress street and Grand
avenue, where they Weakened the priest
and secured the opening of the church
for the ceremony. The priest donned
his robes and stood behind the altar
waiting for the bridegroom and his
bride to march down the taisIe.
Then came the quarrel. No one
there seems to know just what was the
matter but within very short time
both of the participants were willing
to say that they did not want the
ceremony to proceed. The wedding
ring, which they had shown with so
much pride only few minutes before
was discarded and given over to the
legal advisor who had been with them.
Bridegroom Ready to Pay.
One story of the affair declares
that the bridegroom at the last mo-
ment changed his mind. He said that
he did not want to marry his. promis-
ed bride and sought some release from
his promise. He offered $50 to the
bride, who was all attired for the
wedding, with the stipulation that he
should not then be sued for breach
of promise. After considerable
wrangling, this offer was accepted
while the impatient priest waited in
vain cor the couple to advance to the
altar. o
"Sure, I'll accept it,, the bride is
declared to have said, all too willing
to be released from her promise.
"There is another man he has
So 900. Now I can marry him."
And so the wedding party filed out
of the church and all plans for the
nuptials were abandoned.
Both the prospective bride and
bridegroom are we'll known in Kenosha
and the unexpected hating of their
wedding plans came as a great sur
prise to their many friends in the
Russian colony here.