The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-04-06

You just ought to have seen that looking pair I ever married. He had been living all alone in a little shanty on secluded hillside, but he'd fixed himself up for the occasion the best he knew how. And so had she. Hair shcked back with grease, beard part ed and brushed out, bandana handker- chief tied around the neck of q soft shirt, and cut-away coat-that was the groom. Funny little old bonnet corkscrew curls, stiff black dress with hoop skirts that was the bride But they lived happily ever after, even though they didn't have long to live.
 'I don't know which was the I've married many that had to have their parents consent And, I pre- sume, I've marrted some who lied about their ages.
 Prayer Followed by $50 Fee.
 ''The largest fee I ever received was $50. I prayed eight hours for that. I needed that amount to pay for a new buggy. I didn't tell the bridegroom so, but I told the Lord man to hand me five $10 bills. ''The most famous man I ever mar ried was Joe Stecher.
 ''The meanest bridegroom I ever married was No. S49. Nice-appearing chap, Charles w. McKown. Told me he was a minister's son. But just three days after I pronounced the words which made him and Mrs. Alice T. Coffee, of Omaha, man and wife, I found out that he had thirteen different wives on his trial. And a St Patrick's Day wedding it was, at that .. .. Fifty Double Weddings .
 i've officiated at more than fifty double weddings. There are at least thirty re-marriages on my books. I'll tell you that's what does a persons hon h16 foolish quarrels and have been di- vorced, only to find that they can't live without each other.
 The largest wedding I ever had was at Lnkeview last July, when 10000 people witnessed the cere- mony. That was also the noisiest wedding. My quietest weddings were marriages of deaf mutes I've off ciated at ten of them.
 My earliest wedding was at 13e a. m., a couple from Des NIoines, whose train had been delayed" The Rev. MT. Savidge has many monial counter. In several instances he has officiated at a wornan's first and second marriage. He has mar ried whole families of brothers and sisters and in dozens of cases has married the son or daughter of a couple whom he married early in his career. Literally hundreds of names appear on his books, first witnesses and later as brides and grooms. For instance, Groom No. 4990, entered recently, was witness to wedding No. 3700, which occurred just four years ago. Thirteen hundred couples in three years! Weddings have come thick and fast in these later days, and what with a rushing matrim oniaI business, a regular pastorate and as sisting in the celebration of dozens of silver weddings. the Rev. Mir. Savidge is a very busy man.
 ... Plans to Move to Seattle. .. l., l,s goal he is contemplating moving to Seattle, Wash, retiring from active life, to write a book entitled "Un- equally Yoked." He believes he could enbody in such a volume a great deal of valuable advice to persons choos- ing life partners.
 Marriage is the natural state of man-ard woman, too" Stoutly de- clares the Rev. NIT. Sav.dge. who does everything in his power to encourage the unmated to find companionship.
 But he wants 1t understood that 1t Is no trivial matter.
 Anything so excellent, so bead- full, so noble and lasting as marriage should not be entered into lightly" he says "I often ask girl to take his cigar when they come to me to he married,
 "'Oh, WIG dropped in just as we were they tell me.
 Then you are making bad mis- take,' I answer, "A weofns is much more likely to be happy when people take thought for the ceremony Why IT ordered a s75 suit made for my