Groom's Brother Marries Bride's Sister

New York, 1912

Following the example of their brother and sister, Miss Beatrice Loope and Harold Warner, both of Liverpool were quietly married Saturday night at the home of the Rev. S. R. Ball, pastor of the Liverpool Methodist church. The bride's sister, Miss Nina Loope, and the groom's brother, Fred Warner, were married a year ago by the Rev. Mr. Ball. There was opposition to both marriages on the part of the parents of both couples.

—The Syracuse Herald, Syracuse, NY, June 10, 1912, p. 16.

Filipino Bride Smokes a Cigar

New York, 1910

With a fat cigar between her little white teeth, the first Filipino bride-to-be ever received in the marriage license bureau of this city walked down the steps of the city hall the other day. With her was a little brown man, who through an interpreter admitted the pair wished to be married.

Both bride and bridegroom hail from the mountain districts of Luzon, Philippines, and both are living in Coney Island, where they are members of an amusement park show.

Miss Tu-Go-Dan, the prospective wife, and A'lao, the man, were accompanied to the city hall by Chief Chemingo, ceremonial chief of the Bontoc or head-hunting Filipino tribe.

The couple were much amused by the ceremony, the little brown girl smiling broadly at everyone. Immediately after the tying of the knot, Mrs. A'loa brought out a package of cigars and coolly lighted one. — New York Press.


Sympathy from Chicago

The people of Cleveland have adopted a civic motto. It is: "Onward, Cleveland, onward," If the citizens who are in favor of the abolition of the smoke nuisance there could have had their way the new motto would doubtless have been: "Hurry, Cleveland, hurry."

Obituary — Mattie Frazier, 1845-1918

Leon, Iowa, 1918

Mattie Frazier was born in Vermillion county, Illinois, June 25th, 1845, and removed to Guthrie county, Iowa, in 1853, where she lived almost continually until 1863, when she returned to Illinois. She was here married to James Grandstaff September 4th, 1865, and with her husband immediately returned to Guthrie county, Iowa, where they lived until 1870, when they moved near Pleasanton, Iowa, just across the state line in Missouri. In 1884 they moved to Leon, Iowa, and have lived here continually ever since that time. It was here that she passed peacefully away at one o'clock a. m., March 10th, 1918.

Mrs. Grandstaff was converted and joined the Methodist Episcopal church in the winter of 1862-3, at Guthrie Center, Iowa, and was received into full membership in Greenville, Ill., September 3, 1865, and lived a pure and blameless life to the day of her death.

There was born to Mr. and Mrs. Grandstaff in 1866, a son, F. Otis Grandstaff, whose home is in Dallas, Texas. Mrs. Grandstaff has been a patient sufferer, having suffered since July 7th, 1916, until March 10th, when she suffered another attack which caused her death. She leaves to mourn her loss, her husband, one son, F. Otis Grandstaff, one grandson, Sergeant Ben F. Grandstaff, now somewhere in France, one grand-daughter, Martha Grandstaff, who lives with her parents in Dallas, Texas, also a sister living in Fort Collins, Colo., Mrs. Emily Brenizer, of Lamoni, Mrs. Mattie Ward, of Ravilli, S. D., Miss Mable Houk and Harlin Houk, of Fort Collins, Colo.

Funeral services conducted by Rev. W. M. Brooks, were held at the M. E. church Wednesday afternoon March 13th, interment following in the Leon cemetery.


Marriage Licenses

Leon, Iowa area, date unknown

Lowell V. West, Grand River.....20
Susanna Schoonover, Davis City.....20
Ivyl Painter, Kellerton.....21
Gladys T. Reuss, Decatur.....21
Samuel B. Metier, Weldon.....23
Jessie May Nish, Weldon.....23

Enoch Ardens in Russia

1906

Many Returning Soldiers Reported Dead Find Their Wives Remarried

St. Petersburg. — Among the Russian prisoners arriving from Japan there are many who have been reported dead by the general staff and whose relatives had been so informed. The unexpected reappearance of these men is causing all sorts of strange family complications, as many wives, under the impression that they were widows, have remarried.

In the province of Perm, where a returning soldier found his wife already the mother of a child by a new husband, he took the matter to the village priest for settlement. The first husband offered to acquiesce to the new conjugal arrangement if he received $25, but the second husband was unable to pay the money, and it was finally arranged that the wife should return to her first husband.

However, as the second marriage was considered legal, and as official documents were at hand to prove the apparent death of the living husband, it was decided that the child born While the first husband was away must legally be registered as belonging to the second husband, and that it must be cared for by him.


Luxury for Left-Handed

Right handed men are no longer the only ones who can, if they so desire, avail themselves of the convenience of a mustache cup. There are now made mustache cups for left handed men as well. These cups come in at least two sizes and in a variety of styles as to decorations. Not nearly so many left handed as right handed cups are called for, but the left handed man can now be supplied.