Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 50
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, November 13, 1907
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Cupid By Electric Light.
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The fury of old Boreas in his first great outburst of the season chilled not
the beautiful impulse of Don Cupid, in the case of Mrs. Emma Smith and Mr. J.
A. McQuary of the Chilton community, who arrived in Marlin about 7:30 Monday
afternoon, fully determined to be married. The gallant groom applied to
Deputy County Clerk Snell for the license and the deputy telephoned for Judge
Dashiell to come and perform the ceremony.
Tying the nuptial knot is the "long
suit" of Judge Dashiell and nothing gives him greater pleasure. He
also is very accommodating to love stricken people, and the wind never blows
too cold or swiftly nor does the night ever bcome too dark for him to respond
to the call of Cupid. Therefore, he forsook his warm fireside and hied
himself hither to the court house. After some little investigation, he
discovered Cupid and his victims snugly ensconed in a buggy on the north side
of the plaza. Responding to the judge's "What can I do for
you," the groom explained that they were the couple who wanted to be
married. The judge invited them into the court house where there was a
warm fire and plenty of light. To this the fair bride-soon-to-be,
demurred, saying that they were not at all cold and as for the light, there was
one just across the street in front of the livery stable, which, added to the
effulgent rays from Cupid's orbs, was all the light that was necessary.
The judge assented and the nuptial bans were safely, securely and artistically
adjusted while the couple were seated in their buggy in front of the Smith
stable.
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