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fire existed in the neighborhood of the attic.PERSONAL AND SOCIAL.Mr. A. W. Monfort Married —People Com.lnfc and Doing.It has long been generally conceded that the preparation and pomp of the old-time marriage is rapidly going out, replaced by the quiet and unostentatious wedding, and in no city is this truth more evident than it has been in the social order of things in Burlington this season. Several well known young gentlemen haye gone quietly away single, and returned as quietly double, and the surprise of their many and various friends has been greater or less, in natural accord with the degree of confirmed bachelorhood previously conferred upon the truants. And now comes that formerly well known bachelor but erstwhile benedict, A. W. Mob-fort. About three weeks ago Mr. Mon-fort’s friends understood that he was out of the city for a few days on a much ueeded vacation, with the intention of taking a short trip south. That same week the Laclede (Mo.) Blade came out with the following neat little item of news: Married, at the residence of the bride's sister, Mrs. Frank Marsh, in Laclede, January 27, 1891, at ten o’clock a. m., Mr. A. W. Monfort, of Burlington, la., and Miss Mamie Tutwiler, Rev. T. J. Ferrill, efflciating. Mr. Monfort is one Burlington’s leading business men. The bride is a lady of marked intelligence, and during her stay in our city made many warm friends. Business called Mr, Monfort home Wednesday.’’The sly Mr. Monfort said never a word to his friends, upon his return, beyond a vague state mentthathe had a nice trip, with a word possibly added about seeing his best girl’’ while he was down south. Last Friday, however, he departed for Chicago, whither she who wai truly his best girl had re turned to her home, and where thlt; newly married pair were tendered a re ception by relatives and friends, amonf whom were Miss Belle Monfort and Mr John Conrad, of this city, and Judge J F. Conrad and wife, of Des Moines. Mr and Mrs. Monfort will arrive home or the late train tonight, and their dwelling place will be for the present at thehomi of the groom's mother, on North street The condition of Mrs. Gen. A. C Dodire is sliphtlir imnmvari _
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Burlington Daily Gazette
Burlington, Iowa, US
Mon, Feb 23, 1891
Page 4
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