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OR. BURBESS MARRIED AT WASHINGTON WEDNESDAYs The wedding of Dr. Bert Overton Burress, of Alfordsville, to Miss Ruth Alice Hawkins, of Washington, was solemnized in the Methodist Episcopal church of the latter place (Wednesday afternoon at twoo’clock. Rev. W. S. Rader, ’ pastor of the 'V^shington Methodist church officiated. They were attended at the marriage altar by Mr. and Mrs. George Ward, friends of the couple. The wedding was a quiet affair, only the immediate relatives and friends of the couple attending.They left on the late afternoon train for Chicago, where Dr. Burrow will spend several months dof-(tng pofftt graduate work. He has not yet decided where he will locate for future practice, but expects to leave Alfordsville, where he has been located for several years, and where he has made good in the prac tice of medicine.Dr. Burress is a Rutherford township boy, having been born and reared there. He graduated from the Shoals high school at an early age, and took a teacher’s training course in the Indiana State Normal college at Terre Haute. Later he entered Chicago University for the study of medicine, graduating in the year 1905. Since that time he has practiced at Portersville in Dubois county, and at Alfordsville.' He has a wide acquaintance throughout Martin and Daviess counties, and is held in high esteem iby many friends who extend their best wishes for biis continued success.His bride is a popular young lady of Washington. Her parents are dead, and for some time she had made her home with Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Biddinger, in that city. She formerly held the position of deputy recorder of Daviess county, having resigned her work recently.
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Loogootee Martin County Tribune
Loogootee, Indiana, US
Fri, Dec 22, 1916
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