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PORTEFUNERAL FOR A WEDDING.Nuptials of Christmas Put Off By Peath of Bridegroom^Davenport, Dec. 27.—When. Miss Esther Crandall of Big Rock came here on Christmas day, and claimed the body of Henry McKirahan, the railwayclerk who was killed in a railroad ao cldent at Newshops, III., Saturday, it developed that McKirahan and MiasCrandall were to hav© been married on Christmas day. The young woman was almost prostrated when she identified her promised husband in the mangled remains of the young man who lay at the local morgue. The heartbroken youhg woman was accompanied home by the Rev. D. L. McNarty of the United Presbyterian church of Rock Island, and with them they took the remains of the young man, for burial at Big Rock, where a funeral marked the afternoon of the day when the wed- 'ding was to have occurred.’Henry Bergman, a prominent business man of BIkader, hung himself to a rafter. Despondency the cause.spoiledTsurpriseWEDDING OF JOSEPH. WARTTMAN AND MISS- GERTRUDE LOGAN SOLENM1ZED TUESDAY,GROOM WAS CAUTIOUSA Cruel Joker Telephoned Announcement of License Granted to Cedar Falls Paper.Recorder P. F. Knapp was beseeeh-ed 'by an anxious gentleman from Cedar’ Falls Tuesday to assist him in procuring a license from Clerk Bentley which would make two hearts glad during yuletide. The recorder was at the time seated in his comfortable am chair, thinking of the excellence of the Christmas spread, when he noticed the gentleman enter his office■ at*the court house. Being well acquainted with the visitor and knowing him to be the junior. member of'a prominent business firm, his salute was very cordial and the visitor was • asked to take a .seat and talk over old times.
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Waterloo Daily Reporter
Waterloo, Iowa, US
Wed, Dec 27, 1905
Page 5
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