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Show WALKS 36 MILES FOR A LICENSE TO MARRY HORTON, Kanl; March 4.'-Tohn Mc-Clellan, Mc-Clellan, an employee of the Rock Island shops here, wanted to get married, but as pay day was a number of weeks distant dis-tant he was not as well fixed financially as he would like to have been. Marriage licenses have to be procured at the office of the Probate Judge at Hiawatha, eighteen miles north of here. McClellan set out and walked to Hiawatha, Hia-watha, secured his license and walked back, making the round trip of thirty-six thirty-six miles in eight hours. The minister who performed the ceremony in Horton knew the bridegroom's circumstances and refused to charge him a fee. |