Logan Republican | 1907-08-21 | Page 2 | Transfers as Wedding Fee

H TRAN8FER8 AS WEDDINQ FEE. M Peculiar Emolument Offered to City M Poet or. M The pastor of a little Lutheran M church up town was called upon the M othor day to perform a hurried wed- M ding ceremony, says tho New York fl Press. As the couple left the brldo- M groom thrust a fat envelopo into the H clergyman's hands., The grateful M smile that Immediately overspread M tho clergyman's faco gave placo to a M look of chagrin when later tho en- M velopo was found to contain a roll B of green street car transfers. m "Why don't you have a regular too, H Bay two or three dollars, and collect M It in advance?" asked a friend to H whom he Indignantly told the story, fl "Uccauso," explained tho minister, H "even though a mean trick like this H is sometimes played on me, I come M out better In the long run by leaving H it to tho other's generosity. My peo- M pie being mostly poor, they generally H give mo ono or two dollats; but an B occasional $10 or $20 pulls up tho H average. And once, tho year of tho H Pan-American fair, an actor who camo M In hero to bo married, said ho could U gtvo mo nothing but a pass to HufTnlo M ' and tho fair. I gladly accepted, and fl that Is tho only outing my wife and M I havo had for years."