Show A BIG MARRIAGE SERVICE american missionary united thirty one couples at once the rev A W fitter pitzer sot set a pretty good pace last week when he married three couples at once but he Is still twenty eight laps behind the record reich is held by an american mis idonat on the island of alemana Ap emana this strange wedding where here thirty one couples united at once was in 1882 all the principal were converted heathens heathers he athens and so well wore were we marriage bonds tied that ten years later not one of the couples was divorced the grant wedding was one of necessity ces sity rather than choice all the couples had signified their intention to bo married A ith christian rites plana plans were made for separate weddings but a missionary ship was waiting for the teacher ito was ns to marry tho converts and an approaching storm made it necessary for him to read the ceremony with great haste if it tho natives had not a agreed reed to engage in a wholesale ceremony they hey would have been condemned in six 1 six months more of single blessedness so the great party joined right hands and assumed the solemn obligations according to their now balth washington alm times es |