Bingham Bulletin | 1929-02-14 | Page 3 | He Walks 29 Miles So Brother Can Wed

He Walks 29 Miles j So Brother Can Wed Orlswold, Iowa. Greater he hath no. man than this, that he walks ! miles through mud to gel a marriage ( license for bis brother. This lest of brotherly devotion oc curred thus: I'urker W. Itcynolds. young Oris j wold business man, was to murry Miss Frances Hall one Saturday evening at eight o'clock. He started the day be- j fore for Atlantic to get a license, but got only as fur as the farm home of . his bride-to-be's parents, s little east j of Griswntd. when be got marooned In the mud, - Saturday morning be called his brother. Malcolm I). Reynolds, HI Orlswold. Orls-wold. and asked him to go to Atluntlc on the train to get license. Hut the train had gone, so the brother, with Orlo Unicorn nnd Stewart Forsyth, two frlemK stalled by aulo for Atlantic. They went seven miles, as fur as l.ew-Is, l.ew-Is, when they decided It would be easier to walk unhampered ihnn to push the rur all the way. They walked 11 miles to Atlantic and got the license. Then they hoofed It buck through the mud 18 miles to the Hall farm. The weddl.ig was an houi lute.