The Lamoni Chronicle
July 12, 1906

A Double Wedding

CURRY-BUELL

HARRINGTON-MCCOY

While Lamoni people were aware that such an event was among the possibilities, they were somewhat surprised when it was whispered around the later part of the week that there had been a double wedding at Marshalltown, Iowa, and that Orace A. Currie and Nellie Blanche Buell and John Harrington and Grace E. McCoy were the principals. Some doubts were expressed but the report was confirmed by a letter to the Chronicle from Elder W. C. Christy, the officiating clergyman, received Monday morning.

Elder Christy, who had been holding tent meetings at Colo, Iowa, received an invitation from some of the church people of Marshalltown to join them in a picnic or social gathering on the Fourth. Accepting the invitation, he was somewhat surprised to meet, soon after his arrive, on the evening of July 3, Misses Buell and McCoy and John Harrington and to learn that Orace would be there on the following morning.

The morning of the Fourth came and with it the picnic, the company gathering the beautiful groves around the Iowa Soldiers' Home. Orace and John and a Mr. Striley were conspicuous by their absence for a time and after their return the boys presented Elder Christy with the necessary legal papers and asked him to say the works that would make the four two.

They repaired to the Soldiers' Home, where in the private apartments of a Mr. and Mrs. Bailey and in the presence of about twenty relatives and friends, the ceremonies were performed that united the happy couples for life.

Orace Currie, who is the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Currie of Lamoni, is a barber by trade and was for a time a partner with Willard Baker in the southside barber shop. He has lived in Lamoni since early boyhood and has many friends here. He has recently been working in a shop at Ida Grove, Iowa.

Miss Buell is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Buell of Lookingglass, Oregon. She came here last September to attend Graceland and her friends are only limited by her acquaintances.

John Harrington came here for Tabor, Iowa, three years ago and has attended Graceland college most of the time since. He is an exemplary young man, and, if marriage is a lottery, Miss McCoy has certainly drawn a prize.

Miss McCoy is a daughter of Elder and Mrs. H. A. McCoy of Marshalltown, Iowa. She has been attending college here for the past two years and has gained many friends during her residence among us.

The happy young people expect to make a trip to western Iowa and to Lookingglass, Oregen. The Chronicle extends congratulations.

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