Decatur County Journal
Thursday, August 7, l9l9

Married at the residence of the bride's father, MR. J.W. BURRELL, in Davis City, at ll a.m. Saturday, August 2nd, l9l9, MR. WILLIAM W. BENJAMIN, of Albia, to MISS NELLE S. BURRELL, youngest daughter of J.W. BURRELL, who was born and raised in Davis City and who, for more than eight years, was one of the operators at the telephone switch-board in Davis City and during all that time never had a vacation of more than one or two days, and by her prompt attention to the duty of her position and her kind and accommodating disposition, she won the respect of the patrons of the switchboard, as well as the business public, and the best wishes of her host of friends go with her in her new life and new home.

MR. BENJAMIN, the groom, is a successful traveling salesman for Hammill & Co., wholesale grocers of Keokuk, Iowa, and has been making this territory regularly every two weeks for several years, and by his uprightness and careful and painstaking business has made a host of friends among the business houses with which he has dealt, as well as those whose acquaintance he has formed.

The marriage was solemnized at the BURRELL home by Geo. P. Campbell, in the presence of a few friends and the immediate family of the bride, and the father of the groom, MR. J. BENJAMIN, of near Ft. Madison, Iowa. The couple received a number of telegrams of congratulations from different friends at a distance, and some from the wholesale house with which MR. BENJAMIN is connected. They also received a number of valuable presents from friends here and elsewhere.

They drove to Leon after the ceremony and took the train at that station to get away from the tormentors who were prepared with a quantity of rice and old shoes, with which they intended to give them a jolly send off, but when they learned that the couple had slipped away to Leon by auto, they boarded the afternoon train and went to Leon and when the newly married couple came out to get on the train, they were met by the crowd from Davis City and got the rice, etc., just the same.

MR. BENJAMIN had bought a nice new property and had it all fitted up in good style with all needed furnishings, and took his bride into their new home at once, in albia, Iowa, which will be their future home. The good wishes for their future happiness from their host of friends here accompany them to their new home. After the ceremony and congratulations were over, the guests were invited to the dining room and partook of a fine dinner which was prepared and served by MISS CENA BURRELL, MRS. C.B. SIMPSON, of Leon, and CURT BURRELL, sisters and brother of the bride.

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April 2l, 2002