The Davis City Advance, Davis City, Iowa
Thursday, January 6, l898

In last week's Advance we mentioned the marriage of C.J. MERRITT to MISS MATILDA BOLDMAN. Our reporter was not correctly informed in regard to where this marriage ceremony took place, as we learned after the paper was mailed that they were married at Leon at noon Wednesday, instead of in the evening, as stated last week. MR. MERRITT is a son of WM. MERRITT of this place, and is a conductor on the B. & M. Railroad, with headquarters at New Castle, Wyoming. The happy bride is too well known to readers of this paper to need any introductory explanation. We understand their courtship has extended over a period of ten or twelve years, during the greater part of which time MR. MERRITT has been in the far west, and Uncle Sam's Postal department has been reaping no small harvest from the cancellation of the little carmine colored portraits adorning the right hand upper corner of loving missives, which passed very frequently to and from over the long distance between these "two minds with but a single thought; two hearts that beat as one."

MR. and MRS. JAMES B. TIPPIE accompanied them to Leon and witnessed the marriage ceremony. The newly wedded pair returned to the TIPPIE home, where they remained until Saturday, when they came to the home of the bride's parents, MR. and MRS. JAMES BOLDMAN, to partake of a bountiful New Year's dinner.

We are informed they will depart soon for New Castle, Wyoming, where they will make their future home. May their married life be a happy one, and as long proportionately as their courtship has been, is the wish of the Advance.

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