Adina,
What is the "rest of the story"? Did they live happily ever after? I'd
love to hear more about this couple!
Mari
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Subject: [INTIPPEC] Bert E. Gates, Bertha Royer - Marriage
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Surnames: Gates, Royer
Classification: Marriage
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The Weekly Sentinel
February 28, 1906
Fort Wayne, Indiana
JUDGE FAVORS LOVERS
Objection That Prospective Groom is Spendthrift Falls Before Court
Lafayette, Ind., Feb. 27--With the aid of Judge R.P. DeHart, Cupid won a
victory in
the Tippecanoe circuit court yesterday. Last week Bert E. Gates
and Bertha L. Royer, of Wea township, applied for a marriage license, but
before they arrived at the office of the county clerk the girl's father,
John V. Royer, a well-to-do farmer, filed an affidavit with the clerk
stating his objections against the granting of the license. The affidavit
set forth that the lover who had won the hand of his daughter was a
spendthrift and was not capable of supporting a wife. County Clerk Earl
thereupon refused the applicants the license.
The case was appealed to the circuit court and yesterday afternoon Judge
DeHart
took up the case, ordering the young people to appear before him. He
questioned the two young people and learned that they were deeply attached
to each other; that the prospective bridegroom was an honest, hard-working
young man and that the two could live on his wages. Young Gates stated that
he had been engaged to Miss Royer since last August and that he prepared a
home for his bride and was not a spendthrift as alleged by the girl's
father. The young lady declared allegiance to her lover and stated that her
father opposed their marriage without just cause.
After hearing the story the court overruled the objections of the girl's
father
and ordered the clerk to issue a certificate of marriage. Shortly
afterward Gates and Miss Royer were married by Justice J.P. Shaw and left
for their home in Wea township.
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