This marriage notice has nothing to do with any of my listservs, but it was so funny that I thought all of you would get a huge laugh out of a REAL marriage notice I found on microfilm. See below. Happy New Year! Ruth The Toccoa Georgia News - August 10, 1889 Charlie White and Mary Barnes of Central, S. C. arrived in the city last Thursday on the morning train, hired a horse and buggy, went to Clarksville, obtained a license, returned here, went before Squire Mulkey and got the matrimonial knot tied in time to return to Central by the night train. The newly married couple seemed as happy as a dead pig in the sunshine, but was sorter short on scads. They lacked 20 cents of having enough money to pay the Squire. Their baggage consisted of a quart of licker and tickets to Central. But they didn't want anything said about it in the paper, and of course their wishes will be respected. ++++++++++++ Folks, I was at the library today looking over the microfilm I had ordered through interloan library. The microfilm was on two reels from the University of Georgia and consisted of all the microfilm records they had on the Toccoa Georgia News in Habersham County, Georgia. This marriage record was just too funny to pass up even though it was not my ancestors. I promise you, I did NOT change a single word or punctuation! This newspaper came out on Saturdays so the Thursday in question would be August 8. 1889. It's pretty difficult to improve when one is already near perfect. Researching the following surnames: ALEXANDER, ANDERSON, ARTERBERRY, BROCAS, C de BACA (VACA), DICKEN, GOODSON, GUGLE/HAMMOND, HART, HOLLIDAY, HOPE, HOWARD, HUGHLETT, IVESTER (ISBISTER), LEWIS, MITCHELL, NICHOLS, PADILLA, PEAKE, PULLIAM, REMSHART, RUCKER, TATE, WATKINS Visit my homepage! New and always under construction! http://www.tcac.net/~ruthptb/index.htm