This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Kopp, Smith Classification: Marriage Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AQB.2ACI/172 Message Board Post: The newspaper was damaged when they photographed the image. It looks like the paper disintegrated in the middle of the article, so that is why you will see so many [damage] notes. Becky Plattsmouth Journal, Thursday, June 22, 1916 MARRIAGE KEPT A SECRET FOR SOME TIME Mr. Will Smith of Rock Bluffs and Miss Bena Kopp of This City Were Married in Nebraska City Last January. >From Tuesday’s Daily. It is said that the news of a wedding is pretty hard to keep quiet and from getting into the hands of the friends of the contracting parties, but two young Plattsmouth people have just demonstrated that this does not always hold good as they have succeeded in keeping their marriage a secret for the past six months and not even members of their families were aware of the [damaged] they were husband and wife [damaged]ing people who so successfully [damage] wedding over without it be[damaged] public are Will SMITH, one of the enterprising young farmers [damaged] near Rock Bluffs, and Miss B[damaged] Kopp of this city. The young people were wedded on January 5 at Nebraska City, where they visited between [damaged] and had the wedding ceremony performed, and hastened back to the city before their absence could [damaged] by their friends. The wedding [damaged] not known until Saturday, wh[damaged] Smith resigned her position at the Olson Photo company’s [damaged] to a few! close friends gave [damaged] information that she had been [damaged] since last January. Mr. and Mrs. Smith will make their home [damaged] farm of the groom, near Rock Bluffs, in the future. Both of the contracting parties are well and favorably known in this community, where they have made their home for their entire life time, and each has a large circle of friends who will learn of their wedding with much pleasure and extend to the young people their heartiest best wishes for a long and happy married life. Mrs. Smith is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John KOPP of this city, while the groom is a son of the late Thomas SMITH and wife, pioneer residents of the vicinity of Rock Bluffs.