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THE GATE CITY
PUBLISHED BY
THE GATE CITY COMPANY
Volume 110. Number 14.
Page 6 Col 4 & 5
16 July 1909
BRIDEGROOM TOOK THE STEAMBOAT
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Otherwise the Wedding Would Have
Had to be Postponed Last Week,
On Account of Railroads.
In speaking of the wedding of Earl Rayburn and Miss Add Cress at Burlington on Wednesday of last week the Warsaw Bulletin says:
Last week the Bulletin made a brief allusion to the above announced event which came very nearly not happening on the day appointed. The day previous Miss Cress went to Burlington, to await at the home of her sister-in-law, Mrs. Wm. Cress, the arrival of Mr. Rayburn, the wedding having been set for 9 a. m. Wednesday morning. But the heavy rain of Tuesday night caused a washout and all the north bound trains from Keokuk had to be abandoned. However, fortune favored the groom-to-be, for the steamer Eloise, which usually leaves Keokuk at 4 a. m. was delayed until after 8, and this he took for Burlington, arriving there in the afternoon.
After the ceremony the young couple repaired to the home of Mrs. Cress, and on Thursday came down the river on the steamer Dubuque, going to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dadant, of Hamilton, where they remained until Sunday, when they came on to Warsaw. They will make their home in Keokuk, where Mr. Rayburn is head salesman in the Golden Rule store.
The Bulletin has already spoken of the bride as one of Warsaw’s best, sweetest and most popular young ladies, and to her personal graces she adds those admirable womanly qualities that count in the making of a happy home. The groom is a young man of high character, of a genial personality, and posses superior business qualifications. Coupled with the hearty congratulations extended them are the sincerest wishes for a long and blissful wedded life.