Saturday Spotting - Double Wedding Stelzer Family

Appeared on Thursday the 30^th of September in 1897 in the St Louis Republic out of St Louis, Missouri

A DOUBLE WEDDING IN SOUTH ST. LOUIS

VALENTINE STELZER AND HIS

SON CHRISTIAN CELEBRATE THEIR

WEDDING TOGETHER.

It Was The Father’s Sliver Wedding

 and a Happy Time Was Had.

A wedding ceremony a little out of the or-

dinary was celebrated in South St. Louis

yesterday. Christian Steizer of 2620 Arsenal

street and Lena Brandschwede of 1615 South

Broadway were joined in wedlock, and on

the same occasion the silver anniversary of

the marriage of Valentine Stelzer and his

wife, parents of the groom, was celebrated.

The young people were married in the

Church of St. Francis de Sales at Texas

and Cherokee streets at 8 a.m. The old

folks also went through a church ceremony,

the blessings of the church being again

bestowed upon them. John Stelzer, a broth-

er of Christian Stelzer acted as best man

and Anna Drisler as bridesmaid for the

young people. Joseph Abele and Mrs. Al-

bert Reldermelster acted in similar capaci-

ties for the old folks.

A reception was held last night at the

Southwestern Turner hall at Texas and

Cherokee streets. It was largely attended

by the friends of both parties. A number

of handsome presents were received by

both couples. Some of the presents were

from Chicago, where the elder Stelzer lived

before they came to St. Louis.

The occasion was a triple celebration

for Valentine Slelzer. Besides being the sil-

ver anniversary of his wedding, the year is

the twenty-fifth anniversary of his arrival

in this country from Germany; and he has

been 25 years employed by the same firm.

He went to work shortly after his arrival in

this country for Fairbanks & Co in Chica-

go. Four years later he was transferred to

the St. Louis branch where he is now em-

ployed. 

(*above article found on Genealogy Bank website)

Sunday Cemetery - Cemetery Wedding

Published November 1916 in the Idaho Statesman out of Bois, ID 

CEMETERY JUST THE PLACE

FOR SECRET MARRIAGE SAYS

 UNDERTAKER WHO TRIED IT

ABILENE, Kan. – “We’ll make it a quiet wedding,” agreed E.K. Elcholtz, an undertaker of this city, and Miss Ruth Marion, also of Abilene, when they decided to married last July.

Mr. Elcholtz reflected upon the problem long a diligently. At last an inspiration came to him.

“I’ve got the idea,” he told his prospective bride. “The only wonder is I didn’t think of it before.”

“I knew you’d get it,” said Miss Marion, with the sublime confidence of prospective brides. “Where will we have it?”

“In the cemetery,” responded Mr. Elcholtz, triumphantly.

Miss Marion ventured so far as to point out that a graveyard was not the gayest place in the world.

“Why,” said Mr. Elcholtz, “I’ve spent some of the happiest days of my life in cemeteries.”

In the end Miss Marion abandoned whatever objections she had and the wedding was held. As they wanted to keep it secret it had to take place at night. Mr. Elcholtz was in favor of having it at midnight, but Miss Marion said she’d have to draw the line somewhere and positively refused to consider any hour after 9:30 o’clock in the evening. Mr. Elcholtz was rather disappointed. He said it always seem to him that midnight was the cheerfulest possible time around a cemetery. But Miss Marion was firm and 9:30 it was.

The ceremony was performed by an Abilene minister, and the couple was successful in keeping it secret until now. It came out through Mr. Elcholtz himself when he and his bride registered at the Hotel Grund, on the Kansas side.

“Yes,” said Mr. Elcholtz, “It was a great ceremony. Mrs. Elcholtz wasn’t scared, or at least if she was I couldn’t notice it. And it was solemn – why you couldn’t imagine anything more impressive. It was as good as a funeral.”

Saturday Spotting’s–from gum balls to weddings…

Clipping out of the Jackson Herald, Jackson, MO April 1907

On last Saturday night some

professionals or some very pro-

ficient amateurs made a raid on

the gum slot machines that were

in our city. They took the two

machines of E. G. Sibley and

the one in front of Bruening &

Kertsner’s and took them up

Houck’s railroad and broke them

open. They got all the chewing

gum that was in the machines

and about $4 in money and com-

pletely wrecked the machines.

These plunderers have not as

yet been found. From the shape

they left the machines in one

is forced to believe that the work

was done by some very worth-

less inhabitants of our city.

 

Clipping out of the Jackson Herald, Jackson, MO April 1907

Oakridge Indcator: “George

Smith (Little George) and

Birdie Byrd (nee Penny) were

married this morning in Central

hotel, Jackson, by Fred Weltecke,

Esq. The groom is a substantial

farmer about 60 years of age and

lives at Daisy. The bride is a

daughter of John Penny and is

about thirty years her husband’s

junior. Both are experienced

sailors on the matrimonial sea.”