Iowa
Old Press
Sioux City Journal
Sioux City, Woodbury County, Iowa
July 25, 1903
OF LEGAL AGE OR NOT
Clerk Connif has received a letter from another indignant parent
residing at Anthon which is somewhat unusual. It is from D.T.
Downing, the father of Blanche Downing, who was given a license
to wed C.T. Harris on July 3. The father says the girl is a mere
baby and very curtly informs the clerk he had no right to license
the marriage of a babe from the cradle. Downing informs the clerk
that he will get a cold shoulder around Anthon when election day
comes again.
[submitters note: The upset father was D.L. (Daniel Louis)
Downing, not "D.T.", as the newspaper originally
printed.]
[submitted by Wee, July 2004]