Many and divers are the means of getting married. Some prefer to join themselves into the blessed bands of wedlock in an elaborate church affair with eight bridesmaids and accessories to match. Others would take themselves to some quiet spot and there plight their troth, the sylvan dell being their cathedral and the tiny songbirds their choir. There are few of the lovelorn, however, who betaken their vows in any such original manner as did Miss Lula Bellings and Elmore Deal, who on Thursday evening became man and wife in a fashion to be related.
Capt. Quint E. Smith, local vender of machines for the distribution of radio music, guaranteed to contain assorted static, was seated in his office in the aforementioned date with the 5 o’clock concert from WBT, Charlotte, playing merrily both indoors, where he has his machine, and outdoors where a loudspeaking attachment which notifies all passersby that music is in the air. While he sat there comfortably rocking in one of his easy chairs, in walked a young man and a young woman. Mr. Smith, always polite, motioned them to a seat and after a time, asked if there was anything he could do for them.
For a few moments there was silence. Only the rasping of the radio between selections broke the stillness. Miss Bellings looked at Mr. Deal and Mr. Deal at Miss Bellings. Then with a slight flush on her face, Miss Bellings said timidly; “We want to get married.”
With that Mr. Smith was action. He begged the lovers to make themselves comfortable, while he ran to get the magistrate and not stopping to get his hat, dashed across the street to the gas office where Magistrate Josh Goodman sat ensconced behind his gas paraphernalia. Explaining in as few words as necessary just what the circumstances were, Capt. Smith had the magistrate across the street and into his office in a trice. Witnesses were gathered from the highways and hedges and the ceremony was begun.
The happy couple was all prepared, seemingly, against the possibility that they might get married because they immediately pulled out the license and spoke the customary “I will” and “I do” and were pronounced man and wife.
During the ceremony, as a wedding account would say, the Southern Radio Corporation of Charlotte played a number of lovely apropos to the occasion. Just prior to the ceremony, “All Alone” was played. While the vows were being spoken the strains of “Because I Love You” filtered over the ether, and as the recessional “Bringing Home the Bacon” was played.
Mr. and Mrs. Deal left immediately after the ceremony for a short trip after which they will make their home at the Hartsell Mill in west Concord.
From page 2 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Feb. 28, 1925
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