They cleaned up the Thoelecke jewelry store of all its supply of silverware for presents to the uniting couple.

The wedding and the sequel of Miss Oliver and Samuel Abbott has already been chronicled as has also the double wedding at Wright's place.

The spirit and determination of the mating quality in mankind can be illustrated by many references to early marriages. Tom Hughes (on the Niobrara) paid Judge Robert Shuman $100 to come out to his place and perform a marriage ceremony.

T. D. Deutsch the present mayor of Scottsbluff city went to Sidney a distance of about one hundred miles to get his marriage license ; then seventy miles to Kimball to get a minister. As he puts it, "I bought a couple 'Hereford' shirts (the white shirt was a new experience for him) and we were married in a dugout." This spirit, however, is what has made our part of the west. Deutsch's indomitable will was here exemplified and the same industry and perseverance helped him to aid in the building of many of the headgates and ditches on the North Platte river and to perform the duties of county commissioner in the formative days of the county of Scotts Bluff and other public duties from time to time.

Ham ['Ton's Golden Wedding

Some years ago there was celebrated at Harrisburg the golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Hampton, the only event of the kind that we know in Banner county. The affair was at Hotel St. James at the northeast corner of the court house square. Many of the friends of the pioneers of Banner county attended this affair. Since then both of the elder Hamptons have gone on to the New Country.