Payette County ID Archives Marriages.....Holden, Minnie Shontz - Crighton, Frank 1905
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Payette Independent
Payette Independent
Payette, Idaho
Friday, April 28, 1905

POPULAR PEOPLE WED.

Mayor Crighton Leads Mrs. Minnie Holden to Hymenal Alter.

Mr. Frank Crighton, mayor of Payette, and Mrs. Minnie Holden, of this city, 
were united in marriage, Sunday afternoon, at the home of the bride’s parents, 
Mr. & Mrs. B. Shontz. The ceremony was performed at 2:30 o’clock by Rev. P. W. 
Reed, rector of St. James church, and was witnessed only by relatives. 

Immediately following the ceremony, Mr. and Mrs. Crighton took the train for 
Boise where they have been spending the week.  They will take up their 
residence for the present in rooms in the Thurston-Crighton block.  Later Mr. 
Crighton intends building a handsome home on his property on Park street.  

Mayor Crighton is of course too well known to our readers to need an 
introduction.  He has long been identified with the best interests of our city, 
in which he is an extensive property owner and which he has served in several 
official capacities, having at different  times filled the offices of 
treasurer, councilman and mayor.  His bride has only been a resident of Payette 
for about a year, but has made herself very popular with all who know her, and 
her husband’s circle of friends, which is as wide as the boundaries of the 
community in which he has lived for so many years, will take pleasure in 
congratulating him upon his good fortune in winning for his wife a lady so 
estimable. 

The wedding of this popular couple came as a surprise to their friends and they 
would doubtless have escaped on their trip to Boise without those little 
attentions in the way of rice and old shoes, which generous friends are always 
willing to bestow in such cases, had it not been for certain circumstances over 
which they had no control.  Among these, it is rumored, was the treachery of 
the mayor’s bosom friend, from which it would have been supposed the formers 
political experiences with misplaced confidences would have saved him.

In any event, when the train pulled in, the secret was no longer complete; the 
friends were there, so was the rice and what followed can as easily be imagined 
as described.  When the train pulled out Mayor Crighton had learned that 
passenger coaches hold no convenient hiding places, no matter with what cunning 
and strenuosity they are sought; and, it might be added, his faith in the male 
portion of human nature had been rudely shattered.  


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