MARRIAGE: Rookis SIMON to Gertrude WERTZ, 1899, Blair County, PA

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SIMON - WERTZ.

  Mr. Rookis Simon, the well known Assyrian fruit dealer at 924 
Seventeenth street, and Miss Gertrude Wertz, of Blair township, 
celebrated the New Year Sunday by plighting vows of eternal fidelity in 
holy wedlock.  The marriage ceremony was performed at 4 o'clock by Rev. 
Father Schmitt at the Sacred Heart parsonage.
  Previous to the wedding, and according to the Assyrian custom the 
marriage feast was celebrated.  There was plenty of good cheer of a 
liquid nature and some of the guests were so overcome by Rookis' good 
fortune that they were unable to attend the nuptials, where Mr. Michael 
Sophie officiated as best man and Mrs. George Azzer charmingly assumed 
the onerous duties of bridesmaid.  At the conclusion of the nuptials, 
the wedding feast was resumed with the aid of more guests who arrived 
in the meantime.  Roakis [sic] is generally liked by his neighbors many 
of whom hastened to congratulate him when it became known that he was 
doing himself proud in honor of his new wife.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Thursday, January 5, 1899