Sterling and Milledgeville young people figured in a romantic wedding at Crown Point, [Lake County] Ind., Wednesday [08/20/1930] afternoon last, furnishing two couple of pincipals in a marriage ceremony at the parsonage of the Methodist Episcopal church, Rev. Milton Streckler, pastor, officiating. Miss Helen E. Bogott of Sterling and Harry R. Pilgrim of Milledgeville, and Miss Minnie M. Scott of Sterling and Arden L. Deets of Milledgeville, were married in a double ceremony. Mrs. Afton Leahy of Chicago accompanied the quartet and attended them at the ceremony. Following the vows all motored to Chicago to Mrs. Leahy’s home where a wedding supper was served. The remainder of the week the four young people spent on their honeymoon trip together.

Mr. and Mrs. Pilgrim are living temporarily at the home of the bride’s mother, Mrs. Catherine Bogott of 306 Twelfth avenue, Sterling; and Mr. and Mrs. Deets are at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Scott of 602 Second avenue, Sterling. Mr. Pilgrim is a barber in the Bernhisel ship at Milledgeville, and is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Pilgrim of Milledgeville. Mrs. Pilgrim is a clerk in the West Third street store of the National Tea Co. where she has been empolyed [sic] the last year or two and continues that employment.

Mr. Deets drives a milk route for the Kraft-Phenix Cheese Co., at Milledgeville and is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Deets of Milledgeville. Mrs. Deets is employed in the Wunderlick store in Sterling. Messrs. Pilgrim and Deets were eductated in the Milledgeville school, and Mrs. Pilgrim and Mrs. Deets attended the Sterling schools. Both couples are quite popular in a large circle of friends, who extend them congratulations and best wishes for happy wedded lives. Announcement of their marriages was to have been kept secret pending some further arrangements but the news leaked out Sunday.

Contributed byLarry Reynolds - The Sterling Daily Gazette, August 25, 1930