five o'clock in the evening before
The wedding of John Barclay and Jane Mason occurred in September , 1873 , two days after he had stood on the high stone steps of the Exchange National Bank and made a speech to the crowd , telling them he was the largest depositor in the bank , and begging them to stop the run . But the run did not stop , and the day before John 's wedding the bank did not open ; the short crop and the panic in the East were more than Garrison County people could stand . But all the first day of the bank 's closing and all the next day John worked among the people , reassuring them . So that it was five o'clock in the evening before he could start to Minneola for his wedding . And such a wedding ! One would say that when hard times were staring every one in the face , social forms would be observed most simply . But one would say so without reckoning with Mrs. Lycurgus Mason .