Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 274, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1910 — POPULAR RENSSELAER GIRL BRIBE OF PURDUE GRADUATE. [ARTICLE]
POPULAR RENSSELAER GIRL BRIBE OF PURDUE GRADUATE.
Miss Lena Tuteur and Mr. Charles Howard Park Married at 12 " O’clock by Rev. R. D. Utter.
In the presence of fifty'guests, the immediate relatives and a few friends of the bride at 12 o’clock this Thursday noon, at the home of Mrs. Anna Tuteur, at the corner of Division and Cornelia streets, occurred the marriage of her oldest daughter. Miss Lena, to Mr. Charles Howard Park, a graduate of Purdue University, and a civil engineer at present employed in concrete construction work at Oakland, Cal. The ceremony was per formed by Dr. R. D. Utter, a former pastor of Trinity M. E. church in Rensselaer. At just 12 o’clock Mrs. Van Grant at the piano started softly the strains of Mqndelshohn’s wedding march and Master Williard Tuteur, son of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Tuteur, of Chicago, bearing the ring, led the bridal party from the library through the sitting room to the parlor. Behind him were the groom and the best man, Mr. Herman Tuteur. Next followed the bridesmaid, Miss Maurine Tuteur, and then came the bride, accompanied, by her eldest brother, Mr. C. Arthur Tuteur. Suspended from the ceiling at the south side of the parlor was a large white wedding bell and the groom having halted beneath it, Arthur Tuteur accompanied the bride to his side and gave her away by an affirmative bow to the groom. Dr. Utter stepped in front of the pair and in a short ceremony, in which the ring was placed on the finger of the bride by the groom, they entered into the matrimonial bonds. The house decorations were smilax only. The bride was dressed in white and carried a large boquet of white bride’s roses. The bridesmaid was dressed in pink and carried pink roses. The groom and his attendant wore black. After enthusiastic well wishes had been bestowed upon the bride and groom by the guests all were seated and a ten-course dinner was served. The bride was assisted at the wedding by a number of her closest young lady friends, as follows: Mrs. Van Grant, Mrs. Cleve Eger, Mrs. W. H. Brenner, and Misses Blanche McCarthy, Beatrice Yates, Gertie Leopold, Helen Lamson, Fannie Porter and Martha Parkinson.
The out-of-town guests were Mr and Mrs. Isaac Tutuer and son WilHard, of Chicago; Moses Tuteur and Mrs. Harry Stern and children, of Indianapolis; Mrs. Albert Weil, Mr. George Spangler and Mrs. Bertha Wildberg, of Peoria, Ill.; Mrs. Samuel Bass, of Lafayette, and Miss Marie Graham, of Ligonier. Mr. and Mrs. Park will depart on the 6:02 train this evening for Chicago, and will start from there tomorrow evening for Oakland, Cal., where they will reside. The bride was one of the most popular young ladies in Rensselaer and they will take with them the best wishes of all who knew her. The groom is successful in his profession, that of civil engineer, and the company with which he is employed, has entrusted him with the general supervision of concrete construction in several large contracts.
