Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1911 — Engagement of Former Editor’s Daughter Announced at Berkley. [ARTICLE]

Engagement of Former Editor’s Daughter Announced at Berkley.

In a private letter to Miss Minnie Bartoo, of Remington, the news of the engagement Of Miss Star Marshall, second daughter of Mr <md Mrs. Geo. E. Marshall, was related. Mr Marshall was the editor and publisher of The Republican for 25 years and his family will be well remembered by most of our readers. Both Lucile and Star Marshall are students in the Berkley, Calif., college, and the following interesting account of the engagement will be read with interest: “The home of the Sigma Kappa, at Berkley, Calif., was the scene of much merriment and congratulation, when the announcement was made of the engagement of Miss Star Marshall, who, with her sister Lucile, are students of the university and members of that sorority, to Mr. Donald K Colvig, of Medford, Ore. This was done at a dinner, given and planned to a successful termination for that purpose, as a complete surprise, on April 2, 1911. “Following the usual custom with, announcement parties, arrangements were made and invitations issued by a committee, and no hint was allowed to leak out as to who was the happy girl, and* speculation ran high, many thinking it to. be one of their former graduates, and inmates brought their gifts, as did outside guests, not knowing who would be the favored recipient. The dinner was served in four courses, table made large hearts of red carnations, hearts painted upon place cards, and heart shapes in candies and cakes and ices. At the close of the first course the place cards were lifted and ‘April Fool’ was found thereon, surrounded by bleeding hearts. This was taken in earnest by the girls so ‘stung,’ and the managers of the affair were nearly mobbed before the real announcement followed by the passing of kodac pictures of the bride-to-be and her fiancee with the ices and the presentation of a huge boquet of white flowers to her. There were twentyeight present and only three of that number knew or even guessed who was to be the honored member.” The date of the event is undecided, as Miss Star is still attending school at Berkley.

John C. Maxwell, who has an invention on a cultivator, and who has tested his machine by a year’s use, will manufacture twenty-five of the bases this spring and is &w getting in the various parts and will assemble them as King’s blacksmith shop. He will make one or two complete 'nnchines, one of which will be sent to his brother at Mitchell, S. Dak. It will pay the commercial club to investigate John’s invention and see, if something can not be done toward forming a company here for its manufacture. As soon as one of the machines is completed It is expected to demonstrate it here in Rensselaer and to invite farmers from everywhere to witness the demonstration.

. wrecking crew Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning cleaned up the four box cars that were burned when the Babcock & Hopkins elevator was destroyed Friday night The grain that remained in the cars was dumped out on the ground. Some of the oats was not badly damaged and the best of it is being sold at 20 cents a bushel. The fire is still smouldering in the grain although a lot of water was run through it Saturday and Sunday. Most of the old hands are working about the wrecked elevator, helping in the handling of the salvage grain and in cleaning up the debris. The name of Zack Btanley was accidentally missed from the list of employees of the elevator published Satlurday.