Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 135, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1911 — NEWLY-WEDS ARE GIVEN A JOLLY RECEPTION. [ARTICLE]

NEWLY-WEDS ARE GIVEN A JOLLY RECEPTION.

Home Of Bride and Groom Decorated With Many Gay Signs—Friends Pall Off Laughable Stunt The following amusing signs, printed in large letters on great placards fairly covered the fnont of the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Clark, who returned this Thursday afternoon from a wedding trip spent on the lakes: ,

And in the kitchen were such mottoes as theße: “keep Your Wife in Spending money”; “Is It Steak You Boil or Potatoes?” “10:30 a. m. An Hour and a half Until Ernest Comes.” etc. ' Mr. Clark is the linotype operator at The Republican office and brother of Leslie Clark, one of the publishers of this newspaper. His marriage to Miss Kathryn Rafferty took place at Delphi Thursday of last week. He had a furnished house on East Cedar street rented and his friends planned an embarrasing reception for him by

placarding the front of the house and also decorating the interior with many amusing and significant mottoes, through parlor, kitchen and bedroom. When the bus backed up at the house the groom was horror stricken at the greeting and hesitated about getting out. A number of friends were at the home to enjoy the humiliation of the bride and groom. It was a very clever stunt and attracted a- large amount of attention from people who passed the houßerwhile the decorations were suspended there. Mrs. W. B. Newman, Mrs. P. L. Buehring, of Hammond, who were delegates to the Daughters of Liberty contention held at Elwood, stopped off in Rensselaer over night and were guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Fry and Mrs. W. H’. Stephenson. You need a step ladder about the house. They save scratching the chairs and are useful in many ways during the year. We have them in lengths from 5 to 8 feet. ‘Order one today.— J. C. Gwin Lumber Co. Bonano is made from nature-ripened, fully matured bananas, developed in the tropics to a delicate flavor and richness not found in the artificially ripened fruit we get over here.