Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 250, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1911 — Mills-Parkinson Wedding at Bride’s Home Saturday Morning. [ARTICLE]

Mills-Parkinson Wedding at Bride’s Home Saturday Morning.

The H. E. Parkinson farm, northeast of Rensselaer, was the scene of a very pretty home wedding Saturday morning at 9 o’clock, when the daugh ter, and youngest child, of Mr. and Mrs. Parkinson. Miss Martha Jane, became the bride of Mr. Charles Howard Mills, youngest son of Mrs. Anna Mills. The spacious home was profusely decorated with autumn leaves and yellow chrysanthemums. Miss Edith Adams at the piano rendered Mendelssohn’s wedding march and to the sweet strains of this music the young couple descended the stairs and stood be neath an arch of autumn leaves while Rev. J. C. Parrett, of the Presbyterian church, spoke the words that made them husband and, wife. The riiy? ceremony was employed. The bride wore a simple gown of white marquisette and carried a boquet of brides roses. She also had in her hand a gold dollar which had already been used on twenty-eight former occasions. One hundred relatives and friends, including the teachers of the Rensselaer schools with whom the bride has been associated during two years that she taught in the second grade in the city schools. Following the ceremony a two course luncheon was served, the six young lady cousins of the bride waiting on the guests in a charming manner. Many beautiful presents were left as tokens of the high esteem in which the young bride and groom are held in the community. The happy couple left on the afternoon train for a brief wedding trip and after November Ist will be at home to their many friends at the Mills home on east Cedar street. Miss Parkinson graduated from the Rensselaer high school in 1906 and Mr. Mills graduated in 1903. The bride has been one of our most popular young ladies as well as one of the, ablest and best liked of our school teachers. The groom is one of our substantial young business men and has been the assistant cashier of the Trust & Savings Bank since its organization and held a similar position with the Harris bank before it went out of business. He is also the secretary of the Jasper County Telephone Co- \