Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 152, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1913 — TWO JUNE WEDDINGS LARGELY ATTENDED [ARTICLE]

TWO JUNE WEDDINGS LARGELY ATTENDED

The Spitler-Ol&rk and Moody-Long Nuptials Witnessed by Large Number of Friends. Two of the most charming wedding ceremonies ever held in Rensselaer were solemnized Wednesday and in them the many friends of the contracting parties as well as the public in general took great interest, owing to the prominence of the faprilies and the popularity of the principals. The young people have all spent their lives tn Jasper county and largely in Rensselaer, all have received splendid educations and are well equipped for the life journey on which they have embarked. Accounts of the ceremonies follow: Spitler-Olark. ■ - A very pretty wedding was that of Miss Elizabeth Virginia Spitler and Mr. Horace Malcolm Clark, which took place at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Spitler, Wednesday, June 25th, at four o’clock. Mr. Horace Ott, of Crown Point, rendered Shubert’s Serenade, on the violin. Miss Edna Bauter, of Rensselaer, played the wedding march from Lohengrin. The ushers were Misses Helen Warner and Ellen Kresler. The ribbons were carried by Misses Jeannette Abbott, Berenice Ott and Martha Long, and Madams Marion S. Learning and Firman Thompson. The bride was preceded by her sifter, Mrs. Delos M. Then, as Matron of Honor, carrying a sheaf boquet of pink sweet peas and ribbon. The bride, on the arm of her father, met the groom and his best man, Mr. Emmet Laßue, under a canopy of smilax and sweet peas. The ring ceremony was very impressively performed toy * Reverend J. C. Parrett. The bride’s gown was a white Charmuese foundation, the yoke and sleeves of lace, and-the waist and skirt ot beautiful embroidered net. Her bouquet was a Colonial bouquet of bridal roses. The bride is a graduate of the Rensselaer high school and attended the Western College for Girls at Oxford, Ohio, and was one of the most beautiful and best liked young ladies. The groom attended the state university and is one of the successful young businessmen of Wheatfield. where they will be at home after August the first. The bride and groom left on the northbound Hoosier Limited Wednesday evening for a trip, probably a lake trip, although they did not confide their plans even to their closest jrelatives or friends. The house was beautifully decorated with smilax and pink roses and sweet peas. A two-course lunch was served to the guests. The favors were handpainted boxes containing wedding cake The bride’s going away gown was of tan tweed with a bat of Milan straw covered with Persian silk and trimmed with red roses. The out of town guests were Mrs. Martha Marble, Mr. Henry Ward Marble and Mrs. Berenice Clark, of Wheatfield, Indiana; Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Ott, Miss Berenice Ott and Mr. Horace OTtt, Dr. and Mrs. Salsbury, Mr. John Ward Wheeler and Mr. Ernest Gosch, of Crown Point, Indiana; Miss Dunlap and Mr. Thomas Hollingsworth and Mr. James Ellis, of Chicago; Mrs. M. C. Powell, of .Washihgton, D. 0., Miss Jeannette Abbott and Mr. John Abbott, of Goshen, Indiana; Mrs. A. D. Swain, of Morocco, Indiana, and Miss Ethel Huff, of Indianapolis, Indiana.

Moody-Long. The marriage of Mies Nell Moody and Mr. George Long was solemnized Wednesday evening at .7 o’clock at the beautiful country residence of her father, Granville Moody, in the presence of one hundred and fifty guests, many of whom were out-of-town friends of the bride and groom. The ceremony was performed on the lawn at the beautiful Moody home, the large assemblage of guests being seated on the lawn. Eight girl friends, carrying a daisy chain, formed an aisle for the bridal party, the young ladies being Jane Moody, Martha Long, Evelyn Clark. Edith Adams, Georgia Harris, Jeanette Ashman, Louise Mendenhall and Mabel Dibell. The bridal party came from the house, marching to the strains of the Lohengrin wedding march, played by the bride’s two cousins, Mrs. A. G. Work and Miss Boyd. The groom and the minister were followed by the bride on the anp of her lather. The bride

was charmingly gowned in white crepe meteor and carried a shower bouquet of bride’s roses, daisies and lillies of the valley. The simple ceremony of the Methodist Episcopal church was performed by Rev. H. L. Kindig, at a chancel of daisies and ferns beautifully arranged on the lawn under a canopy of Maple trees. Following the ceremony Miss Georgia Harris sang “O! Promise Me.” After receiving the congratulations of their friends, refreshments were served on the lawn and spacious veranda. The bride and groom left by automobile, slipping away from a number of their young friends who awaited them with rice, confetti, old shoes, etc. They will take a short trip but all were left in the dark as to whither they were going. They wilL return home the first of the coming week.

Among the out-of-town guests were: Mrs. WilMam Strawbridge, Lincoln, Neb.: Mrs. George Allen and mother, Detroit, Mich.; Mr. and Mrs. G. K. Hollingsworth and son, Tom, of Chicago; Mrs. AHce Dunlap and daughter, Miss Mae Dunlap, Mrs. Elia Woods and Mr. Lonnie Green, of Chicago; Brown Lam born, of Remington; Mias Jeanette Ashman, of Frankfort: Miss Louise Mendenhall, of Greendburg; Miss Evelyn Clarke, of Chicago; Mdss Mabel Dibell, of Wolcott: Miss Lucy Boyd, of Mt Vernon, Iowa; Mr. Frank Haodman, of Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. Bert Brenner and son, Ralph, of Valparaiso, and Rev. and Mis. H. L. Kindig, of Montloello. Mr. and Mrs. Long wIU reside in a new residence wlhleh the groom fs having erected in Fairview, the new addition just west of College road, where they will be at 'home to* their friends after Its completion and occupation, 'which will he about August 16th. The groom will be associated with his fattfer, A. F. Long, in the drug business, in preparation for whieb he was recently graduated from the Chicago University college of pharmacy. Both bride and groom are grodu a tee of the Rensselaer high school and Mrs. Long also attended West em College tor Girls at Oxford, O.