Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 217, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1913 — Lewis-Tanner Nuptials. [ARTICLE]

Lewis-Tanner Nuptials.

; ' V.V>' ' A quiet wedding took place at the home of Edward Tanner, v of Barkley township; Wednesday ening at 8 o’clock. The contracting parties were Miss Emma Tanner, daughter of Mr,r Tanner, rand »Rev. L. Chester Lewis, of Mansfield, O. Promptly at 8 o’clock the wedding march was played by the bride’s sister, Miss Flora, and Rev. i *’Lewis, father of the groom, accompanied by Rev. Kuonen and the ring hearer, little Dorothy Meiser, preceded the bride and groom into the parlor. Rev. Lewis read the/wfedding ceremony and Rev. Kuonen assisted in prayer. Congratulations fpllowed immediately. The parlor was beautifully decorated in white asters and green foliage, the altar being constructed out *of asters and foliage and the ceremony took place under a bower of them. Out of town geusts were Rev. and Mrs. C. E. Lewis, of Mansfield, O.; Mr. and Mrs. „ Wilson Meiser and two daughters, Marie and Dorothy, of Monticello; Mrs. W. S. Simenson, of Whiteston; Mrs. Isaac Sill, of Wolcott; Miss Reva Talbott, of Orleans, and Miss Flora Frye, of Roselawn. Following the ceremony refreshments of ice cream, eake and punch were served. Incidentally ,t]he young men and women of the neighborhood in the course of the evening rendered a very enthusiastic charivari. The bride and groom were the recipients of many beautiful gifts. The union is the result of a college romance commencing at Taylor university, where the parties first met. The groom graduated from the college of liberal arts of that institution in 1912, and the bride, who is a graduate of the Rensselaer high school, graduated at Taylor from' the same eourse in 1913. - The couple left Thursday morning, for a honeymoon trip which jtvill Include a week' on Lake Erie and a week at Oj&hurst, the country home near Mansfield of the parents of the groom. . - *’ The groom wilj accept an appointment In the northeast Ohio conference of the Methodist church, when that‘conference convenes the latter part of the month, after which the couple will he at home at the new appointment to their host of friends.