Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 259, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1913 — SHEDD-SPARLING MARRIAGE WEDNESDAY [ARTICLE]

SHEDD-SPARLING MARRIAGE WEDNESDAY

Wedding Occurred on Marriage Anniversary of Bride’s Parents— Many Attended Reception. The marriage of Mr. Samuel E. Sparling, of Demopolis, Ala., and "Miss Edith Shedd, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 8. 8. Shedd, of this city, occurred Wednesday afternoon at 1 o’clock at the Bhedd home on Grace street. There were present at the wedding only the family and the near relatives of the bride and Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Warner, Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Parrett and Miss Ethel Perkins. The ceremony proved a very pretty and rather unusual one, from the fact that there was no wedding march and that the bride and groom were unattended and that they quietly took their places in the bay window of the parlor while chatting with the relatives and friends who had assembled for the wedding. Rev. J. C. Parrett, of the First Presbyterian church, used the ring ceremony in reading the very pretty ceremony that united this very popular and excellently mated couple. The house had been very attractively decorated, the predominating foliage being wild smilax from Alabama. This had been tastefully twined above the doors and windows and this was augmented by native smilax, of a finer vine and leaf, which hung about the candelabra in the parlors and dining room. Fems had been placed about the parlor and large boquets of white and yellow roses and chrysanthemums and added a color, that was very pleasing. Commemorating the fortieth anniversary of the marriage of the parents of the bride, on which day the wedding occurred, a large basket con talning forty pink roses and telling the story of forty happy years, had been presented by Mrs. John G. Shedd, of Chicago, a cousin of Mrs. Shedd, and whose husband is Mr. Shedd’s brother.

The bride was gowned in soft white, hand embroidered and trimmed in hand made lace, an exquisite dress imported from Switzerland, which country the bride had visited on a tour made with her sisters a year ago last summer. She carried a huge bouquet of bride’s roses. Following the ceremony, a fourcourse luncheon was served. A reception at 2:30 o’clock, was attended by a large number of the mutual friends of the couple, and Mr. and Mrs. Shedd stood with their daughter and husband to receive the guests. The well wishes for the happiness of the bride and groom were shared by the bride’s parents, who plan to spend part of the coming winter with their daughter in the south. At the reception Miss Alice Shedd, sister of the bride, sang “I Love You,” and “Spring.” Mt. and Mrs. Sparling were the recipients of a large number of magnificent presents, consisting of silver, china, cutglass and linen. A complete chest of silver was given tiy Mr. and Mrs. John G. Shedd, he being the manager of the Marshall Field store in Chicago. The chest consisted of knives, forks and several kinds of spoons. Odd pieces of the same pattern were given by Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Porter. Mr. Sparling is a graduate of Wisconsin University, where for several years he was a member,of the college faculty. Since resting there he has been engaged in farming pursuits, for some time on the old Sparling homestead, southwest of this city, and for the past year at Demopolis, Ala., where they will make their future home. Mrs. Sparling is a graduate of Northwestern University and has for several years been a teacher and for some time prior to this year in the Rensselaer high school. She Is one of the most pleasing and intellectual young ladles of this city and will doubtless receive a welcome in the best circles of her new home. With every appearance of pedagogical veracity Mr. Sparling announced that they would leave Rensselaer on the northbound Hoosier Limited at 6:02 the evening of the wedding, for Chicago, and several of their friend® had gathered at the depot to give them a rice shower, but they did not come, and it was not learned until after the train had gone that they had been taken to Pleasant Ridge by Mr. and Mm C. C. Warner, where they had taken passage on the southbound 6:22 train for Lafayette and thence on to their home at Demopolis, Alabama. Among the out of town guests to attend the wedding were Mr. and Mrs. John G. Shedd, Dr. and Mrs. John Porter, Mrs. Frank W. Porter, Mr. Arthur Shedd and Mr. Amo Wagner, of Chicago; Miss Harriett Shedd, of Crystal Falls, Mich., and Mr. And. Mrs. Hairy Shedd, of

New York city. None of Mr. Sparling’s relatives were present, his mother and brother having moved to Kansas a year and a half ago. He visited them there just before coming to Rensselaer to be married and reports his aged mother enjoying fair health. Probably no marriage that lias taken place in Rensselaer for a long time has caused more interest than that of Samuel E. Sparling and Miss Edith Shedd. The active Interest they have taken in educational pursuits, and their popularity with a large circle of friends, so many of whom had the opportunity to express their well wishes at the reception. will cause them to be greatly missed In Rensselaer, while the best favors of Alabama will be the hearty and unanimous wish of their many friend® here and elsewhere.

The ladles’ Aid Society of the Barkley ehurch will give a hallowe’en social Friday evening at the home of Kenton Parklson. Everybody Invited. Doan’s Ointment cured me of eczema that had annoyed me for a long time The result was lasting.” —Hon. 8. W. Matthews, Commissioner, Labor Statistics, Augusta. MA ’ ” ■> .