Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1916 — POPULAR YOUNG COUPLE WED [ARTICLE]

POPULAR YOUNG COUPLE WED

Miss Marguerite Daugherty Bride of Thomas Kldridge. A beautiful wedding took placeat the home of William Daugherty. four miles northeast of this city, Tuesday evening at C, o’clock, when Miss Marguerite Daugherty and Thomas Eldridge, ■■ coming from opposite rooms, met under a festoon of mistletoe in front of Rev. E.~W. Strecker and took the marriage vowij in the presence of about forty guests. Miss Esther Padgitt sang “O Promise Me,’’' with ’Miss Daugherty, aunt of the bride, at the piano. After the ceremony congratulations were extended and then followed a three-course wedding supper. Pink and ' white carnations and mistletoe furnished the decorations, the mistletoe being sent from Oregon by relatives. During the evening music was furnished, which added pleasure to the occasion. Guests from away were Mrs. Charles Gregg and son of Rockfield and Miss Hannah Caster of Lowell. These estimable young people enter upon the sea of life together with the best of wishes from a hpst of friends and relatives. **

EXPRESS EMPLOYES TO SHARE

In the Company’s Net Earnings During the Past Year. George C. Taylor, president of the American Express company, has announced that all employes in the service of the company for one year or more, will be awarded a bonus in recognition of their excellent service to the company and the public during the past year. This bonus will aggregate $ 250,000 and will affect about 12. 000 employes. Payments will be made quarterly on the iirst of January, April, July and October Frank Tobias, local agent for the express company, and Hazel Carr, driver, each come in for q share of this division, the former to receive $65 and the latter SSO.