Smyrna times., 1888-09-26
Double Wedding.
HUFFINGTON-HOFF SMITH
HOFFECKE ER.

HOFFECKER.
Yesterday evening, in Brookfeld,
Mo-, at the residence of the father of
the two brides, Joseph V. HoiIecker, at
7.30 o'clock, there was a double we'd
ding, when Miss Belle HofIecker and
John H. huntington, merchant. of Phil
lipsburg, Centre county, Pa, and Miss
Eugenia Hoffecker and J. Talley Smith,
Secretary of the Harlem & Hollings-
worth Co., Wilmington, We're united at
the same time in the holy bonds Of
wedlock.
The brides were attired in cream
moire underdress and cream surah
Overdress, en- train.
A reception was held shortly after,
consisting of the members of the fam
lily and Mr.. and Mrs. T. B. Smith, the
parents of the second groom, who went
on to Brookfield to witness the cere-
mony. At midnight the happy young
couples took the train coming East.
stopping at Niagara Falls and other
places on the way, intending to reach
Wilmington by Thursday, October 4th,
where a reception will be given them.
and Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar r. Vernon,
Mrs. V. is daughter Of the host re-
Gently married, and who will also be
returning from their bridal trip, at
Hightield," the residence of Z. b.
Smith, on the Lancaster pike. three
miles from Wilmington. This triple
reception will be a social occasion of
more than usual note and attended by
a large number of guests.
On tie following day Mr.. and Mrs.
Huntington and Mr.. and Mrs. Smith
will come to Smyrna on a brief visit to
their many friends here.
As we understand it, Mr.. Huntington.
in Phillipsburg, and Mr.. Smith. in Will
mingtOn, have each new and handsome
homes to which to take their brides.
when the wedding festivities are over.
There is a smack of romance in this
| double wedding that the average news
paper man could hardly pass by with
out appropriating to his columns.
Eight years ago Misses Belle and Jene,
then in their early teens, went West to
make their future home in Missouri.
Two years ago, having attained the age
and dignity of young women, with that
natural desire to revisit their youthful
companions and scenes of childhood
they turned their faces East, with
Smyrna for their Mecca, stopping in
Wilmington for a week or two to visit
relatives. This was the week they
each met their fate; stamping theiI
individuality on young hearts more in.
dellibly than can be impressed by any
artists camera. Mr.. Smith was a tota
stranger; Mr.. Huntington, a distant
relative, they had known in very early
childhood when both We're residents O.
Smyrna, but had not seen each Other
for years. The gentlemen were un
known to each other until this meet
ing. The semblance of romance is tn,
more complete when it is known tn,
two brides are not only sisters bu
twins. How that mystic chain of love
a double link so to speak, was welded
how the single links at first ran un
knowingly on parallel lines to be unite(
in the end at the same altar fire bv hin
who is authorized both to bind ant
bless for new unions and purposes O
life, marks the popularity of the ro.
nance. Thus has their visit of tw,
years ago, intended only for a renewa
OF the fellowship of relatives, beer
turned into cOnnubial fellowships tha
take them from fathers roof and place
them in new, and there is every reason
to expect, a cOngenial and happy life
but which has its realities more thar
its rOmances.