The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-08-31
WEDDING BELLS.
Tho Merrifeld-W Wood and Quirk-Funk
Weddings-The Boat Club Party
Social SWIM

| Weddings.-The Boat Club Party
| Social Swim.
Lila NJ, only daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs
L. Is. Merriheld, was united in marriage to
Mr. G. A. r. Wood. Of Chicago. at the ele-
CANT residence Of the brides parents, No.
1926 Lafayette street, at eight o'clock on
Thursday evening, Rev. A. s. Merrifeld, OF
EldoradC, Kan. uncle Of the bride, officiating.
Alta lew moments before the hour, Miss
Alberta Harmon sat before the splendid up.
right grand piano and openend the music at
Mendelssohn's wedding march. When the
notes of the master composition were waited
through the psrlors, the bridal party de.
scended the staircase in the spacious hall,
and entering the north parlor, proceeded
through the arch into the south parlor and
took their POSITIONS before the large bay
window. The procession was composed of
DR.. Stannard and Lou Merriield, ushers,
Misses Louise Merrifeld and Hattie Jones,
flower girls, the groom with the mother Of
the bride, and the bride, leaning upon the
arm of her father. The BRIDE and groom
took positions beneath floral OK yoke sup.
ported by an arch of smilax, while the
window was relieved by bank Of ferns rest.
ing upon base Of smilax. The bride wore
cream faille with silk mall overdress and
carried white roses, while the groom was
attired in the conventional black. The par
Tors were crowded with the guests Of the
evening, who were separated from the bridal
party by white satin ribbons, held by
Misses Yentzer and Merrifeld.
At the conclusion of ceremony ne wed.
ding supper, served by Weber, of Chicago,
was spread in the dining rooms, and the
evening was devoted to the usual festivities.
1t was smilax wedding smilax on the
chandeliers, smilax arches about the win
dows-smilax everywhere. The presents
were numerous and elegant, most substan-
tial among them being ohsque for $1,000
presented by the brides father.
Among those who we're present were, j.
". Adams and wife, j. Hanson and wife and
E. A. Bowen and wife, of Mendoza; DR..
of Owasso, Mich: Mrs. B. l.
Jones and son Grovey, of Granville, o.;
Miss Lila Day, of Lima O; Miss Hattie
King, Cincinnati, o.; c. A. Blake and wife
and daughter Louise, o. Mendoza; Judge
and Mrs Snyder. W. C. Riale and wife, DR..
and Mrs. Smurr, J. E. Odds and wife, j. E.
Scott and wife, P. G. Weaver and wife, Emil
johnson and wife, G. W. Penny and wife
and daughter, o. C. Merrifeld and family,
A. H. Mortified and family, Mr.. Msxon
and wife, Mr. Lindstrom and wife, j. E.
Porter, E. Humphrey, and Misses Yentzer,
Hastings, Wallace, Halliday, and Sizer, Of
this city.
oUlRK FUNK.
Miss Julia Quirk and Mr.. Charles Funk
were married at St. COLUMBIA church at nine
o'clock on Thursday morning, Dean Heating
officiating The wedding was q very quiet
affair and YVES attended by the immediate
friends of the bride and groom. After the
ceremony MIR. and Mrs. Funk were driven
to the Rock Island depot, departing upon
short bridal tour.
ROSE LEAVES
The advent of his entrance into sassiety,
of which the Hon. Lester A. Rose boasts of
in his Sunday edition, probably dates from
his being prominent feature Of late Fish
ing Party. BY whom he was invited does
not appear. Indeed, the gentlemen on the
invitation committee insist that he invited
himself. However, that may be, as an or
figure, he is said to have made
quite hit, though it is not recorded in the
log book of that exposition tina: he either
"made a speech, sang a song or told story
He might have told story had he been so
that would have been senss,
tional, stirring, pathetic, like an "ower true
border tale, how, for instance, and under
what circumstance, the pugilist Marley
knocked that nose out of plumb, and what he
did to poor Marley. The Hon. Lester was
true game on that occasion, and the story
would have impressed the sassiety people
very much, and greatly enhanced his stand
ing in sassiety.
Yes, the Hon. Lester A. Rose is getting
into sassiety. OF course the sassiety people
of Ottawa are to be congratulated that some
of the leaders of sassiety are beginning to
the gentleman and his eminent
qualifications for entering good sassiety
1t is passing strange that he never struck
town before where his social nature was
truly appreciated. 1t is possible that the
sassiety gentlemen of Ottawa are differently
constructed than those of other cities where
the Hon. Lester A. has flourished. Still we
can hardly think even the gentlemen of Of
tawa will encourage their wives cultivating
the acquaintance of q man who has been
arrested on q charge of publishing paper
" containing among other things, divers
" wicked, false, impious and obscene mat
" ters, language and descriptions manifestly