Evening journal., 1893-07-18
LOCAL SOCIETY NEWS.
Two Prominent Business Men
Are Benedicts.
THEY WERE MARRIED LAST NIGHT

istered at the Delaware Building
During the Past week-visltors From
Abroad to This City of Hnls.
William g. Bryan, the popular and
handsome optician, now with S. III
Baynard, surprised his friends this
morning with the announcement that he
had been a Benedict since April. To
convince them that his marriage was not
hoax, he produced printed announce
ments of the wedding and invitations to
his friends to call upon Mrs. Bryan and
himself at the Central Hotel. This was
enough.
Then the facts leaked out after their
long concealment On A pril "a last, Mr.
Bryan led to the altar Miss Mary d.
Gibson, daughter Of the late Magistrate
Gibson, of Philadelphia. The ceremony
was performed at Magistrate Gibson's s
residence and only two or three guests
heard the minister's blessing upon the
young people.
Immediately after the nuptial knot
had been tied Mr.. and Mrs. Bryan came
to Wilmington. They engaged rooms at
the Central Hotel, where they spent
their honeymoon and have lived since.
'It was plain case of getting
married without pomp or display and
settling down" said the blushing Mr..
Bryan when approached by an EVENING
JOURNAL reporter this morning. Now
be is receiving congratulations almost as
fast as orders for new eyeglasses.
Mr.. Bryan, the bridegroom, is a
prominent member of the Young Mems
Democratic Club and has been it's
treasurer for a long time. He has been
with Mr.. Baynard for several years.
John ]. Finn Of the firm Of Finn
Bros the popular halter at No. 307
Market street, and Miss Mamie T.
Murphy, of Greenville, were married
recently but the friends of each have
just been spprised of the fact within
the last few days. They were married
in Sacred Heart Church, Trenton, N. J q,
by Rev. J. A. Rikney. They will make
their home at Greenville.
The following Wilmingtonians have
registered at the Delaware Building on
the Worlds Fair grounds at Chicago
during the past week: Dr. S. E. Linley,
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Simmons, Susan
M. Spalding, Julia K Botsford Elizabeth
Bancroft, Blanche Weldin, L. Helena
Potter, George L Barlow. Mr.
and Mrs William F. Springer, ]. B.
Burrows, Mrs Charles Elwell, B w.
Gage, Mrs B w. Gage, s. w. McCor.
mick, E F. Burns, Mollie Burns, Anna
Burns, Edgar Messick, Priscilla S Speak
man, John w. Anderson, Mrs. George B.
Thompson. Nellie A. Todd, Willard Hal
Porter, Walter s. Humphrey, Charles
Humphrey, Edna Gray, Joseph Jones
Frank Jones. John G. Crawford, Mrs
John G. Crawford, Daniel Farra, Jr., Mr.
and Mrs. Edgar NJ. Hopes, Ella L
Bryant.
Mrs. Mary Moss, of Oxford. Pa, L
visiting her mother, Mrs Maggie Mccoy
on Elm street.
Mrs William P. Bancroft, Miss Saral
Bancroft and Miss Lucy Bancroft, o
this city, with Misses Lydia and Luc,
Griscom, of Woodbury., n. j., and Mis-
Lucy Biddle and G. NJ Biddle, of Phila
delphia, made up a party that re-
Gently visited the Mammoth Caves il
Kentucky.
Miss Ellen SamwOrth took her class o
boys of the Bethany Baptist Sunda
school to Philadelphia, this morning
where they will visit the Geological
eAN SN-NA fAeNSo VI AAAtItols
Special Dispatch TO the Evening Journal.
NEW YORK, July 1S-The followin
Wilmington folks are visiting in New
York
J. J. Ryan, at the Broadway Contra
Hotel; G. l.. Morton, Windsor Hotel.
L. w. Cook, of Wilmington, is sun
mering at the Ocean House, Long Brancl
n. j.
Policeman John Ward will spend hi
vacation along the Schuylkill in th
vicinity of Wissahickon. He left tn
morning for that point.
Miss Venie Clark has returned to he
home in Wilmington, from visit
Lancaster Pa.
The wind just breathed il to the pine,
Who shook her head and sighed.
And then she told IL TO the oak,
Who said the wind ha0 lied.
But all the same he told the ash
Who told the willow tree.
And so it passed along the line,
Until it came TO me.
heard IL from the speckled trout
Who heard II from the pool.
And this is how the story ran
Last night the moon was full.
Chicago World.