The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-05-02
APRIL BRIDES.
Pretty Home Weddings and Celebration
In Church.
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On Saturday, April 2t5h, Mr.. Frank ].
Russell and Miss Josie B. Myers were mar.
RED at the home of the brides parents. Mr..
and Mrs. John W. Myers, near New Windsor.
Although no one had been invited excent
relatives and few ofthe most intimate friends
more than hundred persons were present
The house had been beautifully decorated by
loving hands and the perfume of flowers per-
vaded everything. The windows were filed
with banks of pansies and green vines were
trailed over the curtains, which were tied
back with punches of apple blossoms. The
railing and posts Of the porch were twined
with vines and cherry blossoms, and potted
plants and cut flowers in profusion helped to
make one feel that spring, the favorite season
of poets and lovers, had entered the home 10
make it beautiful
At two o'clock the bridal couple entered
the parlor with the following attendants !:
Miss Sarah f. Myers, Mr.. Jesse S. Myers and
j. Edgar Myers, sister and brothers of the
bride; Miss Phoebe A. Russell, sister of the
groom, and Mr.. Henry Russell, his cousin,
and Miss S. Katharyn Ball. The bride and
her maids wore white organdie, the former
carrying lilies of the valley and the latter La
France roses.
According to the ceremony of the Society
of Friends there was a short silence after the
procession entered, which was broken by the
groom saying, SIN the presence of God and
of this assembly | take Josie B. Myers to be
my wife, promising with Divine assistance to
be unto her a faithful and loving husband
until death shall separate us. The bride fol-
lowed with the same words. Then the uncle
of the bride, Mr. Thomas w. Sidwell, with
whom she had spent much of her lfe, offered
a short prayer, in which he asked that Divine
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to keep their promises to each other; that
there might enter into their home patience
and loving service and sweet content; that
from all the cares and struggles of the outside
world it might be refuge; that each might
be an inspiration to the other TO live pure and
righteous lives; that they might be blessed
with a long and happy married life, and have
foretaste on earth of that heavenly state
which is TO continue without end in the life
TO come.
The marriage certificate was then signed by
the contracting parties, afterwards read aloud
by Mr. Sidwel, aud those present were in
vited to sign it. First the parents and rela-
tives came forward and then the friends. On
the brides side were the signatures of three
generations and on the groom's side TIE same
number. In all there were more than eighty
signatures and as time goes on this certificate
VIII become one Ol Tue must pTtclouS lheuleH-
toes Of the occasion.
A luncheon was served Immediately after
the ceremony. In one of the brides cakes
had been placed ring, thimble, and piece
of money. to indicate that she who received
the first was to be the next bride; the one who
gets the thimble an old maid, and that the one
who gets the money, will attain riches.
Strange to say the christian name ofall of the
recipients was Carrie-Miss Carrie Smith,
Miss Carrie Stouifer and Miss Carrie Englar.
The brides presen is were very handsome
and useful and numbered nearly hundred.
There was everything in the way of silver
necessary for the table, besides china, cut
glass, table linen, embroidery and pictures.
Some of the linen was hand-woven in 1924,
and crazy quilt contained some patches
more than hundred years old.
The wedding guests and other people in
New Windsor assembled at the six O'Clock
train, awaiting the departure of the bride and
groom, with large packages of rice and old
shoes. When the couple failed to appear
some determined jokers took the train for
Medford, but came back hardly able to hide
their chagrin, for the young couple, they
learned later, had driven TO Mt. Airy to take
the train.