Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-15
L,ndsay--pavIs wedding.

The smartest and graudest nupital
event that has happened in Marietta
since many year was the wedding of
Miss Jessie Davis. eldest daughter of
Senator and Mrs. Theo. f. Davis at
their beautiful home on Fourth street.
The Davis home had been gay for
ten days or more prior to the wedding,
with house party of merry girls,
close friends of the bride; and the
wedding was the event of all events
talked OF by everyone.
The wedding ceremopN was per-
formed by DIR. John Boyd, in St Lukes
Episcopal church, at 8 o'clock, p. m.
The church was elaborately decorated
with palms, ferns smilax and fall
anaemone. Church and aisles were
spread with duck, and the place bore
all the signs Of happy wedding event.
To the strains of Lohengrin's We'd
ding March, played by Mr. c. r. Stew
ems bridesmaids to the number of six
appeared from the rooms to either side
of the chancel, and they marched down
the middle aisle where they met the
bride, her father and her maid of
honor, Miss Elizabeth Hotchkiss, of
Cleveland. Preceded by the six ushers
the wedding party approached the
chancel, where the groom, his attend
ant Mr.. j. A. Aull, and the rector
were in waiting. In the very impress
sive ceremony of the Episcopal church
the two were made one, and to the
glad time of Mendelssohn's Wedding
March the party left the church
and entered their carriages, to be
driven at once to the Davis home.
At the home the guests were met in
the large parlor by Mrs Davis, then
passed along to Senator Davis who in
troduced them to Mrs. Lindsay, the
mother Of the groom thence to the
bride and groom. Also receiving were
Miss Hotchkiss and Miss Lighthill.
Hearty good wishes were extended the
bride and groom and the guests uni
versally remarked the beauty of the
former and the manliness of the latter.
The bridal party, numbering sixteen,
sat down to a long table decorated
with flowers and ribbons, and bearing
refreshments. This party was of
course the one about which the chief
most interest centered. In front of
each guest were two boxes-opened
just before arising. The boxes con-
tanned wedding cake and ring for
each lady and wedding cake and pair
of cuff buttons for each gentleman.
The guests were invited into the
dining room by Mrs. Torpy and Mrs.
West and when in the dining room
were taken gracefully into charge by
Mrs. Will Lord and Mrs. Winifred
Laing. At table in the center of the
room sat Miss Jessie Knowles and Miss
Edna Grafton, serving coffee. Mrs j.
w. Sniffen, Miss Buchanon and Miss
Shurick attentively saw that all the
guests were cared for.
The presents-well, they were in
greatest profusion, and surprising fine
Handsome chairs, tables, cut glass,
vases, embroidery, pictures, statuary-
a perfect maze of useful and pretty
things.
The house, as we'll as the church was
lavishly trimmed with palms, ferns
smilax and roses
AS to dresses:
The bride was clad in white satin en-
traine, trimmed in embroidered chiffon
and point lace. She wore long tulle
veil, caught at the forehead by daz-
zling diamond ornament, a gift of the
groom. She also carried huge bunch
of bride roses.
Miss Hotchkiss was gowned in white
satin, trimmed in spangled chiffon, and
she carried gorgeous chrysanthemums.
The bridesmaids were dressed alike
in fluffy, white organdie, with white
ribbon at neck and waist. They each
carried big boquet of American
Beauty roses, tied with long ribbon to
match.
The bridesmaids were Miss Hotch-
+,
Miss Mary Hall, Miss Helen Hall, Miss
Riley and Miss Rathbone.
The groom's best man was Mr.. ]. A.
Aull, of Pittsburg. The ushers were
Mr.. Rodney Barker, Mr.. G. w. Hotch-
kiss, Mr.. II. M. Lindsay. Mr.. Edward
Goehring Mr.. James Monroe and Mr..
c. f. Moore.
Visitors from a distance were Mrs.
Lindsay, Miss Sarah Lindsay, Miss
Lighthill, Mr.. and Mrs. Will Henry,
Mr.. Flint and Mr.. Brown, all of Pitts
burg Mr.. and Mrs. E. w. Hotchkiss,
Mr.. Albert Davis, Mr.. Will Gill, of
Cleveland Miss Conrad, of Philadel-
phia; Mrs. Isaac Cooke, of Chillicothe
Mr.. and Mrs. Guthrie Curtis, of Chi
cago; Miss Snodgrass, of Parkersburg
Mrs. Nichols, of Philadelphia.
To dream over, each guest received
on departing, tiny package of cake