Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-08-12
PRECOURT-HU0HES.

Friends in Island Pond will read with
much pleasure and interest the following,
taken from the Manchester, On. H.
Union. Tuesday August 2:
If the old couplet is true that
BLESSED is the bride
The sun shines on"
Miss Della Bernard Hughes that was,
and Mrs. Archie F. Precourt that is,
must have delightful welded life ahead
of her for the sun never shone with more
radiance than on Tuesday morning when
at St. Anne's Church the words were
pronounced that changed her from maid
to wife.
The ceremony was witnessed by large
and interested company. 1t was set tor
O'Clock and prior to that hour large
number of the relatives and friends OF the
happy pair had gathered in the sacred
edifice.
The officiating clergyman was the Rev.
FIR. LYONS, and when the bride and bride
groom, accompanied by their attend
ants, appeared before the altar, Father
Lyons, contrary to his usual custom
made them a brief pastoral address.
Tic Sulu that UG loOh an unusual W.
gree of interest in the ceremony that he
was about to perform from the fact that
he knew both of the contracting parties
intimately, had known them for years
and had marked their activity i'll parish
affairs with pleasure. He said he took
not only the interest of a pastor in them
but also that of friend and he trusted
that their married life might be as pleas.
ant as its opening was suspicious.
Concluding, he expressed the wish that
their married life might be so luminous
with good deeds and worthy actions
that it should prove but the harbinger
for larger life and a nobler sphere OF
duty in Gods eternal service hereafter.
During the performance of the wedding
ceremony solos were beautifully rendered
bv Miss Lucier OF Nashua and DR.. Lyons
of Portsmouth. Miss Helen Lyons was
organist and the wedding marches and
he music at the interludes were given in
a spirited and sympathetic manner.
After signing the parish register the
newly married pair, accompanied by
their friends, drove to the home of the
bride, 100 Central street, where an elab-
crate wedding breakfast was served. A
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Precourt, 305 East Spruce street.
The presents bestowed upon the bride
were of the most attractive and substan-
tial character, and comprised gold, silver
and cut glass, and four checks. Among
the presents was a rosary imported from
Paris. the chain and crucitix being of gold
and each stone an amethyst. MIR. and
Mrs. Precourt will take wedding trip
of two weeks, in the course of which they
will visit New York and Washington.
The Rev. FIR. Lyons was assisted in the
ceremony by the Rev. FIR. Philip O'Don
nell of Boston, all intimate friend of the
contracting parties, and the attendants
were as follows: Bridesmaid, Miss
Katherine Haynes; best man, William
Flaherty of Boston; usherS, Michael
Clark, Patrick Sheehan and George Rich
ards.
The bride looked very charming in q
white Suisse, trimmed with Vaenciennes
She carried large bunch of bride rose:
4 and wore an imported hat with Ostrich
plumes. Miss Haynes also wore whit,
Suisse, trimmed with Valenciennes lac,
and carr ed roses. The decorations a
the house were very handsome and costly
comprising palms and some rare varieties
of orchids.
The bridegroom, Archie F. Precourt, il
well known and very popular druggis
who has hosts of friends who wish hin
and his beautiful wife unlimited JOY anc
felicity in their married life.
MIR. Precourt is former Island Ponc
boy, who went to Manchester severa
years since. A large circle of friends here
including the HERALD, join in the genera
congratulations and good wishes ex
pressed by the Union. The HERALD ais,
acknowledges the receipt of a souveni
box OF wedding cake.