St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-08-16
AUGUST WEDDINGS.
Smilh.Ritchie.

JohnsDury people are personally INTEREST
ed as the contracting parties are grad
yates Of St. Johnsbury Academy in 1893,
took place at West Barnet. Thursday,
Aug. 10, when Seldom c. Smith of San
Francisco and Emma G. Richie, daugh-
ter ot Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew c. Richie,
were married.
The wedding took place in the Presby-
terian church which was elaborately
trimmed. Festoons of evergreens were
profusely used and intermingled with
flowers formed arches over each Of the
two aisles. About the pulpit was a
solid bank of ferns and sweet peas with
large bouquets of white asters on each
side.
At Just one o'clock the bridal party
entered the church to the strains of the
wedding march from Lohengrin, played
by Laughlin's 8 orchestra of Barnet. The
ushers were Stephen Chase OF Hanover,
st. ]. A. '92, Cary Smith, '02, OF Cabot,
Clarence Lingham, '93, of Boston, and
James Richie, 1902, of West Barnet.
The bridal party consisted of the two
bridesmaids, Miss Hannah Rollins of
Dover, N. H., college friend of the
bride, and Miss Pansy Smith of Cabot,
St. ]. A. '99, sister of the groom. Then
came the maid Of honor, Miss Laura
Hatch, '93, of Strafford, and the little
flower girl, Miss Margaret Ritchie
followed the bride. When the party
reached the altar it was met by Mr..
Smith accompanied by the best man. H.
Philip Patey, '95, now student in the
Hartford Theological Seminary.
The ceremony which was performed by
Rev. S. P. Brownell of West Barnet in
cuded the double ring service. AS the
bridal party left the church the orchestra
played the wedding march OF Men
delssohn. The bride was beautifully
dressed in white silk null over white silk.
She wore veil and carried bouquet of
white sweet peas. The bridesmaids and
flower girl also wore white but carried
pink flowers, while the maid OF honor
was dressed in pink muslin and carried
pink peas.
Altbo' the day was rainy about sixty
people from out of town attended the
wedding and the reception which imme-
diately followed given to near relatives
and out of town friends. For this the
house was proiusely trimmed with sweet
peas and pond lilies. While receiving
/ the bride and groom stood under an
arch which was formed of two hearts
done in sweet peas, while the center ol
the table in the dining room, where the
ushers and bridesmaids served ice cream
! and cakes, was mass OF lilies.
The presents were beautiful and indi-
Gated not only host of friends but a
thoughtiulness of the fact that Mr.. and
Mrs. Smith had to travel far before they
j.. set up their household gods"
Mr.. and Mrs. Smith leave for Califor-
MIA in about two weeks where Mr.. Smith
has an excellent position with CHM &
Co. Meanwhile they are visiting friends
| in this vicinity. The bride has a large
circle of friends not only in West Barnet
. and St. Johnsbury but in Massachusetts,
as she is a graduate of Wellesley, '97.
The best wishes OF the community go
| WlCn MI. anu MIS-. 0Iullu ~ luCll uOluS
in the West.
Among the guests from out of town
were Mr.. and Mrs. c. E. Smith, Pliny
Smith, Mr.. and Mrs. Gourd, The Misses
Fisher, OF Cabot; Mr.. and Mrs. Under
wood, Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Smith of Hard.
wick; Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Richie, Mr..
: and Mrs. Clary, Mr.. and Mrs. James
Wilson of Greensboro; Mr.. and Mrs.
5 John Smith of Newbury; Mr.. and Mrs.
Ira Smith OF Passumpsic; Mr.. Bone Of
} Boltonville; Miss Edith Plummer from
Iowa; Mrs. c. E. Putney, so long
3 identified with st. Johnsbury Academy,
now of Baldwinville; Miss Putney, also
: of BaldwinviIle, ST. J. A. '94; Mr. and
: Mrs. H. c. Ide, S.. ]. A. '92, McIndoe
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Lingham, St. ].
, A., '93, of Boston; Mr.. and Mrs. John
Richie, Mr.. and Mrs. James Richie,
Miss Katherine Bingham, '95, Miss Elsie
Ranney, '93. Miss Griswold and Miss
Cushman, '93, Miss Merrill, '94, Mr.
E and Mrs. Crawford Ranney, Mrs
Gaskell, E. w. Gaskell, '95, all of ST.
Johnsbury; Miss Ethel Morrison ol
, Ryegate.
a Bishop-Prior.
The Maiden Evening Mail of August
10 gives the following account of the
wedding of two formerly wel.known
I students OF st. Johnsbury Academy, who
i. have many friends here:
"There was a pretty home wedding
' yesterday afternoon at the residence o.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert c. Prior, 337
a Eastern avenue, wien their daughter
s Leila A., was united in marriage tc
Frederick Lendall Bishop of Peoria, Ill
The bride is well known and popular
II Faulkner young lady, and the groom i:
!. professor of physics at the University o
r Chicago, and has charge of the depart
4 ment of physics at the Bradley Polytech
: mic Institute at Peoria, Ill. The parlol
of the residence was prettilv decorated
with golden rod, and in one corner wa.
i suspended floral horseshoe surmountet
n by orange blossoms under which th'
: ceremony, which took place at 2.3(
s o'clock, was performed. Rev. ]. H
y Stubbs, pastor of the Faulkner Methods
a church, was the officiating clergyman
d assisted by Rev. W. |. Shattuck OF Ham
:, ilton, cousin OF the groom. Mis-
d Marion H. Gilman OF Nashua. N. II.
n was bridesmaid, and the best man wa
y w. J. Saywood Of Burlington.
" "The brides gown was a charming
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