The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-04-26
A HAPPY EVENT.
The Carney-BOhannon NuptiaIs
Friday Evening.
Two Popular Young People United in
Marriage, Amidst Flowers
and Friends.

The marriage of Miss Mary Carney
and Prof. Eugene William Bohannon
was solemnized at the residence of the
BRIDES father, Mr.. Patrick Henry
Carney, at 500 South Second street. at
eight o clock Friday evening in the pre-
sence of sixty-fve relatives and invited
guests. The service was performed by
Rev. Father Hughes, pastor of st.
Johns Catholic church, and was brief
but impressive.
The ceremony took place in the large
parlOr in front of bank of ferns and
Easter lilies that filled one corner
The ribbon was unrolled by Messrs
Leo and Percy Carney. Father Hughes
entered from another room and took
his station, and was followed by the
best man, Mr.. H. E. Carney, and the
groom. From another doorway came
the bridesmaid, Miss Cora A N.
Carney, and the bride In the mean
time Mrs. Wilbur N. Taylor was
playing Lohengren'S wedding march.
When the beautiful notes ceased and
all were in their proper places, the
holy father pronounced the fateful
words that made the twain one.
A reception followed, and delicious
buffet lunch was served in the dining
room. AT one end of the table Mrs
William Lloyd Hixon and Miss Rob
bins alternated in serving coffee, while
at the other end chocolate was served
similarly by Mrs. James Hugh Spencer
and Miss Williams. Mrs Fred a.
Snyder and Mr.. Leo Carney rendered
several selections to the delight of ALL
The bride looked beautiful in
tucked white liberty silk over white
satin, made en- train, and wore ortulle
veil caught up with pearl sunburst
the gift of the groom. She carried
shower bouquet of lilies of the valley
Her going away gown was navy
blue, tailor made gown, and her hat
was of brown straw, trimmed with
brown and white asters.
The bridesmaid was attractively
gowned in pink dimity, trimmed with
torchon lace, and she carried bunch
of pink roses.
The house decorations were very
beautiful, the color scheme being pink
and white. The center chandelier in
the parlor was covered with roses and
smilax. In the dining room, the can
dleabra had pink shading and was
banked over with pink and white car
nations, bridal yelling being drawn
over the whole.
The presents were numerous and
beautiful and consisted largely of cut
glass, silver and china. The room in
which they were displayed was trim
med in yellow, with yellow daffodils,
and yellow shades on the candles.
A punch bowl was served in one
corner of the parlor by Mrs. Bessie
Patterson Cotton of st. Cloud, Miss
Patterson. Miss Clark and Miss Coffin
The dining room was presided over
by Miss Farr, assisted by Mrs. Mar
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Miss Clark of ST. Paul, Mrs John o.
Parry, Miss Daisy Richardson, Miss
Beatty, Miss Sparrow and Miss Sever
ance.
Mesdames H. c. Akers and F. R.
Volk assisted in the various rooms.
Packages of wedding cake, done up
with white paper and pink ribbons,
were given to the guests on their de-
parture.
At ten clock the bride and groom
entered a hack and were driven away
amid shower of tapioca and good
wishes. They were driven to st, |
Peter, where they took the early
morning train for ST. Paul, there to
leave for Chicago and Worcester, Mass
AT the latter place they will remain
two months and Prof Bohannon will
complete the work necessary to obtain
the Phi. D. degree at Clark university.
They will visit in the east during
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