The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-11
PROMINENT ALABAMA
 WOMEN.
DE LIVING Ex-MISTRESSES
 OF THE WHITE HOUSE

In The Sundays Louisville Post Is found . long and interesting article on the ssIiying ex-Mistresses of the White 5ouse." One of them, Mrs. Letitia Tyler Sempie is aunt to Mrs. T. G. Poster of this city. Of her the writer in The Post says: ,n. 4 sus. if seems two centuries since John Tyler was President, but thousands ofapeopie vet remember when, in the early forties, Mrs. Letitia Tyler SempIe, second daughter of President Tyler, was at the head of his household and of the social life at Washington. It was in the natural, normal days when people ate dinner by daylight and balls and even ing parties ended at Il. Happy aays ol wore. Mrs. Semple was noted as brilliant, graceful and tactful first lady, and her fine qualities were never more couspicuously displayed than when she planned a magnificent reception in the White House on the occasion of her fathers second marriage, welcoming roy ally and cordially the young stepmother' who was actually and at once to displace herself. For this. if for nothing else. Letitia Tyler Semple deserved to live long, likewise to be richer than she now is She lives in home for the aged at Washington. She is a handsome woman still, with a profusion of white hair and a fine, strong face that bears afemarka- bIe resemblance to the portraits .ot her father, John Tyler.
 The entire list of living ex-mistresses of the White House is: sss@- 1
 Mrs I4etitia Tyler Semple, Mrs. Betty Taylor Dandridge, Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnson. Mrs. Julia Dent Grant, Mrs. Lucretia Garfield, Mrs. Cleveland and Mrs. Mckinley.
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 The Peducah (Ky.) Register gives the following account of the marriage of Miss Marjorie Machen and Mir. Frank Rieke. Miss Machen is a sister of Mrs. R. D. Sayre of this city and has spent all of her young ladyhood and much of her girlhcod here, where she has hosts ] of warm friends. The Register says:
 Society last week eagerly awaited re- tuAn from Chicago of MT. and Mrs. Frank Rieke, to shower them with con- gratulations. for both are held in high favor notwithstanding the well known couple deprived their acquaintances of the exquisite pleasure of attending the marriage and witnessing the tying oEdht knot that binds them for hfozs sa a'- Tz
 Last Sabbath interesting rurnors were Seating swift and fast that the pair had quietly slipped to St. Louis and would there be married, but as everyone in whom confidence had been placed refus- ed to speak, their exact whereabouts were not known until telegrams were re- ceived from Chicago announcing that the courtship had reached its elimination in blissful matrimony in that city. A jingle of joy was felt by everybody as the att tentions had been delightfully."- watched by friends ever since the charming young lady arrived from the South to visit Mrs. J. Wheeler Campbell. The bride is the youngest child of the late Willis B. Machen, who was one of the most dis tinguished men Kentucky has had the honor of producing, He was at the fore most helm in the United States Senate, where he was sent by this grand old commonwealth and creditably served his constituents. He was also Congressman in the Confederate House. Mrs. Rieke is very bright and entertaining and by her attractive manners has ingratiated herself into the love of all Since the death of her father she has resided in Montgomery. Ala, with her sister, Mrs
 Richard Sayre. No words need be spoken regarding the prominent groom He is the eldest son of Mir. w. H. Rieke and one of Paducah's most progressive young bushes men. who is now managing the mammoth ice plant on North First