The Newtown bee., 1901-11-29
TOWN TOPICS,

NOVEMBER WEDDING BELLS.
 SOME BROOKLYN YOUNG PEOPLE SUC-
 CUMB TO CUPID's CHARMs.-ONE OF
 THE PAIR HAS, IN TURN, OFTEN EN-
 LOVED THE CHARMS OF NEwTOwN.
 Condolences frequently happen in life, and sometimes in a manner that seems quite startling. Once in while two sisters marry two brothers, hat is, the sisters belong to one family and the brothers to anut her. Now and then one is at the same time aunt and siSter-in-law to the same person, or something ike that. all in one; but it is not often that on the same day and at the same hour three persons, re- lated to each other or intimately ar- uuminted, are married. That happen ed, however, on Wednesday evening of last week, when Harry Clayton Lloyd, of Brooklyn, was married to Miss Pearl Olivia Ritter; Mr Lloyd was one of three young men who knew eacn other well. who were caught in the matrimonial moose at the same hour. The wedding took place at the home of the bride, }SO Third street, and was asspretty wedding as one would care to- sec. Only the closest friends and immediate relatives were invited: and so the company, while se- feet, was composed only of those who were deeply interested in the welfare of the young couple the person with merely the curious eye was shut out.
 The parlors were tastefully trimmed, great bank of palms forming the background for the ceremony and graceful vines running over curtains and walls. As nearly to half after eight o'clock as the late coming ef guests would allow. to the music of the familiar "Wedding March," the mar riage procession entered the parlors and took their placeIbefore Rev Otis w. Barker, of Newtown, the officiating clergyman. Miss Belle Ritter, the sis ter of the bride, acted as maid of hon. or, and l.. Emerson Lloyd, brother of 1 the groom, as best man. Henry Rit- ter, the brides brother, gave her away. After the ceremony, which all pro- nounced very pretty one, with the giving of the love token and kneeling for the blessing, the warmeSt cOngrat- | ulations were extended and years of un- alloyed happiness wished for those whose future lives opened out so auspi- ciously. A bountiful collation. was indulged in; and then Mir and Mrs | Harry c. Lloyd were away, as they in- nocently supposed, no one knew whith- CT, but, like the small brother who is often about on occasions when not | wanted, the guileIess congressman had hinted that, with their new inspira tion to do great things, the young people had gone on to help Mir Roosevelt in the pOnderous concerns of State.
 The wedding presents were many and beautiful. Among them were: dull bronze piano lamp and a banquet lamp, with wrought iron standard, both from the fellow clerks of Mir Lloyd in the office of Post x Flagg, brokers, New York, with the mild suggestion that now they let their light shine: a check from the firm sufficient to cover the expenses of many d honeymoon; a gold | watch and chain, very delicate and | dainty, a present from the groom to l the bride; an upholstered easy chair that had ''Lazincss' written all over it; two rockers more for ordinary occasions; a handsome carving set in time for the | Thanksgiving turkey of 1902, when housekeeping will have been begun on model plans; an oil painting from Rev and Mrs Otis w. Barker that almost emitted the perfume of the roses it represented; a rosewood dresser from the groom $ parents: d mantcl clock: bric-a-brac galore; another check with several ciphers on the right side of the decimal point; and, as the small boy would say when he got tired of talking "Oh, lots of other thingS.''
 Harry c. Lloyd, as is well known, is brother of Mrs Otis w. Barker, of New t own.
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