The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-05-12
WILL NOW OBEY
DR.. scudder Makes New
Vows at the Celebra-
ton Of His Silver
Wedding.
MANY CONGRATULATIONS
First Congregational Church
Honors It's Pastor and
His Popular Wife.

The Rev. and Mrs. John L. Scudder. Of
| the First Congregational Church, Of
which Mr.. Scndder is pastor, at Bergen
aad Boyd avenues, on the Heights, cele-
] hrated their silver wedding Saturday
evening in a most unique manner The
celebration took place in the lecture room
OF the church and the details were so
| carefully arranged it came pretty near
being the real thing. The lecture room
was beautifully decorated. On the plat
form was a bower of palms and suspend
ed from the ceiling was a large pillow OF
! white flowers with the figures 1Ss7-is02. :
Promptly at half-past eight the Lohen-
grin wedding March was played. Ma
jor FullIn, of the Roosevelt Cadets. dis
| guised as a clergyman with the aid Of
false gray side boards and powdered hair.
stood at the platform to receive the we'd
ding party. Two flower girls. Misses Ruth
and Eleanor Collins marked off a path
with white ribbons and scattered flowers
4 alone the aisle Then with all the pride
and stateIiness of twenty-five years ago,
| Mr. Scudder led his wife to the altar,
| preceded by Mr.. and Mrs Frank H. Hall
and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Negus the
\ sons-fn-iaw and daughters OF Rev. anG
4 Mrs scudder.
Mrs. Scudder wore a gown of black lace
over white silk, and carried bridal and
EsAmeriean Beauty roses. The matrons Of
| honor wore pale blue and carried white
lilacs and the little flower girls, two of
the prettiest children the church affords.
wore dainty gowns of white point d'esprit
with pink ribbons and carried baskets of
flowers
! At the altar parody on the regular
/ marriage service was gone through,
and Mr.. Scudder was made to promise
uncompromising obedience to his wife in
all things and never to dispute her SUI
preme and unquestionable authority,
while Mrs. Scudder was made to promise
10 treat her husband always as her equal
in every way but weight.
4 To the question, wilt thou promise,
! never to disturb your wife's slumbers by
4 getting up in the morning to play ten
Il mis- ?" Mr. Scudder responded it depended
upon the weather, and when asked to give
her plenty of money, new gown and
| bonnet each Easter and an automobile,
he answered.
Eyes. If I get my salary on time which
/ didn't mean on the installment plan.
Mrs. seudder, on the other hand, prom
ised to give careful attention to her hus-
bands diet so as not to increase his ten
| dency to corpulency, attend all meetings
and entertainments of the church, speak,
sing and pray, all at once and do all other
/ ecclesiastical chores. And then they were
both adrnonished not to forget the mar
/ riage. fee.
\ Mr.. Edwin sperry on behalf of
the congregation. presented Mr.. and
Mrs scudder with a beautiful sill
yer pitcher He said the congre-
cation were unanimous in their praise of
the pastors efforts to further the pro-
gress of the church and that he had been
faithful and conscientious worker.
Speeches from Mr.. and Mrs. seudder
were then called for and they both told
how happy they were, had been, and
ever hoped to be. Mr.. Scudder praised
I Jersey City Heights as a residential sec
ton
why, said he. yesterday my wife
and I celebrated our wedding anniversary
with a trip to the Geological Gardens at
! the Bronx Well, it took US two hours
to get there, and 1 thought what man
would care to live up there and take all
that time getting down to business every
| day when here on the Heights he would
be within half an hour of New York
Mrs Scudder said she wanted to correct
one nisapprehension. She wished it un-
derstood that she and Mr.. seudder were
born in the same year and she did not
want again to have anyone tell her how
delightfully."- her son preached GMrs
scudder was referring to her hair, which
I is saow white, while Mr. Scudder's re-
4 mains isnsfrea led with cifyer1
sIn congratulating the BRIDE concluded
Mrs Scudder, Il always say when they
come to us to be married or we go to
marry them at their homes. 7 hope you
may be as happy as / have been Some
brides don't like the month of May and
are afraid Of rainy day. Now l was
married in May and on a rainy day, SO
don't you be a bit afraid if any of you
are contemplating marriage"
/ Congratulations followed and then the
assemblage of about two hundred people
adjourned to the basement, where we'd
| ding feast of cake, strawberries. ice
cream, candied fruits and like delicacies
had been provided by Mrs. Griffiths, The
bridal table was very artistically arrang
| ed. being decorated with bridal roses and
silver candelabra surrounded by big
wedding cake, also decorated in silver
Toasts followed the feast, Mr.. Edwin
Sperry acting as postmaster.
Incidental music was furnished by the
/ church trio, Mrs Nellie Bowman, Mrs.
w Dunn and Mr.. G. w Saikeld. Mr..
Salkeld also gave tenor solo, Farewell.
Marguerite, and sang in the quartette
/ composed Of the other two trio members
| and Miss Florence N. Bachman.
The Rev John L. Scudder has been
pastor of the First Congregational Church
sixteen years. He began his work In the
old tabernacle on York street which was
sold some time ago and converted into
lodge rooms and a hal by the ElSs- 1t
4 is all of i've years since DR.. Scuddar took
up his work on the Heights. MI. and
Mrs Seudder were married in the Cen
/ trail Congregational Church of Brooklyn
/ by Mr.. scudder's father.