The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1903-11-28

very pretty and impressive wedding was
solemnized Wednesday evening, November
IS. at Springfield Presbyterian Church,
| Sykesville, the contracting parties being Miss
Beulah Reaver, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Reaver, of Carroll county. and Mr..
j. Leroy Clarke, son Of Mr.. and Mrs. John
II. Clarke, near Sykesville.
The ceremony was performed by Rev. DR..
c. A. Dudley. pastor OF Springfield Church.
The bridal party was arranged IN two sections
and as the melodious strains from Lohengrin
were peaed forth tide two sections entered by
the right and left side aisles Of the church.
The left section consisting of an usher, the
bridesmaid and bride; the right of an usher
the best man and groom. The ushers passed
each other at the chancel rail and again in
the pulpit and sto ID facing the congregation.
Then came the bridesmaid and best man do
ing likewise, but facing each other. Lastly
came the bride and groom, who entered the
pulpit and stood facing the minister. AT the
close of the ceremony the congregation stood,
the bride and groom knelt and with hand
on the head of each, DR.. Dudley, offered up a
beautiful prayer in behalf of the happy pair.
As the strains from Mendelssohn filled the
church the bridal party passed down the mid
die aisle under Il shower OF rice rs they diSap
peared.
Inc Dilut Wis 't'iltu Ill d So"h vi Wuilc
alhatross, handsomely trimmed with white
chiffon shirring, and carried IA magnificent
bouquet of bride roses. The bridesmaid,
Miss Mary Reaver, sister of the bride, wore
white silk null and carried pink carnations.
Mr.. William Clarke, brother of the groom,
was best man. Miss Mary Clarke, sister of
the groom, presided at the organ. The ushers
were Messrs. Edwin Alexander and Willie
Williams Master Wooten Clarke parted the
ribbons for the family and friends to enter.
Immediately after the ceremony a reception
was held at the home Of the groom. The ia
b was artislically decorated with wreaths
and A,wers and was beautifully ladened with
such danties as would attract the eye of any
| beholder The pretents were handsome. use
! ful and numerous, there being more than a
! hundred.
These two young people were employed at
Springfield Hospital and their popularity with
| their fellow workers gained for them mag
niticent present from the nurses and goodly
sum of money from the attendants. =.
Those present were: Mr.. and Mrs. John H..
Clarke, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Reaver, Mr.: and
Mrs. John Wolbert, Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. VOL
| bert, Mr.. and Mrs. Barnhart, Mr.. and Mrs.
John Reaver. Mr.. and Mrs. Willie Brown;
| Mr. and Mrs. William Bennett, Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Carter, Mrs. Grouse, Of Baltimore;
Mrs. johnson. Mrs. Alexander. Mrs. Phil
linger, Mr. and Mrs James Hobbs, Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Day, Mr.. and Mrs. Ben. Brown,
Mrs. r. 0. Day, Mrs. Evelyn Dorsey, Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas Buckingham; Misses Mary
Clarke, Alice, Cora, Mary and Elsie Reaver,
Carrie and Lizzie Wolbert, Nellie and Mary
Wolbert, Anna Alexander, Mary Neudecker,
Sadie and Nellie Snyder, Minnie and Elsie
Phillinger, Misses Kress and Beall Carrie
and Nellie Brown. Patience Day, Florence
Crook, Ethel Peregoy, Hannah Bailey, Rose
Schaeffer Annie Buckingham, Misses Moore,
Bailey, Harding and Willis and Susie Hobbs;
Masters Clarence and Wooten Clarke, Carl
Hobbs, Norman Johnson. Willie Brown, Ed
win Hook, Cleveland Reaver and Willie
Hobbs; Messrs. William Clarke, Seville
Hewitt, William Martin, Eugene Lamotte.
Edwin Alexander, Theodore and Oscar
Streaker, Frank Clarke. Marshall Sellman,
Frank and William Snyder, Marshall Phil
linger, Charles and Herbert Crook, John
Ridgely, Charles and Walter Wolbert, James
Hobbs, Frank and George Brown, Ben Miles,
Emory Buckingham, Ollie Penn and Roland
Hook.
| LONG-LAMOTTE.
Miss Lula Ii. Lamotte. daughter of Mrs.
Lula E. Lamotte, of Hampstead, was married
| Thursday evening to Joseph H. Long at the
home of her aunt, Mrs. J. Fl. Hammett, 40a
East Twenty first street, Baltimore. Rev. c.
ID. Smith, pastor of Oxford Methodist Epis-
copal Church, performed the ceremony. The
wedding march was played by Mrs. Charles
Howard.