The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-01
Social Circles.
THEIR SONS BRIDE
introduced to Minneapolis Friends
by Mr.. and Mrs. A. E. Merrill,
Harmon Place.
An Interesting Wedding Ceremony
Is Performed at Our savior's
Church.

Church.
Mr.. and Mrs A. e. Merrill and Miss
Merrill gave a reception last evening at
| their home on Harmon place for their son,
! Roy Willard Merrill, and his bride, whose
i marriage was recently celebrated in Fort
Dodge, Iowa. During the receiving hours
I about 200 guests called to express their
/ congratulations.
The receptions rooms were arranged with
1 pink roses and sword ferns with bowls OF
| pansy blossoms. Suspended from the !
| doorways were baskets of carnations and
| ferns; red peonies were used in the hall
and on the large enclosed veranda large
| clusters of the blooms filled Japanese
! lanterns In the mushroom and library
1 pink and white carnations were used.
i Mrs. Russell Folwell and Mrs Robert
| Webb presided at the frappe bowl, assisted
i by Misses Mcdonald Farnsworth and
i Belden. The women assisting thru the
4 rooms included:
j Mines. Rufus R. Rand. ceylon Lyman, s. B.
sarles. E. J. Carpenter, S. T. Mcknight, James
/ S. Porteous, David B. Simpson
I Brides roses were effectively used in
Il the dining room with a setting Of ferns.
Il This morning Mr.. and Mrs. Merrill left
for their home in Fort Dodge.
Il A wedding Of unusual interest took
J when Miss Gulborg Victoria Sake became
the bride of Hans A. Stub, Jr., who was
ordained to the ministry last Sunday in
Our Savior's church by his grandfather,
! Rev. H. A. Stub and his father, Professor
H. G. Stub Mr.. Stub is g. member of a
family which has for generations been
connected with the ministerial work in the
Norwegian Lutheran synod of which his
grandfather Of Stoughton, Wis, is one
of the founders. Professor Stub was the
pastor of the church in which the cere-
mOny took place last evening until he
} gave up this work in 1878 to fill a chair i'll
the Luther seminary. At the commence
ment this spring both the grandfather
and the father took part in the exercises
of the class when Hans A. Stub was
I graduated with the highest honors.
I The chancel was filled with palms and
{ FERNS mingled with pink and white roses,
} and ropes of smilax were festooned from
pew to pew down the main aisle of the
{ church. Professor Gunnerson was at the
5 organ and played a program Of music
} while the ushers, Messrs. Harry Sake,
I Henry Olson, Ivar Siverson, John sith-
I ney, Ingolf Stub and John S1verson, were
I seating the guests.
The "Lohengrin' chorus gave the signal
I for the approach of the bridal party and
{ Mendelssohns march was used as the
{ occasional music. Miss LYDIA Sake, attired
in pink mousseline de sole, was maid of
honor. The six bridemaids were Mar
{ guerfte Gran, Stella Sethney, Cora Halvor-
: senG Eda Simonson, Dikka Bergh, Syl-
} via Torginson, who wore gowns Of white
Persian lawn and carried pink roses. The
little brother of the bride in suit OF
white broadcloth preceded the bride, who
entered with her father, H. G. Sake. The
bridal robe was Of white India silk over
taffeta with an applique of Irish crochet
{ lace She wore g. tulle veil and carried
) brides roses. The bridegroom with his
MAJ Mr. not fho fdc
& at the altar, where Rev. H. G.. Stub read
81 the service.
"A dinner and reception followed the
I ceremony at Dulles hotel where the par
{ lors were decorated with white and pinl
s roses with ferns. The bridal couple re-
J ceived the guests assisted by the bride
Z groom's father and mother, Professor ant
Mrs. II. G. Stub, and grandfather, H. A
) Stub, ST., the brides parents, Mr.. an,
} Mrs. H G. SAKE, and Mrs. Charles Jorgen
I son.
canopy Of smilax interviewer witt
white ribbon extended over the larg
table where covers were laid for sixty
I Ave. After a short trip Rev and Mrs
( Stub will go to Seattle where Mr.. Stu
) will have charge of his first church, tn
J Emmanuel Norwegian Lutheran. Th
brides going away gown was tan clot
( trimmed with Nile green, with hat t
match.
A very pretty home wedding took plae
last evening at the home of Mr.. an
= Mrs. William Baxter, 1888 Portland ave
nue., when their daughter. Miss Win
Baxterl became the bride of Burton
Thompson. The approach of the birds
party was announced by the strains Of II
by Miss Leila Potter. Miss Potter playe
THE Evening Star" from Tannhaus
during the ceremony and the Mendelssot
march at the close. The bride and brid
groom entered together, attended by tv
flower girls, Gladys Little and Fat
Thompson, who wore white organdy al
carried baskets of pink roses The brio
was gowned in white liberty silk over ia
- feta, fashioned with shrrings and poi
. lace. She carried bouquet Of viii
=, swainsonia The service was read by Re
ILL., G.. S. Rollins before bower of palm
md vines and ferns with white roses whit
lie, filled the large window In the livin
Y, room.
pie An informal reception followed the ce
ich emony, when the guests were received
the brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Leona
Thompson, Miss Anna Thompson, broth
and sisters Of the bridegroom, DR.. al
Mrs. w. L. Little and Mr.. and Mrs. w
liam Hooker On the yeranda. which w
1T decorated in green and lighted with ia
anese lanterns. frappe was served by
group of the brides girl friends, Mi
Gertrude Weaver, Miss Belle Robinso
al Miss Laura Robb and Miss Frances Woo
Ter ard. Refreshments were served in t.
ne dining-room, where red roses and the t
;ed pers in the silver candelabra were shad
Val in red. -
On. Assisting in the dining room We're Flo
OF ence Smith, Gertrude. MarchaI. Mabel A
zen bolt, Lucy Fowler, Madge Van Bergu1
81. Margaret Hartzell, Alice Redfeld, Ma
IL Norton.
&c. MIR. and Mrs. Thompson left for a Yves
- ern trip. They will be at home after Az
1 at 1886 Columbus avenue.
Miss Iucretia Archibald, daughter
Mrs. Martha Archibald. and Otis M. Bot
"a ford Of Winona were quietly married ls
~ evening at the home of the BRIDE IL
u Vine place. The parlors were adorn
with white roses, while the dining roo
was decked with pink roses. The sic
board was filed with the blossoms a
q large cluster of them were on the tab
while ropes Of smilax fell from the cha
delier to the table, where tapers glow
. beneath their pink shades. The alec
where Rev Donald Mackay read the 81
'se vice was filled win palms, ferns and VIII
peonies. Russell Patterson at the pia