The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-17

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The wedding of Miss Charlotte
Parkhurst and Mr.. Robert Diller Gar
Yer, which was solemniZed at the First
Presbyterian church Wednesday night
and followed by a reception at the
residence of the formers parents, Mr..
and Mrs. George w. Parkhurst, S35
Tyler street, was one of conspicuous
beauty and uncommon interest to an
unusually large number of people.
About eight hundred invitations were
ISSUED and the church where the cere-
mony took place has rarely been the
Ecene of more brilliant event The
hour of the wedding was half after 8
O'Clock and the officiating minister was
the Rev. DR.. 5. S Estey. The entire
front part of the church including the
chancel and the choir loft was laviShIy
decorated with Alabama srnilax, palms
and ferns, making a background of eff
1ective simplicity for the ceremony
picture. The only note of color in the
decorations was furnished by an inn
mense f1ambeau bouquet of white
chrysanthemums against the wall of
green at the back of the chancel
The wedding music was quite out
Of the ordinary. Miss Katherine
Wood at the organ played the accom-
pan1mentS and chorus including
Mrs. Frank Thomas. Mrs. John Klein
hans. Miss Widney, Mrs. L. S. Ferry.
Mrs Florence Fox Thacher, Mrs.
Frank Foster, Mr.. Harry Pribble, Mr..
II. L. Shirer, Mr.. James Moore, Mr..
Ernest B. Conant and Mr. David
George Barlow Penny sang. first the
Bridal Chorus from The Rose
Maiden, before the ceremony and, at
the entrance of the bridal party, the
familiar LOhengrin chorus The Men
delssohn wedding march for the organ
was the occasional
1t was a pink rose wedding, as far
as the gOWning of the bridal party
was concerned. Three flower girls,
Miss Mary Moore and the little Misses
Elizabeth Moore and Helen Louise
Crosby, led the procession, each carry
ing a basket of pink roses, all the
bouquets except that of the bride were
of these flowers and the young wo-
men themselves in their graceful pink
frocks of sunpleated Japanese silk
and big picture hats of pink valen-
ciennes lace trimmed with pink velvet
roses were a veritable rosebud gar
den of girls" All the gowns were ex-
cept that worn by Miss Mary Harrison,
maid of honor, who was in a white
crepe de chine with a pattern of scat
tered pink rose petals. She wore a
flower girls wore big pink ribbon bows
on their hair. But the others, Mrs
Don Mulvane, Mrs Ralph Valentine,
Miss Anna Harrison, Miss Louise
Kellam, Miss Emile King and Miss
Ethelyn Harrison of Ottawa were
goWned exactly alike from the nod
ding roses on their hats to the tips of
their pale pink shoes. The bridal
b1ned on the corsage with exquisite
rose point lace The bodice and
sleeves were puffed and shirred and
the latter ending at the elbow had
wide mousquetaire cuffs of puffed
chinon- The skirt was plainly fash
1oned, its fullness gathered on
tucked and corded yoke and with a
very long court train and the bridal
veil was also unusually long and full
sweeping to the hem of the skirt The
brides bouquet was a shower of white |
roses with lilies of the valley caught
IN the long satin streamers. Mr.. Park |
hurst gave his daughter in marriage
and the other men in the bridal party |
were Mr. kurtz Kellam of Kansas City |
VINO was Mr.. GarVer'S grOomsman |
Mr. Don MulVane, Mr.. Ralph Valen-
tine, Mr.. Leslie Guild, Mr.. Dick
Rodgers of Muskogee, Indian terri
tory, Mr. Sam Hutchings of Kansas
City and Mr.. Will WjkidaI. ushers.
At the reception which they gave at
their house following the ceremony
Esfr- and Mrs Parkhurst were assisted /
IN receiving by the bridal party Mr. |
Mrs Frank Wear of Kansas City. and |
Mrs. 7. L. Bond of Salina- Pink chrys-
anthemumS were used to decorate the |
drawing room. yellow the library and /
white the dining room. Here the chan
delier had been converted into a great /
wedding bell, bell ana clapper alike of 1
white roses. There were pink roses in /
the halls. The orchestra was stationed |
IN the billiard room on the third floor
The assisting ladies and girls were Mrs.
1aquith of Springfield, Mo, Mrs J. NJ /
Stevenson of Kansas City, Mrs AL |
brecht Marburg, Mrs. Augustus Zahner,
AIRS. William Morton, Mrs. T. W. Har- |
1ison, Mrs. T. ]. Kellam, Mrs. j. B. Lar
inner, Mrs. P. G. Noel Mrs. Guilford !
Dudley, Mrs. P. /. Bonebrake, Mrs NJ. /
ID. Henderson. Mrs. Frank P. MacLen-
nan, Mrs Charles S. Gleed, Mrs George
Barlow Penny, Mrs. J. w. Going, Mrs.
W. G. Dickie, Mrs. J. W. F. Hughes,
MIS- Charles Kleinhans, Mrs E. H.
Crosby, Mrs W. T. Crosby, Mrs. James
b Hayden, Mrs. William Macferran,
Hrs George Stol1eE- Mrs. Ernest Hughes
Mrs. Sadler J. Hodgins, Miss Gertrude
Tracy. Miss Ellen Parkhurst Miss Jean
Earkhurst, Miss Helen OTIS Miss Bessie
Miss Allabelle Troutman, Miss
Ruth Collins, Miss Augusta Dewey,
Miss Pearl Burdge, Miss Katherine KEEL
lam, Miss Clara Fleishman, Miss VIII
helmine Marburg, Miss Margaret Jet
more, Miss Margaret Going, Miss Ethel