Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-08-20
Votinr Contest Weddinrn.


There was double wedding at the Little
Church Around the Corner, New York City,
August 3. Miss Martha I. Wickerham Of
PEBBLES, o.. was married to John J. Blair
banker OF the same town, and Miss
Amelia Enadinger OF Cynthiana, KY, be-
came the wife Of Sidney Fielding Sprake
the most prosperous miller OF Cynthiana
relates the New York Sun. The Rev. Dr.
Houghton, rector Of the church, tied both
knots, and then the two couples and the
witnesses went over to the GIlsey house
for luncheon. Last evening Mr.. and Mrs
Blair and Mr.. and Mrs sprake started for
Niagara Falls on their honeymoon.
The wedding followed a trip 10 Europe
which Miss Wickerham and Miss Enadinger
took at the expense OF the Commercial
Tribune OF Cincinnati. e. o. Eshelby. pub
Usher OF that paper arranged a voting con-
test In Ohio and the border counties OF
Kentucky to determine the most popular
young woman in each county The sue
cessful candidate in each county was to
make five weeks tour of Europe. Some
thing like half a hundred young women ar
rived here about six weeks ago in charge
OF Mr.. Eshelby and sailed on the Caledonia.
Among them were Miss Wickerham. who
was the victor in the counties OF Adams,
Clermont and Brown, Ohio, and Miss Ena-
dinger. who won out in the Kentucky
county OF which CynthiRna IL the garden
spot Just after the contest began Mr..
Sprake was presented to Miss EnadinRer
and the same thing happened to Mr.. Blair
over In Ohio. Each proposed and each got
a provisional yes. The condition named by
each young woman was that II she were the
successful contestant she would marry her
suitor on her return from the European
trip. at the Little Church Around the Cor
ner, in little old New York. The condition
imposed was readily accepted, and there
after Miss Enadinger in Kentucky and Miss
Wickerham in Ohio had a cinch.
With banker In one state and a rich
miller in the other supporting them both
young women won in a walk They became
acquainted on shipboard and It wasn't long
before the learned that there was a mutual
bond of sympathy between them.
When the European end of the trip was
over Miss WickerhRm and Miss Enadinger
continued their travels up the Rhine and
over the Alps and returned to New York
on the Columbia, which arrived on Sunday
Mr., Sprake and Mr.. Blair, not knowing
each other from the side OF a house, were
on the pier to meet the ship. SO were
seven young women who had been mem-
bers OF the Eshelby party and who had
taIIleu IN new 1ork 10 await rhe arrival
OF Miss Wickerham and Miss Enadinger
The girls knew all about what was going
to happen and spotted the miller from Gym
thiana and the banker from PEBBLES.
When the girl from Ohio and the girl
from Kentucky tripped down the gang
plank there were introductions al around
and the Cynthiana miller and the PEBBLES
banker were properly habbergasted. Then
the whole crowd went up TO the GIlsey
house. where the stopped over night, and
the details Of the weddings were arranged
Dancing Mad.
Alleging that his wife, Mabel Elnora Mac
Collooh, is dancing mad and cannot resist
the temptation OF tripping the light fantas-
tic regardless Of domestic conditions, James
b. MacColloch. a Lake Shore railway at
taehe' residing at ElkhRrt, Ind. filed suit
for divorce. He says she cannot control her
inclination for dancing. In his complaint
he alleges that she Is such an inveterate
dancer that when he was injured in a rail-
way collision and confined to his bed with
four fractured ribs, she refused to nurse
him, but instead went to dances. He also
says she danced so much she neglected her
household duties. leaving him without
urODar attention ana meals