The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1906-01-05
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR.
WEDDINGS.
Clark-Bonner,

Clark-Bonner.
The following invitations were re-
ceived in Ocala Saturday morning:
MIR. and Mrs. w. e. Bonner
Invite you &c be present
at the marriage of their daughter
Lillian Browning
Mr.. Benjamin Howard Clark
on Thursday evening, January
the eleventh
nineteen hundred and six
at nine o'clock
Mexia, Texas
At Home
after January the twenty fifth
Ocala, Florida.
The announcement of the approach
ing marriage of Mr.. Clark and Miss
Bonner was a very great surprise TO
the host of friends of the groom in
this city as no intimation of this hap
py event had leaked out.
Mr.. Clark is one of the twin sons
of Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Clark, of this
city. He is member of the firm of
Clark, Brothers, proprietors of the o.
K. grocery and he is very popular
both in business circles and socially
Mr.. Clark left on the third
for Mexia, where his wedding will be
soleninized at the home of the lovely
bride. Mr.. w. E. Bonner, jr. will be
Mr.. Clarks best man and the wedding
will be quite a prominent social event
in that city.
The Ocala Banner joins with Mr..
Clark's many other friends in extend
ing to him their best wishes and hop
ing that each new year will be as hap
by one as is the present new year.
Alexander-Bruce.
A marriage which will be of special
| interest to Nethodists throughout the
! state was solemnized Friday at 1880
D. M, at the Wolff Mission, Ybor City,
Rev. Joseph Norwood officiating. The
contracting parties were Rev. w. f.
Alexander, aged 20, a superannuated
member of the Florida Methodist con-
ference, and Miss Mary W. Bruce,
| aged so. superintendent of the mission
schools of the state for the same
church. The marriage was a quiet
one, but several friends and well-wish-
ers were present. Mr.. and Mrs. Alex
| ander. are making their home at the
Ybor City parsonage.
EIlis-Taylor.
! A large house party was recently
held at the old Halle homestead at
Kanapaha, near Gainesville. Among
| the prominent guests present were Mr..
William II. Ellis. attorney general of
| the state of Florida and Miss Ena
Taylor of Tallahassee. At the dinner
that marked the close of very charm
| ing gathering Justice r. Femick Tay-
Tor made the following announcement:
Fourteen hundred years ago a GUS
tom was adopted in France that had
in it so much of good sense and pro-
priety that it quickly spread to nearly
all of the European states. In the
year a. ID. 1900 the great Archbishop
Walter enforced ii as an ordinance of
the church. That grand old Puritan,
| Oliver Cromwell, the Great Pro- Puri-
tan. had his Parliament in 1858 to en-
act it into law Our Pilgrim fathers
brought it with them TO the western
world.
! "In cOnservance with this time-hon-
ored custom / now, here in this dear
old home of her mother. around which
! cluster so many sacred. tender memoir
les, proclaim and announce the mar
riage engagement of my daughter,
Ena, to Hon. William II. Ellis. F'lori-
da's distinguished Attorney General,
the marriage to take place in April
next. when the roses come again"
General Ellis responded in his ac-
customed happy vein.
The happy and distinguished couple
being present, received the. heartiest
congratulations of the entire company.
Cord al Reception to Mr.. Poaqe.