The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-05
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Pretty Horne Wedding.

Pretty Home Wedding.
At the home of the brides parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel e. wharton, on
Montrose Rural Route No. 2, Wednes-
day evening, Nov. 3, at o'clock oc-
CURED the marriage of their daughter,
Katherine Adell to Mr., Dtta r. Sum.
mers. the Rev. Throw pastor of the
Montrose presbyterian church, Of
| ficiating.
At the appointed hour the bridal
party entered the parlor and took
their places beneath an arch of pink
and white from which was suspended
beautiful wedding bell, as the sweet
strains of Mendelssohn's Wedding
March We're rendered, Miss Ethel O.
Reid presiding at the piano, and the
solemn words were uttered which
united the two young lives for better
Or for worse.
| The attendants were Miss Ellen
/ Wharton, sister of the bride. and Mr..
Tony Summers, brother Of the groom.
! The bride was very prettily attired
In handsome gown Of white Sedo-a-
Suskana silk, embroidered in Sutach
braid and carried shower bouquet
lof brides roses.
The bridesmaid Wore dainty gown
OF pink lawn trimmed in lace and in
sertion and carried pink roses. The
/ groom and his attendant wore black.
The parlor was beautifully decorat-
i nd vr,1,i 10 AL
being carried out in the dining room,
which WIS done in pink and white
/ chrysanthemums.
/ The ceremony was performed in the
presence Of about rs relatives and
friends, Immediately after which Mr..
Joseph H. Reid an uncle of the bride
sang the beautiful song, ooh Promise
Me- After congratulations bounti
full wedding supper was served con.
sisting of many dainties known to the
culinary art.
The bride has lived all her life in
this community and is young won.
an of much worth She has a kind
and amiable disposition and by her
pleasant manner has won for herself
host of friends.
The groom is son of Mr.. Charles
Summers of near Charleston, Iowa,
where he has spent the greater part
of his life and enjoys the respect of
large circle of ) friends. He is a
young farmer of much promise and
will doubtless prove a worthy com.
panion for the lady OF his choice.
| The happy couple received many
useful and beautiful gifts, consisting
of china. silver, linen, etc, as token
of the esteem in which they are held
by their many friends.
Mr.. and Mrs Summers will live on
one of Mr.. Wharton's farms which is
located about FIVE miles north OF
Montrose, and they will go to house.
keeping and be at home to their friends
after March 1, 1910. For the present
they will reside with the brides pa
rents.
The best wishes of all go with these
worthy young people as they journey
together over life's matrimonial seas.
Those attending from distance
were as follows: Mr.. and Mrs. Alonzo
Summers and family, Centerville; Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Phillips, Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Durham, Miss Emma and Mr..
Edward Phillips, Summitville; Misses
Susie, Nina and Mr.. Chas Wilsey
Wayland, Mo-; Mr.. Jas Hirst, Keo.
kuk; Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Wharton
Mr. G. D. Johnston, FIT Madison; Miss
Clara GRADER, Donnellson; Mr.. John
Case, vincennes.
A Halloween party was given on
Monday evening at the home of Mr..
e. Fowler of Sandusky. The rooms
were beautifully decorated with
autumn leaves. Jack-o-lanterns and
other devices appropriate to the sea-
SON. A hountiful supper was served
and the evening was enjoyed by all. !
The affair was in the nature of sur
prise upon their teacher, by the pupils
of the Sandusky school and was
complete success in every way.
The chicken pie supper given last
evening by the Young Ladies' society
Of the First Baptist church was one of
the most delightful of those occasions
that has occurred in Keokuk this fall.
The young ladies were charming hos