The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-09-02
FIFTEEN
SUCCUMb
TO CUPID
st. Andrews Church Choir
at Valpo Provides That
Number of Victims One,
the Rector, Is Friend Of
Rev. Smith of Hammond.
fsnecfal to THE T1MEs.N


Valparaiso, Ind, Sept. "A precedent
perhaps unaqualed in the history of
church choirs has been established a
st. Andrews Episcopal church, in Val
paraiso with the conclusion which has
just occurred of a most remarka bic
series of weddings which have taken
place there among its choir members
and young people No less than fifteen
persons. including the present rector.
the organist, a former choirmaster, the
present choirmaster, and eight addi
tional choir singers having ceased the
life of loneliness and obeyed the call
| to Hymen's altar.
Rector Marries the Organist.
| With the wedding of the Rev. Mar
| shall Mallory Day. rector in charge of
| St Andrews, whose ordination to the
priesthood was attended some time ago
by Rev Charles A. Smith of the Epis-
copal church in Hammond, to Miss
Lillian Floy Mallory. the organist at
St Andrews, is eliminated the fourth
romance that has taken place. result
in in as many marriages within little
more than four months between six
members of the choir and clergy of the
smallest church in the city.
Chc.-.naster Marries.
among the active members of the parish
since the establishing of the church in
the city more than ten years ago was
: furnished in April when Leigh Lawr-
ence we'll known Valparaiso news
paper man and music critic who is the
baritone soloist and director of music
in the church fell a victim TO cupid's
darts and married Miss Ida Irene
| Holmes one of the leading soprano
4 singers and a niece of William Wade
q Hinshaw, booked as the leading bari
tone next season with the metropolitan
Grand Opera Company of New Yorl
L City.
|, Sunday school Superintendent Marries
9 A week preceding the marriage o
n the choirmaster to a soprano there tool
: lpIace the wedding of a former Sunda,
e School superintendent and bass singer
!. Tenor Suecumbs to Soprano.
= Following quickly in June were tn
nuptiaIs of william Smith the tenor,
. we'll known Valparaiso business mar
to Miss Cara Dodd. another sopran
singer, the next event being the wed
ding of the rector to the organist whic
occurred last week.
Choir BENEFIT Gains SIX.
- The three last romances began durin
= and Immediately following rehearsals i
- the church gymnasium, little over
year ago for a play that bein
$. staged for a choir benefit performanc,
ie The cast of only fifteen characters in
ID cluded in addition to a part of tn
u, eight recent benedicts three othe
Id members who soon decided to forsak
the life of single blessedness and tax
IS unto themselves life partners. tw
~ choosing better halves" and the thir
Of a lonely bachelor for her companion
III Victims From Abroad.
On Nor have the weddings been solel
e. of local interest Several of the victim
IN were only temporary sojourners in tn
n Vale. one being from Virginia's pine
another from New York City, thir
an formerly from Michigan. and fourt
to from far off California.
Tenor Eiopes with Alto.
is It has not been many years since al
n other choirma ster and three more cho
singers stole a march their FRIEND
/. and left town to get m.fried. two {
- them by the elopment route, and no
.. that so much attention is again bein
= attracted to the little church by tt
e rapid succession of nuptial even
ct among its choir members it is bein
re facetious1y suggested that cupid he
KS moved his headquarters there and
is even rumored that few of the mo-
nd hopeless have taken renewed couras
n and are considering the advisabiity
n. applying for membership in the cho
er which until the recent unsettled cond
IS. ton of the matrimonial market hi
ss been considered by some the finest
n the city.
to come ana see the Dig bargain
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