Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1911-08-11
POPULAR
COUPLE WE'D
Miss Rhea Smith and Joe
Roth Married Wednesday.
A BRILLIANT EVENT
Many Attend Wedding and Re-
ception Wednesday After
noon,


ception Wednesday After
noon.
One of the largest weddings ever
celebrated In this city was that Of Miss
Rhea Smith, the beautiful and charm.
ing daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. G. Car.
roll Smith, to Mr.. Joe Roth, Wednes.
day afternoon at the home of the brides
parents on Minnekahta Heights, which
was beautifully decorated in pink and
white sweet peas, smilax and roses.
At two thirty Miss Verna Illusion,
classmate of the bride, played the first
strains of Mendelsohns Wedding March
and ten young ladies, members of the
"X j G" Club, came down the stairway
as bridesmaids, followed by the pretty
little flower girls, Myra Knowlton and
Barbara Eokstein in pink and white
silk carrying baskets of flowers. Then
came the maid Of honor, Miss Hazel
GODDARD, college classmate of the bride.
and Mr.. Paul Roth, of Omaha, Nebras-
ka, brother of the groom, as best man,
following came the bride and groom
and took their places under the beau.
tiful willow tree on the lawn which
has been the brides play ground since
infancy, where the Rev Thomas Blan-
chard Wilber, pastor of the Methodist
church, read the beautiful and impres.
sive ring service. The brides gown was
of white chantilly lace over ivory satin,
with bodice of pearls and crystal bead
trimmings, silver lace and court train,
wore full tulle veil with orange bios.
SONS and shower bouquet Of roses.
The bridesmaids were Miss Mary
Kirtley, Miss May Phillips, Miss Nancy
Turner, Miss Lottie Buchanan, Miss
Hazel Mcgowan, Miss Jean Ferguson
Miss Elizabeth Dudley, Miss NJ L West,
all of Hot Springs, South Dakota, and
Miss Mae Brown, of Rapid City, South
Dakota. All wore white lingere gowns.
The brides going away gown was be.
coming gray suit. After the ceremony
reception to over two hundred guests
followed and were made merry and gay
by the ladies who assisted, Mesdames
Sage, w. H. Stanley, Eokstein, Chas.
Stewart, Knowlton and F. M. Stewart.
Mrs. Inez Fasser and Miss Maude
Jensen pinned bow knot of pink and
white ribbon on each guest after they
had been served in the dining room
which was beautifully decorated with
roses and smilax. On the table was a
pyramid wedding cake three feet high.
The X. j. G. girls served the guests in
the dining room. From there they
were taken to the guest book where
they inscribed their names. Mrs.
Richard Hummel very gracefully took
charge of the guest book, being ably
assisted by Miss Belle Stewart.
In one end of the living room decor.
ated in ferns and clematis, was large
pyramid of wedding cake boxes with
monogram of wedding bells. The
boxes were filled with two kinds of cake
and were presented to each guest as a
memento of the Roth.Smith wedding,
Mrs. w. m. Knowlton and Miss Oueena
Stewart presided at this table.
The presents were many and both
handsome and costly Among them
were. beautiful silverware, cut glass,
two sets of china, electrolier, pictures,
chairs, laces, linens, rugs, leather art
work, beautiful Swiss Chimes and
many other handsome pieces. The
gifts given by the bride to the maid of
honor, bridesmaides and little flower
girls, were sterling silver teaspoons.
The bride has grown to womsnhood
in Hot Springs and has been in many
pretty scenes In the booklets which We
all remember as "Of to Battle Noun.
tain" and "Vale of Minnekshts." 1t
was her charming manner from child.
hood that won the hearts of Hot
Springs people. She is grad u to
Of the Hot Springs High School and
has been attending the Illinois Womans
College at Jacksonville, the past year.
The groom graduated from Commercial
College at Omaha, came to this city and
was clerk in the treasurer's office at
the Battle Mountain Sanitarium, and
for the past three years has been EN-.
ployed in the Bank of Hot Springs.
He has built beautiful home on the
hill opposite The Evans and they will
De at home to their many friends at
"Plne Crest" in September. They will
spend their honeymoon at Omaha and
| Sylvan Lake.
The out of to1n guests at the we'd