Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1911-10-07
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A Quiet, But Elegant Home Affair
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II was deiightfal family wedding TIA
took place 10 Kent0non Wednesday alter
noon IS / 80 O'Clock, when MIR. job
Wright ArtEuFs and Miss Katherin
Slaughter Downs, both ofthat town, WeF,
married &C the home OF the bride.
Over two dozen of the relatives ami
personal friends of the bride and sreom
had gathered in the parlor TO crest them
as promptly at that hour, they entered
the room to the music Of the "Brida
Chorus" from Lohengrin, played on tht
piano by Miss Ida M. Downs, sister o
the bride.
The pair stood midway between twt
large connecting rooms tastefully trimm
ed with large, growing ferns, chrysan
| themuDs, roses and rainbow-tiDteC
Autumn leaves-right under big arch
way fairly ablaze with the hsme.toucheC
foliage massed above it, where they were
met by the Rev. w. E. Habbart, the pas
tor of the M. E. Church at Crisfeld, Md.
a personal friend Of the groom.
The ceremony was that of the ring, MI
Stanley NJ. Afthurs the we'll known artist
of Wilmington, being the best man, and
Miss Anna Downs sister ofthe bride hel
bridesmaid.
At the conclusion OF the ceremony and
after the friends had warmly greeted the
newly welded couple, they aud the guests
marched into the dining room, also gayly
adorned with flowers and variegated foil.
age, while an improvised, rustic chandelier
holding six old-time candles, covered
with leafy trophies gave yet another
woodland note to the scene, as it Whirled
in the breeze above table loaded with. q
delicious cuisine of chicken salad, mary
land biscuits, coffee, ice cream, cakes, and
olives whose enjoyment gave the last
appetizing pleasure 10 the occasion;
The presents bestowed we're many and
various, silver, cut glass, handsome
napery, silk, down quilts, blankets, pill
lows, coyerIids etc., and Q goodly nun Der
of checks of generous amounts $4,000
$50. 90 etc., and the plentiful evidence of
Kitchen shower" that had fallen upon
the bride q few days previous from The
hands of young lady friends of the bride.
The groom, Mr.. John Wright Arthurs,
is the son of the late Mr.. Joshua NJ. and
Mis-. Nancy NJ. Arthurs, and a grandson
OF Mr.. John W. Wright deceased after
whom be is named. He is engaged in
business in Kentou, and will reside in the
old homestead of bis parents, which has
been greatly beautified and improved to
receive his bride. Mrs. Sylvia A. Burris,
of Middletown is an aunt of the groom.
Miss Katherine S. Downs is daughter of
Mr.. Edwin B. and Mrs. Martha Downs,
long residents OF Kenton. =
A pleasant hour or more was spent by
the guests in social converse while the
Misses Sylvia and Susan Arthurs enter
tanned them with vocal music, Miss Ida
Downs furnishing the accompaniments
Then the fareWells all spoken, the bride
and groom entered the auto of Mr..
Stanley NJ. Arthurs amid a shower of
rice and confetti which joyous group of
friends bestowed as a parting bon voyage
to the welded ones-indeed quite conf
cal confetti battle ensued for a few mo.
ments the groom capturing some of his
sisters, ammunition, and firing it back at
them all.
The bride and groom upon arriving at
Wilmington took the train for a two
weeks trip to Niagara Falls, Thousand
Islands etc.
The following ladies and gentlemen
were present: Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin B.
Downs, Rev. and Mrs. ]. F. Anderson,
Mrs. Charles Fisher, Mrs. Gilbert Garri-
son, Miss Emily Slaughter, Miss Eliza.
beth w. Cooper and Mr.snd Mrs. William
S. Arthurs, Of Kenton; Mrs. Joshua NJ.
Arthurs, DR.. and Mrs. Frank Virdin, Miss
Sylvia A. Arthurs, Miss Susan E. Arthurs
Mr.. Stanley NJ. AIthurs, Miss Marjorie
Virdin, Miss Ida NJ. Downs, Miss Anna
Downs, of Wilmington, Rev. and Mrs. W
E. Habbart, of Crisfeld, Md, Miss Edith
A. Hutton, of Dover; Mr.. and Mrs. M. B.
Burris and W. E. Wright, of Middletown.