The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1912-06-27

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William C. Shiek, Oskaloosa. .35
1865 and
Dora Furnald, Oskaloosa. (. SO
Ora w. Carroll, Muscatine. -. 80
Coda o. Ruan, oskkaakloposa 49,. rs
rl alistTdTIs niGtJG, yFa
Wilbert Green, gR9se HIills,,.....2i
1857 and
Maril Parson, What Cheer. d. .21
PURDIN:-Born, to Mr.. and Mrs.
John Purdin, of Fremont, on Tuesday,
June IS, 1912, son.
WIGGON:-John Lamm Wiggon,
aged So years, died at his home over
No. sol High avenue west Sunday
evening at S:35 o'clock, after an i'll
ness of five days duration suffering
with appoplexy, which came upon him
suddenly while seated at his office
at the M. & st. l.. round house.
Prayer service at the l.. M. Hersman
undertaking establishment, No. I'll
High avenue east Tuesday evening,
June 25, 912, at seven o'clock p. m.
The funeral party will go to the M.
4 st. l.. railway passenger station to
take the 500 train for Sedalia, Mo-,
where the mineral services will he
held Thursday, June q, 1912, and in
terment in the cemetery in that place.
Deceased leaves a widow, Mrs.
Lenna Wiggon, a son, Ernest, and a
daughter, Miss Faye. Mr.. Wiggon
has been in the employ of the Iowa
Central and M. & st. l.. railway about
four years, coming from Sedalia, Mo.
He was capable and efficient man
of large experience and a man we'll
liked by both those who worked un-
der him and by those who were as.
ISOLATED with him officially and social
ly. His sudden taking off was
shock to relatives and friends alike
and deepest sympathy is expressed
for the family.
CARRELL-RUAN.-- A June we'd
ding of much beauty, elaborate and
impressive in setting and detail oc.
CURED at Penn college chapel Satur-
day evening, June %, 1912, and was
witnessed by company of several
hundred guests. Miss Coda Ruan
of Oskaloosa was united in wedlock
with Mr.. Ora Carroll of Muscatine,
President David w. Edwards of Penn
college officiating, assisted by Meade
w. Kelsey, pastor of the Friends
church of Oskaloosa. =.
Guests had assembled at the chap.
ell and promptly at eight o'clock. the
appointed hour, the strains of LOhen-
grin Wedding March were sounded,
played upon piano agby Miss Jennie
Fry. The chapel was deliberately
decorated in pink and white for the
occasion. cut flowers, roses and car,
nations, palms and green's being
prominent Keeping time to the mu-
sic twelve young ladies who had
been associates and pupils of the
bride entered the chapel from the
east, all daintily clad and pretty in
gowns CT pink and white. The lead.
ing couple scattered flowers as they
led the way to the marriage altar
The young ladies were Misses Nellie
Bass, Anna Shaw, Anita Kelsey, Gar.
net Dean Ruth Edison, Aileen Martin,
Esther Williams, Aileen Lewis, Es-
Their Howerton Garnet Downing, Ar
hi
were followed by the ring bearer,
Miss Lois Edwards, daughter of the
officiating minister. The bride, clad
in a becoming gown of white crepe
de chiene over Messaline silk, and
carrying roses, followed and was met
at the altar by the groom and the
groOm's man, crank Nash, of Kansas
City, Kansas, who had been a class.
mate through college. The ring cere-
mony was used and following the
prayer and benediction, Mr.. and Mrs.
Carroll left the chapel by the east.
AS the bridal party moved down the
aisle, Miss Fry played the Mendels,
sohn Wedding March Immediately
following the ceremony at the chapel,
the wedding party and about one
hundred invited guests repaired to
the residence of DR.. Edwards, near
the college, where the young people
received the congratulations of the
company and where the gifts that
had come to them from friends and
guests had been taken. Refresh
ments were served by classmates of
the bride, Misses Susie Edwards, Leila
Coffin and Ruth Kelsey. Mr.. and
Mrs. Carroll remained in the city
over Sunday and were at divine ser
vices at the chapel. where they re-
Ceived considerable congratulatory
attention. The wedding was the 'cul
mination of friendship and compan
ionship that had its inception in the
school days when bride and groom
were students at Penn Both are
graduates of the institution and the
wedding and union of the young lives
in the chapel room where they had
been so happily associated was fitting
and appropriate. Mr. and Mrs. Car.
rell have gone to Marshalltown to
visit at tho homo Of the proom's mar