Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-09-23
STONE ISSELL.

The marriage of Miss Margaret
Boardman BisSell and Benjamin De
Mitt Stone was celebrated in this
city at the First Presbyterian church
on Wednesday evening, September
18th, 1913, at eight o'clock, in the
presence of a large number of friends
and relatives. 1t was nuptial event
of great interest as well as one of the
most brilliant in the annals OF our
city because of the prominence of
the families and the personal popular
ity of the young people.
The bride is the youngest daughter
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Walter H. Bissell of
this city. She has grown to woman
hood in Wausau and received her edu-
cation here and in the Burnham
school at Northampton, Mass.
The groom is the eldest son of Mr..
and Mrs. Fowler 2. Stone of this
city. He attended our city schools
and later Lawrenceville Academy, n.
j., and Wisconsin University. He is
now with the Virginia Rainy-Lake
Lumber company of Virginia, Mimi.
Before the appointed hour the audi
forum of the church was filled to its
utmost capacity. It's decorations were
elaborate and very artistic. The
entire front of the church was banked
with palms and ferns of stately pro-
portions and clusters of Easter lilies
which formed background of eX-
IRENE beauty. The whole was grace
fully 1estooned with southern smilax.
About the balcony were festoons of
smilaX caught With large bows of
| white satin ribbon. The curtains of
the Sunday school room were drawn
and it represented woodland sceneo of
native evergreens and hardwoods, the
latter in their various autumnal
tints. Behind this scene were the
orchestra and the bridal chorus. The
hour was at hand, the audience was
| seated and the ushers adjusted the
ribbons on either side of the aisles.
Miss Wanda Hopp presided at the
organ md during the waiting moments
she gave charming selections. The
organ had rendered its preludes in
trcm ulous touch, when it burst forth
with full tones of the wedding march
from Lohengrin with orchestral ac-
| compartment. From out of the laby-
rinth of palms and ferns came the
flower girls, little Elizabeth and
Nancy Jane Gamble and Margaret
and Marion Stone dressed in white,
with pink and blue sasheS, and they
carried baskets of pink roses and blue
larkspur. They proceeded down the
east and west aisles of the church and
were followed by the bridesmaids:
The Misses Florence Gilbert, Marjorie
McCurdy and Helen Single and the
Misses Imogene Rosenberg, Helen
Stone and Gladys Davies. They came
up the center aisle and were followed
by the usherS Messrs. Albert Evans,
Warren Starkey and Douglas Parmen-
tier and Messrs. Webster Blair, Don
aid Montgomery and Harvey Scholtield;
the maid of honor, Miss Katharine
Bissell, and the bride, on the arm of
her father, w. Fl. Bissell, and as the
latter advanced double quartette
sang the bridal chorus. At the altar
they were met by the groom and his
best man, Norman Stone, where the
ceremony was performed by Rev.
James NJ. Duer, pastor of the First
Presbyterian church, the bride being
given in wedlock by her father.
The bride wore gown of crepe
charmeuSe with trimmings of point
lace and seed pearls. She wore a cap
of princess lace and a long tulle veil
caught with natural orange blossoms.
She carried a shower bouquet of lilies
of the valley.
The maid of honor was gowned in
white brOcaded crepe with blue
chiffon and pearls and she carried pink
| roses.
The bridesmaids were gowned,
three in pink crepe de chine and three
in blue crepe de chine, aid they
carried pink roses and blue larkspur
Al the conclusion of the ceremony,
the bridal party, led by the bride and
groom, left the church to the strains
Memberships wedding march, and
| proceeded to the Bissell home at SOP
| McIndOe street, where reception
was held. The approach to the resi-
dence had been canopied from the
street. The home was handsomely
decorated with American beauty
roses, gladiolas, pink roses, snap
| dragons and China astors.
The guests were received by Mr..
and Mrs. w. H. Bissell, Mr.. and Mrs.
+. p. Stone, the bride and groom,
| Miss Katharine BiSSell, Norman Stone
and the members of the bridal party
The bridal supper was served in the
dining room, and sixteen were seated
| at a table elaborate in its decorations
| of pink roses, maiden-hair ferns and
lilies of the valley.
In the ball room on the third floor,
refreshments were served on teU-ea-tete
| tables at which $50 guests were seated.
This room was perfect picture of
loneliness. 1t had been arranged to
represent a garden with a trelis-work
covering and evergreens and autumn
leaves, studded with electric lights of
ground glass. The sides were ar
ranged to represent stone walls. The
center pieces of the various tables
were baskets of pink astors and snap
dragons, tied with pink and white
tulle.