Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-11-05
PLANS GIVEN FOR
WILSON WEDDING
President and Mrs. Wilson An
nounce Daughters Com
ing Marriage.
CEREMONY SET FOR 18TH
East Room of White House Chosen
for the Service-Dispiay of
Gifts Barred.

Washington, D. c., Nov. 5.-Prest
dent and Mrs. Wilson gave out from
the White house last night the first Of
fetal announcement of the wedding
plans of their daughter, Miss jessie
Woodrow Wilson, and Francis Bowes
Sayre. The question as to the identity
of the clergyman who will officiate is
solved by the statement that the Rev.
Sylvester Beach of Princeton, n. j.,
the presidents former pastor and a
close personal friend of the entire
Wilson family, Will perform the cere-
mony.
The east room, where most of the
previous White house weddings have
taken place, has been chosen for the
scene of the ceremony, which will take
place at 4:3O p. m. on Tuesday. Nov.
%.
Miss Margaret Woodrow Wilson will
act as her sisters maid of honor, and
Miss Eleanor Randolph Wilson, young
est of the presidents three daughters,
will be one of the bridesmaids.
BRIDESMAIDS ARE ANNOUNCED.
The three other bridesmaids will be
Miss Adeline Mitchell Scott. daughter
of Prof. William Z. Scott of Princeton;
Miss Marjorie Brown. daughter of Mrs.
Wilson's cousin, Col Z. T. Brown, Of
Atlanta, Ga, and Miss Mary G. White
of Baltimore, a college friend of Miss
Jessie Wilson.
The announcement that Dr. Wilfred
T. Grenfell, with whom Mr.. Sayre did
mission work in Labrador. will be the
best man, caused no surprise, as the
future bridegroom had apprised his
friends of that fact some time ago.
DR.. Grenfell is a medical missionary.
Charles Z. Hughes Jr., son of Justice
Hughes of the supreme court, class
mate of Mr.. Sayre at the Harvard law
school, will be an usher.
The other ushers will be DR.. Gilbert
HoraX of Montclair. n. J., who was a
classmate at Williams college in 1909
and is now at the Johns Hopkins Med
ical school; Benjamin Burton of New
York city. who graduated in 1912 from
Williams college and DR.. Scovill Clark
of Salem, Mass. DR.. Clark was a COM
panion of Mr.. Sayre's Labrador days
and the two trailed northern New
foundland together.
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Mr.. Hughes is the only masculine
member OF the wedding party who is
well known in Washington, although
Or. Grenfell lectured here several
years ago. He is much older than the
bridegroom and is married.
For several days curiosity about the
details of the wedding has been at
fever heat. and all sorts of conjectures
have been haZarded. Some surprise
has been manifested that DR.. Cary T.
Grayson, the presidents physician.
who is one of the White house aids and
has been much in the company of the
Wilson family, is not named among
the ushers DR.. Grayson was White
house aid during the latter part of the
Taft administration.
The senate will not act in body in
the matter of presents, but each sena-
tor who wishes to contribute to the
store of gifts will do SO as an individ-
ual. The house of representatives col
lected about $4,000, which has been in
trusted to Miss Genevieve Champ
Clark, the speakers daughter, who will
select the present in New York. The
money will be used to purchase sill
yer service suitably Cngraved.