Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-18
Billings M orrell

Backward spring was pushed aside
and the wedding season started Satur-
day evening, when Miss Florence Nor
rell and Charles Francis Billings of
Bristol, CT, were married at the home
of the brides father, E. w. Morrell,
So Dresden avenue. Rev. Canon r. w.
Plant, rector of Christ church, per-
formed the Episcopal service.
AT o'clock the girls of the Gamma
Kappa Club, of which the bride is a
member, formed an aisle through the
center of the assembled guests in the
parlor and living rooms. Miss Marion
f. Fernald of Portland, who officiated
at the piano. began the wedding march
and the bridal party entered the rooms
fro mthe hall, led by Miss Blanche
Libby as bridesmaid and Miss Edith
Morrell as maid of honor. They were
followed by the bride leaning upon
the arm of her father. When the party
had arrived at the altar and were
met by the bridegroom and his broth
er, Wesley. who acted as best man,
Rev. Mr.. Plant performed a most i'm
pressive ceremony.
Following the usual ceremony of
congratulaticn, there took place the
formal reception.
The bride was becomingly gowned
in embroidered silk crepe and a veil
of tulle crowned with orange blossoms.
She carried lilies of the valley
The bridesmaid and maid of honor
We're similarly gowned in embroidered
batiste with dresden sashes and car
ried bouquets of pink roses.
and members of the Gamma Kappa
Club served the refreshments.
Mrs Susan Billings of Thomaston,
CT, mother of the bridegroom, and
Mrs. G. Dexter Libby. an aunt of the
bride, received.
The bride is well known in this city
and is graduate of Hebron Academy
and Gorham Normal school, After her
graduation from the Normal school
she taught for two years in the Thorn
aston, CT, schools.
The groom is diemaker for the
Ingraham Watch & Clock Co. of Bris-
tol, CT, and an organist of consider
able repute in the vicinity of his home.
After the reception the young couple
entered a waiting automobile amid a
shower of rice and confetti and sped
away on their wedding trip
Mr.. and Mrs. Billings were the re-
cipients of large number of beauti-
full gifts which included silver, cut
glass, furniture and money. They will
be at home at 142 Woodland street,
CT, after Aug. 1.
Among those present were: Mr.. and
Mrs. William Morrell, Mr.. and Mrs
G. D. Libby, Miss Libby, Frank Lib
by. Mrs. H. K. Morrell, Arch Nor
rell, Mrs. Sara Heath, DIR. Gertrude
Heath, Miss Taylor, Judge and Mrs.
Henry Webster, Miss Martha Web
ster, Mrs. Freeman Patten, Mrs. Jul
liza Wiltshire, Miss Esther Wiltshire.
Justice and Mrs. A. M. Spear, DIR. and
Mrs F. Rafter, Miss Constance Raj
ter, Miss Richards. Miss Rosalind
Richards, Miss Ruth Richards, Miss
Barbara Maxcy, Richard Maxcy. Mrs.
H. G. White, Miss Eleanor Lewis,
Mrs. A. Tasker, Mrs. Charles F.
Swift, Miss Ethel Haley, Miss Perry,
Arthur Perry, Miss Georgia Moore,
Miss Edra Beede, DR.. and Mrs. c. S.
Jackson. Miss Hope Jackson. Miss
Margaret Ryan, Keith Ryan, Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Boston. Mrs. Frederic Dan
forth, Miss Margaret Danforth, Miss
Eleanor Danforth. George Danforth,
Mrs. F. T. Bradstreet. Mr.. and Mrs.
D. H. Darling, Austin jerks.
The Gamma Kappa girls: Mrs. Ida
Boston, Miss Marion Soule, Miss
Gladys Berry, Miss Doris Berry, Miss
Eloise Lawrence, Miss Madelon Law
renee, Miss Annie Brann, Miss Julia
Clason, Miss Emma Nelson, Miss Ma
rion Swift, Miss Ethel Blair, Miss Ad-
die Stone.
Out-of-town guests were: Mrs. SD
san Billings of Thomaston, CT: Wes-
ley Billings of Thomaston. CT; Charles
Smith. Thomaston, Ct. Miss Alberta
Head, Miss Alta Gray Of Augusta;
Mrs. H. v. Henson, Yokahoma, Japan;