The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-21
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL ! Miss Frances Richmond Rose.
 daughter of Charles Henry Rose. of Ivoryton and Rev. Edward Iivingston Wells, son Of Mrs. Edward Livingston Wells. of Southport and rector of Christ Church in Guilford, were mar
 ried at St. Johns Memorial Episco- pal Church. att 12- o'clock yesterday. by Rt- Rev. Chauncey B1ance Brews-
 ter, Bishop Of Connecticut, assisted by Rev. Percy Barnes, rector of Saint. Johns Memorial Episcopal Church. In the. bridal party were two young
 nieces of the bridegroom, Miss Louise l Curtis, daughter of Mrs. Roderick F.. Curtis, of. Southport; and Miss Eiiza-s beth Wells, daughter of MT. and Mrs
 Frederick B. Wells Of New York. ss l The naatron of honor was Mrs Howard Kelsey Rose, a sister-in-law of the bride and the ushers, Dr. vii. ] liam S. Gillian of South Manchester,
 Archibald W. Comstock of Ivoryton, Dr. Jonathan Godfrey Wells and Frederick Brown Wells of New York city, The bride was given away by her brother Howard Kelsey Rose. She was met at the chanceI steps by the bridegroom with his best man, a brother, MT. Brooks Hughes Wells of New York. {s The reception was held in the Com stock Cheney Hall in Ivoryton owing to the severe illness of the brides father preventing the reception being held at the brides home.
 A large number of guests from New York New Haven, Bridgeport,
 Hartford, South Manchester, Guilford, 'Deep River, Saybrook, Ivoryton, Gen.
 terbrook and Essex were present. l Rev. and Mrs. Wells left on the N tshort Southern trip and on their re- turn will live in the rectory in Gull ford. The bridegroom is the son of the
 late Rev. Dr. Edward Livingston Wells and grandson of B. M. B. Hughes,
 founder of the hardware firm of John B. Bassett Company of New Haven. He received his early education at the Cheshire Institute and continued his studies at the Yale Law School
 from which he was graduated and then engaged in the law business with the firm of DeForest & Klein in Bridgeport where he practiced for about eight years. He became an active politician early in life, and was elected member of the state Legis-
 Iature from the town of Fairfield in 1898 and at this session served as a member of the constitutional amend ments committee. He was also the author of the law called the Oyster BIT which required licenses and numbers to be placed on all poles sur rounding an oyster bed. He was 8 member of the board of education of the town of Fairfield for seven years. As a 1ayman he was a member of the Board of Missions in the state of Con necticut. He entered the ministry in t18e8 being the first deacon ordained | by Bishop Brewster and for three years engaged in mission work in the state of Ohio, then in Pittsburgh, Pa, and later in Bridgeport as rector of St. Luke's P. E. church from which place he went to Gui1ford in 1909. The parish has hourished under his gufd- ance A rectory has been purchas- | ed, the church has undergone exten- sive repairs and new pipe organ has been installed. A short time ago one of his addresses at public meet ing caused somewhat of sensation in many places in the state as it was widely circulated through the state by
 the newspapers and caused an ef-
 fort to be started in the direction of better town morals.
 Guests from this city who attend ed the wedding and the reception which followed were Judge and Mrs Mir and Mrs. Lewis B. Curtis of Wal deniere avenue and Mrs Jonathan
 Godfrey, of The Oaks. Brook1awn park.
 
 The members of the Wednesday
 Morning Art club, which is the sec
 ond oldest of the womens literary so-
 cieties of the city, held an interesting reception yesterday afternoon at the
 home of it's president, Mrs. Samuel M. Garlick on State street. Each mem
 Der was costurned to represent some famous woman from English history. Mrs. Garlick, costumed as Queen Eliz- abeth, welcomed her guests. Each
 of the ladies recited some poem or described some incident in the life of the character which she represented
 On Friday afternoon, Feb. 5, Dr. Charles Eastman, of Amherst, Mass, physician, lecturer, and author, and by birth a full b1ooded Sioux Indian, will speak before the members of the Women's Missionary society of the First Presbyterian church At the talk he will wear the ceremonial dress of the Sioux. His daughter, who is a freshman at Mount Holyolze college will accompany him, and will sing the Indian love songs and lu1Ia- bies of her people