Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-07-20


Importance of his daughters wedding.
A large wholesale grocery house was
about to establish one Of its chain OF
stores in Braboro. With it's cut prices
it would easily hurt the deacon's trade.
A suitable store had been leased near
the deacon's place of business, and 1t
was spick and span with white paint
inside and out. Now every day was
bringing great van loads of packing
cases. Len Temples brother, Dick,
had a pob receiving the goods, and he
told about such innovations in the gro
Gerry business that his tales only added
to the deacon's troubles.
Len Temple always busy, always
cheerful, showed no resentment to-
ward his future father-in-law.
Never mind, grille" said Len to
Luella when she told him about the
simple wedding. THAT suits us = Ell?
We're not getting married to suit any
one but ourselves. I'm sorry your
folks take it that way, but can't help
being Temple any more than can
help loving you! You're not sorry
about missing the grand wedding?
Luella assured him that she did not
her blue eyes that maddened him. In
q mans vague way he endeavored to
understand how girl must feel on the
occasion of her marriage. 1t meant
more to Luella than it did to Len that
all of Braboro should beinvited - that
there should be flowers and an elab-
crate supper - all those things were
part Of q woman's life. But If the
deacon and his wife wouldn't provide
them Len would do what he could.
At last came the day of the wedding
and, finally the hour. There were
streams of carriages and pedestrians
going toward the Hinkley house on
the hill, for the deacon had relented at
the eleventh hour, and, unknown to
his wife and daughter, had recklessly
ordered flowers and music and an eiab.
crate wedding supper. And Mrs H1nk-
ley, who had money of her own, main
tanned unusual secrecy, and she 90,
ordered flowers and music and supper
from the city, 80 that the whole place
was a bower of flowers and plants and
the rival caterers overran the kitchens
and dining room and quarreled dis
gracefully Two orchestras - one IN
= played wedding marches. Deacon
Hinkley was brave In his best broad
cloth and squeaky shoes, and Mrs.
Hinkley had put on her gray SILK and
! looked very imposing indeed.
And finally, when the deacon and
his wife had waited long enough, they
mounted the stairs to Luella's room.
The door was open, but Luella was
not there!
/ There was a note on the bureau
which the deacon and his wife read
with misty eyes.
Dear father and mother wrote III.
! ella. forgive me for going away to be
married in our own little home. II
You do forgive us, you will come : but
don't misunderstood me. It isn't the
music and the flowers that l cared for,
but it's the feeling that's back Of not
having them! Your loving daughter
Luella."
"The child" gasped Mrs. Hinkley.
The deacon thought rapidly. His
heart was wrung with remorse at his
treatment Of his only child. How could
he save the day for her = for his
wife?
The wedding guests were waiting
downstairs. The buzz of their voices
drifted up to the second tsory.
Come, Caroline" said the deacon
to his wife, well all be late for LGel
Tvs wedding if we don't hurry
Presently there was bewildered
animated crowd of gayly attired wed
ding guests following Deacon Hinkley
and his wife down the road to the foot
of the hill to Len Temples cottage. Be
hind them came the rival orchestras
in full action and all the Braboro folks
who were not invited stood on the SIDE
walks and stared Never before had
there been such wedding IN the town
| The guests crowded through the
J gate and into the tiny house. They
filled all the rooms and many sat or
the stairs and peered through the Par
lor windows, where the minister unit
1 ed Luella and Len. The deacon vas
there to give the bride away, and there
was so much happiness and confusion
and good feeling that the wedding was
one long to be remembered In Brad
boro.
:, Then, headed by the bride and groom
1.-THE whole party. wendell it's way bach
to the house on the hill, where the two
caterers, having effected an armistice
served a never-to-be-forgotten wedding
supper.