Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1915-06-26
BOWLING GREEN
PREPARES BIG EVENT

BOWLING GREEN, Mo-, June &c.
Wednesday next will be a red-letter
day for the city of Bowling Green and
the county of Pike. On that day Miss
Genevieve Clark, daughter OF the
speaker of the national house of repre-
sentatives and Mrs. Champ Clark, Is
to be the bride of James M. Thomson
of New Orleans.
For the moment the eyes of the ma.
ton will be focused on this pictur.
esque little city. Many of the big"
men Of the country win be here to
attend the event. Specia, correspond.
ents will be on hanG to cover" the
wedding for the city newspapers and
the motion-picture Inen are coming
with their cameras and tripods
To cay that Bowling Green is all
a-futter in anticipation of the wedding
Is putting 1t mildly. The great prob
lem now confronting the citizens is
how to care for the army Of visitors.
When Champ Clark invited every man,
woman and child in Missouri to at
tend the wedding, with leave to bring
along the "houn' Dawgs", he failed to
take into consideration Rowling
Green's limited hotel accommodations
The possibility of housing the visitors
In tents was suggested by one mem.
Der of the citizens committee, but
after much debate it was decided the
better way would be for the people
to keep open house., as was done at
the time. Of the big elcampment The.
proprietor of the local hotel is pre-
pairing to put in cots and the manager
OF the Busy Bee" lunch room declares
he will have coffee and sandwiches
enough for all comers.
A proposal to decorate the town in
honor of the occasion has been voted
down as likely to Getract from the
dignity of the event. However, there
is very insistent minority holding
out for the decoration scheme, and II
is possible that a welcome" arch
may be set up opposite the depot as q
sort Of compromise. The stores along
the main street and around the court.
house square are furnishing up their
fronts 30 that the town may present
spick and span appearance on the
eventful day.
"HoneyBhuck,| the spacious, old.
fashioned home of the Clarks, is a bee.
hive Of preparation, The carpenters
completed the work of enlarging the
old place early In the week, and now
the decorators are giving 1t brighter
tone inside, while landscape garden.
ers are beauufying the surrounding
grounds. The public has not been let
into the secret Of what Is going on in
the big kitchen Of the old house, but
the presence of the best "old nanny"
cook in Pike county, whose fame as a
cake baker has spread for many miles
around, has led the neighbors to sur.
mise that some great and glorious
surprises are in store for those who
attend the wedding feast.
Wednesdays ceremony. will mark
the elimination Of romance begun
at the national democratic convention
at Baltimore in 1912, whore the bride.
elects father was one OF the caudl.
dates for the presidential nomination.
Mr. Thomson, as a member of the
stan OF the governor OF Louisiana, a
state which sent large Champ
Clark" delegation to the convention.
met his bride-to.be at one of the many
fetes marking the earlier sessions of
the stormy week which resulted in
the nomination of Woodrow Wilson.
With her brother, Bennett Clark,
Miss Clark passed the entire week in
the convention city. Cbaperoning her
was her maternal aunt Mrs Anne
Hamilton Pitzer, who, as delegate
from Colorado. had seat On the floor