South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-06-30
Thousands Crowd Bowling Green Missouri,
To See Miss Clark Wed Southern Publisher
Wedding of Speakers Daugh-
ter Takes Place Today in
White Gothic Temple Erect
ed on Lawn.

BOWLING GREEN. No. June 80.
With more than 5000 visitors her
J last night and as many more arriving
J this morning on special trains and in
] automobiles. everything is ready for
| the wedding at { o'clock this after
! noon OF Miss Geneyieye Clark. daugh-
| tsr of Speaker Champ Clark Bowl
| ing Green's little girl" and James
! MCllhaney Thomson of New Or
! leans. The special cars are parked
on the railroad siding and the promi-
! nent guests include the governors of
! Missouri and Louisiana. the Missouri
! delegation 10 congress headed By
/ Sens. j. A. Reed and ". J. Stone all
! the Illinois delegation and part OF the
I Iowa delegation in congress- Col and
! Mrs. George Harvey, Col. Henry Wat
/ terson. Norman K. Mack and many
/ others.
One accident was reported early to-
| day when a Chicago * Alton train
! from Kansas City bearing a mum Der
! OF guests went into the ditch at Cur
/ ryville. five miles from here. four cars
Deing derailed, but none was serious
/ ly hurt
The weddiEs viii be a typical old
| fashioned Missouri one in every de-
/ tail. A white gothic temple in which
| the wedding CCrlLtt.- viii take place
J has been erec,ed on the north lawn.
| The bridal patty Will pass from the
/ front doc: thICJNh "a tame of deco
rated Whit co anins to the temple A
{ stringed orchestra hidden in the
/ hollyhOcks viii play sweet Gene
/ We've softly during the ceremony
! Both the bride and her nother were
named after this song
\ Family AnsT."
/ Although a constant procession of
visitors filed through the Clark home
this morning. yet the wedding prepa-
| rations gave the impression OF a
! simple family affair Speaker and
/ Mrs Clark. Miss Genevieve. the
/ bridesmaids and Jerry South. door
| Keeper in the house OF representa-
tives. welcomed the. guests and then
showed them tie presents. The bride
knows all her townspeopie by name
and makes them feel as if the we'd
/ ding were for them all
| The hotels are 10 the "hall bed"
stage and most of the private homes
were thrown open TO the visitors.
The women of the town have baked
! 800 OF their celebrated Pike county
cakes for the wedding guests a we'd
/ dirg supper Will De served on the
lawn after the ceremony and a holt
I day has been declared in the city for
today.
! Is Preemlnent Affair
/ As the belle of the nation" Miss
| Clark's wedding takes precedence
/ over all other events of the social sea
/ son just ending, and her decision TO
I be married under the splendid old
{ locust trees at the speakers home
+ lent additional interest to the event
! II is certain she could have ar
/ ranged a most brilliant function in
/ Washington, but she chose TO have
L ha ~,nr
i people who have hOnored her father
and who regard her with feeling of
| loving proprietorship
The gowns OF the bride and the
/ bridesmaids we're all simple and i'm
keeping with the out-of-door setting.
\ Miss Clark wore white satin. yelled
/ in illusion. while her maids wore
crepe yelled in illusion Of wild flower
shades.
The bridesmaids were Miss Anne and
Susan Bennett of Kansas City: Miss
I Dorothy and Miss Imogen Thomson.
I sisters of the groom. OF Summit
Point. w. Va; Miss Jean Roberts of
AleXandria, Va. and Miss Murray
SandersOn Of Bowling Green.
ON the lawn west of the house a
( large dancing pavilion had been con
structed. There were also booths for
dispensing the wedding dainties The
garden somewhat neglected during
the absence of the speakers family
In. Washington. had been replanted
I by Pike county people and the roses
and other flowers were at their best
Special Trains Are Run.
Special trains were run from St
Louis yesterday and this morning to
bring guests TO the wedding and the
roads leading 10 this town we're thick
with automobiles and other vehicles
/ bringing happy parties Of those who
i
and his family for many years
Police from 81. Louis were brought
/ here 10 guard the wedding gifts
| which amount 10 small fortune
\ They viii remain on guard until the
/ presents are sent To New Orleans
/ The gift OF Bowling Green, IN which
| every person I'm the town is repre-
sented. Is an elaborate silver service.
/ Pike county has sent a case OF fiat sill
/ Nerware So generous in number Of
\ pieces. that the bride would not be
embarrassed if several hundred per-
I sons should drop in for dinner.
( The Acquaintance of the bridal
/ couple is numatel, associated.
strangely enough. with the bittercst
+ disappointment OF Miss CIark's life
/ the defeat of her father i'm his battle
I for the presidential nomination of
/ the Baltimore convention. It was AT
/ Thomson brother of hcr scb..,I
chum. Imogen Thomson. who con-
I soed her az that time. took her from
! the convention ball and Went with
I her back 10 washington to ioin her
parents. He had never met her un-
til that day. he had heard OF her II
is true. as a friend OF his sister but
he had considered her a small alrl
and associated out OF his sphere. As
a delegate to the convention he Wis
pledged 10 support Champ Clark His
duties prevented his meeting any OF
his sisters party until after his can
didate. who is now 10 be his father
in-law, had been defeated.
Husband SOuthcrncr.
As Miss clark has always been de
voted 20 the cause OF the south. n is
peculiarly ftting that her husband
should come from a family which has
been prominent in the annals of that
section The Thnmsnns are OF Scnfrh