The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-31
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Bs EMM, WEID RYALL

q WEDDING of interest to many
A\ friends in the city is that of Miss
"a Estelle Bushnell Turner of Bos-
ton and Mr.. Charles Edmond Davis OF
Acton, Mass which will take place to-
morrow morning at II o'clock.
Miss Turner will be very pleasantly re-
membered, having spent most of her
school days in Birmingham, and last
winter was the attractive guest of Mrs.
/. T. Young and Mrs. w. w. French, who
entertained her most delightfully."-.
The Misses Turner are very clever
young women and are delightful dialect
readers and sing old-fashioned negro mel
odies. They have appeared many times
before most distinguished personages.
The following from the Boston Globe
will be read with keen interest:
Miss Estelle Bushnell Turner of liz
Pinckney street, Beacon HILL who with
her sister, Miss Harriet Turner. has been
known for some years to the Greater
Boston public by their rendering of negro
songs, is to be married at II O'Clock
Wednesday morning, November /, to
Charles Edmund Davis of Acton.
Mr.. Davis is a farmer and a real es-
tate dealer of that town, and Miss Tur-
ner met him first last summer in connec-
ton with the purchase of a summer cot
tage
THE wedding will be at the home of
Mrs. Alfred Julian Rowan in Belmont,
and will be of very simple nature, both
bride and groom being unattended. Rev.
Il. w. Tingley of Lowell, formerly of Ac-
ton, will perform the ceremony. After a
wedding trip to New York the couple
will spend the winter in Boston and open
a new home in Acton IN the spring
Natives of Columbus, Ga, Miss Turner
and her sister have lived IL years in the
north, of which 10 were in Boston, and
have sung before some of the most no.
table men of America and members of the
British royalty"
The marriage of Miss Sallie Mcconnell
Robertson, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. J.
r. Robertson, and Mr.. Stephen Audrey
Frazier, was brilliantly solemnized at
the Methodist church, Fayette, Wednes-
day evening, at $780, Several hundred
friends and relatives were present to wit
ness the wedding of this popular young
couple. The church was beautifully dec
GRATED with smilax, palms, ferns and
chrysanthemums, yellow being the color
scheme. On each side of the altar were
tall white pedestals supporting gold can
rail was decorated with masses of green
with numerous burning tapers, lighting
the entire church. Preceding the cere-
mony. Mrs William Monroe and Mrs
William NJ Mansfield at the piano, as
sisted by Mrs James H. Middleton of
Clanton, on the violin, Miss White and
Mrs. Samuel j. Sanders rendered a most
beautiful musical programme To ~le
strains of Mendelssohns wedding march
the bridal party entered, led by the ush-
ers. Mr.. Quinton Thomas Alsobrook, Mr..
Robert E. Caine, Mr.. George H. Gullett
and Mr.. Alva Estes. The bridesmaid,
Miss Alice Sleeves and Mr.. Thomas L.
Lindsey came next The two little flower
girls were Marguerite Peters and jamie
Will Goodwin, who were dressed in yell
low net and carrying baskets filed with
rose petals. The ring bearer, Master Basil
kenney, preceded the bride. He carried
the ring in a large yellow chrysanthemum.
The bride entered with her sister, Miss
Aline Robertson. The bride was lovely
in her wedding gown of heavy white sat
in. The skirt was full and short. The
lovely lace veil was caught in Russian
coronet fashion with orange blossoms,
and fell in graceful folds, forming a train.
She carried a shower boquet of brides
roses and valley lilies. Mr. Frazier was
attended by Mr.. Fritz Frazier, his
brother as best man, and the ceremony
was performed by the Rev. Mr.. Mans
field. Immediately after the ceremony, a
delightful informal reception was held at
the Robertson residence Mrs. Robertson
was assisted in receiving by her sister.
Mrs. Sallie Mcconnell Houser of Annis-