The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-03-10
BERNIE WALTHER
and NORA STICK
We'd in SECRET
Furniture Man and Cashier
Bride Go To St. Louis
On Honeymoon.
SIDE-TRACK SUSPICION
WALKED TO MINISTER'S
Will Live At Drusch Apartments
Take Brother Gus Into
Secret.

Bernard A. Walther. of the firm of
Walther Furniture and Undertaking
Company, and Miss Lenora s. Stock,
until . o'clock last night cashier at the
Buckner-Ragsdale store, were married
last night after each had finished the
Saturday evenings work at their re-
5pective stores. The marriage was
kept & secret from their friends and
the couple departed on a honeymoon
rip to St. Louis early this morning.
They will be gone for more than 2
week. Most of the time will be spent
in St. Louis with possibly a trip 70
Chicago added at the end of their stay
in st. Louis.
On their return to the Cape, Mr.. and
Mrs. Walther will reside at the homo
IF Mr. and Mrs. W. c. Ballard at the
Drusch apartments on West Broad
-ay. Mrs. Ballard is a sister of Mr..
Nalther.
The wedding took place at the home
If Rev. J. H. Wells of 331 South Lori
mier street, shortly before II o'clock
last night The bridal couple were
accompanied to the Wells nome only
by Mr.. Walther's younger brother,
Mr.. Gus Walther.
Friends of the couple have been cx-
pecting them to be married this
spring, but it WIS impossible to learn
the date of the wedding.
Yesterday afternoon about o'clock
Mr.. Walther told Martin Kocher, one
of the statesmen at the Walther store.
that the was going to Jackson to aid in
body there, and left Mr..
Kochor in charge of the store.
Mr.. Tony Hohler, the other salesman
and undertaken of the firm, and Mr..
Walther's brother, Gus, had been taken
into the secret. When Mr.. Walther
arrived in Jackson. he went to Record
er Fritz Siemers' Office and procured
his marriage license.
He said nothing to any of his friends
on his return and at o'clock last
night, as had been his custom on Sat
urday night, he went 70 the cashiers
=tand presided over by his bride-elect
o take her to picture show and then
home.
The couple often had accompanied
two other young women employed rs
at the store. to their
homes, on Saturday night, and las
night, they did not allow their mar
rage plans to keep them from taking
Miss Stcck's companions ut the store
% their homes.
After they had walked home with
them, the couple returned to Broadway
and met Mr. Walther's brother. The
three of them walked to Rev Wells
home to have the ceremony performed.
They had telephOnod DR.. Wells that
they would need his services as Il min
ster, and the efforts of the couple to
Sida-track suspicion caused a quarter
# an hours d0lay in their schedule.
Following thei, marriage, they went
o the Ballard home, till the Frisco
rain for ST. Louis arrived.
Mr. Walther IS % years old, has
)een managing with his brother, the
Walther Furniture store for the last
.hree years, Stree the death of his
ather, the late Rudolph Walther, who
lied three years ago last September.
vhen injured in an automobile acct
lent at Jackson.
He was born and raised in the Cape
md is a graduate of both the Lorimier
md Cape High School. After his
graduation from the high school, he
tudied bookkeeping and commercial
ubjects in business college and im
became associated with his
ather in the store.
His bride, who is but 81 years old
or the last three or four years has
cen cashier at the Buckner-
tore. She is daughter of Henry
itnck of Jackson. former City Marshal
Miss Steck before her marriage liv-
d at the home of her brother, Phillip
teck over the Mueller meat market
n Broadway.
The couple have been engaged to
e married for more than year. They
rst became acquainted when Miss
teck came to the Cape to attend bust
ess college here.
Within the last few days they have
tied out a room at the Ballard home.
hey were unable to find a suitable
ONE and within short time the Bal
rds and Walthers expect to obtain q
ouble house in the Cape.