The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-10-08
wATsoN-CoNNER WEDDING
IN LAKE CITY.


IN LAKE CITY.
A wedding in which there is .
great deal of interest is that of
Wednesday at Lake City, when Miss
Margaret Evelyn Conner and DR..
Archibald Cowan Watson were mar
ried. The bride is a graduate Of the
Woman's College and he's many
friends in Pensacola.
The Methodist Episcopal church
was the scene of a beautiful autumn
wedding, Wednesday afternoon, at
four o'clock when Miss Margaret
Evelyn Conner, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Sidney B. Conner, and DR.. Arch
ibald Cowan Watson were united in
marriage.
Rev. L. w. Moore performed the
ceremony, which was witnessed by
relatives and scores of friends of the
couple.
The church was simply, but most
artisticaliy decorated with a profus-
ion of palms, ferns and other trop-
zeal plants. Trailing vines and vari-
colored autumn leaves being used to
advantage.
Preceding the ceremony, Miss Eliz-
abeth Bardin rendered an appropriate
program Of wedding music and Miss
CALVIN Hankins, sister of the bride,
sweetly sang, Saint Saens my
Heart at Thy Sweet Voice"
Promptly at the appointed hour
the bridal party entered the church
/ by the left aisle to the strains OF the
Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin, rem
dered by Mrs. j. G. Baisden, the
church organist.
First came the ushers, DIR. James
w. West, Mr.. Sidney N. Conner, of
/ Quitnlan, Ga, and Mr.. Starke Con-
/ ner, brother of the bride, Mr.. Rob
ert Z. Roach, of Muscatine, Iowa, and
Mr.. Brown Byrd, followed by the
maid Of honor, Miss Myna Hankins,
sister of the bride. The matron of
honor, Mrs. Henry w. Taylor, came
next, then the bride on the arm of her
father, Mr. Sidney B. Conner, who
! gave u6T III UldTI1dS6.
They were met at the altar by the
groom and his best man, his brother,
Mr.. I. x. Watson, and here the i'm
pressive ring ceremony took place.
| During the ceremony Miss Bardin
softly played, go Promise Me-" and
Venetian Love Song"
The bride, an unusually attractive
young woman was charming in her
travelling suit of navy blue broad
cloth, with Hudson seal trimmings
and wore a hand embroidered blouse
of Georgette crepe and smart hat of
blue velvet. Her flowers were an
arm bouquet of brides roses.
| Misses Hawkins, the maid of honor,
was becomingly gowned in cham
payne taffeta and Georgette crepe,
wearing a picture hat of black vel
vet, with gold trimmings. Her flow
ers were Killarney roses.
| Mrs. Taylor, The matron of honor.
was radiant in a pretty frock of Bur-
gundy Georgette crepe over satin
with fur trimmings, and wore a
smart hat of black velvet, trimmed in
jet.
| The wedding party left the church
by the right aisle to Mendelssohn's
Wedding March.
DR.. and Mrs Watson left shortly
after the wedding for points IN the
Carolinas, and upon their return they
viii reside at Bowling Park.
II The bride has always been one of
the most popular girls of the younger
set, and since the announcement of
her engagement has been the honoree
at a number of delightful affairs.
She attended the Florida State Col
lege for Women, where she was a
member of the Tallahassee Chapter
of the Alpha Delta ri Sorority.
DR.. Watson, who is former resi-
dent of South Carolina is exceedingly
popular both in professional and so
cial circles, and has host of friends
who win extend congratulations.
This popular couple received many
beautiful gifts from their large cir
Gle of admiring friends
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