The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-13

gent, the little sister and brother of
the bride. They were followed by
Miss Helen Shines, the maid of honor,
and Miss Mabel Kingsley, the brides
maid. The bride entered on the arm
of her father. The party was met in
the living room by Mr.. Kingsley, at
tended by his brother, Mr.. Ralph
Kingsley, as best man, and Mr..
Churchill Sargent, the brides broth
err. as groomSman.
Preceding the ceremony Mrs. Ho-
race Whitehouse and Mr.. Hugh Dick
erson sang Il Would That My Love"
Mrs Osborn Larimer played the
Lohengrin Wedding March, and dur
ing the service, she played MacDow-
ellis composition, ITO a Wild Rose"
with violin obligato, played by Miss
Helen Phipps.
The lower floor of the Sargent home
was a perfect garden of flowers and
greenery. over the doors and win
dows were hung boughs of spirea
green, and there were palms and ferns
and quantities of pink and white roses
and peonies. The stairway was
twined with spirea and daisies. and
bowls of daisies decorated the rooms
on the second floor.
Miss Helen Shines of Fairmont,
Neb. the maid of honor, was school
friend of Miss Sargent in the Chicago
Art institute. Her gown was of silk
satin. The drapery was in tunic eff
feet with gold ribbon trimming. She
carried pink roses. Miss Kingsley,
the bridesmaid. is a sister of the
bridegroom. Her gown was of pink
silk net trimmed with net ruffles
edged with pink satin. Elizabeth Sar-
gent wore white organdie with pink
ribbons.
After the service, an informal re-
ception was held. Those who stood
in the receiving line were the bride
and bridegroom, Mr.. and Mrs. Sar-
gent, Mr.. and Mrs. H. A. Kingsley,
the parents of the bridegroom.
Mrs. Sargent wore white net with
bodice of embroidered lace. Her bou-
quet was of pink roses. Mrs. Kingsley's
gown was of white embroidered wolfe.
The brides grandmother, Mrs. w. K.
Williams of York. Neb., was a guest.
Her gown was of dark blue MESA
line.
The brides going away suit was of
dark green grosgrain silk with white
khakikoole collar. Her shoes and hat
were white.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kingsley have left for
wedding trip to Lake Geneva, Wis,
and from there they will go to Chi
cago to make their home. Mr.. Kings
ley is in charge of the shipping de-
partment of the Sears-Roebuck COM
pany.
Mr.. Kingsley is a graduate of the
Topeka high school and of Washburn
college, and Phi Delta Theta frater-
nifty man. Mrs. Kingsley graduated
from the high school, was a student
for a year in Washblrn college, and
later studied commercial art in the
Art Institute of Chicago. She is a
member of the Alpha Phi sorority
group of Alpha Phi girls assisted
in the dining room at the reception
following the wedding. They were
Miss Juliette Brown. Miss GwendoIyn
Shakeshaft and Miss Alice Hughes
The girls who presided at the punch
bowl, on the porch, were Miss BeuIah
Powers of Gridley and Miss Sierra
Beggs.
Mr.. Kingsley's wedding gift to his
bride was handsome wrist watch.
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Mrs. H. O. Carney has returned from
trip to Wichita and Hutchinson. In
wichita she attended a Red Cross con-
ference, and in both cities, she worked
in the interests CT the food expert
plan, proposed by the government, and
being worked out in the states. Mrs.
Carney is a member of the organiza-
ton committee of the Kansas Council
of Defense, of which Dean E. c. John
son, of the Kansas State Agricultural
college, is chairman. She presented at
a meeting of Wichita people, the gov
ernment's plan for placing a food ex-
pert in nine towns of Kansas, by which
the government provides the salary of
the expert, of from 5000 to 81, 200, and
the people of the town provide the
material and equipment. The arrange