Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-10-15
TWO HOME SOCIAL EVENTS
LIEUT.. SMITH AND MISS DORIS
DYSON ARE Welded
Reception at the c. j. Smith Home
For Lieutenant and Mrs. Kenneth
b. Smith

nome or Mr.. and Mrs. w. ID. Dyson,
last Wednesday evening, when their
only daughter, Miss Doris, was united
in marriage with Mr.. Melville A.
Smith, of the city of Madison. Hap
piness reigned supreme with the rela-
tives, near friends and neighbors who
composed the company, to the full
capacity of the beautiful home, with
its array of floral decorations, in smi-
lax and ferns, forming the pink we'd
ding scheme chat lent charm and
beauty.
AT s o'clock, to the sweet strains
of the wedding march from Lohen-
gren, rendered by Gabel's Lacrosse
orchestra, the bridal party descended
the stairs, the bride on the arm of her
father, preceded by the little flower
girls, Patricia Baldwin and Josephine
Nuzum, who wore pink organdie
dresses and carried baskets of roses.
and roses, with cathedral candles
above, the ring ceremony was per-
formed by Rev. F. A. Stephens. Dur
ed 30 Promise Me-" Miss Catherine
Munson was maid of honor and wore
pink taffeta and carried sheaf of
brother of the bride. was best man.
The bride was gowned in white satin.
with court train and her long tulle
veil was caught with orange blossoms.
She carried shower bouquet of pink
orchids, and lilies of the valley.
Following the ceremony the young
couple, in wreaths of smiles, received
hearty congratulations of their
friends. Then came the wedding sup
per in courses. For a season social
commingling was the order, and gent
lemen resorted TO an improvised can
vas smoking room formed on the
porch of the spacious home.
The brides presents were many, in
the useful and ornamental, consisting
largely of silverware and china which
will be utilized in the Capital City
home, where apartments await the
return from the Honeymoon trip to
northern Wisconsin.
Niroqua people part reluctantly
with this young bride. They have
known her all her days; that she is
young woman of the finest graces able
and willing to perform well any part
in every good cause that has been as
signed to the community. She has
enjoyed fine schooling at home, Mil
waukee Downer College and the State
University. The gentleman who won
her heart and hand is to be richly con-
graduated on his judgment in the Sc
lection of lady of refinement and
ability for home-making. Mr.. Smith
is young business man Of Madison,
was lieutenant in the late war and
did his patriotic duty in this country
and on the lines of soldiery battles
abroad He is a graduate of Iowa
University, had post graduate at our
University and enlisted from that i'm
stitution.
Out of town guests were Mrs.
Smith. of Marshaltown, Iowa, mother
of the groom; Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Wenzel of Lacrosse, Lieut.. and Mrs.
Kenneth B. Smith, of Tampico, Mex
leo; Miss Josephine Caldwell of South
Dakota; Mrs. Name Chase-Sperry of
St.Paul; Mr.. and Mrs Frank A. Chase
and son Roland of Lacrosse, Lieuten-
ant Asa b. Groves, Phil Sanborn and
Hamilton Baldwin, young friends Of
the groom, came from Madison.
The home coming of Lieutenant
Kenneth B. Smith, with his young
bride, last Wednesday, was a delight
to Viroqua people and especially to the
parents of the young man who have
had his rise in the professional and
business world nearest their hearts.
At the family home, Friday evening,
from s to 10 o'clock, Mr.. and Mrs. c.
j. Smith gave a reception for them,
and more than a hundred friends,
young and old, paid their respects to
the bride and groom. There is re-
greet on the part of all who were priv
LEGGED to meet the young woman of
Kenneth choice that she is not to be-
come one of our number as permanent
resident, for she appears possessed
of the character and type of person
age that would fit into community
that has witnessed the rearing of
Kenneth Smith, whom we have all
watched from childhood through his
educational and other successes, and
hope and believe in his brilliant and
good future.
The home decorations on this hap
by occasion were ferns and roses, with
music by a Lacrosse harp orchestra.
Dainty refreshments were served.
OF the wedding in New York and
personnel of the couple with their pic
lures, the New York Herald of 0cto-
Der 9Th comments:
Miss Rena Laura Vincent, daugh-
ter Of Mr. Mordelle Lee Vincent, of
Tampico, Mexico, was married to Mr.
Kenneth B. Smith in the church of the
TRANSPORTATION yesterday by the Rev.
DR.. George c. Houghton. 1t is an
other romance Of wartime relief work
as the bride and bridegroom met a
year ago in Washington, where she
had arranged tea and dance for the
American Red Cross Fund az head of
the committee of students of the Fair
mount Seminary.
Mr.. Smith had finished his studies
in the Harvard Law School and Uni
versity of Wisconsin when the war
started He enlisted in the military
intelligence branch and served for
twenty months, being stationed most
of the time in Washington.
The wedding trip will include a stop
at his old home, in Viroqua, Wis, af-
ter which the couple will 20 to the
Pacific coast. After December ] they
viii live in TampicO, where the bride
groom will be connected with the in
dustries of the Atlantic, Gulf and West
Indies Oil Company, Of which the
brides father is one Of the chief own
er1