Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1920-08-16
c. !. BYRNE HOME IS
SCENE OF PRETTY
HIGH NOON NUPT|AL
SCHOOL SUPERINTENDEN
FURNISHES SETTINGS FOR MAR
RAGE OF DAUGHTER, MISS
GRACE ELIZABETH, TO CALL
FORNIAN.

II The home of Mr.. and Mrs. Christo-
pm J. Byrne, 429 First avenue. was
Ihe scene of Il very beautiful home
wedding at high noon today when the
on.y daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Byrne.
Grace Elizabeth, and Joseph Philip
Bernhard of Fresno Calf, were unit
ed in marriage. yellow and white
flowers, which were used in a profu
sion throughout the house made
very attractive setting for the beau
tiful ceremony. Sixty guests, the in
innate friends and immediate rela-
tiVes, were in attendance,
Just at T. o'clock as Miss Katherine
Lincoln, an intimate friend Of the
bride, played the Lohengrin wedding
march on the violin accompanied by
Miss Gencvicve Hogan of Seneca on
The piano. the bridal party entered the
living room and took their places.
Preceding the bride were the little
flower girls. Lura Florence Strawn.
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs w. Ne Voy
Dr and Mrs. Clyde Casey of Chicago
Heights In the living room Miss
Byrne was met by the groom who
entered from another door.
Rev. George w. F'arrar, pastor of
the Christ Episcopal church. whore
the bride has been an attendant all
her life, read the marriage service,
using the ring ceremony of the EpiS-
copal church.
The bride was gOwned in cream
satin roses with yellow satin, cen
trimmed with real lace and white
satin roses with yellow satin cen
tiers. She wore tulo veil and car
ried a colonial bouquet of yellow
and white roses. The little flower
girls wore white frOckg and carried
baskets of yellow and white daisies.
Following the ceremony Il reccp-
tiou was held, after which wedding
breakfast was served to the guests.
Mr.. bernhard and his bride left on
an afternoon train for Michigan and
Wisconsin for a honeymoon, They
will return TO Ottawa on Tuesday,
Aug a. to attend the wedding of
Miss Helen Hawkes. and Theron j.
Byruo, a brother Of the bride,
The bride has resided in ottawa all
of her life and is well known here.
She attended the Ottawa township
high school and the University OF
Chicago For several years she has
beon engaged in bactcrioogy, having
held positions Of possibility at tho
Illinois Valley Laboratory in Ohio and
California Fer the past eighteen
months she has been working in Cali
fornia. where she met Mr.. Bernhard
The groom is a prominent attorney
of Fresno. He is member of one #
the oldest and most influential fam
ilies in California and is well known
in the golden state. He and his bride
win go 70 Fresno to make their fu
ture home.
Tho ont Of town guests here to at
tend the wedding were Judge and
Mr. prindiyillo, Mr., mad Mrs. Leslie
Parker Mrs. O. w Richardson. Mr.,
aud Mrs. W. H. Porter and daughter
Miss Marion. Mrs Katherine Dono-
hue, Mrs Josie k0ciemSki and daugh-
ter, Miss Irene; Miss Josephine Fish
and Miss Eleanor Ahern, all of Chi
caeo; Miss Gencyievc Hogan of Sen
tca MI and Mrs William Eandcr
of Western Springs, Mrs. Robert Nc
Cullough OF Norwood Park, Charles
Daggett and Miss Sue naggett of
Marseilles and Mrs Clyde Casey and
daughter Jane OF Chicago Heights.