The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-05-17
ANNOUNCED
AT A LOVELY PARTY

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The auction party Saturday after
noon at which Miss Marian Dewey
was the hospitable hostess was one
OF the most elaborate and intensely
interesting affairs given in the city
for some months. This occasion was
a pretty compliment announcing the
engagement and approaching mar
riage of one of Ocala's most admired
young ladies, Miss Ellen STRIPPING TO
Mr.. James n. Bryan, one of Tampa's
deservedly popular young business
men.
News of this engagement crept
out some months ago, but as there
had been no announcement made, the
exact date and plans of the wedding
were not known until the formal an
nouncement of Saturday.
Miss Dewey in her usual bright and
attractive manner informally but cor
daily received her guests at the
front door, handsomely attired in a
reception gown of black tulle over
silver cloth with trimmings of silver
lace.
The entire lower floor of the Dewey
home was made extremely coZy and
viting by the pretty color motif,
pink and white, which was conspicu-
ously and daintily carried out in eve
ry detail The electric globes which
were covered with light pink crepe
paper, delicately lighted the rooms,
which were profusely decorated with
- cot
peas and roses, together with as
pa~agus fern, which wer also arrang
ed in vases, baskets and cut glass
bowls.
The punch table. presided over by
Mrs. Willard Blood and Mrs. c. p.
Chazal, was most popular all after
noon, and was simple but elegant in
it's decorations of Easter lilies.
Upon the arrival of all the guests,
they were invited by the hostess TO
gather in one room, where Misses
Adele Bittinger and Onie Chazal and
Mrs. C. P. Chazal stood holding a
pretty pink basket. Each guest was
requested to take draw from same
and upon doing so dainty and appro-
pirate score cards of orange bios
SONS, significant of bride, fell to
each one, and of course much interest
was then manifest. The two last
draws were made by Miss Bittinger
and Mrs. Chazal and were entirely
different from the others, for upon
unwrapping the two article they were
found to be the dearest little bride
and groom dolls imaginable. accom-
paired by the following verses which
were read by Miss Bittinger and Mrs.
Chazal:
Dear Ellen, just dropped in to say
I'm almost ready for our wedding day.
I've the dearest house for bride and
groom.
Tell all your friends there's plenty of
room.
And we want them all to come and
spend
A day, or night, or whole week
end.
Don't tell them yet where we honey
We can't be bothered when we want
to spoon.
But when we're home, they're well
come to scamper
Right down to pay us visit in Tam
pa. j. N. Bryan Jr.
Dear Folks: I'll no longer try to hide
That l soon intend to be somebody's
bride.
He's coming up to get me soon;
IT'S definitely settled-the second of
June.
You know the date-now the name of
him
Is J. N. Bryan, but call him Jim.
Ellen STRIPPING.
These lovely miniature dolls were
placed on the punch table to the side
OF which stood the beautiful young
bride-to-be. Miss Stripping, one of
the city's favorites, is quite a pretty
an0 talented young lady of the society
set and never was she more charming
and handsome than at her engage
ment announcement party. She was
most stately looking in an elaborate
white georgette gown heavily beaded
with pearls, with which she wore a
very becoming white picture hat made
of georgette which matched her gown.
Miss Stripling's scores of friends,
both old and young, deplore the fact
that her marriage will take here away
from Ocala, but the good wishes of
the entire community are extended to
both she and her fiance for a most
successful, prosperous and happy
married life.
Miss STRIPPING has practically lived
in Ocala all of her life. coming here
from Sanford with her parents when