The Dolores star., 1920-10-01
Lyen.Bergh.

the season took place Monday evening.
September 9th, when Miss Madge F.
Bergh became the wife of Frank Lyen
The country home of Mr.. and Mrs. J.
c. Bergh, parents of the bride, was
very tastily decorated with oak leaves
and wild crabspple branches which
lent an atmosphere of autumn to the
parlor and dining room, and was in
keeping with the surroundings of the
home.
The ceremony took place at o clock
and was conducted by Rev. S. l.. Ford
of the M. E. Church, the couple being
attended by Miss Ada Lyen, youngest
sister of the bridegroom, and by
Walter E. Fickel, superintendent of
the Mancos High school.
Miss Evelyn Tozer played Mendels-
shon's Wedding March as the couple
came down the stairway and entered
the parlor. After the ceremony, and
congratulations of the relatives and
friends were extended, a bountiful
wedding dinner was served to which
more than thirty guests done ample
justice.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lyen have both been
in the employ of The Harris Companies
at Dolores, in the Office of the store
and bank, for the past several weeks.
They are both accomplished musicians
and have made special study of the
violin for number of years.
The bride has grown to womanhood
In this place, attending our public
school until she graduated from the
eighth grade. after which she went to
the Golden High School for three years
then two years in the Durango High
School, from which she graduated in
the class of 1918. A year was then
spent in Colorado College at Colorado
Springs in the study of music and
elocution.
Mr.. Lyen is the son of Geo. W.
Lyen, Sr., of Mancos, and is well known
throughout the County as violin
artist of note. He studied music in
Denver for two years, one year in the
Chicago Conservatory of Music and
during the past year in Colorado
College.
Fate could not have been more kind
and solicitous than he has been to
this fine young couple. At the we'd
ding it was learned for the first time
by many of their friends that they
were born and raised in the same COM
munity along the Mississippi in Iowa.
subsequently they moved. with their
respective parents, to Southeastern
Colorado, living there within twenty
miles of each other, then moving to
this County, one living in Dolores and
the other in Cortez, where they have
grown up. When it came time to
enter higher schools than our commu-
nifty afforded the bride went to Golden
and the groom to Denver. These
several. simultaneous moves were
made without each others knowledge
of the other, but it must be that some
higher power had charge of the matter
for they were brought together at last.
the friendship that was formed some
thing over year ago eliminating in
the happy event of Monday evening.
The wedding took place on the 22nd
anniversary of Mr.. and Mrs. Bergh's
wedding and the bride wore the we'd
ding dress of her mother. which was
remade, with georgette crepe, to con-
form with present day styles. After
the dinner the gifts were opened and
were found to consist of nearly every
thing that newly married couple
could wish for, there being large
chest of Community Plate siverware,
number of single pieces of the same
ware. and numerous other useful as
we'll as beautiful articles.
Both parties have hosts of friends in
this place as well as in Mancos and
Cortez who join in wishing them long.
happy life. full of the joys that come
to those that take upon themselves the
duties and privileges of married life.