The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-09-19
Society
by RUTH Nj an
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Ardmore trends will be interested
in the following taken from the
Shawnee Morning News. which tells
Of the marriage of Mrs. Grace Spauld-
ing Keehnel TO Mr.. Alfred NJ. John of
Houston. Texas. Mrs. Keehnel is the
daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. II. G..
Spaulding and with her parents form.
erly lived in tbs city at which time
Mr.. Spaulding was publisher of The
Daily Ardmoreite:
charming early morning wedding
was solemnized yesterday at eight
o'clock. when Mrs. Grace Spaulding
Keehnel was united in marriage to
Mr.. Alfred NJ. John of Houston. Tex.
at the home of her parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. II. G, Spaulding on North Beard
street
The house was attractively decorat'
ed with graceful arrangement of
asters and other bright garden flow
ers, the couple unattended taking
their places in the reception hall
where the Rev. A. G. Williamson OF
sively read the words of the marriage
service using the ring ceremony. Mrs
Harold Humphrey. cousin of the bride
played the wedding march from 10
hengrin
The bride a vivacious and attractive
liant attainments and magnetic per
sonality. She was charmingly gowned
in white, her dress being of EN-
broidered net with bolero OF Italian
lace, and carried colonial bouquet
Of snap dragons and spevia.
Following the ceremony a buffet
breakfast was served. the bride cut
ting and serving her cake. The cou
pie left on the nine O'Clock Katy ror
q honeymoon trip, and will be al
home after October first at Houston
Those present were Mrs. r. A
John. mother of the bridegroom. OF
Houston; MIR. and Mrs. X. +. With
erspoon, Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Hum
phrey, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Jacobs
and daughter, Florence; Mr.. and Mrs
II. T. Nisbett, DR.. and Mrs. j. F.
Hughes. MIR and Mrs. Frank p
Briggs, Mrs. a. II. Budd. Mrs f.. w
Townsend Mrs. Frank Hartman Miss
Molle Jernigan. Mr.. A. c. Atchey
Mr. and Mrs. Spaulding and Master
John and little Patricia Spaulding.
The bride who is one of the recog
nized artists of the southwest is Q
graduate Of the high school of Beau
mont. Texas. attended Washington
University and the school of fine arts
st. Louis and was an art student OF
the Chicago Art Institute. Last win
ter she spent in New York where
she was admitted TO the National
Academy Of Design. While there she
did portrait work under Francis p
Jones and w. r. Curran. making sew
eral important pictures, among them
being one of Muriel Meakins. the
actress.
This summer Mrs. Johns spent four
months painting among the historical
hills about Valley Forge, Pennsylvan'
ia. While there she was associated
with Daniel CARRIER and Charles Nc
Carter. two men who are deeply in
fluencng the trend of American art
today. Mrs. John has identified her
self artistically for the past three
years with the cities of Galveston
and Houston. She will reopen her
studio in Houston, continuing &c
paint under her professional name
OF Grace Spaulding.
Mr.. John is young attorney Of
Houston. a member OF the law firm
Of Woods. Barclay and John. He
is the son OF Judge r. \. John, gen
eral counsel for the Texas Oil com
pany of Houston. and great grand
son of General Sam Houston. first
president of the Republic of Texas anc
afterwards member Of the United
States senate from that state.
Mr. John was one of the first &c
enlist when the United States de
clared war in nineteen.seventeen. Ht
attended the law department OF
Georgetown University and was admit
ted TO the bar at the age OF twenty
one.
The couple are old friends havine
known each other since the brides
high school days in Beaumont, having
met one one OF Mr.. Johns trips home
from Washington. ID. c., where he
was secretary TO Congressman 5. u
Cooper.