The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1922-02-16
ALMER KICK MARRIED SUNDAY

The Watertown Public Opinion
gives the following account of the
wedding Of Almer keCk, a Well-knoWn
~BrOokiugs young man, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. J. A. keck, which took place in
Watertown on Sunday:
one of the prettiest Of weddings
took place here yesterday following
the Sunday morning service at the
Congregational church when Rev. s..
W. keCk, pastor Of the church, united
in marriage his brother, Almer Keck
of Brookings and Miss Lola Grace
Bowen, a resident of WATERFOWL for
the last three years. Miss Bowen is a
cousin Of Mrs, Keck and has made
her home here with the Keck family.
The church vas packed both in the
auditorium and Sunday school room
and many sat in the gallery to witness
the ceremony. The ladies of the church
had arranged the decorations using
pink carnations, white narcissus, giant
potted primroses also i'll pink, and
ferns banking them at the front of
the church making an attractive set.
ting for the impressive Episcopal
service.
Immediately following the close of
the morning service Mrs. Frank G.
Hakman, sang Loves Coronation by
Alyward with Miss Helen Tarbell at
the piano, who also played the we'd
ding march.
Tha bride and her bridesmaid, Miss
Helen Stone advanced to the altar to
the strains Of the Bridal Chorus from
~Lohengrin. Here they were met by the
bridegroom and his best man, Ronald
Harrison Of this city, a junior this
year at Yankton college, who came
home for the wedding. The Mendels-
sohn wedding march was played as the
occasional.
Both the bride and Miss Stone we're
gowned in navy blue tailored suits. &C
tricotine, the former wearing a hat of
blue straw and a corsage of pink sweet
peas and half opened Ophelia roses.
Miss Stone wore a hat Of white satin
and a corsage Of yiolets and the
Ophelia roses. over their hats were
draped blue wells.
The wedding dinner at 200 o'clock
at the home Of Rev. and Mrs. Keck
was for the bridal party and relatives
Of the family. There We're W for
II with yellow and white for the
color scheme attractively carried out
with place cards, nut baskets and a
bowl of narcissus and jonquils for the
centerpiece.
There was an informal reception all
afternoon and evening at the parson-
age receiving the many friends of the
young couple and refreshments were
served to the guests. Mr., and Mrs.
Keck departed on their wedding trip
leaving here ON the Minneapolis and
st. Louis passenger for Minneapolis.
From the Twin Cities they will visit
with relatives at Lacrosse, and Men
ominee, Wis. for about two weeks
and then return here for a week be-
fore going to Brookings I make their
home on the Keck farm located just
north of State college campus.
Among the out-of-town guests We're
Miss Myrtle Keck, a sister of the
bridegroom, from Garretson, 5. ID.
where she is teaching; Charles j.
Keck, a brother of the bridegroom,
and his wife from Brookings, and
Joseph Smith also of Brookings. The
parents of Mr.. Keck, who expected 20
come on the Sunday morning train
from Bookings to be here for the
ceremony, found the train would not
reach Watertown in time owing TO the
heavy snowfall Of the night before.
Miss Bowen came to Waterfowl
from Racine, Wis, where she was an
employee of the Bell Telephone com
pany, and after attending the bust
ness college here for a short course
has since been a long distance oper-
ator for the Dakota Central Telephone
company of this city. The bridegroom
has visited in this city on several oc-
casions at the Keck home and has
made many acquaintances here.