Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1936-06-04
DRURY-SMITH WEDDING AT
THE MALTA M. f.. CHURCH

IHE MALTA M. II. CHUICft
The marriage Of Miss Freda Mae
Smith of Malta and Atty Robert
Louis Drury, McConnelsville, was
solemnized at O'clock, Friday af-
ternoon, May 20, at the Methodist
Episcopal church in Malta, with
Rev. Paul Irving Wachs officiating.
The bride wore gown of white
satin, made on princess lines, with
soft cowl neckline, the gown being
trimmed with tiny white buttons
from neck to waist in the back. The
sleeves were tight-fitting to the
wrists, with points over the hands.
Falling from Juliet cap trimmed
with tiny seed pearls, her lace veil
fioated gracefully over the long
satin train of her wedding gown.
She carried shower bouquet of
white roses and lilies of the valley.
Preceding the bride to the altar
were Miss Katherine Simpson of
Charleston, w. Va, maid of honor,
and Miss Gertrude Martin and Miss
Marjorie Taylor of Malta, brides
maids. The three attendants were
dressed in frocks fashioned of
mousseline de sole, and being Of
pastel shades of yellow, blue and
orchid respectively The gowns
were charmingly made with ruffles
beginning midway on the skirt and
sweeping down and around the hem
and ending in point at the waist
in back. The gowns were finished
at the neckline with ruffled capes,
tying in bow at the neck. Each
attendant had an arm bouquet of
old fashioned flowers,-larkspur and
delphinium. Completing the becom-
ing costumes were small turbans
made of net, with bandeaux of
matching material, with tiny face
wells falling to the shoulders. Lit
tie Virginia Vera Sweet, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. James Sweet of
Boston, and Donna Sue Bingham,
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph |
Bingham, McConnelsville, as flower
girls, wore old fashioned ankle |
length frocks of pink organdy, ruff !
fled from waist to hem, and with |
puffed sleeves trimmed with bows
of blue ribbon, and sashes to match.
They wore poke bonnets of pink or
CANDY and had tiny corsages of old |
fashioned flowers.
Mr.. Drury had as his best man,
Attorney Vaughn Bucher of Ma
rietta, O., and the ushers were
Leonard and Carl Drury, brothers
of the groom.
Mrs. Mary Thisselle, aunt of the
bride, wore gown of dark blue
sheer crepe with navy accessories.
white gardenias. Mrs. Clarence
Nf 1nA |
dark blue crepe gown with navy
accessories, and shoulder corsage
of pink roses and blue delphinium.
The church was beautifully dec
Grated with palms and ferns banked
around the altar, and made charm-
ing setting for the wedding cere-
mony.
cat Dawn:ng" and "I Love You
Truly" were rendered most eff
fectively by Mrs. Alice Harris and
Mr.. Harry Betz. A program of or
gan music was played before and
during the ceremony, by Miss Eliza
beth Terry of Malta. Immediately
after the ceremony, a reception was
held at the Malta hotel, at which
about so relatives and friends were
the guests. Following the reception
Mr.. and Mrs. Drury left for short
wedding trip into Indiana and to
Winchester, KY, where they will re-
side for a couple of months.
Among the out of town guests at
the wedding were: Attorney and
Mrs. Ingman Harry, Fairmont, w. /,
Va; Mrs Cora Gregg, Mrs. Mary
Louise Green, Miss Cora Danielson, ,,
Mrs. Harriet Green, of Columbus,
o.; Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Stedman,
Marietta; Mrs. w. G. Kennard, Miss :
Elizabeth Gillespie, Cleveland; Mrs. :.
Ruth Sweet, Boston; Mr.. and Mrs. /.
Ralph Grimshaw, Thornville; Mrs.
Ralph Kennard, Lodi, o.; Mr.. :,
Frank Simpson, Charleston, w. Va; !
Miss Mary l.. Denny, Miss Mar :
garet Durbin, Atty and Mrs. Harr,
Columbus; Mrs. Elizabeth Walden I
and daughter Blanche, Miss Ger :
aldine Hope, Athens; Atty JOS. ,,
Canty, Logan; Atty and Mrs. j d.
Bel, Marietta; Atty John Howell,
Ga.lipolis; Richard Jones, Zanes- i
viii; Mrs. Orville Dozer, Roseville;
Mrs. Reed Hook, Philo; Atty Don
aid Calhoun, Cincinnati. I
The brides gifts to her attend .
ants and flower girls were brace /
lets which were worn on the day of l
the wedding, and Mr.. Drury gave /
the best man and ushers cigarette '
lighters. .
Mrs. Drury is a daughter of the !
late Edward and Florence Matson )
Smith of Malta. She is a graduate c
of M. G M. high school, in the class :
of 1925, and took a course at Ohio .
She has been a teacher :
in the second grade Of the Malta
schools. Mr.. Drury, who is son of c
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Drury of Nc N
is also graduate of
NJ. & M. high SCHOOLGIRLS of 1927.
He took a course at Denison Uni p
Granville, and took his law 9
course at Ada and Cincinnati. He s
later established a law office in Nc L
was appointed deputy y
registrar Of motor vehicles for Nor +
gan county, and was also employed +
with the federal land bank at Louis p
Vile, KY. He now holds govern a
ment position, being connected in
legal way with the department of Il
Justice, with headquarters at pres a
ant at Winchester XIV Roth are +