Marriage

LAWSON, ADDINGTON

Posted By: Kathy (email)
Date: 8/1/2004 at 22:23:13

Lawson-Addington
Last Friday morning at 10:30 a.m. at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.A. Addington, Miss Ethel Addington was married to Mr. Hugh Lawson, a former Charles City boy who is now located in Minneapolis. Rev. Rolla Earl Brown, pastor of the Baptist church performed the ceremony.
The wedding was a quiet affair, only Mr. and Mrs. Addington and a younger daughter Gertrude, Mr. and Mrs. James Lawson, the groom’s parents, and a sister being present beside Pastor and Mrs. Brown. Luncheon was served after the ceremony and the young couple left on the Great Western for the Twin Cities.
Mrs. Lawson is the oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.A. Addington. She graduated from the Osage high school in 1911 and later was a student at the Iowa State University. She is a musician of considerable talent having specialized in music at Rippon, Wisconsin where she was a member of the Alpha Gamma Theta Sorority.
The groom is not so well known here but the Charles City Intelligencer has this to say of him, “Hugh Lawson has lived in this city since a boy of 12 years of age, graduated from the Charles City High School in 1908 and later attended college at Grinnell, Iowa. He has spent the last two years in Minneapolis where he holds the position of manager and buyer of the department of interior decorating of the New England Furniture & Carpet Co. It is impossible to say too much concerning the character of Mr. Lawson as it is all that possibly could be wished for in a young man.”

[circa 1915 Osage News- found in a scrapbook, I am not related]