Gardner – Shafer Marriage 1916

GARDNER, SHAFER

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 5/25/2021 at 20:55:23

Cresco Plain Dealer May 12, 1916 P-1 C-4

Newlyweds to Reside in Cresco
New Hampton, Ia. May 6.—A notable society event was the marriage of Miss Elsie May Shafer of Chicago and Dr. Harold Bearce Gardner, of Pittsburgh, at the home of the groom’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Gardner, 152 East Railway street.
The marriage is the culmination of a romance which began at Grinnell, when the bride and groom were classmates at college.
The ceremony took place at 8 o’clock and it was performed by the Rev. Burton E. Marsh of the Congregational Church. The ring ceremony was used.
The maid of honor was the bride’s sister, Miss Ruth Shafer, of Galesburg, Ill. The bridesmaids were Miss Rose Cease of Washburn, Wis., Miss Martha Kessel of Cresco, and Miss Ruth Norton, of Fort Dodge.
Lieut. Karl C. Greenwald, of Fort Riley, Kansas, was best man. The ushers were Dr. Geo. B. Eusterman of Rochester; Mr. Harry M. Rowell of Sioux City; Mr. Earl Eslick of Des Moines, and Mr. Raymond Haas of Eldora.
The flower boys, nephews of the bride, were Master William Johnson of Hampton and Master Bobby Jordan of Galesburg.
The bride is a charming and accomplished young woman. Her girlhood was spent at Hampton, from where she entered Grinnell college. After her graduation she became a teacher and until recently she has been instructor in physical training in the public schools of East Chicago.
The groom is a young man of the most admirable qualities, and is known to everybody in New Hampton, his native town. After receiving his B. A. degree at Grinnell in 1910 he spent four years at John Hopkins University in Baltimore, which institution conferred upon him the degree of M. D. He then spent one year as interne at St. Francis hospital in Pittsburgh. The past year he has been chief resident physician at St. Francis and has been a member of the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh Medical School in the capacity of demonstrator in medicine. Dr. Gardner will enter the hospital of Dr. Kessel at Cresco as assistant.
The couple left on the night train for a tour of the northwest, and will be at home in Cresco after June 15.