NUPTUALS OF INTEREST TO MANY MUSCATINE PEOPLE

BROWNING, LIEBERKNECHT, HAMPTON

Posted By: Judy Kelley, volunteer (email)
Date: 4/4/2010 at 21:52:41

Source: Louisa County Historical Society scrapbook, clipping from unknown newspaper, handwritten date of 1911

A wedding of interest to their many friends took place Wednesday afternoon, March 22, when Miss Ethel Browning became the bride of Hilton Lieberknecht, at the home of her father, Jerry Browning, in Grandview township. The wedding was simple and charming in its appointments. At 2 o'clock, the young people, unattended, entered the parlor to the strains of the wedding march played by Miss Ruby Lieberknecht, sister of the groom, and took their places beneath a festooned arrrangement of Alice blue and white ribbons. The bride was dressed in a beautiful gown of crepe de chene with trimmings of bead work and embroidered bands. Rev. Eells of the Grandview Congregational church officiated, the ring ceremony being used. After congratulations, a dainty three course dinner was served in the dining room, where the table decorations also carried out the color scheme of Alice blue and white. Both bride and groom are well and favorably known, having spent practically all their lives in this community. The bride is an accomplished musician, having had classes in Muscatine and nearby towns. For some time she also taught in Browning college, Muscatine, the business college conducted by her sister, Miss Sue Browning.

The groom is the older son of Mrs. Jacob Lieberknecht and aside from a few years spent in school in Muscatine and Des Moines has spent his life on the home farm, which he and his brother have successfuully managed since the death of their father, Jacob Lieberknecht, some eight years ago. He is a young man of excellent habits and known as a practical and progressive farmer.

The young people left the same evening for Kansas City and other southern points where they will spend their honeymoon. After their return they will be at home to their friends on the Browning farm after April 15. The bride's going away gown was a pretty creation of Alice blue material. Mrs. F.A. Hampton and daughter, Miss Addie, and Miss Sue Browning were present from Muscatine.