Wagner - Hammond

WAGNER, HAMMOND

Posted By: Judy Kelley, volunteer (email)
Date: 5/21/2010 at 18:03:41

Source: LCHS scrapbook; newspaper clipping with handwritten date of Aug. 25, 1915

MISS HAZEL WAGNER BECOMES A BRIDE

Married to Arthur G. Hammond Yesterday.

WILL LIVE IN THE WEST

Wedding Occurred at the Wagner Home Near Grandview - Attended by Only the Near Relatives - Decorations Were Beautiful - Culmination of Romantic Courtship - Couple Left For Trip in the West.

An event of deep interest to all and a very pretty home ceremony that one might very properly call a rose wedding because of the many roses which were used in the simple but chamring decoration of the home, took place at 10:30 o'clock yesterday (Wednesday) morning at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. C.P. Wagner of Grandview, Iowa, their only daughter, Hazel, becoming the bride of Mr. A.G. Hammond, of Vancouver, B.C., son of Mrs. H.C. Hammond of Grinnell, Iowa. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. R.V. Pike, pastor of the M.E. church of Grandview. The living room had been set aside for the ceremony, the improvised altar being in the arch between the study and the living room which was garlanded and trimmed with foliage.
There were flowers all about in bouquets and besides the many beautiful roses, there was a profusion of sweet peas, all carrying out the wedding color scheme of pink and white.

An elegant three course luncheon immediately followed the ceremony, the table decorations being entirely in pink and white. Miss Wagner graduated from the Muscatine High school in 1907 with honors, winning a scholarship in Iowa college at Grinnell, from which place she graduated in 1911. Since then she has been a teacher of Latin and German at Waitsburg, Washington. Mr. Hammond is also a graduate from Iowa College at Grinnell.

The marriage was the culmination of a romantic courtship, begun when they were college friends at that place. They left yesterday afternoon for Grinnell, where they will visit the groom's mother a few days. They will then make a tour of the Pacific coast, taking in the grand canyon of Arizona, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco. Then north over the Mt. Shasta route to Seattle, where they take the boat to Vancouver, B.C. They will be at home after October 1st, at New Westminster, B.C.

The bride was in a dainty wedding gown of white and carried pink and white roses. The bride's traveling suit was a negre brown gabardine with hat of same shade.

Aldice and May Hammond of Grinnell, brother and sister of the groom, were present. Only the immediate families of the young people witnessed the ceremony.