Kloster, Nis Nelson & Emma Smeenk (Wedding 1928)

KLOSTER, SMEENK

Posted By: Linda Ziemann (email)
Date: 6/30/2007 at 15:00:25

EIGHT MARRY AT OLD HOME
ROOF TREE OF TORVAL KLOSTER, PROMINENT CITIZEN, SCENE OF MANY WEDDINGS

A pretty home wedding was celebrated at the home of Mr. and Mrs. T. Kloster
in Fredonia township Wednesday, February 15, at 2 o'clock when Emma Smeenk,
of Orange City, became the bride of Nis Nelson Kloster. The home was
beautifully decorated in Iris glow and salmon, the bride's chosen colors.
The bridal couple took their places under the arch while Miss Boline
Mortensen played the Lohengrin wedding chorus and Rev. A. Hansen, from
Marcus, made them man and wife. They were unattended. The bride was
becomingly dressed in an iris glow silk dress and carried a bouquet of pink
roses and pink and white carnations. The groom wore a suit of dark blue.
After the ceremohny supper was served to a hundred guests by Mrs. Hans
Miller, Mrs. Niels Petersen and Mrs. Tina Miller and waiters were Nellie
Smeenk, Boline Mortensen, Elsie Larsen, Eva Andersen, Herlig and Edith
Kloster.

Miss Emma Smeenk is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Smeenk, of Orange City,
and has been teaching the Center school in Fredonia township for the past
three years. Nis Kloster is the son of Mr. and Mrs. T. Kloster and makes
the eighth child of Mr. and Mrs. T. Kloster to be married at their home
place.

Mr. and Mrs. Kloster will live on a farm near LeMars after March 1. They
received many beautiful presents.

~source: LeMars Sentinel, February 21, 1928