Leon Reporter, Leon, Iowa
Thursday, August 5, l897

Sunday evening at the home of the bride's parents, MR. and MRS. WALTER JOHNSON, in north Leon, occurred the wedding of MISS VICTORIA LENORA JOHNSON and MR. PERRY GAINES.

About thirty guests assembled at the residence and while Miss Nellie Kline rendered the wedding march the contracting parties took their places under an umbrella beautifully decorated with cut flowers, Rev. J.S. Baxter, Pastor of the Baptist Church, pronouncing the words that bound them together for life.

The beautiful bride looked charming arrayed in a pale green silk bridal costume, trimmed with lace and Rhinestone buckles. She wore bridal roses in her hair, a bridal veil and carried a bouquet of roses.

The groom wore the conventional black dress suit.

After the ceremony, congratulations were extended, and the guests partook of an elaborate wedding supper. A number of costly and useful presents were received.

The groom is a stranger in our midst, but a very pleasant gentleman, engaged in the grocery business at Crete, a suburb of Chicago.

The bride is the youngest daughter of MR. and MRS. JOHNSON, and has grown to womanhood in our midst. The past two years she has spent mostly with her sister, MRS. E.E. SOMES, at Chicago Heights, Ill., and here MR. GAINES made her acquaintance and won her hand and heart.

The happy couple departed for Chicago Monday afternoon, and will go to housekeeping at once in a cozy home which the groom has all prepared for his bride.

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November 23, 2002