Wednesday, October 27, occurred the wedding of Miss Frances Lizette Cordes, daughter of Miss William Cordes, to Rev. R. Shedtler, son of Rev. and Mrs. F. Shedtler, of Westgate, Iowa.

Relatives and friends, about fifty in number, gathered at the home and, at the appointed time, 5 o’clock, the couple, unattended, took their place in the parlor, the bride’s sister, Mrs. C. K. Stokes, rendering Lohnengrin’s wedding march on the piano, and the groom’s father performing the marriage ceremony.

The bride was charming in a white embroidered dress over silk. She wore a veil and carried a shower bouquet of rose buds and maiden hair fern. After receiving congratulations, the entire company was conveyed by automobiles to the home of Len Cordes, the bride’s brother. Under the direction of Miss Amanda Cordes, the house presented a festal appearance, the whole lower floor being transformed into a veritable banquet hall. Large boughs of evergreen adorned the walls and doorways; floral decorations of yellow chrysanthemums and white carnations beautifying the tables. Covers were laid for all the guests, who sat down to a three-course dinner served by the Misses Laura Cordes, Doris Miller, Bertha, Alma and Florence Biederman, cousins of the bride.

Miss Cordes has been a teacher in our public school for a number of years, and is the possessor of a fine soprano voice, her singing giving pleasure on many occasions on her own and neighboring towns. The groom is a minister of the Lutheran church and has a pastorate at Renwick, Iowa, to which place he took his bride the following day, going by auto with Mr. and Mrs. H.K. Drake in the latter’s car.

Those from away who were in attendance at the wedding were: Rev. F.S. Shedtler, wife and four daughters, of Westgate; Mr. and Mrs. C. Becker and little Hildegard, of Waverly; Fred Biederman and daughter, Mrs. John Mc Conwell, of Skyberg, Minn.; Mrs. O. Hylden, Dorothy Becker and Mrs. Frank Sediacek, of St. Ansgar, and he E.C. Miller family, of Osage.

- Mitchell Correspondent

Yesterday at high noon at the Methodist parsonage in Osage occurred the marriage of Miss Iverne M. Wick of this city, to Mr. L.D. McKee of Osage, the ceremony being witnessed by only a few relatives and close friends of the bride and groom. Rev. Frank W. Court pronounced the vows, the ring ceremony being used. The bride wore a handsome gown of charmeuse and carried white roses. After the ceremony, the wedding party went to the home of the groom’s mother, Mrs. Mae McKee, in that city, where a wedding dinner was served, and that evening the bride and groom left for Flandreau, S.D. where the groom owns a shoe store and where they will be at home to their friends after April 1.

The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H.I. Wick of this city and she graduated from the Nashua High School with the class of 1910, and since then has been one of the successful rural teachers of the community, except one year which she spent attending the Cedar Valley Seminary at Osage, and it was while there that she met the young man who won her for his bride. For four years she taught continuously, except two terms in the Swinton School and her length of service there is a testimonial to her ability as a teacher. She is a young woman of charming personality and will make a good helpmate to the man who has chosen her to preside over his home.

The groom is a stranger to most of our people but is highly spoken of by those who know him. He recently purchased an interest in a shoe store at Flandreau. The best wishes of many friends will be extended to them in their new estate. Those from here who attended the wedding were; James H. Wick, brother of the bride, and Mr. O.R. Laird and Miss Gladys Potter. Miss Pearl Thomas of Charles City was also a guest.

Nashua Post-

On Wednesday evening March 3, at the home of the brides mother, Mrs. Sarah Morse, occurred the marriage of her daughter Fern S. to Lancy L. Lewis.

Promptly at 8 o’clock the couple took their place and the local pastor Rev. F.S. Artz performed the ceremony using the ring service. Only a few intimate friends were present. The bride looked charmingly in a dainty gown of white messaline; while the groom looked equally well in a suite of blue serge.

Immediately following the ceremony the bridal couple were invited to the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Hill, where a company of immediate friends were gathered to shower the happy couple with congratulations and best wishes. The hostess served ice cream and cake.

Those present were; Mrs. Sarah Morse, Mr. and Mrs. J.C. Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Richards, Mr. and Mrs. C.V. Woodward, Mr. and Mrs. John Dodge, Mr. and Mrs. George Hill, and Misses Lucile and Marjorie Hill.

The young couple will make their home with the groom’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sid Lewis, who live north of town, while their home is being built. The future is very promising and we join in wishing them the best of success. Orchard Correspondent-

Last Wednesday afternoon at half past two o’clock at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chris Koch in Cedar Township occurred the wedding of their daughter Miss Nettie M. to Mr. Robert Warrington, a promising young man of Mitchell Township. The union was solemnized by Rev. William Densmore of Mitchell, in the presence of immediate relatives of the young couple. After the ceremony the happy young pair presided at a genuine old fashioned wedding feast, in which the company joyously participated.

Both of the people are well known in this neighborhood. Miss Koch is one of the most popular young women of her community and Mr. Warrington is known to be a young man of sterling character. For some time he held a responsible position in the bank at Mitchell, but has lately chosen to direct his energies along the line of scientific farming and he will take his bride to make a home for them on what is known as the old Connell farm.

The PRESS joins with their many friends in extending the sincerest congratulations.

A wedding in June with all the world in bloom is ever of deep interest. Perhaps none quite so interesting as this, to the large number of guests who gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Indra of Mitchell, June nineteenth to witness the marriage of their daughter Elsie Mae, to Howard Knowlton Drake.

At the appointed time, with the guests all assembled and the house fragrant with beautiful flowers, the ceremony was held. Before the entrance of the bride and groom, the bride’s cousin, Miss Florence Cordes sang the beautiful song, “Roses Bring Dreams of You”. As soon as she had finished, the bride, attended by Miss Della Indra, came down the stairs while the groom entered from the dining room attended by his brother, Harry Drake, and to the strains of Lohengrin’s Wedding March, proceeded through the ribboned aisles to a corner of the parlor which was banked by ferns and flowers.

Rev. Hoffman, in a most impressive ring service, performed the ceremony, closing with an earnest prayer for the future happiness of the couple to which all the guests must have silently responded.

After hearty congratulations and good wishes were showered upon Mr. and Mrs. Drake, a delightful two course supper was served by Misses Chloe Cheney, Calla Rose, Ruth Dorcherty, Agnes Rose, and Mamie Thompson.

The bride is a cultured young lady having received her education in the public schools and at the Cedar Valley Seminary, and State Normal. She has also taught school successfully. With her many accomplishments she will grace the new home to which she goes.

Mr. Drake is a rising young farmer, industrious, and of good habits, and richly deserving of the bride he has won. The presents, which possibly might have surpassed our grandmothers as being a part of a worlds fair display, were both numerous and beautiful. A roll of greenbacks which may speak something of the high esteem in which the young people are held, was among the presents.

Mr. and Mrs. Drake left on the 3 o’clock train for a visit with relatives at Denver and other points of interest. On their return they will be at home on the farm of Mr. Drake’s father near Mitchell.

Through the almost subtle maneuvers, Cupid has scored another arrow in the center of the target. Even the most intimate friends were unprepared for the event, thereby making possible considerable saving in old leather and the older of the cereal foodstuffs.

It all happened at the McKanna home at 8:30 last Wednesday evening when the daughter of the home, Miss Tillie, was made the wife of Mr. Lloyd Coonradt. The affair was solemnized by Rev. B.A. Coonradt of Rochester, Minnesota, brother of the groom. Only the immediate relatives and Mrs. E.B. Farnham of Charles City, an aunt of the bride, were present. After the ceremony a tasty lunch was served the guests, the couple leaving the next morning for a visiting tour which takes them through Sioux City, Sioux Falls, Storm Lake, and other western points. After April first they will be found at home on the Coonradt farm northeast of Osage.

It would be a superfluous effort to attempt any eulogy of this young couple so happily embarked on life’s voyage. They are well known throughout the community. Both have spent their lives here and are regarded by everyone as one of the best young people in the vicinity.

The bride graduated from a course of excellent work in High School and has since held a competent position with the Eureka Telephone Company. The groom has an established record for excellence of habit and gentleness of manner. For the past year he has managed the farm and has made a splendid success.

Congratulations of the sincerest and heartiest kind from the Press Journal.

On Christmas Eve, following the Christmas program at the Congregational church in Orchard, Mr. Paul E. Artz and Miss Ida R. Krouse, also Mr. Carroll C. Tillotson and Mildred V. Frickes were united in marriage by the pastor of the church, Rev. F.S. Artz.

Mr. Paul E. Artz is a well know and energetic young business man of Orchard, where he is conducting a general store. His bride is from Rudd, Iowa, and has made many friends in Orchard during her short visits here in the recent past.

Mr. Tillotson is quite well known to the people of Orchard and vicinity having begun his business career as a partner in the firm of Artz & Tillotson, which firm opened a general dry goods and grocery store here in the fall of 1913. Mr. Tillotson left his partnership to enter the grocery business in his home town, Charles City, Iowa where he has built up a good trade in what is known as “North End Grocery”. Mr. Tillotson’s bride is a resident of Charles City. She is a young lady of sterling character, and having spent several years clerking, she is fitted to enter sympathetically into the interests of her husband’s business.

The four newlyweds left Thursday night for the Twin Cities where they will spend a few days. The many friends of these young people unite in wishing them a joyful journey as they embark in the new relation of husband and wife.

Orchard Correspondent-

A social event of last week of no little interest was the marriage on Thursday evening of Miss Margaret Agnes Rogers to Mr. Mont Lewis. The ceremony was performed at the Sacred Heart parsonage in the presence of only the immediate families of the contracting parties and a few very intimate friends. At quarter past seven Miss Mae Rogers began singing the beautiful song entitled “Oh Promise Me”, and the bridal party took their places in the parlor where Rev. Father Martin, using the beautiful ritualistic ring service performed the ceremony.

Congratulations over the wedding party went immediately to the home of the bride’s parents, on West Main Street where a reception has held, gathering to wish Mr. and Mrs. Lewis joy on the journey of life.

The home was very beautiful and tastefully decorated with a profusion of roses, carnations, smilax and white ribbon, every room bearing witness that the hand of the decorator had been there.

The bride was attired in an elaborate and elegant gown of cream lace over taffeta trimmed with cream breadcloth and white silk medallions and carried a shower bouquet of bride’s roses tied with white ribbon. The groom wore the conventional black. In one room were displayed the many beautiful gifts both useful and ornamental which were bestowed upon Mr. and Mrs. Lewis by their friends. Among these were cut glass, china, and silver, and one gift of fifty dollars in gold.

At ten o’clock a three course wedding supper was served by the Misses Maud Pelton, Mable Gray, Grace Lewis, Dorathe Berge, and Laura James. During the serving of the supper Miss Mae Rogers presided at the piano. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis will spend their honeymoon with Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Sherman of Sheldon, Ia., and will be at home after April 1st at Steele, N.D.

Both these young people will are well known in Osage having spent nearly their entire lives here. The bride is a graduate of our High School and for the past several years has been one of the most obliging of Osage’s clerks. She is recognized and admired for her many graces and estimable character. The groom is also an Osage High School graduate and is a young man of thrift who, by his worth, has won a large circle of friends. For the past five years has spent most of his time on his claim in North Dakota where he will soon take his bride.

Few indeed embark upon life’s sea with a more propitious outlook than Mr. and Mrs. Lewis and the “News” joins with a host of friends in extending best wishes for a joyous and prosperous life.

The out of town guests present at the wedding were Mr. and Mrs. Frank James, Laura and Harold of Albert Lea, Miss Tillie Urnes, of Blancherdville, Wis., and Mrs. Bert Clark of Minneapolis, Minn.

The wedding of Chris G. Goplerud and Miss Dora Torblaa took place Monday the 15th at the home of the groom’s grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. C.C. Goplerud in the city, Rev. Urnes officiating. The ceremony took place at high noon and the couple left on the northbound train for the Twin Cities. They will visit there and with the bride’s parents at Foston Minn., for a couple of weeks, then return to make their home on the Goplerud farm west of the city. Mr. Goplerud is the oldest son of Mr. Chris Goplerud, west of the city, and the bride is the daughter of M.E. Torblaa, who formerly resided southwest of St. Ansgar but lately removed to Foston Minnesota.

Thursday evening at 8 o’clock at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Coonradt, living north of the city, occurred the marriage of their only daughter, Mabel Mae, to Mr. Ralph Decker, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Decker of Union. The ring ceremony was performed by Rev. H. Dickmann of the Union Presbyterian Church. They were attended by the groom’s sister, Stella, and the bride’s brother, Herbert.

The bride wore a beautiful dress of shadow lace over cream colored messaline, while the groom was attired in the conventional black. The wedding march was played by the bride’s cousin, Miss Alice Rector of Denver Iowa. Only the immediate relatives of the couple were present. Mr. and Mrs. Decker will be at home near Stacyville on the farm of the groom’s father, after a short trip through Minnesota.

After the ceremony, an elaborate supper was served. The house was decorated with green and white, festooning, and carnations and roses. The bride carried a bouquet of roses.

On last Thursday evening at 7:30 occurred the marriage of Miss Pearl Gosselin to Mr. Glen Counsell. Rev. Frank W. Court performed the ceremony at the Methodist Episcopal parsonage. Both the bride and the groom are from the vicinity of Brownville and are much esteemed young people. On Friday they board the afternoon train on the brief honeymoon trip, visiting different points in the state. They returned Tuesday noon and will make their home on a farm near Brownville.

Miss Mary Popp was united in marriage to Mr. Reuben Pelleymounter of Manly, at the Sacred Heart Church on Tuesday morning of last week, the Rev. J.P. Martin officiating. After the ceremony a reception was held at the parental Henry Popp home west of the city. The young people will reside at Manly.

Miss Rose Weber, for a number of years an operator on the local telephone exchange, is today wedded to Mr. Jack Lorbeski. The wedding takes place at the bride’s home in Stacyville, but the couple will go to North Dakota to make their future home on the groom’s farm.

Miss Weber is known here as a very nice lady to meet and as one of the most efficient telephone operators ever on the exchange. For a long time she was chief operator. Mr. Lorbeski is not so well known here but is reputed to be a young man of excellent standing and good habits.

An event of a good deal of interest to Osage circles took place at Northwood last Friday evening. Miss Nel Spilde was married to Mr. Stanley Fonda. The couple spent a few days away, returning here Tuesday. They plan however, to leave very soon on a more extended honeymoon.

The event proved something of a surprise to the many friends of the couple, although it was not entirely unexpected.

Miss Spilde is a Northwood girl, having come to Osage a couple of years ago to accept a sales position in the Daylight store. She remained at the store until a few months ago when she resigned to return to Northwood to prepare for her wedding. She is an exceedingly likeable young woman and has acquired a multitude of friends during her comparatively short residence here.

Mr. Fonda occupies the position of bookkeeper and head clerk at Leuthold & Even’s clothing store. He started in with the institution several years ago, and by strict application to business and a personality marked by sincerity and good will, has attained his present excellent footing in the city’s business circles.

The young people have rented the small Gardner cottage on Chase Street near the fifth street corner, and will keep house at once. The cottage has been extensively repaired and remodeled and will convert into one of the pleasantest homes in the city.

Miss Barbara Schlaff and Mr. Ross Gilchrist were married yesterday forenoon at the Sacred Heart church in this city. They left on the noon train for Stacyville on a brief honeymoon visit with the bride’s relatives, and will return to take up residence at the William Gilchrist farm east of the city, which the groom will operate.

They are an estimable pair of young people. The bride is a Stacyville girl who has lived in Osage and vicinity for a number of years past. For a number of years she was an efficient employee of the Seminary management, assisting in the operation of the East Hall dormitory.

Mr. Gilchrist is the son of William Gilchrist and is favorably known in the locality where he has resided most of his life.

We are glad to extend heartfelt congratulations.

In the Berger-Pattengill wedding last Thursday evening, the large number of guests witnessed as pretty an enactment of the solemn vows of marriage as has been taken here for some time.

Nothing is prettier nor more impressive than a church wedding carried out with accuray and proper appointment. There is about it an impressiveness that makes doubly sacred the marriage contract.

The church was nearly filled with family, friends, and relatives of the contracting pair. Two selections of music were rendered previous to the great attraction. Bruce Lybarger gave one of his richly interpreted violin solos accompanied by his sister, Miss Alice, on the piano, and Mrs. Frank Gardner sang in her delightful refreshing manor.

Rev. Forman read the marriage ceremony and took the marital vows. Little Gordon Berger, brother of the bride, was ring bearer and Miss Joyce Lapham, a close friend, acted as maid of honor. Other attendants were Misses Alma Fussel, Faith Sweney, Messrs Earnest Pattengill, Dean Kingsbury, and Clinton Hill.

Following the ceremony relatives and immediate friends of the bride and groom were invited to the bride’s home where an informal reception was held. A large array of unusually handsome presets was displayed. Tasty refreshments were served and a happy hour enjoyed.

In this happy event there is but one regret, and that is that this estimable pair will not make the new home in Osage. They left that night on the southbound train for the west. The groom occupies a high position with the R.G. Dunn commercial rating agency, and his work is in Washington.

The bride, Miss Ruth Berger, is the second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N.J. Berger. She is an unusually accomplished young lady being a finished musician and well traits of character are best indicated by her great popularity among both old and young. The groom is a former Osage boy, a son of Mrs. Pattengill who now lives in the east. His worth is well proved by his attainment of the high position he now holds. During his short stay he made a great many warm friends.

The marriage of Miss June Bamford, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Bamford to the Rev. George Winfield McNary took place June 24th at 1 o’clock in the Congregational Church at Mitchell in the presence of a large number of their friends. Rev. O.M. van Swearingen under whose pastorate the bride was the officiating clergyman. The service was very beautiful and was, in its simplicity, in accord with the cozy little church and the dainty diminutive bride.

Previous to the reading of the service Miss Frances Cordes, who always gives pleasure with her voice sang, “O Promise Me”, after which Mrs. A.C. Prime played the wedding march from Lohengren.

The bride entered the church with her father, preceded by four little flower girls; Margaret Indra, niece of the bride, Lucile Becker of St. Ansgar, Joy Taber and Portia Prime.

The party was met at the alter by the pastor and the groom. The bride wore a gown of white crepe de chine and silk shadow lace. Her hat was of white silk net and the bridal bouquet, pink and white roses. The church was transformed into a bower of pink, white and green, vines draped the windows, roses were everywhere, and the aisle to the alter was carpeted in white, literally covered with rose petals. Mrs. McNary finished the Mitchell schools, afterward graduating from high school in Jamestown N.D. she has for three years been the primary teacher in the Mitchell school and has had charge of music. Everywhere she is helpful and always a leader, in her going from her home town and church, words can not express how much she will be missed.

Mr. McNary is an Ionia boy. He came to this county from Chicago where he studied for the ministry, and was for three years pastor of the Congregational Church at Mitchell, leaving the first of the month to accept the pastorate of the church at Tripoli.

The reception at the home of bride’s parents immediately following the service. About seventy-five guests were served and the afternoon spent informally on the beautiful lawn.

The bridal gifts were such as will make a real home of the parsonage at Tripoli, and for usefulness and beauty left nothing to be desired.

The out of town guests were Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Indra and daughters Margaret and Lucile of Lena, Illinois, Mrs. Francis McNary and daughter Lillian of Ionia, and Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Becker of St. Ansgar.

Mr. and Mrs. McNary left the following morning for their new home at Tripoli.

An account of the wedding of Miss Bertha Tibbetts of Mitchell, and George H. Hilliard, former principal of schools at Little Cedar, where Miss Tibbetts was his assistant, appears in a recent issue of the Long Beach Daily Telegram. The wedding occurred June 23. The Long Beach paper describes it as follows:

Simplicity marked the home wedding which joined the lives of Miss Bertha Tibbetts of this city and Mr. George H. Hilliard of Vinton, Iowa, Wednesday afternoon at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. O.D. Tibbetts of the Poinsettia Apartments.

The ceremony was preceded by a program of music given by Mrs. Myrtle Hill in the following numbers, “Nocturne” by Schutt, “To a Water Lily”, by McDowell, and “Beloved It Is Morn”, sweetly sung, the final notes drifting into the first sounds of Lohengrin’s bridal chorus.

The officiating clergyman, Rev. W.H. Stubbins of Sierra Madre, now retired from the ministry, was the former pastor of the bride when the families lived in Mitchell Iowa, from whence they came two years ago.

The groom entered the ceremony room with the minister and at the improvised alter was met by the bride on the arm of her father. Troth was plighted in the florally decked room with a ladder of pink and white carnations for a background, surmounted by a basket of the same choice bloom. From the electroliers on either side were hung baskets of spicy carnations from which radiated streamers of tulle, tied in lover’s knots over the heads of the contracting parties.

The bride, who is a college girl of charming personality, was gowned in white crepe georgette over white taffeta, with real lace garnitures, and in her brown hair a rope of pearls added to the chaste effect. The shower bouquet was formed of bridal roses and maiden hair ferns. The charming young couple stood on a rug of white, strewn with asparagus plumosis, and the windows were draped in white, studded with carnation bloom.

A three course collation, with the bride’s cake the central attraction was served at the conclusion of the ceremony by Misses Grace and Mabel Leonard.

The groom arrived in the city Sunday to claim his bride after four years wooing, and will return home in the fall to continue his duties as superintendent of schools in Sigourney, Iowa. Mr. Hilliard is a delegate from the State University chapter of the Phi Delta Kappa fraternity, which convenes in national session in Oakland next August and with his bride, will attend the federation. The newlyweds are enjoying a honeymoon in some secluded resort, unannounced to their friends.

The group witnessing the marriage vows spoken at four o’clock yesterday afternoon included Mr. and Mrs. O.D. Tibbetts, Mr. and Mrs. A. Hilliard, Mr. and Mrs. S. Hilliard, Rev. W.H. Stubbins, Mr. Carter, Mr. Cordes, Mrs. Myrtle Hill, Mr. Grout, Miss Gladys Grout, Miss Mabel Leonard, and Miss Laura Cordes.

A very pretty wedding was solemnized at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Ashmore in Rock on Wednesday October 25, 1905, when their eldest daughter, Cassie, was given in marriage to Mr. Clarence Boeck of Cedar. Shortly before 12 o'clock, the soft sweet notes of Lohengrin’s Bridal March, played by

Miss Laura Cordes of Mitchell, announced the entrance of the happy couple from the hall into the parlor, where they were preceded by the minister to a dainty bower of ferns, autumn leaves, potted plants and cut flowers. In a few well chosen words Rev. A.K. Williams of Nora Springs, pronounced them man and wife, making use of the solemn and impressive ring service. If there were tears there was also laughter, and after hearty congratulations the guests entered the dining room and were served to a three course dinner. The color scheme of pink and white was nicely carried out in the dining room and south parlor while autumn leaves were in profusion throughout the rooms. The bride was charmingly gowned in white silk and carried pink roses, while the groom wore the conventional black. The gifts were many and useful, among them being a deed to forty acres of land from the groom's parents.

Mr. Boeck is the only son of Mr. and Mrs. William Boeck of Cedar, and a young man of sterling worth and keen business ability; while Miss Ashmore is a young lady of many accomplishments well versed in all the lines of housekeeping--woman's noblest art. After November 10th they will be at home to their many friends on their farm in Cedar. We wish for them long years of happiness and prosperity.

Osage News (Nov. 2, 1905)

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