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Simple Home Wedding a La Circus Publicity

Last night, at the glittering and gorgeous home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Henry Hicks, 999 Ninth Place, Miss Mary Gladys Hicks and Mr. Adelbert Smithers, were united in the sensational, awe-inspiring bonds of matrimony. The wedding service was pronounced in a peerless and peppy manner by the Spiritually Rich and Right Reverend Doctor Morton S. Duds, rector of the exceptionally expensive and exceedingly exclusive Saint Croesus-in-the-Fields.

The bride entered upon the massive, muscular and marvelously moulded arm of her father, passing through an avenue of the largest, longest and latitudinest tropic palms in captivity, while the air about was heavy with shimmering, seething scent of precious and overpowering petals of spring, ranged in racy and rollicking array about the handsome and harmonious Hicks home. An orchestra of four—count them!—clever, comic and delightfully daring musicians supplied the mushy and melodious music to which the bridal party modestly and morally marched. The grand, gigantic and brobdignagian groom, accompanied by his bald, brave and best man, Mr. W. Percy Smithers, awaited them at the improvised, but otherwise faultless, altar.

See the solemnly spectacular meeting of the Bride and Groom! See the merry and meritorious Maid of Honor! See the four—count them!—beauteous, beaming and brilliant Bridesmaid? See the innocent,infantile, infinitesimal Flower Girl, Miss Teenie Hicks, in her fearless, fascinating but foolish act of scattering fair, freakish and fragrant flowers in the path of her sister, the Bride! See them A L L ! They are ALL INCLUDED, all under one roof! One invitation, remember, admits to them all, including the correct after the wedding.

The Bride was attired in a silvery and silken something of extreme simplicity, surmounted by a vaporous veil, fastened to her polished and perfumed hair with the bursting, emblazoning blossoms of the orange. Elsewhere upon her proud but in no sense ponderous person was a slick, showy and scintillating diamond and bedazzling sunburst, the graceful gift of the generous and godlike groom. And remember—EVERYTHING AB-SO-LUTE-LY NEW!

After the affecting and effective ceremony, a real, roaring reception was held, fun furic sly fast taking the place of rigid and rigorous restraint in the precious and palatial Hicks parlors. See the sinuous smiles tripping through the torrents of tears! Witness the cute, cunning and comedy kisses! Hear the conglomerate and contradictory congratulations! Hear the silly and simian simpers! See the flippant and frumpish friends of the family! Listen to the glorious gurgle of the able and absolutely alcoholic punch! And REMEMBER—ONE INVITATION ADMITS TO ALL!

The bride was the radiant, enraptured recipient of a superbly great and indescribably glorious, glittering and gorgeous galaxy of gifts, the presents being under the shrewd, sharp and singularly all-seeing eye of a pompous and private detective. A supper, the most stupendous, sensational and superlatively complete ever served in any land, was spread in the draped and dainty dining room by a cool, keen and calculating caterer.

THE GRAND EXIT! At eleven o'clock, amid scenes of astounding and unparalleled impertinence, and a hellish, inhuman hail of ancient and antiquated shoes, mixed and mingled with ribald rice, the young couple left on a desperately dangerous and delightfully demonstrative bridal tour. They will be gone three—count them!—weeks.—Cartoons Magazine.
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Co A came home May 9m I stayed all nite with Wilma & we cut in the P.M. No school in morning. Ruth & W had a rowing & then Mon A.M. Bob & Wilma tangled me taking up for Bob.

I just had to put this in
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STARTS THREE HOUSES
J. L. McCoy Begins Erection of Modern Homes on Fourth Street—W. L. Orric Completing One.

Foundations are laid for three new houses, to be erected on the south side of Fourth street, between Walnut and Maple, by James L. McCoy. S. P. Abston has the contracts for building the new structures.

The houses will each have five rooms, and will be made modern in every respect. The floors of the front rooms and the dining rooms will be oak. The houses will be completed about July 1. One of the new homes will be occupied by F. M. Gray, as soon as it is completed. J. W. Cash will occupy one of the others.

Mr. McCoy states that he contemplates tearing down his lumber shed on Fifth street, between Walnut and Maple streets, and erecting three more houses on the location. He does not expect to commence this work, however, for several weeks.

W. L. Orrick is just completing the erection of a modern cottage across the street north from the new McCoy properties and just east of the home of Mrs. N. I. Douglas. The Orrick property is being built for rental purposes, also. [[/newspaper clipping]]