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8 THE INDEX. Saturday, June 30, 1928
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Mrs. Frederick W. Winter's daughter, Miss
Eleanor Lovelace Winter, and Mr. John
Birge, son of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Root
Birge, of Schenectady, New York, were married
the afternoon of Saturday, June twentythird,
the wedding taking place in Calvary
Protestant Episcopal Church. The Rev. Dr.
Lewis G. Morris read the service. Ferns and
bamboo banked the chancel and filling the
altar vases were roses and blue delphinium.
On the altar tall cathedral candles burned
during the service. The bride, who was
given away by her mother, wore a gown of
ivory satin, built with a long, tight, bodice of
rose point lace that joined the circular skirt
of satin. Her tulle veil, arranged in cap
effect, was held in place with orange blossoms
and her flowers were lilies of the valley and
sweetheart roses, in a shower bouquet. Mrs.
James Irvine, of Philadelphia, as her sister's
matron of honor, wore a gown of corn-flower
blue lace over pink, with hat of pink horsehair
braid, trimmed with long blue ribbon
streamers. The bridesmaids' Mrs. William
North Sturtevant, of Washington; Mrs. John
Carrere, of Rochester, New York; Mr. Birge's
sister, Miss Barbara Birge, of Schenectady,
and Miss Barbara Ewing, wore frocks of
hydrangea-blue lace over blue, with pink picture
hats. All the bride's attendants carried
garden flowers. Mr. Paul Bonynge, of New
York, served as best man and the ushers
were Mr. Storrs M. Bishop, of Schenectady;
Mr. Charles Roberts, of Buffalo; Mr. John
Buckley, of Cleveland; Mr. James Irvine, of
Philadelphia; Mr. Arthur Leonard, Mr. Perry
Turner, of New York; Mr. Willis Stephens,
of Detroit, and Mr. John Harper.
A reception in the Winter home in Beechwood
Boulevard followed the ceremony, after
which Mr. and Mrs. Birge left for a Canadian
trip. After July fifteenth they will be at
home in Cleveland.
The wedding of Miss Margaret Malone
Meals, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel W.
Meals, of North Negley Avenue, and Mr.
William Frederick Ewart, son of Mr. and
Mrs. William McKibben Ewart, of Forbes
Street, took place Saturday evening, June
twenty-third. The Rev. Dr. A. R. Robinson,
pastor of the Sixth United Presbyterian
Church, performed the ceremony in the
Meals' home. The bride, who was given away
by her father, wore a gown of white taffeta,
with bouffant skirt that touched the floor at
the back. Her tulle veil fell from a cap of
rose point lace and orange blossoms and she
carried a Colonial bouquet of sweetheart
roses and lilies of the valley. Miss Mary
Bell Meals as her sister's maid of honor, wore
a bouffant frock of orchid taffeta and carried
a shower bouquet of yellow roses and orchids.
A frock of pale pink taffeta was worn by the
flower girl, Shirley Jean Krick, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Krick. She carried a
Colonial nosegay. Mr. Samuel Dicken Ewart
served as his brother's best man. Following
the buffet supper Mr. and Mrs. Ewart left for
the East. They will be at home after July
tenth in Pennfield Place.
Upon returning from a Western motor
trip, Mr. and Mrs. John Armstrong Robinson
will make their home in Chicago. The bride,
before her marriage in her home Saturday
evening, June twenty-third, was Miss Margaret
Constans, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Leslie H. Constans, of South St. Clair Street.
Mr. Robinson is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John
Alexander Robinson, of Chicago. The ceremony
was performed by the Rev. Dr. Albert
Day, pastor of Christ Methodist Episcopal
Church, assisted by a cousin of the bridegroom,
the Rev. Dr. A. R. Robinson, pastor
of the Sixth United Presbyterian Church.
The bride wore a white satin period gown,
with a tulle veil falling from a cap of rose
point lace. Her flowers were roses and lilies
of the valley, surrounded with lace. Period
frocks of taffeta were worn by the bride's
attendants and they carried garden flowers.
Mrs. Merrill Sondles, of Cambridge, Ohio, the
matron of honor, wore blue; Miss Mary
Louise Succop was in yellow; Miss Mary De-
Motte, rose and Miss Elinor Horr, of Newark,
New Jersey, green. Completing the bridal
party were Mr. Charles E. Dinkey, as best
man, and the ushers, Mr. W. H. Locke Anderson,
of Canonsburg; Mr. Henry Cooper
and Mr. Merrill Sondles, of Cambridge. Mrs.
Constans wore amethyst lace and Mrs. Robinson
was in gray chiffon. A dinner and reception
followed the ceremony.
On account of the illness of the bride's
mother, only the immediate families and a
few friends were present at the wedding of
Miss Elisabeth Wightman Mellon, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Alexandei Mellon,
and Mr. John B. Sellers, son of Mrs. Harry
D. Sellers, of Westminster Place, which took
place Monday afternoon in the Mellon home
in North Negley Avenue. The Rev. Dr. Hugh
Thomson Kerr, pastor of the Shadyside Presbyterian
Church, performed the ceremony.
The bride wore a gown of white satin,
trimmed with old family lace. A veil of tulle
fell from a cap of the same lace, held in place
with orange blossoms, over the lace train and
orange blossoms and orchids, showered with
lilies of the valley, formed the bouquet. Miss
Helen Sedgley Mellon, as her sister's maid of
honor, wore a frock of French blue crepe and
carried a Colonial bouquet of yellow roses and
blue delphinium.
Among those who came on for the weddingwere
Mrs. Samuel Alfred McCIung, an aunt
of the bride, who is now at her Summer home
in Cherry Valley, New York; Miss Amy B.
Wightman and Miss Elisabeth L. Wightman,
of Washington, also aunts of the bride; her
cousin, Mrs. George S. Hasbrouck, of Berwyn;
Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher Collins and Miss
Martha Collins, of Greenwich, Connecticut.
Mr. and Mrs. John S. Willard, of Sheridan
Avenue, have announced the engagement of
their daughter, Miss Elizabeth Jane Willard,
to Mr. James Gordon Stephenson, of Wilkinsburg,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Stephenson,
of Moulton, Alabama. No date has been
set for the wedding.
Miss Willard was graduated this month
from Pennsylvania College for Women, receiving
her A.B. degree, also a certificate
from the Department of Music. Mr. Stephenson
is a graduate of Alabama Polytechnic
Institute and is a member of Tau Beta Pi
and Eta Kappa Nu, honorary engineering
fraternities.
Miss Jane Roberta Smith, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Wayne Smith, Jr., of
Elwood Street, left Tuesday evening for
Woods Hole, Massachusetts, where she will
spend the Summer studying at the Botanical
Laboratory there, a branch of the University
of Pennsylvania. Miss Smith will enter the
Cambridge School of Landscape Architecture
in the Fall for her degree.
Miss Catherine L. Cook, daughter of Mrs.
Charles Stetson Cook, of Maryland Avenue,
has returned from the East where she went
to attend the graduation of her brother, Mr.
Frederick R. Cook, from Worcester Polytechnic
Institute.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Thompson have just
returned from their wedding trip to Bermuda
and are now at home to their friends at
No. 4735 Wallingford Street. Mrs. Thompson,
before her marriage June sixth, was
Mrs. Maude Munroe Boggs, of Elgin Avenue.
Saturday, July seventh, is the date that
Miss Mildred Morrison Anderson, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Anderson, of Latrobe
and Pittsburgh, has chosen for her married
to Lieutenant Harry Draper Hoffman, son of
Mrs. Harry Draper Hoffman, of Washington.
It will be a military wedding, taking place at
eight o'clock in the Presbyterian Church of
Latrobe, with the Rev. Dr. William R. Craig
officiating.
Monday Mrs. Herbert Briggs, Jr., gave a
luncheon in Bellevue for Miss Anderson and
recently she was honor guest at a bridge
given by Miss Laura Bissell.
Mrs. Frederick Crabtree, of Dunmoyle