MARRIED IN EARLY SPRINGTIME

Miss Belle Snyder and Walter C. Drury Are Happily Wedded

"He hath indeed better bettered expectation."

A very quiet home wedding occurred at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Snyder on Monday evening, the 29th, when their daughter Miss Belle and Walter C. Drury were married, the Rev A. H. Ziemer of the Presbyterian church officiating with the ring service to the music of the wedding march,--Miss Ruby Summers pianist,--in the presence of the family, relatives and a few immediate friends.

The wedding, a surprise but to the few in the secret, though expected in the near future from the shadows cast before, was anticipated by its being the twenty-fourth anniversary of the bride's parents' marriage, was a simple matter of fact occurrence, without interruption of business routine, none the less perfect in its arrangement and success--Just an evening off for the game of matrimony. After the ceremony and congratulations, dainty three-course refreshments were served. The decorations of the home were brides roses and narcissus.

The bride was becomingly gowned in white crepe meteor with tasteful simplicity and unattended, the groom in the conventional attire.

The bride is one of the attractive daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Snyder, a product of the city, reared and to the manor born, an accomplished musician and a teacher in our public schools and prominent in social circles; the groom a young man of excellent habits and business qualities, now occupying the position as sales manager in the Patent Novelty Works in this city.

"Where none are beaux, 'tis vain to be a belle."

Notwithstanding the surprise of the event, the bride was the recipient of many useful presents.

The combining of the anniversary and the wedding furnished a very pleasant entertainment with conversation's genial flow and social enjoyment. To few is permitted so many years of wedded life without a broken thread in the chords of love or a severance of the home ties.

After a pleasant evening's enjoyment the guests departed, with the best wishes and kindliest benison upon host and hostess and the newly wed that they may be spared to enjoy in the future their near silver and golden anniversary.

The guests from out of town were Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Fassett, Burton Drury and Miss Bessie Drury of Albany, George Boynton, S. M. Bradley and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Noble of Morrison and Miss Lena V. Snyder of Macomb.

Contributed by Corkey Waite from the Fulton Journal