Hall-Somers
South Main Street was alive
with autos and gaily gowned young people on Wednesday morning last,
and the Methodist Church the scene of a very pretty wedding, when
Miss Laura Somers, only daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Somers, became the bride of Mr. William Hall of
Villa Nova.
The church was handsomely
decorated, a bank of fern replacing the pulpit, with baskets of
white syringe, Iris roses and yellow lilies.
Pillars of Cedar along the aisles were capped with bouquets of the
same sweet flowers.
Promptly at high noon the
youthful bride entered with her father, who gave her away. She wore
an elegant robe of ivory charmouse satin with silver lace overdress
and the usual bridal veil, and carried a shower bouquet of
roses. The ceremony was performed by Rev. H. Wilkins during which
Miss Marion Somers at the organ and Miss Cora Anderson, violinist,
played very softly and sweetly 'Because.' They also rendered the
Lohengrin Bridal Song and the Mendelssohn Wedding March. During the
signing of the register Miss Anderson sang 'For You Alone.'
Following the ceremony a
reception was held at the home of the bride's parents. The guests
were received by Miss Lelah Somers and Miss Leta Smith. Over 50
relatives and friends of the young couple sat down to a
recherche wedding breakfast. The groom's gift to the bride was a
silver tea service, to the Misses Somers and Anderson, gold bar pins
set with pearls and to the ushers, Messrs. Clarence and Willis
Swanton, pearl tie pins. The wedding gifts of silver, cut glass and
hand-painted china, also a generous cheque from the bride's parents,
were numerous and very beautiful, showing the high esteem in which
the young people are held.
Mr. and Mrs. Hall motored to
Brantford, where they took the train for Peterborough and up the
Kawartha Lakes, the bride travelling in a suit of navy blue
Tricotine with black mohair hat and Hudson seal scarf.
Among those attending from a
distance were Mr. & Mrs. John Somers, Mrs. Vance, and Mr. &
Mrs. Milton Somers, of Tillsonburg; Mr. & Mrs. McCarton and
children of Peterborough; Mr. & Mrs. Lemon of Aylmer; Miss Hall
of Brantford; Mrs. Smith, grandmother of the bride, of Glandford;
and friends from Hamilton, Ingersoll, Glandford and Caledonia.
