Individual Details

Marriage

CAUGHT BY CUPID.

JAMES R. THOMAS AND MISS PHRONIA ENGLISH UNITED. ( The Press)

J. R. Thomas is married. The popular cupid of the clerk's office, who has sent so many couples to infinite beatitude, had at last succumbed to the wiles of Hymen and is now a Benedick. Miss Phronia English won him from single blessedness, and he assumed the nuptial yoke with the most becoming fortitude. Mr. Thomas has been for years an employee of the county clerk's office, and has won the esteem and respect of everyone for whom he has transacted business. He is able, genial and obliging, and The Press congratulates the bride on the prize she has won in the matrimonial market. But Mrs. J. R. Thomas is not the only one who should receive the best wishes of her friends. Mr. Thomas has won a rare prize. His wife is, and long has been, one of the most popular of local belles. She has won a high standing in educational circles, and has for years been regarded as one of the brightest and most intellectual of Mendocino's younger generation. The ceremony was performed by Rev. H. C. Meredith at the residence of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wiley English, Sunday, February 3d, at 12:30 o'clock. The bridal pair were attended by Miss Frankie English, sister of the bride, as bridesmaid, and H. P. Thomas, as best man. The bride looked charming in an elegant costume of crystallized bengaline in a shade of bluet, with trimmings of Irish point lace, ribbon and rich passementerie. She wore her hair high with orange blossoms, and carried a bouquet of white violets. After congratulations, delicious refreshments were served, at the conclusion of which the bride hastily doffed her wedding attire for a becoming traveling suit and the happy couple left, amid showers of rice and good wishes, to spend a few day of their honeymoon in visiting friends and relatives in San Francisco and San Jose. Immediately upon their return to this city they will commence housekeeping in a cozy little cottage in the northern part of town. There were many beautiful and useful presents, among them a gift of $500 from the father and mother of the bride.



TWO HEARTS THAT BEAT AS ONE ----- (Dispatch)

At the residence of the bride's parents, Wiley English and wife, in Ukiah, Sunday at noon, Rev. H. C. Meredith pronounced the words that joined in the sacred ties of wedlock James R. Thomas and Miss Sophronia English. Only the near relatives of the contracting parties were in attendance, Hudson P. Thomas, brother of the groom, acting as groomsman, and Miss Frankie English, sister of the bride, as bridesmaid. The bride was handsomely attired in crystallized bengaline of blue shade with trimmings of Irish point lace and rich passementerie. Upon her head rested a wreath of orange blossoms and in her had a bouquet of white violets. Upon the conclusion of the ceremony the usual congratulations were offered, after which all sat down to a most elegant repast. At two o'clock the happy couple were driven to the depot, and amid successive showers of rice from the many friends who had there assembled departed on their wedding tour to San Francisco. Upon their return in a day or two they will take up their future residence in one of Mrs. Milne's dwellings in northern Ukiah. many handsome and useful wedding gifts were bestowed upon the pair by relatives and friends, one of which to the bride was a purse of $500 from her parents. Mr. Thomas, the groom, is the present deputy clerk of Mendocino county. He is a young man of exceptionally fine habits and greatly esteemed by all his many acquaintances. The fair one he has chosen--a most estimable and accomplished young lady--is alike esteemed and respected, and is one of Mendocino's most successful teachers. To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas the Dispatch extends the best wishes of both itself and the community. may their pathway through life be strewn with the choicest flowers, happiness and plenty.