LeMars Sentinel newspaper
Dated Nov. 28, 1922
POPULAR YOUNG COUPLE WED
WELL KNOWN RESIDENTS OF STRUBLE VICINITY
Miss Edith Nicholson and Chester McDougall, well known young people
living in the neighborhood of Struble, surprised their friends last
Wednesday when they went quietly to Sioux City and were married at the
First Presbyterian church in that city, Rev. Wallace Hamilton
officiating. Mrs. Barkel, a sister of the bridegroom, was one of the
witnesses to the ceremony.
The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Nicholson, of Struble.
She is a very popular young woman in that community. The groom is a son
of Mrs. J.N. McDougall of this city and was engaged in the automobile
business here for a time. Of late he has been engaged in farming on the
McDougall place in Grant township. They will make their home in LeMars
for the present.
ARE ON A WEDDING TRIP
Mr and Mrs. Merle Martin arrived in LeMars on Saturday and visited ___
Moore, an uncle of Mrs. Martin. Merle Martin and Miss Annie Dempster
were united in marriage on Saturday in the Congregational church in
Springfield, S.D., and are making a wedding trip in their automobile.
Sunday the newly weds were entertained at the home of John R. Hinde,
also an uncle of the bride, of Seney. A reception and dinner was given
in their honor and their cousins and friends gave them a chivalry. From
here they left to visit relatives at Dickens and Waterloo, Iowa, and in
Chicago, and from their will got to Chalmers, Indiana, where they will
make their home.
Mr. and Mrs. G.W. Dunn and Mr. and Mrs. Will Dwyer were visitors in
Sioux City on Sunday.
Mrs. George W. Burleigh and son, William, Mrs. Willard Hess and son,
Willard, of Gordon, Neb., are visitors at the Danne home in Stanton
township.
Mrs. and Mrs. George Farrell have returned form Vinton, where they were
called by the illness and death of Mrs. Farrell's mother.
Emil Schweppe, of Miller, S.D., a former LeMars resident, is visiting
relatives here. He came down from Dakota with a carload of cattle to
sell on the Sioux City market. Mr. Schweppe is making a success of
farming in South Dakota and says crops were good in his vicinity. His
oats went sixty bushels to the acre and corn thirty bushels to the acre.
Since summer he says there has been very little rain in that vicinity
and a rain would be beneficial.