Wedded At Baptist Church

WEDDED AT BAPTIST CHURCH

Miss Wilber Was United to J. A. Bird IS A MICHIGAN GIRL Bride Graduated from the University in 1898 - Won Fame as An Orator

A very lovely wedding was that of Nina Allene Wilber and James Pyfier Bird, which took place at the First Baptist church Wednesday evening. The wedding blossoms were marguerites, and the church was a bower of green relieved with clusters of those dainty flowers.

Promptly at 8 the organ pealed forth the triumphal wedding march from Lohengrin, and the wedding party entered in conventional order.

The beautiful bride looked her fairest in a gown of mousseline de soie over slik, en traine, and heavily trimmed with Mechlinberg lace. A veil of filmy tulle swept to the bottom of the skirt and a magnificent cluster of brides' roses completed the lovely picture.

The bridesmaids, Mary Hudson Church, of Nelson, B. C., Mary O'Connor, of Chicago, Myra Louise Bird, of Ypsilanti, and Marilee Blossom, of Howell, and the maid of honor, Miss Gertrude Palmer, of Ann Arbor, were visions of summer lovliness in organdie gowns, with shower bouquets of Marguerites and maidenhair ferns.

Dr. Charles Wilson Southworth, of Buffalo, N. Y., acted as best man. The ushers were Albert L. Smith, of Detroit, William Baur, of Cincinnati, David B. Bird, of Ann Arbor, and Frederick D. Fairchilds, of Pomona, California. Rev. Dr. T. W. Young officiated. The wedding music was exquisitely executed by Miss Minnie Davis.

After the church services a reception was given at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry D. Wilber, 725 South Twelfth street, to intimate friends and relatives. Here again the green and white color scheme was repeated. The double parlors were a bower of ferns and marguerites, the massing of green in the great bay window producing a particularly charming effect.

In the library, which was decorated entirely with American beauties, the gifts were displayed, their number and richness attesting the great social popularity of the young couple.

Mrs. Ralph Callamore, of Detroit, presided over the supper, assisted by Helen Grahame, of Detroit, Mabel Hazard, of Detroit, Genevieve Mills, of Ann Arbor, and Miss Susan Dorrance, of Ann Arbor.

Mr. and Mrs. Bird will remain in Ann Arbor for the summer. In September they sail for Europe, where Mr. Bird will pursue his studies in Romance languages for a year or more. Mr. Bird is a graduate of the class of '93 and has for the past five years held the chair of ancient languages at the Southwestern University of Jackson, Tennessee, which has granted him a two years' leave of absence for study. His bride is a Michigan girl of the class of 1898. After graduating she spent two years at the Emerson College of Oratory, Boston. Her fame as a platform reader and elocutionist won her the professorship of oratory in the University of Idaho, which she held for the past year.

Mr. and Mrs. Bird have hosts of friends all over the country, both possessing unusual personal charms and magnetism, and if a deluge of  messages and telegrams of good wishes can insure happiness they start on their journey with every good augury.