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CARLIE HARLAN AND ARTHUR LEE CONNOR WEDDING INVITATION

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1905

FIFTH YEAR MARLIN, TEXAS NUMBER 79

A PRETTY HOME WEDDING

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This, Thursday morning, June 15, Rev. W. W. Watts performed the ceremony that linked the lives and destinies of Mr. A. L. Connor and Miss Carlie Harlan, a number of relatives and friends being present on the happy occasion.

Miss Bessie Harlan, youngest sister of the bride, and Miss Clio Rice, eldest daughter of Judge and Mrs. B. H. Rice, acted as ushers and with charming grace received the guests. Miss Burkhead sang "Because of You."

The groom entered the parlor accompanied by his brother, Mr. E. F. Connor, as best man. The bride in symbolic white, "A tall, fair maiden full of grace," was lovely indeed, in a gown of crepe de chene, adorned with a single jewel, a beautiful broach of pearls and diamonds, a gift of the groom; she held a bouquet of daisies and ferns, her birthday flower, entered, attended by her father Hon. Z. I. Harlan, with Miss Constance Harlan as maid of honor, while Miss Branson played the wedding march.

The newday was not more fair and beautiful than the youthful pair, whose marriage was thus consummated at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Z. I. Harlan, the home of the bride, where, as the eldest daughter, she has both received and given many blessings and grown pure, Christian womanhood. Cultivated in mind and heart, and with a hand trained to many accomplishments, she is most surely fitted to beautify and brighten the new home to which she goes. Nothing was omitted, in the furnishing in every detail of that home, from the tasteful cook apron for the housewife to the finest of table linens and accessories, silver and hand-painted china for the dining room and the most exquisite appointments for each apartment. Added to these were a number of handsome presents from friends at a distance and many useful and valuable gifts from the loved ones in her native city.

Mr. Connor, the happy benedict, seemed justly proud of his new relation, and with becoming dignity assumed the vows that divinely given, can only be severed when "the silver cord be loosed and the golden bowl be broken." Thus passes into his keeping a growing life full of fairest hopes for the future, and sweet, sacred memories of her past association in a charmed home-circle, where she has gathered about her many friends that join in a happy life. "Rule kindly, tenderly, over thy kingdom fair," and hold "her uncrowned womanhood to be a royal thing."

After a two-course wedding breakfast Mr. and Mrs. Connor left on the south bound Central for Blue Ridge, in Collin County, where they will reside.

A Friend

This article was on page 2 of the same paper as the wedding write up that was on the front page.

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1905

FIFTH YEAR MARLIN, TEXAS NUMBER 79

Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Connor, a report of whose wedding appears in this issue, departed at 12:50 today for their home in Collin county. They were showered with copious quantities of rice as they boarded the car and a evidence of old shoes were in evidence about the baggage of the happy couple.

NOTE: From their home in Collin County, Texas Arthur Lee and Carlie (Harlan) Connor moved to Venus, Johnson County, Texas and from there they moved to Longview, Gregg County, Texas where they remained the rest of their lives. They both are buried in Memory Park Cemetery, Longview, Gregg County, Texas.