Harris--Collinsworth Wedding (1916)

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Howard Courant
July 6, 1916


Married, at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Harris, three miles west of Howard, on Wednesday, June 28th, 1916, at eight o'clock p.m., Miss Lily Elzada Harris and Grover C. Collinsworth, of Potwin, Kansas.

Immediately preceeding the ceremony, Miss Vera Smith sang.  The wedding march was played by Mrs. W. F. Elliott, sister of the bride, after which Rev. Harry E. Crane, pastor of the M. E. church of Howard pronounced the sacred words which made them man and wife.

The bride if the second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Harris, is a graduate of the Howard High School and of Baker University.  She has taught several terms of school successfully and is a young lady of the highest attainments and a great favorite with all.

The grooom is a teacher by profession and a young man of fine ability and good character and is making a success of his profession.   He was born and reared near Potwin, attended the El Dorado High school and Brumback Academy.  He graduated from the Kansas State Normal in 1912.  After this he served as principal of the Rose Hill High school for two years, leaving it to assume the superintendency of the schools at Minneola, where he has organized a Barnes High School.

Besides the Harris family there were present as guests, Miss Grace Collinsworth, sister of the groom, of Potwin, Kansas; Prof. F. C. Gardner, Miss Nettie Dolen, Misses Vera and Cecil Smith, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Topliff, Mrs. Crane, and Mr. Brown, student at Baker University.

They will be at home after August 15th at Minneola, Kansas, where Mr. Collinsworth is superintendent of the schools of that city.

All their friends wish them great happiness.