The Wedding. --
A very select audience of invited guests, numbering about one hundred and fifty, assembled in the Moravian Church, Tuesday evening last, to witness the wedding festivities of Mr. S. F. Van Vleck and Miss E. T. Miller – Wm. Milchsack and C. W. Grosh acting as ushers.
At precisely 6:30 o’clock Mr. J. Fred. Wolle, of Bethlehem, presiding at the organ, began playing a beautiful prelude step, when the Rev. Bishop H. J. Van Vleck, father of the groom, accompanied by Rev. Chas. Nagle, pastor of the church, made their appearance from the chapel. Presently the two-to-be-made happy persons walked up the aisle of the church, in a dignified and graceful manner, preceded by the ushers, and taking their places in front of the Reverend gentlemen, Rev. Nagle read the service, whereupon Bishop Van Vleck propounded the usual questions, and in a very impressive manner closed the ceremony, after which the Mendelsson “Wedding March” was played.
No reception was held. The happy pair, accompanied by the Bishop, took the 7:25 train for Lancaster; from that point they started for Mr. Van Vleck’s former home, in Ohio.
~ The Lititz Record, 23-Sept-1881, Page 3, Column 3
Music Hath Charms.--
The return of Prof. S. F. Van Vleck and bride from their wedding tour was an event too important to be overlooked by their music friends. When we state that the Maennerchor undertook the necessary details of an appropriate welcome, we have said sufficient to assure everybody a “feast of reason, a flow of soul”, and a musical treat must be the result. It was at any rate.
Wednesday evening was the appointed time. Such a gathering of the clans! The Maennerchor, the church choir, and others whose voices are attuned to souls of melody. Vocal and instrumental music alternated. Ladies and gentlemen concerted a splendid programme. Formality was cast to the winds. Dullness and insipidity were not down on the bills. Every one present entered into the spirit of the occasion with a zest that presaged a gay time.
“Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast”, but an empty stomach hath yearnings that sound, however harmonious, cannot satisfy. Anticipating this state af [sic] affairs, William Bollinger, assisted by Elmer Riche, spread the board with a supply of dainty edibles that would have made an epicure weep for joy.
“Taking it by the large”, the evening could not well have been improved upon.
~ The Lititz Record, 07-Oct-1881, Page 3, Column 1
You can visit the memorial page for Samuel Fred Van Vleck.
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