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ealTHE R0BINS0N-W1LKINS WEDDING WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST WEDDINGS EVER HELD IN THIS CITY(Concluded from page I) party advanced to the altar with the ushers in full dress.The ushers were Mr. C Udell Turpin. Mr. C. Elroy Wesley. Mr. Chas.W. Rond and Dr. C. Leon Wilson, all Kappa Alpha Psi men. The bridesmaids were beautifully gowned in blue taffeta, wearing silver head ornaments and silver slippers. They were Misses Deborah L. Henderson. Helen l-oche Leftlctte, l.enora Estelle Webster and Elizabeth P. Neely. Alpha Kappa Alpha girls The groom's brother. Mr. Byrd J. Wilkins. St.Louis. Mo., was the best man. ‘while the charming younger sister of the bride. Xliss J. Marjory Robinson, an Alpha Kappa Alpha, was the maid of honor, begowncd in peach taffeta. The bride wore a marvelous creation of white Spanish lace over Canton crepe, with an elaborate train of Spanish lace imbedded with roses. Her bridal veil was of exquisite tulle and orange blossoms. The ceremony was performed by Rev. D. E. Skelton, superintendent of the Chicago district of the Lexington conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The solemnity was never more sublime.The certification of loving hearts were each plighted at the altar his or her solemn vow before God and more than a thousand friends were never more earnestly and faithfully given.The lovely bride was given away in marriage by her father. Rev. Robinson, the honest and eloquent pastor of St. Mark Church.Little Miss Marion Smith and Miss Bcttie Dougan served as flower girls and they looked very- sweet costumed in blue taffeta. Masters Byron Jones,Jr., and Gaylord Thomas acted as little pages.The bride was born in the parsonage of St Mark when that congregation worshipped in a store; indeed, was baptized as an infant in that store.She was educated in the Chicago schools, having graduated at Wendell Phillips High School and University of Chicago. She had been reared in St. Mark Church and represented it in the essay contest, some years ago. when the popular verdict awarded her the prixr. She is at present the president of St Mark Lyceum, which is one of the best in the city. She is a member of the Beta Chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority and has the honor of being its president In fact the bride is a young woman loved by all and appreciated for her womanly virtues and purity of character. The groom, Mr. Wilkins, is a brilliant young lawyer whose success at the bar in the brief year of histhe in • trjiavncnt career. He is an A.B. from Illinois, which institution conferred upon him the Phi Bela key. In this he ts one of the very few of the race who has won this recognition from a northern college. Mr. Wilkins received the degree of J. D., or doctor of law, from the University of Chicago and served the institution as at si'tant librarian during his residence. He represents that cult-— ---* —c-mcnt which mark men acter and indicate that among the younger coll race.The reception was b-celsior room of the cl h . lowed immediately aftlt; party marched out to l. Mendelssohn. In the line were the high contracting parties and other members of the bridal party, together with the Rev. and Mrs. D. E. Skelton and the groom’s mother. Mrs. Susie O. Wilkins, as well as the Rev. and Mrs. John W. Robinson. They were assisted in receiving by a committee of hostesses: Mrs. Hattie Bowles.Mrs. E. W. Jackson, Mrs. Mayme Benson, Mrs. Hattie Crane. Mrs. T. A. Horton. Mrs. Melissa Lambert. Mrs. Edyth Bcli, Mrs. J. O. Merritt. Mrs. Minnie White. Mr. W. C. Bates and Mrs. Louise Montgomery. Refreshments were served to about nine hundred guests in the basement, which had been decorated by the Methodist brotherhood.The newly wedded couple left the same evening on a short honeymoon trip to Indianapolis. Ind.. where they were the guests of an old friend of the bride’s mother, Mrs. Amanda Thomas. They returned home on Thanksgiving morning.Early in December they will be at home to their hosts of warm friends at JIJ East 50tb street Rev. and Mrs. John W. Robinson are to be highly congratulated in the very high f^teem manifested by the very best people toward them and their dutiful, lovable and highly talented daughter.No one was. more overjoyed over the wedding of Miss Robinson, and felt more happy and contented, than her dear grandmother. Mrs. Carne Knight, who from her baby days up to the very 'Rht of her wedding, watched over her and very religiously guided her in the right direction, like unto a guiding angel.When the long-to-be-remembered wedding and reception came to an end. more than three hundred autos were in evidence to convey the prominent wedding guests to their retpec-practicc gives promise of a most emi- tive homes.
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Sat, Dec 02, 1922
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