PRESIDENT WILSON MARRIED

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2649, 21 December 1915, Page 3

PRESIDENT WILSON MARRIED

! '& VERY QTJIET CEREMONY. By Telegraph—Pres* ASi'ociu tun—Copyright Washington, December 19. President Wilson and Mrs. Norman Gait were married to-day by the Rev. Herbert Scott-Smith, at the home of the brido. The pastor was assisted by the Rev. James Taylor, the President's pastor. The couple left by speoial train for the Hot Springs, Virginia, where they will spend the honeymoon in motoring, golfing, and walking on- the mountain trails. There were no, bridesmaids, and no best man. Tho Chatham Islands have supplied 16 men for the front, and have subscribed a total of £719 16s. sd. to tho following funds: —Food . for Britain, £186 4s. Bd.; Belgian Relief, £97 18s. Bd.; Empire Defence, £165 10s. 7d.; Patriotic, £9 lis. 2d.; Overseas Tobacco, £17 Is.; amounts paid in New Zealand, £18 10s.; patriotic balls, £13 12s. and £12 25.; hospital ship ball, £23; now post office ball, £176 6s. 4d. ' A "Queen of the Island" voting com- ; petition held in connection with the new post office ball was won by Miss Flora Renwick, tho farmers' nominee, with 4865 votes. The total number of votes polled was 13,2€2, realising £165 os. 6d. . Ideal for the Beach or for the country, or for homer—our Washing Hats at Is. to 3s. Gil. A hat the boys delight to wear. Geo. Fowlds, Ltd., Manners St.— Advt. The tall silk , halt first ca-mo into com- > moii use in Paris in 1797. 1 ' France makes and wears 4,000,000 pairs of wooden shoes every year.