COLUMBIA AND BURKESVILLE
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Mr. John Lee Walker and Miss Mary Ritchey, to Wed this Evening at 9 O'clock.
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Ceremony by Rev. A.R. Kasey

This evening at 9 o'clock Mr. John Lee Walker, one of Columbia's best young men, a prominent merchant, member of the firm of Russell & Co., will be married to Miss Mary Ritchey, an accomplished daughter of Mr. John H. Ritchey, an influential and popular citizen of Burkesville. There ceremony will be impressively read by Rev. A.R. Casey, formerly the pastor of the Methodist church here, but who at the time is stationed at Hopkinsville.

The rites will be solemnized at the home of the intended bride in the presence of relatives and a few special friends. The parlors will be handsomely decorated with evergreens and flowers, making the home beautiful and the marriage scene most attractive.

Thursday morning the couple will leave for the home of the intended groom's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.D. Walker, Gradyville, and Friday they will arrive in Columbia and at their cozy home, on Jamestown Street, which is in readiness to receive them and where friends will gather to meet them.

(Mr. Walker had purchased the cottage from Mr J.O. Russell in September, paying $2,000 for the property. John Lee was the nephew of Kizzie Walker Russell, J.O. Russell's wife and business partner.)

In the culmination of this marriage Burkesville loses one of her most charming ladies, who will be greatly missed from society meets, as she is exceedingly popular with all the young people of her home town. She comes to Columbia, not an entire stranger, as she often visited here, making many friends and acquaintances, and where she will be given a happy welcome.

The groom is not only popular in Columbia, but he is well-known throughout the county as a genial gentleman, upright in all his transactions, with a bright future before him.

In testimony of the popularity of this very deserving couple, they will receive many handsome presents.

That they may live long and at all times be surrounded with everything that goes to make life happy, is the wish of The Adair County News.

At the beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs. J.D. Walker near our city gathered quite a number of their relatives on last Thursday afternoon to extend the right hand of friendship and congratulations to their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. J.L. Walker, on their return from Burkesville where they had been made one in the holy bonds of wedlock. The evening was delightfully spent and will long be remembered by every one present...