{"id":1898,"date":"2010-06-04T07:51:45","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T14:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/?p=1898"},"modified":"2010-06-04T07:51:45","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T14:51:45","slug":"two-engagements-celebrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/04\/two-engagements-celebrated\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Engagements Celebrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 4, 1928<\/p>\n<p>The home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ryan in South Hadley Center was the scene of a very jolly affair a recent night when office force of the Holyoke Transcript and Telegram gathered to celebrate the marriage engagement of two members of the staff, William Dwight and Raymond M. O&#8217;Connell.     Bridge was in order the early part of the evening, being played at six tables with Miss Mildred Picard and Samuel O&#8217;Connell the high scorer, prize winners and Miss Regina Kirkpatrick receiving the consolation favors.   Following the bridge the tables were placed together in the living room and the hosts served a collation.   Afterward came the unusual feature of giving a kitchen shower to each of the prospective grooms which became a very jolly feature of the evening&#8217;s entertainment, each one receiving a hamper, two similar gifts being wrapped together in each bundle and placed in one hamper   The young men alternately drew a gift and read the humorous poem attached.   The marriage of Mr. O&#8217;Connell will be an event of the present month, while that of Mr. Dwight will not come until later.<\/p>\n<p>From <em>The Springfield Republican<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 4, 1928 The home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ryan in South Hadley Center was the scene of a very jolly affair a recent night when office force of the Holyoke Transcript and Telegram gathered to celebrate the marriage engagement of two members of the staff, William Dwight and Raymond M. O&#8217;Connell. Bridge was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,131,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1903,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions\/1903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}