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Tulsa Morning News and Tulsa World. (Tulsa, Indian Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 177, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 19, 1906
A WEDDING IN CATOOSA
POPULAR YOUNG LADY WEDS.
Happy Couple Departs in Rice and Shoe Shower
	Catoosa, I.T., April 19. –On Wednesday evening at 8 o’clock, in the home of Mr. and Mrs. E.G. Wilson, 
Mr. J. Claire Evans, of Denver, Col., and Miss Bess M. Wilson, were made husband and wife.  The ceremony was 
performed according to the ritual of the Methodist Episcopal church by the Reverend Hugh McBirney, D.D., of 
Tulsa.  Only the family were present, including Mr. and Mrs. Hilton, of Topeka, Kansas.  The groom is chief 
chemist of the Henry Wood Co., assayers, etc., of Denver, Colorado.  The bride is a graduate of Denver 
University, where the family lived a number of years.  The Wilson family have lived in Catoosa for the past 
year.  Mr. Wilson being engaged in law, money loaning and coal shipping, and is now at the head of the new 
trust and banking company that will soon be ready for business in Catoosa.  The young couple left on the 
10:30 Frisco last evening, for the home of the groom’s father, who is in the Latin chair of the Ohio 
University at Athens.  Mr. and Mrs. Evans will make their home in Denver, Colo.  The Catoosa young people 
gave the happy couple quite a send off at the depot by rice and old shoe showers, and nailing and placing 
mottoes on their baggage, etc., such as “Just Married”, “Ain’t They Happy”, etc.
	The best wishes of a host of friends go with the young couple for a happy and prosperous life.