ENGAGEMENT:  Russell Bare GARVER to Elizabeth Craig BECK, 1918, Blair County, PA

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MISS BECK TO WED R. B. GARVER
Engagement Announced by Dr. and Mrs. W. F. Beck at Delightful Function

  Dr. and Mrs. W. Frank Beck, of Craigsmere, near Lakemont, announced the 
engagement of their daughter, Miss Elizabeth Craig Beck, to Russell Bare 
Garver, son of Dr. and Mrs. A. L. Garver, at a luncheon given at the 
Cricket field club house yesterday afternoon at 1 o'clock.  Beautiful 
decorations in a color scheme of pink and white were used and the affair 
was a most delightful function. 
  The announcement was made at the close of the luncheon, when little 
Miss Margaret Anderson produced a pink knitting bag from which she passed 
a ball of yarn and needles to each guest.  When the yarn was unwound a 
proclamation was found at the center of each ball which announced the 
engagement in a clever manner.  This proclamation follows:
  Know ye all, whereas, Russel, son of the house of Garver, and 
Elizabeth, daughter of the house of Beck, having reached years of 
discretion and understanding, seek admission into the state of matrimony.
  I, Daniel Cupid, governor of said state, hereby proclaim them 
candidates for such admission on or after the fourteenth day of June, 
nineteen hundred and eighteen.  Written under my hand and seal.
    DANIEL CUPID.
  The following guests were present: Misses Eunice Stiles, Sara Riddell, 
Marjorie Meredith, Esther O'Neill, Marguerite Boggs, Nancy Bechtel, 
Louise Linton, Sara Chenoweth, Ruth Brandt, Isabelle Stier, Catherine 
Miller, Theo McEldowney, Cornelia Mackey and Martha Palmer; Mrs. C. F. 
Anderson, Mrs. Russell McCauley, Mrs. J. H. Christy and Mrs. Harold 
McCullough, all of Altoona.
  Misses Ruth Elliott, Minnie Smith, Blanche Goodfellow and Maude 
Lingafelt, of Hollidaysburg; Misses Vera Garver and Sara Eldon, of 
Roaring Spring; Misses Mary Boyle and Mary White, of Pittsburg; Miss 
Elizabeth Burdats, of Wheeling, W. Va.; Miss Alma Riggs, of Moundsville, 
W. Va., and Miss Catherine Holliday, of Bellwood.

Altoona Tribune, Saturday morning, June 15, 1918, page 5