VITALS/MARRIAGES: RUTTER, Frank Married - 1916. FAYETTE CO, PA

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MONDAY, OCT 2, 1916
SOCIETY
FRANK RUTTER MARRIED;
TO SETTLE ON COAST

  Friends of ex-Burgess Frank Rutter, bandmaster, musician and 
well known resident of Uniontown, were surprised to hear that he 
had been married early last month and had left Sunday for 
Chautauqua, N. Y., to rejoin his wife and accompany her to the 
Pacific coast where they will raise prunes.
  The wedding was solemnized <sic> in Erie, Pa., September 6, 
Rev. Howland, and intimate friend of Mr. Rutter for many years. 
performing the ceremony. There were no attendants and immediately 
after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Rutter left for Chautauqua 
where they made plans for going west. Mr. Rutter returned home 
soon afterward, packed up his household goods and got ready to 
leave Sunday morning before many of his friends had learned of 
his marriage.
  Mrs. Rutter was Mrs. Maude Eliza Morey of Chautauqua and her 
marriage to Mr. Rutter is the culmination of a friendship which 
began 10 years ago, when Mr. Rutter was a regular member of the 
Chautauqua orchestra.
  Mr. Rutter is, probably the most famous bandmaster this part of 
the state has ever produced, Rutter's Tenth Regiment band being 
one of the most popular musical organizations of the country 20 
years ago. Prior to that "Rutter's Band" which G. W. Rutter, 
Frank Rutter's father, had organized in 1856, had been famous for 
years. It is said to have been the oldest musical organization in 
the state and at the time of the Centennial to have played in 
Philadelphia. In 1884, when Grover Cleveland was nominated at 
Chicago, Rutter's band was the most popular at the Democratic 
national convention.
  Starting when but 10 years old as player of the tenor horn, 
Frank Rutter gravitated to the cornet and later to baritone. He 
could, however, play almost any instrument and from '67 until the 
band broke up, he was a leading spirit in the organization. From 
'85 on he was leader.
  Many friends of Mr. Rutter would have liked to extend to him 
their congratulations and best wishes, but he wanted to slip away 
quietly and those who were in the secret respected his 
confidence.
  However, all his old bandmen, his friends of the "Fighting 
Tenth" and his many admirers here join in hoping he will be even 
more successful raising prunes than he has been as a musician.