Genesee/Wyoming Co. News Unknown Newspaper (May be The Attica News) 1907 Found in a Pound of Raisins One pound of raisins purchased from a store in Derry Church, Pa., by a special agent of the dairy and food commission was analyzed by State Chemist Charles la WALL. He found: Prunes, rice, beans, and fuzzy dirt; human and animal hairs, straight and curly; fibers of cotton and wool dyed green, yellow, brown, pink, and gray; straw and a little bit of bran, sand, cornstarch, broken wheat, and yeast spores; pine wood and fragments of unidentified other timer, tobacco leaf, cigarette paper, and cigarette tobacco. Also, the wings and legs of a few unfortunate insects. Otherwise the raisins were all right. The grocery man was arrested. - - - - - - - - - - No date. Surprise for a girl a surprise indeed-She became a bride at a birthday dinner. Miss Violet B. CONRAD, being told of intended surprise by her fiancé, consented to act in accordance with his plans to turn tables. Capping the climax of a birthday surprise party given for her the other night in the Hotel Knickerbocker at New York, Miss Violet Blossom CONRAD, daughter of the late Major Casper H. CONRAD of the Eighth United States Infantry, turned the tables on her assembled friends by being married then and there to Charles Ridgley ELLICOTT, says the New York Herald. Their wedding ceremony was performed by the Rev. Henry M. WARREN, chaplain of the hotel, who had been invited to the birthday party as one of the personal friends of Mr. ELLICOTT. Miss CONRAD was twenty-three years old the other day. Her mother, desirous of giving her a pleasant birthday surprise, told Mrs. JENKINS, WIFE OF colonel John M. JENKINS, a few weeks ago to quietly invite twenty of Miss CONRAD's closest friends to a dinner party to be held on the night of her birthday anniversary. Strict secrecy was enjoined of every one. Mrs. JENKINS INCLUDED AMONG THOSE WHOM SHE INVITED TO THE PARTY Mr. ELLICOTT, who became secretly engaged to Miss CONRAD several months ago. Calculating that as surprises were to be the order of the evening it was better to have a great big surprise than a minor one, Mr. ELLICOTT told his fiancée of the plan on the part of her friends to give a surprise birthday dinner to her and suggested to her that they might turn the tables in a splendid manner by springing a surprise of their own on the party. This was to be the announcement of their engagement, followed immediately by their marriage. Plans were laid accordingly, and Mr. ELLICOTT asked permission of those who were arranging the "surprise" birthday dinner to bring with him "an old college mate who had just arrived in New York from abroad." The man so characterized was Dr. WARREN. At 8 o'clock on the night of the "surprise" party, in accordance with the plan, Miss CONRAD was summoned to the Hotel Knickerbocker under the pretense of attending a small informal dinner party. In the secret, she went to the hotel and upon being ushered into one of the private parlors met Mr. ELLICOTT, and her assembled friends. She simulated great surprise when showered with congratulations on her birthday and told that the dinner and gathering were in her honor. Mr. JENKINS had been let into the young couples secret a few minutes before and, with Miss CONRAD and Mr. ELLICOTT, was waiting near a door leading to the private dining room. Suddenly at a signal the door opened, and Dr. WARREN, with Albert J. FIELD as best man, walked in. Miss CONRAD and Mr. ELLICOTT joined hands, and as the others of the party looked on in amazement the ceremony was performed. After more congratulations the entire party walked out to the dining room as musicians concealed behind palms played the wedding march from "Lohengrin." Miss CONRAD, the bride, who until her marriage has lived in New York, was born at Fort Randall, S. D., where her father was in command at the time. She was known then as the daughter of the regiment and, both here brothers being captains in the army, has since her debut been a figure at the military balls in Washington. She was formally introduced into society there a few years ago at a reception given for her by Mrs. Nelson A. MILES. Among those who attended the surprise party and wedding were Major General WADE and several other army officers and their wives. Because of her rare beauty Miss CONRAD has been characterized as "the girl with the angel face" by such artists and sculptors and BLASHFIELD, Alphonse MUCHA, Daniel FRENCH, ANDERSON, and CHRISTIE. In BLASHFIELD's panel "Progress" in the statehouse at Des Moines, Ia., Miss CONRAD is represented as a triplicity of angels. Her face has been also done in marble by FRENCH in the statue symbolic of America on the customs building in New York. Her father, Major CONRAD, a here of El Caney and Santiago, died aboard the United States army transport Olivette on Aug. 15, 1898. Charles R. ELLICOTT is thirty-six years old and a son of H. William ELLICOTT of Baltimore. He owns large mining interests in the west. - - - - - - - - - - VISHION-WOLFE No date or place Judd VISHION, whose boyhood was spent in Batavia, was married in Buffalo last evening to Miss Mildred Louise WOLFE, at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. George R. WOLFE of Lexington Avenue. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. E. J. DICKINSON of the North Presbyterian church in the presence of only members of the families of the contracting parties. Mr. and Mrs. VISHION left for Florida. -- - - - - - - - - Submitted by Kathy Helmer Kathle7297@aol.com