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Scanned from microfilm held at the State Historical Society of Iowa (Des Moines). Contact the State Historical Society of Iowa: https://iowaculture.gov/about-us/contact-list Miss LEt^A cMy %6 ^iiD. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Allen jahnoWnce the engagement of their daughter, Letta E. Cary, to Dr. O. L. Bledsoe of Marshall, Texas. The wedding wilt be solemnized some time during the month of June at the home of the bride'sgparents in Oskaloosa, Iowa. Miss Cary, it will be remembered, is one of the only two Negro young women to receive a degree from the- State University of Iowa during the sixty years of its history, having •graduated with the degree of A. B. in the class of 1912 and was Immediately thereafter called to the chair of mod¬ em languages in Bisl.op college at Marshall, Texas, which she still occu¬ pies, and from which sam.e institu-^ tion her fiance, as well as hi^ distin¬ guished father, Prof. W. F. Bledsoe, of Marshall, Texas, are both alumni. Miss Cary*s many friends in Iowa congratulate Dr. Bledsoe in having won the hand of this most amiable young lady and wish for her many y^irs of matrimonial bliss. state Historical Society of Iowa (Des Moines)

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