Alpheus Smith Engaged To Marry Western Girl
The Ithaca Journal, May 26 1922, P. 7, Col. 5
"Mrs. Laura Pyle Nichols of The Commodore, St. Paul, Minn., announced the engagement of her daughter, Lauretta, to Alpheus W. Smith, at a dinner given in the Commodore ballroom last evening.
Miss Nichols is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, class of 1920, a member of Alpha Gamma Delta sorority, and is instructor, of fine arts at the Summit School, St. Paul.
Mr. Smith is a graduate of the Ithaca High School, class of 1915, and of Cornell University, class of 1919, and is the son of Albert W. Smith, former dean and acting president of Cornell University, and Dr. Ruby Green Smith. He is a member of Theta Delta Chi fraternity, Aleph Samach, Quill and Dagger, and 1919 representative on the Cornellian Council. He was editor-in-chief of the Cornell Daily Sun in 1919. During the war he held a commission of second lieutenant of heavy artillery, and was stationed at Fortress Monroe, Virginia. He spent the two years immediately following his graduation from Cornell with the Levant branch of the Standard Oil Company, as accountant in Constantinople and as chief accountant in Salonica, Greece. He returned from Europe last summer, and is now instructor in the department of English, University of Minnesota.
The marriage will take place in the early fall, in New York City, following Miss Nichols' return from Europe in September. They will make their home in St. Paul."