Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-08-13 | Page 10 | Newlyweds Hoodwink Friends use Police Department Car

NEWLYWEDS HOODWINK FRIENDS o8 as .;s USE POLICE DEPARTMENT CAR -z II MR. AND MRS. ARTHUR A. ALLEN. j fil vN : , ' L ir X f 1 ff: I'r f v Arthur A. Allen and Miss Hazel G. Smith Aided by Chief's Secretary. MISS HAZEL G. SMITH, a popular popu-lar Salt Lake girl and formerly a member of the 1916 class at the University of Utah, and Arthur A. Allen of this city, were married mar-ried and hoodwinked a group of their friends who had planned many practical jokes with which some people dearly love to fuss newlyweds. The marriage took place Wednesday evening at the First Methodist church, the Rev. B, F. Bronson performing the ceremony. Afterward there was a wedding wed-ding reception at the homo of the bride 's parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Smith, 1117 Browning avenue. , ' The bridegroom had engaged the bridal bri-dal suite at the Newhouse hotel, but he learned that his practical-joking friends had arranged some "entertainment" for himself and his bride, and was exceedingly ex-ceedingly cautious about setting out for the hotel after the reception. He and Mrs. Allen remained at the home of the bride :s parents, suspicious that the available autos were in league with a plot to kidnap them, until they tried a plan 'to fool their over-zealous friends. F. B. Spooner, secretary to the chief of police, is a close friend of Mr. Allen, and he was called in to aid the newlyweds. - Bv an arrangement with Mr. Spooner. the police department " greyhound was sent to the Smith home on Browning Brown-ing avenue. The jokers saw it, but thought that Spooner was on their side and that the police auto was part of the joke. So Mr. and Mrs. Allen hopped into the police department car and were whisked without incident to the New-house New-house hotel. There the newlyweds repaired re-paired to their suite and disconnected the telephone. When the joking friends learned that they had been hoaxed they could not reach the Allens.- Both Mr. and Mrs. Allen have hosts of friends in Salt Lake. Mrs. Allen was one of the most popular girls at the uni-versitv. uni-versitv. Mr. Allen is a department manager man-ager at tho Paris Millinery company store, and is well known. The couple have crone to the coast to attend the expositions, and upon their Teturn will be at home at 1117 Browning avenue.