Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1904-01-07
SPICER-GOLD.
A Notable Wedding AT The Home
of Elder p. ID, Gold.

Specldl cor. hainlgh Post.
Wilson, \. c., Dec. 3O.-There
was celebrated last evening at 7:3C
O'Clock the most elegant and most
elaborate home wedding that ever
took place in Wilson, when Miss
Ruth Gold, the talented and highly
cultured daughter of Elder p. D.
Gold, was married to DR.. Williams
Spicer, an able, learned and promi-
nent young physician Of Goldsboro
| The Gold home, on Vance street,
last evening, under the electric
glare and festoOned and garlanded
as it was with choicest vine and
| flower, was indeed scene of lowell
ness aud beauty. Upon the assem-
bling OF the invited guests, that ac-
complished musician, Mrs. Alice
Wright, played the wedding an
them, 1.-The Voice That Breathed
O'er Eden," which was most sweet
ly and beautifully sung by Mesdames
Venable, Cutchin, Whitehead, Davis,
and Messrs. Brown, Harris, Bruton
and ate. Then Mendelssohn's we'd
ding march was played by the tai
ented Miss Mary Austen of Tarboro,
and during the ceremony "Medita-
ton" was also most softly and beau
tifully rendered by Miss Austen.
The marriage ceremony was per-
formed in the front parlor and un-
der the alcove, which was decorated
IN trailing cedar and smilax, with
candles extending clear up and over
the arch on both sides. First came
the four little five year old nieces
and nephews of the bride, Miss Mar
garettes Howard and Master Richard
Winstead, and Misses Elizabeth and
MAJ garette Gold, two from the hall
door and two from the library door,
carrying ribbons, making passage
way through which the bridal party
marched in and formed in a circle
around the ministers, Elders E. v.
White and P. D. Gold, who united
the couple.
Then from the hall and library
doors the bridal party came stimuli
taneously in the following order:
Miss Stella Pippen, gowned in white
mouselin, trimmed with plated
chiffon and lace with pink fan, vel
vet girdle and carrying pink carna-
tions, and was met by Mr.. Norwood
Spicer, who came from the library
door; then Miss Clara Spicer, gown
ed in accordeon plated silk NOUS
elm, trimmed in lace, pink fan, vel
vet girdle, and carrying pink carna-
tions, was met by Mr.. Allie Edger-
ton from the parlor door. The maid
of honor, Miss Bessie Gold, in white
silk mouselin, trimmed in lace,
plated chiffon and white sash, carry
ing white carnations, entered next.
The groom entered from the ball
door, with his brother, DR.. John
Spicer, meeting the bride, who en-
tered from the library door on the
arm of her brother, Mr.. Joe. M.
Gold, Of Washington, N. c., who
gave her away.The bride was gown
ed in white lace robe, with plated
mouselin, over white taffeta, and
carried shower bouquet of brides
roses and lilies of the valley. Her
veil was caught with orange bios
SONS, fastened with diamond
brooch. This ceremonial was made
the more impressive by the fact that
the bonds were pronounced by the
venerable and beloved father Of the
bride and another relative, Col. E.
v. White, of Leesburg, Va, who
very feelingly asked Gods blessing
on the happy couple.
From $3.50 until 1890 there was
an ingoing tide Of Wilson's best peo-
pie to give to this popular couple
their congratulations and coraial
good wishes. Mesdames F. Y. Wig
gins and Jno. E. Gold, Col. and Mrs.
/, White, and DR.. and Mrs Spicer, of
GoldsborO, welcomed the incoming
guests, who were presented to the re-
ceiving party by Messrs. Harry
Wainwright and Steve Anderson.
| From the front parlOr to the punch
Eroom the guests were invited by
Mrs Graham Woodard and Miss
Austin, of Tarboro, where that de-
l1ghtful beverage was served by
Misses Marguerite Hadley, Annie