The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-07-16
July BRIDES ARE
MOI LESS 5. FAIR { Al. !.
AS Sweet AS Those Welded
Under Skies Of
June.
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. yIRGINIANs SCATTERED i +. FAR
Hardly a Pleasure Resort in the
East Without Old Doniii1ion's
Representative.
.ylRGINIANs SCATTERED FAR
How the Gates Came Aiar.

How the Gates lame AJdI.
srwas whispered one morning In Heaven
How the little child angel May,
In the shade Of the great White portal
Sat sorrowing night and day.
How she said 10 the stately warden
Him OF the key and bur-
70, angel, sweet angel, pray you,
I SGT the beautiful gates ajar.'
"I can hear my mother weeping,
She is lonely; she cannot see
Is .ASrlmmcr of light in the darkness,
Whereathe gates shut after me.
q turn mo tho key, sweet angel,
The splcndor will shine 50 fart"
But the warden answered, II dare not
Set the beautiful gntcs ajar!
Spoke low and answered.. dare not
Set the beautiful gates njar!
Thcna up rose Mary, the blessed 81.
Sweet Mary, mother Of Christ
Her hand on the hand of the angel
She laid, and the touch sufficea'
Turned was the key in the portal,
Eel! ringing the golden bar:
And lo in the little child's fingers
Stood the beautiful gates ajar!
y ..And this kcy,for no further using,
TO my blessed Son shall be given,
Said Mary, mother OF Jesus
Tenderest heart In heaven:
Now never q sad-eye mother
But may watch the glory afar,
Since safe in the Lord Chrfst's bosom
Are the beautiful gates ajar;
Close hid in the dear Chrlst.s bosom,
Are the beautiful gates ajar.
Selected.
Ford-Walker.
The wedding OF Miss Elizabeth Lydia
Walker. daughter of Mrs. Medora Easton
Walker, Of St. Louis, and until recently
q member Of the faculty of the Virginia
II remale institute. at Staunton, Va, to
Colonel Henry Clinton Ford of the Viz
rinia Military Institute, was celebrated
nta1O O'Clock on the morning of July
10Th in the homo Of the brides cousin.
MI. Edward Bates IIaston. of No. 1860
otus Avenue, ST. Louis. the Rev. George
IT Hunt, Of the Protestant Episcopal
Church. being the celcbrant.
Drawing room and altar decorations
were in palms
The BRIDE sowned in a blue taffeta
roine-away costume. and carrying
shower of white sweet peas came III
with her mother, who gave her away
4 After the ceremony he bride and groom
received the congratulations OF friends.
They. left ct noon to spend their honey
NOM at the summer resorts CT Michigan
Among those present at the wedding, me
news of which has been received with
much interest in Richmond and Virginia,
we're Mrs. Elizabeth Morton, Mr.. ana
Mrs e. r. Spence, Of Milwaukee; Mrs,
Henry Clay Easton and Mrs. Lintz, OIL
81. Charles, Mo-; Mr.. and Mrs. kremlec,
If st. Charles, and Mr.. McEihenS' OF
New York.
Colonel and Mrs. Ford will be in Lex
lngton, va, by early autumn. Both
nave many friends there and elsewhere
In the State.
Engagement Announced.
Mrs. Hunter Holmes Mcclure announces
the engagement Of her daughter, Frances
s., to Mr.. Guy Davis, formerly OF thas
city. but more recently of Norfolk, va,
where he is now successfully engaged in
business.
The date Of the wedding has not yet
seen made public Miss Mcclure has al
yays lived in Richmond, where she en-
lows an unlimited amount of popularity
She is the daughter of the late dstin-
guished Confederate surgeon, Hunter
Holmes Mcclure, and the sister or DR.
stuart Mcclure, president OF the Ohi'
ycrsl,y College, Of Medicine, and one OF
(. tho leading men t;t the South in his pro,
e B. . e q
fcssion.
Alr. Davis is the nephew Of the late
Colonel John Guy, n prominent member
for many years Of the Richmond bar.
Wright-Pile.
A wedding in which Bristol and Rich
mond, Va, people will be equally IN
tcrcsted. will be celebrated in the STATE
street Methodist Church of Bristol. at
O'clock in the afternoon Of July 18th. b,
the Rev. ". S. Ncighbors, when MIS-
Blanche Pile, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
G.. c. Pile OF Bristol, Is given In mar
riage 10 Mr.. James Walter Wright pres
,dcnt OF the Traders and Merchants
Bank, at Mountain City, Va, and the sol
Of Mrs. S NJ, Wright OF Damascus, va
The church viii be beautifully decorated
with palms. Tie aisles spanned VIII
arches of smilax and white roses. and
wedding bell of the roses suspended jus
above where the bride and groom stand