Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1906-05-03
BARHAM-.-DEWEY.
BEAUTIFUL WEDDING In
81. PAUL M. e. CHURCH
LAST NIGHT.

and Popular Young People
Pledge Their Mutual TrOth at
Hymen's Altar. !
From fridays Argus.
The prettiest wedding ever wit
messed in this city was solemnized in
| st. Paul NJ. E. church last night in
the presence of the largest congrega-
ion yet assembled within its spa
cious walls, the contracting parties
oei * Mr.. j. LanghorIe Barham,
junior m5inber of the law firm Of
Me5srs. D1rtch 81 Barham, Of this
city, and Miss Hannah, the lovely
laughter Of our esteemed tOWnsman
Mr.. Chas. Dewey, aud a universal
favYrite with our people.
= the church decorations we're sur
passingiy beautiful. The chancei was
adream ofloviines5, Where natureand
art Wed with each other i'll sui eria-
tive achievement, unyrials Ut electric
lights Shlmuuerlns IL the midst OF
green growing plants, Dan6et high
1 Il perfect taste, and D-inSlus out Lii
striking e .ntra5I aud tnuaucIng ct
feet The pCaIly OF the iioWers 'iiat
interape SD the whole with The pro
fusion of natures boIuty.
While tins ~tbroneed congregation
waited for the bridal, under the my
sic spell VI The counlng ceiemonIal'5
sIguiti auce, Loves oiu sweet song
.renbiea on the soil resonant notes of
| the great pipe organ, presided over
by Miss Mab.e Border, and the souls
Of all drlfttd on the rhythmic waves
with varying emo'i ions, as indefin-
able as the "vieW -ess spirit OF the
lovely sounds" upon which they
were Wafted-some back to their
oWn wedding hour in the glad erts-
while; some forward to that same
hoped for event in the fuLure-all
towards the altar before them in
deepest interest ami abiding good
v ishes for the young couple soon to
stand there and plight tn III eternal
: lroth. And when the twain stood
there, and as they stood there, with
The waves OF the organs melody
= flowing through the beautiful edlice,
bearing on its subdued notes their
spoken words in the marriage ser.
vice, etfecting the locking of theil
: lives e ernally together, amid such
: surroundings, Of kith and friends
and flowers and brilliant lights, ano
religlon's holy offices, we could moi
out indulge the thought of how "the
; old, old story, yet ave neW"-the
!, story of "tWo souls with but a single
/ thought, two hearts that beat a
one''-the story of love and faitf
|, land tryst and truth, appeals t.
human heart and goes forth to fiji
- with gladne>s a new world of new
made homes between the encom
6 passing shores of our wide land o
plenty and of peace: "the old, OLE
! story" spreading through sill thu
valleys and over all the hills ant
s bearing everywhere a new meaning
Is to the Republic with the new life
Its splend n and its ~glory-the low
of wife AID home.
Just before the bridal party en-
e tered, the brides Sunday School elias
came in and were seated in a spe
j. cially reserved sect IN. These wer
0 followed by the twelve young lad!
a members of the McGraph Club
4 gowned in white, she being tn
Thirteenth, the limit of membership
q and were given seats on either sid
{ of the chaucel. Then came the ush
er5, in two5 and slowly, down eithel
y Iside aisle, while the organist rem
dered Tannanhauser's Wedding
y March, and crossing in front of The
chancel took their respective posi-
y tons fo1 the ceremony. These were
Messra. E. B. Cobb, Jr., of Wilson
/ and d. Archie Bullock, of Whining
ton, Go. s. Dewey, brother of the
bride, and R. N. Darden, Of New
: some, Va, Jno. NJ. Rose, of Durham,
, and Jno. IL. Hill, Jr., jill. Hannah, Of
Norfolk, Va, and Ed. B. Yelverton,
Then the bride maids, Misses
Lulie Drew Barham, of NeWsome,
t Va, sister of the groom, and Eliza
beth Borden, cousin of the bride,
, dressed in handsome gowns of white
figured net over taffeta and carrying
y shower bouquets of pink carnations
crossing in front of aud entering the
: chancel. Then, as the Maid O.
Honor, Miss Harriette Dewey,
i younger sister of the bride, gowned
in Powered chiffon and carrying
large bouquet of pink roses, came
: down the left aisle, the Dame o.
, Honor, Mrs. Herman Cobb Smith
! lgracefuI and stately, wearing hel
wedding gown Of liberty silk anG
g carrying white roses, approached
l along the right aisle, ard both tool
. their positions at the chancel rail, or
Ieither side of the waiting minister