Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-08-27
COSE RECEPTION A
BRILLIANT AFFAIR
Prominent Burke's Garden Peo-
pie Receive Many Congratula-
tiOns at Celebration of Their
Silver Wedding.

Nothing except stalwart sons and
charming daughters was there about
the elaborate reception in Burke's
Garden on Wednesday afternoon of
tins week, to sustain the host and
hostess, MIR. and Mrs. John p. Gose.
in their announcement that they were
celebrating their Silver Wedding. for
Johns few silver hairs were so near
the color of the original thatch of his
youth as to he invisible, and no one
could ever associate the bcaming and
blushing bride by his side with any
thing except youthful promise.
The home, one of the most beautiful
and hospitablc in all this beautiful and
hospitable blue grass land, was turned
into bower of grccnncss and flowers.
and all by the prodigal use of the
many vines and flowers that every
where abound in the field and forest.
We daily pass by, with unseeing eyes,
ilowcrs and foliage of beauty and
uellcacy unsurpassed, just because
they are so common, but when they
are sought out by II discerning lover
of nature and grouped together by
artistic hands, they make II combina
''R' ''''N NV iiNb-ioNot tsiil SuIDuSS.
Thus IL was that the Goso home WAS
decorated. The whole of the lower
floor was transformed into successive
retreats where vines reached out hos
pitablc tcndrils to the passing guests
and shy wild flowers coquctted from
every corner with every one who look
ed that way.
The guests were met ut the door of
the room in which the receiving party
stood, by Miss Katrina, the oldest
daughter of the young couple standing
first IN the line, her father and mo-
thcr, and they welcomed every one
with open hands and received the
sincere congratulations of their friends
ns one friend always accepts anything
from another friend. Next in the wei
coming line stood Mr. Charles O.
Snnpp, brother of the silver bride, and
his wife, and after them Mr.. and Mrs.
f.. L.. Grccvcr, of Tazcwcll; Mrs. Por-
terlicld, sister of Mrs. Gosc, of Abng-
don; and Mr.. l.. ID. Snnpp, another of
Mrs. Gosc's brothers, and his wife, of
Burkc's Garden. At the end of the
line, the guests passed into the hands
of bcvy of sweet girls who pioted
them to the rcfrcshmcnt rooms, after
which they wandered mt will through
the house and over the lawn, meeting
and greeting many friends of their
own, whom the passing years had
led into other paths.
Right here it would be ominently
proper to state how the bride was
gowncd, with passing references to
other feminine costumes, but this
scribe admits his inability to deal
properly or adequately with the theme
and anything else would he incxcus-
abl--nnd dangerous. The other men
present know no more about it than
he does, but he undertakes to say for
them, MS well as for himself, that
they looked all right, which is all that
woman can expect of mere man,
and is said to be all that she wishes.
No list of the guests is obtninablc,
but there were ut least one hundred
and fifty of them, coming from Burke's
Garden, Tagcwcll, and many other
points in Virginia and elsewhere.
All left with hearticst congratula-
tions and best wishes for their host
and hostess, and with tho oft-ex-
pressed hope that each one would
be present at the celebration of the
Golden Wedding, which all hoped
would tnke place in the happy future.
Guest.