Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-04-14

The Gazette acknowledges receipt oil
the following announcement:
Mr.. and Mrs. George Howard Dorsey
announce the marriage Of their dan ghter
Miss Gladys williams
Mr.. William Carey Thompson
Tuesday, April the fourth
nineteen hundred and sixteen
Jackson, Mississippi
The bride, Miss Williams, is the daugh-
ter of Mrs. Matte Gibson Williams Dor
sey, and a granddaughter of Mrs. NJ. F.
Gibson, of this parish, and has visited
her relatives here quite often and is well
known to our people. She is most low
able young lady and has many friends
who will rejoice in her happiness. The
following account of the wedding is taken
from the jackson miss. } Clarion-L Ledger
of April 9Th:
Yesterday afternoon at four o'clock in
the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. George Dorsey
on North West street, there was wit
messed an impressively beautiful marriage
service, when their eldest daughter, Miss
Gladys Williams, became the happy bride
Of Mr.. William Carey Thompson, only
the immediate families of the contracting
parties and few close friende being pres
sent to share with the young people the
happiness of the hour.
Loving hands had transformed the
handsome home into bridal bower with
splendid ferns and palms blending with
the rich tints of roses and the fragrance
OF aweslth Of purple violets. At the piano
Mrs. J. L. Roberts rendered sweetest nup-
tial music before the entrance of the
young people and then when the skilled
touch Of this musician sounded the in
spring strains Of the wedding march,
together Gladys Williams and William
Carey Thompson entered the drawing
room and before the flower crowned altar
DR.. w. G. Henry read the impressive
words that sealed their plighted vows for
time and eternity, as softest music whis-
pered of love.
The pretty bride was never more lovely
than when she stood by the side of the
man of her choice in the exquisite we'd
ding gown. fashioned from that worn by
her mother twenty-six years ago a rich
cream creation with touches of blue, and
hat and every dainty accessory en- suite, the
exquisite bouuqet OF pink Killarney roses
completing the picture, and lovelier than
these blossoms was the fair face above
them. The Young groom was handsome
in the supreme happiness that comes but
ice in life, as the words were spoken
that made her his Every own" to love
and cherish above all others.
The bride is graduate of /. /. & c.
and was teacher in the Central High
School OF Jackson, and is as talented as
she is good and lovely, thus it is that the
young groom, who holds responsible po-
sition in the postoffice of the city and is very
popular, is assured that the future years
will bring him their full measure Of hap
piness. Although the wedding was very
quiet, many handsome presents marked
the popularity of the young couple.
Alter the ceremony Mrs. Dorsey had
for the company the daintiest of ices in
the form of wedding slippers with little
white cakes ornamented by pink rose
buds, Misses Sarah Curry, Lucy and Will
lie Sue Socket, dear friends of the bride,
assisting in these pleasure OF dispensing
r treatments.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thompson went at once
to their own bungalow which has Just
been completed and made ready for their
coming ont OH North West street Just op.
posite Millsaps College.
Among the wedding guests were the
aunt Of the bride, Mrs. w. R. Baker, Of
81. Joseph, La, and the parents Of the
groom, Mr.. and Mn. Thompson.