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from previous page ....... As he carried more than she could manage he assisted her into the library and then such excitement cutting of strings and 'ohs' and 'ahs', 'isn't it pretty', 'how did you ever do it?' until in the end we stood in speechless admiration. The bride elect was too happy and thankful to say much, but she made each one feel that is was more blessed to give then receive. And each one left happy, knowing that they had made some one else happy.
Wedding - The drama, life, with its entrances and exits, its changing scenes and thrilling action, its climaxes and denouements, is rarely staged in happier setting than was presented in Burke's Garden, Wednesday, the third of March, when Dr. J.N.
HIGGINBOTHAM claimed his promised bride, Miss Sarah MOSS. The lover in this little drama is the popular young physician, whom it will be recalled was only a few months ago fighting death under the skillful knife of his devoted friend, Dr. W.R.
WILLIAMS, of Richlands, who is recognized as perhaps the most successful surgeons of Southwest Virginia. Dr.
HIGGINBOTHAM is a son of Mr. James HIGGINBOTHAM of the widely known
HIGGINBOTHAM family of this county. The bride is the second daughter of Mr. F.M.
MOSS and Mrs. Mattie Barns MOSS, the latch string of whose home is always on the outside and whose relatives and friends are numbered by the hundreds. This marriage is but another link in connecting the long strong chain of Barnses and Gillespies and Mosses and Higginbothams, which has done so much in building and binding the wealthy county of Tazewell. Rarely has the curtain risen on happier actors or prettier setting than on this particular scene, often staged, but always different. Restored to each other the almost
tragical illness, triumphant love lit the countenances of both lover and sweetheart till the saying went around: "I never saw a happier couple." It was a typical happy home wedding, with pretty decorations, sweet music, delicious refreshments, hosts of friends, and the prayers, promises, and benedictions of the marriage ceremony. The linen shower, an account of which appears elsewhere in this paper, was the prelude to the play.
The reception, act I of the play proper, was presented Tuesday night to the young friends of the bride and groom. It was charmingly starred by Mrs. Arthur
PEERY, and Miss Lucy MOSS, cousins of the bride, and Miss Lettie
MOSS, sister of the bride, who stood in the receiving line with the bride and groom and mingled with the crowd giving introductions, serving refreshments, requesting music, and doing all the things that resourceful hostesses do to bewitch the flying hours. Con't on next page..............
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