By Miss Athalia Banting
God With Us
There were three lights that night:
The star above the darkness, crystal fair.
The foremost angel’s garment flaming white,
The baby’s circled hair.
Three Sounds upon the hill:
A sudden song; low rawn, a woman’s sign;
And, when the midnight deepened gran and chill,
A little, little cry.
Three woes: a witless lamb
Lost from the scattering flock; its mother’s grieving;
The long, deep slumber of the townfolk—blind
And deaf and unbelieving.
Three wonders: dark-browed kings,
Rising from far; young shepherds’ lifted faces;
The silver beauty raining from the star
On Bethlehem’s dark places.
There were Faith, Hope and Love:
Faith that had known, Hope that had waited well,
Love that had wrought; and in their trembling midst,
Immanuel!
--Nancy Byrd Turner in Good Housekeeping
Dr. W.J. Bryan Orr, who has been spending the Christmas holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F.B. Orr of Currie, passed through the city yesterday en route to Iaeger, W.Va., where he has been practicing for the past year.
John Lee Rorrison of New York is visiting his aunt, Miss Serena Chadbourn.
Roy Craig, who is now living in Florida, is here on a visit to his father.
J.W. Thompson Jr. of Southport arrived in Wilmington yesterday to attend the Christmas dances.
Eric Norden has returned from Lake Waccamaw where he spent Christmas with Mrs. J.P. Council and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Long of Supply returned home Monday after spending Christmas with their son, G.F. Long.
Hon. Joseph Kyle Orr, grand master, Knight Templar York Rite Masonry, will arrive today to attend the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Plantagenet Commandry, No. 1, Knights Templar, which will be held this evening at the Masonic temple. While in the city Mr. Orr will stop at the Orton.
Miss Margaret Jewett and Miss Sophie Northrop were the guests of Miss Emma Thompson in Southport yesterday.
Miss Margaret Heinsberger and Raymond Wallace from Washington and Lee University, who are visiting Philip Heinsberger, celebrated Christmas in an unusual and certainly not a warm way. The Heinsbergers spent the day at their cottage on Wrightsville Beach, and Miss Heinsberger and Mr. Wallace took a genuine surf bath. They reported that it wasn’t bad at all, and they are still in good health.
Roland C. Davies of Medford, Mass., will arrive this morning to spend a few days with Claude Cooper. Mr. Davies is a newspaper man and has been with the Boston Transcript for the past two years, and is now on his way to New Mexico.
St. John’s Sunday school will have its Christmas tree this evening at 7:30.
T.G. Gladney, formerly of this city, is visiting J.L. Becton at the Colonial apartments. Mr. Gladney is professor of engineering at the Mississippi A. and M. College in Starkville, Miss.
Friends of Mrs. H.T. Cooley will be sorry to learn that she is quite ill at her home in Sunset Park.
Claude Cooper of Boston is spending the holidays with his parents.
Miss Nellie Peck of Baltimore and Arthur Coddington of Atlanta are the guests of their sister, Mrs. Herbert A. Coddington.
Mrs. H.P. West of Macon, Ga., arrived in the city yesterday to visit Dr. and Mrs. T.M. Green.
Miss Eleanor Bowen of Raleigh is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. R.E. Patt.
Mr. and Mrs. I.W. Murphy of Greensboro and Miss Katie Sutton of Fayetteville are visiting Mr. and Mrs. C.C. Covington.
Mr. and Mrs. William James Middleton and William James Jr. of Warsaw are spending the holidays with Mr. and Mrs. D.L. Dobson and other relatives in the city.
Rudolph Sanders of Norfolk, a student at Virginia Tech., is spending his holidays with friends in Wilmington.
Miss Katherine Harper of Winston-Salem is the guest of Mrs. Joe Fox, at Sunset Park. Miss Harper will return to Converse college on January 4.
Mrs. Marion Harriss charmingly entertained the members of her Tuesday Afternoon Bridge club yesterday at her apartment on Chestnut street.
Hopkins-Holmes
Yesterday evening at 6 o’clock at the home of her sister, Mrs. Robert B. Slocum, in East Wilmington, Miss Caroline Green Holmes, daughter of Mrs. A.H. Holmes, became the bride of Dr. Philip Bird Hopkins of Bel Air, Md. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Dr. William H. Milton before an improvised altar beautifully decorated with smilax, ferns, narcissus and candles.
The bride’s only attendants were her sister, Miss Nesfield Holms, and her niece, little Miss Ann Slocum. The maid of honor wore a lovely dress of nile green tulle over apricot taffeta and carried pink roses. The little bridesmaid’s frock was of white organdie, and she carried a basket of narcissus and ferns.
The bride, who entered with her brother, Edward Holmes, who gave her in marriage, was gowned in white satin with a court train, and her veil was caught with a wreath of orange blossoms. She carried a shower bouquet of bride roses.
The best man was Hasting Hopkins of Baltimore, brother of the bridegroom.
Immediately after the ceremony, which was witnessed only by members of the family and most intimate friends, an informal reception was held. The dining room was attractively decorated in pink and white and pink candles burned on the mantle.
Delicious punch was served, the cakes and ices carrying out the color scheme.
Dr. and Mrs. Hopkins left on the evening train for Richmond, where they will spend a few days before going on to Bel Air, Md., where Dr. Hopkins is located.
Mrs. Hopkins, who left Wilmington several years ago, is a registered nurse and has been engaged in this work in Maryland for several years. Dr. Hopkins is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Hopkins of Baltimore.
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Party for Sunday School Class
Monday afternoon at 5 o’clock the members of the Merry Maids Sunday school class of Masonboro Sound were entertained at the home of their teacher, Miss Maude McGowan.
The house was tastefully and attractively arranged with the decorations of the season.
Many games were greatly enjoyed, after which delicious refreshments were served.
Miss McGowan’s guests were Misses Dorothy Teachey, Irene King, Maude and Pearl Benton, Myrtle Herring, Alice Capps, Genie Kirkum and Helen Wells.
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Bryan-Cavenaugh
One of the loveliest church weddings of the winter season was solemnized yesterday afternoon at 5:45 o’clock at Grace Methodist Church when Miss Anna Cavanaugh, daughter of Eli Cavenaugh of this city, became the bride of Joseph Shepard Bryan of Wilson, formerly of Wilmington.
The church was beautifully decorated with southern smilax, palms and ferns, forming a most attractive setting for the ceremony, which was performed by Rev. W.A. Stanbury, pastor of the church, in the presence of a large gathering of friends and relatives. The wedding music was rendered by Miss Mattie Chasten, who presided at the organ, and just before the ceremony, Mrs. L.J. Meredity exqusitely sang “At Dawning.”
The bride had as her maid-of-honor her sister, Miss Mary Cavenaugh, who was charming in a gown of nile green satin with silver trimmings, carrying Russell roses tied with green. The bride’s maids were Miss Madge Cavenaugh, Miss Annie Herring, Miss Katherine Von Glahn, and Miss Vannie Craig. Miss Cavanaugh and Miss Von Glahn wore lovely dresses of orchid satin with silver trimmings, carrying pink snap dragons tied with orchid tulle, while Miss Craig and Miss Herring were gowned alike in smart frocks of rose satin trimmed in silver and carrying bouquets of pink snap dragons tied with rose tulle. The dainty little flower girl, Miss Mary Lilly Davis, was dressed in pure white and carried a basket of maidenhair fern and white rose buds, while the little ring bearer, Master Edward Toon, wore a suit of black satin with blouse of white.
The bridegroom had as his best man Claude Boseman of Enfield, and the groomsmen were John Perdew, William. M. Shaw, Albert E. Bakr, and Ernest Cavenaugh.
The bride entered the church on the arm of her father, Eli Cavenaugh, who gave her in marriage. She was lovely in her wedding gown of white duchess satin trimmed with rose point lac, and her veil of tulle in coronet style with a wreath of orange blossoms encircling her face. Her shower bouquet was of bride roses and lilies of the valley.
Immediately after the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Bryan left on the northern train for a trip of some days to points north, after which they will be at home in Wilson, where Mr. Bryan holds the responsible position of principal of the Wilson high school.
Mrs. Bryan, who possesses unusual sweetness of disposition and charm of manner, has for the past three years been a faculty member of the Hemeway school faculty, winning for herself scores of friends throughout the state.
Mr. Bryan, who is a graduate of the University of North Carolina, is well and popularly known both in this city and throughout North Carolina. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. R.K. Bryan of Scott’s Hill.
For several years he was principal of the Hemeway school of this city, resigning from this place last year to accept work in Wilson.
From the Society News page of the Wilmington Morning Star, by Miss Athalia Bunting, Editor, Phone 61, Dec. 28, 1921
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