Beautiful in its simplicity was the wedding of Miss Elvira Sheely, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel F. Sheely of Ballentine, and W. Herbert Little of Hickory, N. C., yesterday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock in St. Paul’s Lutheran church, the Rev. H. A. McCullough, D. D., the bride’s pastor preforming the ceremony, in the presence of a large assemblage of relatives and friends.

The church had a pretty decoration of green and white, the chancel being decorated with lilies and snowballs, tall baskets of these flowers forming an aisle to the altar. On the altar were lilies, snowballs and delicate fern and near the tall pedestal seven branched electric candelabra. The windows were banked with smilax.

Preceding the ceremony, L. C. Moltz sang “I Love You” and “O Promise Me,” accompanied on the organ by Miss Hattie Smithdeal, who also played the wedding marches, using the chorus from “Lohengrin” as the processional and Mendelssohn’s wedding march as the recessional.

The bride, who entered with the bridegroom wore an afternoon gown of white georgette with a large picture hat to match. Her flowers were an arm bouquet of bride roses showered in swainsona

The couple went for a trip to Washington and the Shenandoah valley, after which they will make their home in Hickory.

Mrs. Little is a popular young business woman of Columbia. A graduate of Lenoir college, she has made her home in Columbia for the last seven years and has many friends here who will be sorry that her marriage takes her away to live.

The bridegroom is a native of North Carolina, a graduate of Lenoir college and held the chair of modern languages. He is now a prominent business man of Hickory.

Out of town guests for the wedding were: Mrs. C. A. Little of Hickory, the bridegrooms’s mother; Harold Little and Marcus Little, his son, and his brother, Clarence Little of Lincolnton, and Mrs. Little, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Cook and children of Lexington, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel F. Sheely of Ballentine, parents of the bride, and Ellis Sheely, her brother, and Miss Eulalie Sheely of Blaney.