While the guests, were reading this message the bride-elect slipped' on her finger a handsome solitaire, the gift of the absent lover.The dining room was tastefully decorated with ferns and flowers of the U. S. and allies. The centerpiece represented a battleship, but instead of the nozzle of .guns gleaming from emplacements it was enmeshed in the beauty of autumn leaves; emblamat-ic of the glad day “when the war drums throb no longer, and the battle flags are furled*’ in th*t peace for which the sailor sweetheart is doing his part to bring about.The groom-to-be is now at Newport, R. I-, and the wedding will not take place unil after the war. He is the son of Judge and Mrs. W. P. Cave j is a graduate o*f- the'Moberly : high school and was a student of the Missouri university when he enlisted for. service in France. He and Miss Rad-. ford have been sweethearts since • their school day* in Moberly and thisi . . . J