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•i •young ladies,, the members of Miss Radford's bridge club. They had expected tbat this game was to be the afternoon’s diversion, but learned the real significance of the occasion when they sat down to the elegant one o’clock luncheon.As the guests unfolded their napkins they also unfolded the secret as out of these dropped dainty liand-painted place cards, bearing the picture of Harold and Miss Edith, and beneathithese the lines:•'Just to tell the old, old story, yetCkC1*1■iever new;That a sailor lad loves a lassie lairAnd the laBsie loves the sailor,too.”Edith Alma Radford Harold Sergius Cave, TJ. S. N.While the guests, were reading this message the bride-elect slipped' on hei* 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-1c 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.Tho groom-to-be is now at New-, port, R. X., and the wedding will not take place unil after the war. He is the son of Judge and Mrs. W. P. Cave { is a graduate 61the'Moberly : high school and was a student of the Missouri university when he enlisted for. service in France. He and Miss Radford have been sweethearts since their school day* in Moberly and this
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Moberly Democrat
Moberly, Missouri, US
Sun, Oct 06, 1918
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