| Show FOR LEISURE READING TWENTY YEARS f wo maa ud ibur mcfan ST CLOUD minn july 10 that years touch lightly the heads of those we love was demonstrated here to day by a most romantic wedding after an engagement of two full decades during all this time the lovers were widely beeper aind and half a dozen letters passed between them twenty years ago miss mary A thorp a society belle of the national capita met arther W delaney then a beardless youth just graduated from an eastern college who had gone to washington to witness the inauguration of gen grant as president their friendship ripened into love and the parents ot both being anxious that the young people should maraj an engagement followed business reverses on the eve of their wedding day caused a postponement of their nuptials and young delaney came west with the hope ot retrieving his lost fortune he bellied on a ranch near sun river M tand in afew years had amassed a fortune for reasons known only to themselves miss and delaney did not correspond until a few weeks ago when communications passed between them and they to meet in this city and be made one delaney arrived here about two weeks ago from his ranch one of the largest in montana and his fiancee made her appearance monday evening 1 he meeting between them after so many years lion was a happy one and immedi abely preparations were made for there marriage the rev E V campbell was summoned to the grand central hotel parlors and charles copper and miss belle mallison Mal tison friends of the contracting parties witnessed the ceremony chich made them husband and wife it was intended to keep the marriage a secret the officiating clergyman and witnesses being pledged to say nothing about it but delaney could not suppress his joy and announced the marriage himself the bride is a finer looking woman of about 40 years prominent in the social circles of hogton and the grom is a polished gentleman and her senior by a few years they will go east on a visit ami return to montana to live |
