The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-25
WOMEN WANTED,
Ponce Sends a Representative to Boston
for Puritan Stock

Among the passengers on the north
| bound Santa Fe train last night was q
gentleman named Oscar Mills, who rep
resented himself as the agent of the town
of Ponce, en- route east on an important
mission.
Mr.. Mills is either a crank or the city
OF Ponca is in real distress.
81 am going east" said he, "for q
couple of car loads of women for our
town. We need 'em, and need 'em bad"
"What for?'
"To wash our dishes, mend our clothes,
cook our meals, wash our shirts, sew on
our buttons. and, generally speaking, to
make life endurable in our town."
Have you woman famine?"
That's what we have got; you hit the
nail on the head. I don't know how it
happened that Ponca City was settles
nearly altogether by bachelors, but that is
practically the case. It is coincident l
suppose. At any rate there is not more
than one woman to every twenty men in
our town, and they are generally
ladies WHO have their household
duties to keep them busy. We
want women to work as l have told you.
''Do you actually mean what you say?"
eyes sir l never was more serious in
my life. We are actually in need of from
100 to $50 more women in our town, and
We are prepared to offer inducements to
them. We won't give 'em house and
lot to start in with or any
thing of that kind, but we
will guarantee all of them work ut good
wages"
what is the object of going to Boston;
can't you get them at Chicago or Kansas
Citv?"
I'VE possibly could get some in Kansas
City that would suit US, but in Chicago
we could not do much. We canvassed all
that before I left and concluded
that i5 was best to go direct
to Boston. The fact is we want an AL
class of girls-pnre New England stock.
10 be candid with you, sir, we are going
after these women with d view to marry
ing them after we get better acquainted
with them. am confident that many of
them will have offers of marriage
before they are ten days in Ponca.
The fact is, l have six special
orders for girls. Three are 70. blondes not
more than nineteen aud Puritans; two
are for Luthran German American girls,
and one is for widow of thirty. OF
course if l fill these orders at all | will do
SO as n friend to those who want the girls
and not as representative of Ponca.
have the pictures of the young
men who gave me these orders
in my valise, to show them
to the girls should 1 find any to suit
them and are willing to come to Ponca
that many of the factories of
New England are closed and that it will
be an easy matter to get very choice lot
of young women who are willing to come
to the west on such inducements as am
authorized to offer them"
'Why don't you give some of our Wich-
ia girls chance?"
Wichita is too near home; they would
run away from us on sliyhter provoc alton
than the Boston girls would, by reason Of
The short distance"
Just at this poiut the train pulled out
and cut Oft the conversation. Mr.. Mills
stated In all seriousness that he was going
to Boston on the mission stated, aud that
while it might appear ridiculous it is
nevertheless true. Ponca was settled prin- !
;ipally by unmarried men; this is we'll |
Known fact, and with all due respect to |
he veracity of Mr.. Mills, that is the only |
'oint which gives color to his story.