The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-11-11

No matter whether young
woman from the East goes to
Idaho and stops in Snake River
Valley or on Postum Creek, she
soon has suitors fluttering
around her like butterflies
around a sweet-scented rose.
If she wants to marry she can
find husband before she has
time to register at hotel.
The poor men of Idaho are al
most dying from ennui.
Then. too, a woman in Idaho
need not employ all her time
in need1ework and cooking and
rocking cradles, because she is
allowed the right of franchise
there. She can vote for zone
Eye Pete" for trustee of Buck
skin township or for Mckinley
when he runs for the Presi-
dency the next time. Idaho is
a colder. paradise for the new
woman"
All these assertions are made
on the authority of DR.. William
G. Whitwell, who, accompanied
by his wife and family, is stop
ping at the Imperial Hotel.
DR.. Whitwell is not only practi-
cling medicine, but he is a drug
gist, and as a side attraction he
is a member of the School
Board and is Mayor of Salmon
City, a pretty town of 1900
souls, situated on the Salmon
River, in the northeastern part
of Idaho. He has lived there
ten years and he knows the
trials and tribulation of the for
lorn bachelors who are aching
to become benedicts.
1.-THE greatest difficulty in
Idaho is to keep a supply of
schoolma'ams," said the doctor.
"a large number of competent
lady school teachers are i'm
ported from the East every
year, but about one-half of
them in some sections resign
when the school term is half
gone. They do not resign on
account of the salary, for
school teachers are paid we'll
in Idaho. Only a few men will
teach school. as they can find
more profitable employment.
But young ladies receive $50
per month in the country dis
tricts and from $40 to $85 in the
cities and towns for teaching
in the schools. A woman never
receives less than $50 a month
for teaching in little school
house in the country. But the
reason the supply of lady
school teachers is always short
is because there are ten men
to one woman in Idaho. No
sooner does a young lady begin
teaching young ideas how to
shoot than ten men attempt to
tell her how much money they
have, how many acres of land
they own, how much bank
stock they hold, how pretty and
winsome she is, how they love
and adore her and-we1l, before
the young lady can anticipate,
perhaps a half dozen men have
popped the question and asked
her to marry forthwith, She
generally accepts one of these
proposals, resigns as teacher,
and leaves the schoolroom for
the hymeneal altar.
II will give an illustration
that came under my own OBJ
servation. A charming young
lady, Miss Busch, came from
Iowa to teach in the public
school at Givensville, Idaho.
Before she was there three
months she was engaged to a
prominent man of the town,
and at the close of the school
term they were married. Her
sister came to teach the next
school year. When the term
was half over this sister re-
signed and married, and sent
for another unmarried sister to
take her place as teacher. The
third Miss Busch taught in the
school the latter half of the
term, but three days after the
term closed she was married to
a business man of the town.
"Now, that's the trouble a
school trustee has in trying to
keep a supply of lady teachers
on hand. Some business man
or wealthy miner or ranchman
comes along and captures
| every one. These miners and
ranchman may have rough ex-
teriors and wear high-top boots
1 and s1Orch hats. but they are