Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-07-12
CUPID BUSY IN COKE REGION
Single Men of Arnold City Import 90
Young Women.


Arnold City is the only municipality
whose citizens have ever banded to-
gether and imported themselves wives
to the number of 80. Arnold City is a
coal mining hamlet on the Monon-
gahela. river, up near Fayette City. It's
poulation is made up largely of
foreigners. AS a city it does not
amount to much. as its residences are
so scattered about that it is pretty
much all suburbs, with a general store
coal company establishment. where
everybody has to go one or more times
a week. In fact, business is so good at
the company store that the manage
ment has adopted a rule that on GER
tain days of the week nothing but So
| and $40 orders will be received. The
small fry need not apply on these days
Times have been unusually good
this year at Arnold City and the
| foreigners of that section have been
making lots of money. AS much as SO
day has been the average pay of
some of them for months past and they
have been feeling gay. Many of the
workmen left sweethearts in the old
country. Those who left none there
could not see that it made any par
ticular difference, just so they got
one. They all realized that it was not
well for man to be alone and they
were almost unanimous in their desire
for company. Consequently a new and
peculiar phase of the immigrant bust
ness has grown up around Arnold City,
and, in fact, through all the coke coun-
try.
The immigrant agent is up 10 his
business. Knowing that this is spring
and the time when the young mans
fancy lightly turns, ETC., he is talking
about home, sweet home" love in a
cottage" and all the other romantic
things he can think of in Slavish and
Hungarian and is starting an epidemic
of lovesickness in the coke country,
which is spreading like proverbial
wildfre. This is what has struck
Arnold City.
1t was by this means that 80 fair
young maidens were recently imported
to Arnold City. Some of the residents
of the place, the English-speaking res
idents, say there were not 80 of them
They claim there were not over ten.
Others run the number up as high as
so. But the story as it is mos: fire.
quently told says 30.
Detective Robert Sheppard Of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad, who prob
country of every nationality than any
other three men in it, says: THE in
| migrant agent is doing a rushing bust :
ness in the wedding line just now. If
you want a wife all you need do is
let him know. He can give you your
pick of anywhere from a half dozen
to so almost every day. 1t Is almost
impossible for a woman to come into
the coke country just now without at
least one and maybe dozen offers Of
marriage. | know of one case just
| recently when a newly arrived Slavish
girl was standing in the steamship
Office in Connellsvlle and in less than
an hour she had three offers of mar
riage from men she had never seen
| before.
CAS- she had come over here to
marry her sweetheart, all she could
do was to promise to be a sister to all
of them, and they had to hunt else
where. III tell you, though, the sup
ply is not nearly equal to the demand.
With wages in the neighborhood Of
SO day, every young foreigner in the
coke country is anxious to get mar
ried, and the girls are being brought
over by the brokers in squads.
know nothing about the Arnold City
importation, but that is the same as is
going on sil over the coke country to-
day. If the present good times con-
tinue there will not be a single
! foreigner left in the coke region II the
supply of girls holds out. "-Pittsburg
Dispatch.