Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-10-09

The agencies which pick man OUT
of the crowd in one direcLlon and
woman from the multitude in another
bring them together, and finally unite
them for better or worse or the
divorce courts are various. but u
balloon is a novelty. Packing boxes
are strange aids de camp for Cupid,
/ and the Humane society for the Pro
lection of Animals is another.
But these three agencies have &C
complished three marriages in diff
ferent parts of the country, and their
value as matrimonial auxiliaries is
thereby established.
| Miss Mamie Zercross of Dorchester
county, Nd, is the young woman who
consigned her hopes to the winds, and
they brougl.. her back a husband. 1t
is too early to decide whether Miss
Zercross will regret that she looked
to the breezes for husband or not.
The dramatically inclined will pray
that she does not and will hope that
they will live happily ever after
wards" just for the sake of the
romance.
| 1t will be agreed that the young
woman got her husband in a strange
way. On the fourth of July Miss
! Zercross secured a small fish shaped
balloon as her contribution to the
patriotic demonstrations. There was
a hidden reason for the fish shape
which her friends did not understand
until they saw what she had caught"
To >Ae fish shaped balloon she tied
her photograph and letter. when
| the toy was loosed it was carried far
across country and lost to view Miss
Zercross watched it go out of sight
and then forgot her experiment She
was reminded of it three days later.
however, on the receipt of letter
from Ocean City, Md, many miles
distant from her home.
The letter was from Ralph Messick.
a grain dealer in Ocean City. He said
that he had round the fish shaped
balloon and had read the letter.
Would he be permitted to write to the
young woman whose photograph he
had found attached to the string?
Miss Zercross thought it over for
as any as three seconds and decided
that he might. After some inter
change of letter Mr.. Messick got him
self up in his prettiest style and sat
for his photograph, which he sent to
the young woman of the balloon.
The work of .4e fish shaped toy
was completed the minute Miss Ter
cross undid the wrapping around the
picture. She was his immediately.
Then the young woman and the young
man decided that they ought to have
a look at each other, and Mr. Messick
departed for Cambridge, the home of
Miss Zercrcss. She met him at the
station and drove him to her home.
The home is said to be a handsome
one, and Miss Zercross is said to be
a handsome young woman.
Three days We're consumed in court
snip. just to give the affair a little
formality, and then they drove to the
minister. They are now in the
Catskills on their honey moon. The
motto which will be hung up along.
side the traditional God Bless Our
Home will be:
It's an III Wind That Blows Nobody
Good.
United by Packing Boxes.
Probably if it had not been for
packing boxes William F. Cochran
would not. be about to marry Miss
Nina Lorraine Gill of Baltimore, but
there is every evidence that such is
the case. When William Cochran
was graduated from college his
father, the late William F. Cochran,
the fonkers. N. Y, millionaire, turned
him out in the world to make his own
livelihood. 1t was parental kindness,
and not unkindness, that dictated this
step. Mr.. Cochran Sr. had an idea
that Mr.. Cochran Jr. would amount to
something If this course were pur-
sued and might not otherwise.
With no business training young
Cochran realized that it was impos-
SIDE for him to secure a clerical
position and hope to amount to any
thing. He used his brains, as HIS
father wished him to do, and dis.
covered an opening. He found that
merchants were wasting their pack
! ing boxes. He secured a small shop
in noisy street in Baltimore, and
horse and cart. He drove from one
establishment to another, buying the
packing boxes which were Iittering up
the premises of merchants and manu-
/ facturers.
He drove hard bargains with them
and most of them were amused at the
enterprise of the young business man.
As the boxes were an incumbrance to
their places they parted with them at
prices which enabled Cochran to
carry out his scheme with profit
! He carted the boxes to his shop
and planed. sandpapered, and mended
them until they were turned out new
boxes again. Then they were resola.
The venture proved profitable. 1t