The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-09-07
AN OKLAHOMA
BANKER FINDS
A PRETTY WIFE
In a Shirt Waist Department
at Milwaukee.
HAS A PRETTY ROMANCE
Queer Incident Leading Up to
Marriage Alliance.

Guthrie, o. T. Sept. San Oklahoma
man went TO Milwaukee for a wife and a
dispatch from there tells the following
romance:
Prince Henry, who said that in all his
travels in the United States he saw in
TO other city as many pretty women as
in Ml~aukee, may be responsible for IT.
but be that as IL may. the fame OF this
town has gone broadcast as a mstr-
imonial market. provided the seeker of a
wife is what he ought TO be and has the
goods"
About six weeks ago Bernarth Fried
man of Pawnee. O. T., came to MHwau-
kee with the expressed determination to
take back with him a wife He came
here for that purpose, and the fact that
he had no acquaintance in the city did
not dismay him in the least
To show how we'll he succeeded, yes
terday afternoon at o'clock he was mar
ried to Mrs. Carrie Licherman by Rabbi
Caro-. at the rabbits residence. 1t was not
a chance" affair. The groom wooed the
bride TO the exclusion Of everything else
for more than five weeks, and both We're
firmly convinced that they were for each
other before they determined TO wed
Here this story might properly take an
other tack and resolve itself into re-
citaI of how a poor young saleswoman
stepped from behind shirtwaist counter
in a big dry goods store to be mistress
of bankers home. for such is the case.
The groom is the head of the Bank OF
Pawnee and an extensive land and stock
owner. He is about So years old.
Several days after his arrival ne walked
into Gimbel Bros store and spent up
wards OF an hour inspecting it's different
departments. principally those presided
over by young women. AS he sauntered
back to the entrance to the store he
was for the second time asked by a
young woman if she could wait upon him.
The story of what happened is best told
by the young woman. who last night gave
it thus:
Yes. I want something; want a
wife"
Accepting this in the spirit of badinage
in which she supposed it was offered she
replied: I'VE haven't a wife department.
but there are plenty that you might select
from if you happened to please them
mr.. Friedman then inquired II there
were any Jewesses employed in the store.
and being told there were he was pre-
scented upon his second visit to the store
to Mrs. Licherman by the young woman
whom he had first addressed.
THAT noon he took her out TO lunch
and accompanied her home IN the even
ing. We girls in the store from that on
were on tiptoe TO know how the affair
was progressing, but Mrs Licherman
told us little beyond the fact that he was
still in the city. Two weeks ago she re-
signed her position and we saw nothing
of her until Saturday. when she came
into the store and told US that she was
to be married Sunday afternoon and that
her prospective husband waS the dearest
man In the world She also bade all her
fellow clerks goodby.
Mrs. Licherman is described as a hand
some brunette about 80 years old. who
has been in the employ OF Gimbel Bros.
less than a year. She was a Miss Kahn
and resided with her parents at S24 Cen
tral avenue. She married IN Chicago sew
eral years ago. three months after which
her husband was drowned IN Lake Michi-
gan while out IN a rowboat- Mr.. and
Mrs. Friedman left on an early train FOR
Chicago and VIII proceed TO his home at
Pawnee, Q. T. in a few days.