The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-15
INDIANA GIRL
FINDS Her MAN
Through an Advertisement
They Arrange Meeting
and Nuptials.

Marion Adams, pretty girl Of War
saw, Ind sat on her trunk in the Mil
waukee depot at Minneapolis yester-
day, and wondered where her future
husband was, what he looked like, how
he could be at once SO enthusiastic and
SO late.
Miss Adams was a school teacher
four weeks ago. She is still, for that
matter. If the worst had come to the
worst, she believes she could have con-
WINGED Supt. Jordan of her usefulness
in the primary grades.
Miss Adams has had an experience
somebody sent her marked copy of a
Chicago paper in which it was asserted
that school teacher of Detroit, named
George McIntaffer. had five years. pre-
viously been compelled to forsake
health and become farmer in North
Dakota. The school teacher had de-
veloped into prosperous farmer, and
the desire of his life was to marry an
Indiana schoolma'am, who would ap-
preciate the possibilities of life in
North Dakota with an ex-Hoosier Of
parts
Miss Adams answered the advertise
ment, more in a sirit of fun than adj
righteousness. The answer to her let
ter filled her gentle heart with pity for
the lone man whose life on the plains
of the northern Prairie state had
prompted him to search for an Indiana
wife in the newspaper columns.
A correspondence followed, which
convinced Miss Adams that McIntaffer
was really farmer in fair circum-
stances. that he really wanted a wife,
and that he would rather have an In
diana wife than any other sort. Very
little encouragement induced McIn-
taffer to pop the question by mail, and
as Miss Adams has no living relaionis
except distant aunt, 1t was up to
her.
She studied the McIntaffer photo
graph and saw a long-haired, raw
boned, evidently strenuous person of
some twenty-seven to thirty years,
with overalls and things on. She con-
cluded that the overalls might mean
more than the spiketails in the thick
steak crusade of a somewhat dubious
future, 80 McIntaffer got letter to
meet Miss Adams at the station in
Minneapolis on Saturday, March IA,
with marriage license and a parson.
Unfortunately McIntaffer thought
the union depot was the only one in
the city, and he was three hours in
getting the lay of the land. Meantime,
his prospective bride had been con-
fiding her troubles to the matron at
the depot, who made no bones of be-
lief that Miss Adams had fallen into
the hands of bad man from the local
Rialto, advising her to seek the aid
of the police.
Just as Miss Adams was preparing to
expend her slender substance on the
hire Of an expressman to haul the OBJ
structive trunk to a temporary ref
uge, the tall personality of ,McIntaffer
obtruded itself on her notice. McIn-
taffer knew Miss Adams from her pho
tograph instanter, and vice versa.
There were hurried explanations and a
hurried departure.
Nobody knows where the couple
went. but 1t is known that McIntaffer
has friends on the East side, who took
care Of Miss Adams last night. The
young people will be married today by
a Methodist minister who was formerly
a neighbor of the McIntaffer family in
Posey county.
McIntaffer is said to be worth $780,
600. He owns 800 acres of wheat land
in North Dakota, within twenty miles
of Grand Forks, and has not had q
crop failure in five years. Miss Adams
was born in Indianapolis. Her father
was j. @. Adams, formerly street COM
missioner Of that city, and a well
known politician.